{"id":67603,"date":"2017-04-06T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/getting-back-to-being-an-effective-blogger-again\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:14:45","slug":"getting-back-to-being-an-effective-blogger-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2017\/getting-back-to-being-an-effective-blogger-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back to Being an Effective Blogger, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 9px; word-wrap: break-word;\">This site is not dead but\u2026 I do need to find it again. Keeping focus and staying true to your own voice are not easy when you look around at other sites and start comparing yourself. If you can manage to do it constructively, that\u2019s great. I\u2019ve gotten sucked into my own wormhole of blog envy. Not envy, but self unsatisfaction. So, I need to pull myself out of it and get back to the basics, again. The key to sustainable blogging is showing up and showing up the next day too when you\u2019re run out of stuff to say and feel like everyone is doing it better than you are.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 9px; word-wrap: break-word;\">This list comes from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modlychic.com\/2015\/04\/7-habits-of-highly-effective-bloggers.html\" style=\"color: #cc0029; text-decoration-line: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katy Rose<\/a>, the Modly Chic blog. I found it in submissions for fashion blogs at dmoz. I usually take a look around at sites I\u2019m listing. Some just get a skim for the basics, to make sure they are original and focused on topic. Ironic, eh? So often we know the answers but we haven\u2019t been paying attention or didn\u2019t want to remember.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 9px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fW_dY6LlsE8\/WZHIxoAH2-I\/AAAAAAAAOf8\/EEozuAxohtUm3xxecsFVP2e9tzGxO-m4wCPcBGAYYCw\/s1600\/bloggers.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"739\" data-original-width=\"827\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-fW_dY6LlsE8\/WZHIxoAH2-I\/AAAAAAAAOf8\/EEozuAxohtUm3xxecsFVP2e9tzGxO-m4wCPcBGAYYCw\/s320\/bloggers.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 9px; word-wrap: break-word;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2017\/getting-back-to-being-an-effective-blogger-again\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Getting Back to Being an Effective Blogger, Again\"><p>This site is not dead but\u2026 I do need to find it again. Keeping focus and staying true to your own voice are not easy when you look around at other sites and start comparing yourself. If you can manage to do it constructively, that\u2019s great. I\u2019ve gotten sucked into my own wormhole of blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[914],"tags":[988,1020,1047,1167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74639,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67603\/revisions\/74639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}