It’s been weighing heavily on my mind for about the last month. It’s something I’ve thought about several times over the last two years.
How do you know when your blog has “run its course?”
I read an article recently, called “It’s Time to Shoot Your Blog.” I was interested in the section called, “How to Know When It’s Time to Quit” The very first item on this list:
“You Don’t Get Any Comments, Tweets, or Emails from the People That Stop By.”
Now, this isn’t entirely true for me. I do get comments, but not very many, and certainly not as many as I used to. As I said to my husband, when you write for an audience, you expect that people will respond. When they don’t, you start to think that perhaps people have lost interest in what you have to say. Perhaps what you’re writing about simply doesn’t resonate anymore. I don’t want to constantly recycle material, and I’ve written about nearly every frugal/organizational topic I can think of. I’ve also written at length about our IVF experience. I don’t know that I have anything really useful left to say, and a blog expert at ProBlogger once said that when your blog stops solving problems for people, you might as well quit.
That might be a bit extreme, but I know that it frustrates me when I visit a blog, and find that the current post is just a recycled version of a previous post. I think that when you run out of fresh content, you have to ask yourself how relevant you are in the blogosphere. Among the millions of blogs out there, it’s easy to feel like yours is the proverbial needle in the haystack.
I also read an article that concluded “blogging is dead.” With all of the other forms of social networking, it’s supposedly outdated and boring now. For someone with absolutely zero interest in Twitter or Facebook, this kind of depresses me. I love writing, but…I don’t know. Maybe I’m just tired and hormonal. Maybe I read too much, or maybe it all comes down to the fact that I just don’t feel that great about myself lately (wiping snot off a preschooler’s face all day doesn’t make you feel all that fabulous or special, if you know what I mean 
For those of you who blog, do you ever think about quitting? What keeps you motivated to keep writing? Do you think blogging is “dead?”
