Need inspiration?

We all reach these points during blogging where we lose inspiration and determination to post, I know I have! Sometimes, all it needs for me personally to get back into blogging is a big push. Not a literal push of course, just a big boost of inspiration. However, it's really hard to find an event or person that just changes my mood and makes me want to blog 24/7. I understand that something can be mind-blowing to someone, but to another person it can be pretty average. 

As many of you already know, I 100% adore the blogger/youtuber/goddess Zoe Sugg (or more known as Zoella) for many reasons, but this weekend she particularly inspired me to blog more and not give up.

On the 17th of February 2009, when I was in year 6, Zoe started her blog which was then called "Schoee" innocently as she enjoyed writing. 4 years down the line, She has nearly 2 million subscribers on youtube, 613k twitter followers and 50,000 google followers on her blog. 

"If someone said to me 4 years ago, when I started this blog, that in 4 years time, you'd be sat opposite one of the worlds biggest boy bands interviewing them, and getting to meet them and speak to them (and give them multiple hugs), I'd have laughed in their face" 

 (A quote from Zoe's blog post, "Meeting One Direction" )

Last Monday, Zoe interviewed One Direction, one of the biggest boyband's of all time. I'm personally not a fan of 1D but I know that they have a huge following and the fact that Zoe, who started off just like all of us, having a little fun on a blog, was invited to interview them and attended the world premiere of 1D's new movie "This Is Us" really blows my mind. 

This is Zoe at the 1D premiere!
[Taken from her Twitter @Zozeebo]

Zoe with the 1D boys!
[Pictures from Zoella.co.uk]

What i'm trying to say is that Zoe is a massive inspiration for me and probably many others reading this because she always drives me to do better and try harder generally in life, as eventually it will pay off somehow. Obviously, I'm not saying that I'm only blogging to 'get famous' or whatever, I blog because I have loads of thoughts and ideas that I weirdly think should be shared. I'm saying that I'm stunned by how far you can come from a simple hobby!

If you would like to see more about Zoe's trip down the red carpet, Here is her post!
Who is your inspiration?
~Thanks for reading~

P.S I have Pinterest! I thought I should give it a go and I would love you to follow me on it! You get to see me trying to understand how to use it, that could be entertaining!

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More Feelings

Hello Everyone! This is going to be another long deep post, just a heads up!

I'm going to be honest, I am thinking about closing my blog. This isn't because I don't want it anymore but it's because I have turned my blog into a job, which if you read my last post, you would know that when a hobby turns into a job, it becomes something to put off and another thing to worry about. It's got to a point where I literally think "ugh, it's time to write another post" and I have a strong feeling that this has come across in my posts. I used to enjoy writing posts, but then I started writing posts that I would appeal to more people, about things that I didn't have an interest in. 

Also, loads of people have said my posts are good but if don't have confidence in them, they can't go very far! If I wasn't me and this wasn't my blog, I wouldn't it these posts because to but it plainly, they're boring. I don't have a very exciting life or many interests worth reading about, so why I have a blog is beyond me. 

People who have blog dedicated to there interests are the ones who do well because it comes across in the posts how much enthusiasm and genuine interest they have. For example, Beauty blogs are always amazing because they are run by beauty enthusiasts, but me, I don't wear much make-up so I have nothing to talk about, nothing to review! I am genuinely interested in Beauty but haven't tried many products. 

What I have distinguished from having a blog is that you needed to know what you're aiming for, how you want the audience to feel and who that audience will be. But because I am extremely indecisive, I'm not aiming for anything and I think that makes my blog pointless I guess.  

My orginial purpose of my blog was to be orginial and unique, to not have a subject theme so that I can talk about anything and everything. Yes, it is extremely entertaining writing about anything you want but it can also lead to extremes on both ends: Extremely exciting or extremely boring posts, and my post seem to be on the extremely boring side as I literally don't have anything going on in my life other than exams.

Which makes me think that thats why my blog is boring, because I am too young to have something worth blogging about. I'm not old enough to go and do exciting things on my own, I'm not old enough to go on road trips and meet new people, and these are genuinely what make-up an interesting lifestyle blog that are worth reading about.

Lets be honest here, who really wants to read about a 14 (almost 15) year old girl's life?

Who wants to read about what I'm doing in between exams?

I wouldn't.

Referring to a previous point, because I have kept my posts to a certain schedule  It makes me reluctant to write posts. (I'm a teenager: It's our nature to rebel against things we need to do) So maybe I should un-schedule my posts? So that if there is something I want to write about, I will and if there isn't, then I won't. 

My mum always says that when you cook a meal, you are less hungry when it's ready, so maybe it's the same with blogging? I am the one who writes the posts and so I am the one who is not interested in them, because I know what's in it, I guess? (did that even make sense)
Overall, No, I'm not closing my blog but I won't be posting as often and yes I am sorry for that but if you have something for too long you get bored of it, so if I start to have a break, my interest will hopefully return.
What do you think? 

Thank you so much for reading, I needed to say this.
Carys xx
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'The Blog Wall' / Feelings

Hello Everyone! So I just need to say some things that have been on my mind lately, I hope you don't mind. I'm going to let you know now that this maybe confusing :)

Basically, You know when athletes (well, mostly runners) push themselves too hard mentally and they hit something called 'The Runners Wall'? If you don't, it's when a runner would hit a mental boundary which they find hard to defeat and stops them from running any further because they think "I literally can't do this anymore" and I think I've hit that but blogging-wise. I'm not thinking "I can't do this anymore" but I have noticed that my posts aren't doing as well and if i'm honest, nobody seems to be interested in them. I've never really been a positive thinker when it comes to doing things, I have never actually thought "I can do this", but I have always been really positive about blogging, always trying my best (when I can, I mean some posts haven't been any good because of issues such as family problems, no internet etc etc) but recently I'm just finding hard to write posts as I feel nobody really wants to read them. 

((I'm not saying I don't enjoy blogging, because I do a lot. I love thinking of new post ideas, writing and publishing them because I always get a weird sense of achievement like "I'm finally publishing something that is mine" and the fact that people take time to read them and comment on them means more than anything to me because it means some people have taken the time out of their lives to talk to me and give me feedback. There is no better feeling than when a post you actually believe is good does well and not only you, but other people are enjoying reading it too.But sometimes I write posts just to get it out on time, so that I don't miss a publishing date rather than thinking "is it any good?"))

Obviously, I am beyond grateful that people even stop scrolling to read my posts because If I was in your shoes, I don't honestly think I would stop because, well I don't think there is anything all that special about my blog, but then again there is nothing all that special about me and yet I still have friends. 

**I don't even know what I'm trying to say here, and I'm trying to say whatever it is i'm saying in the best intentions and I really am trying my hardest not to sound up myself. **

Ok, this is harder than I thought, right um basically my blog has it's ups and downs. For instance, I would have a really successfully month or so where my blog really takes off, but then I have a period of about 2 months where my blog just kind of sits there awkwardly in the corner. I don't own a blog to aim for fame, I have a blog because I what to make someone happy or at least entertained, because whenever I see something that makes me happy, I get inspired to do the same (hence why I made a blog because I was inspired by Zoella) so I'm not hanging on to every post hoping that it will fly sky high, but sometimes I just feel slightly dissapointed as It might of flopped, like most of my recent posts. All good things have to come to an end eventually (I'm not closing my blog if you were worried) so maybe I was so used to flying high that when I got back to reality it hurt? I think I have been so wound up in how many views each post gets that I have kind of forgot about the actual point of blogging: To publish a piece of writing that you wrote onto the internet, not compete for how many views each posts gets.((I'd just like to stress the fact that just because I'm going to stop focusing on views, does not mean I am eternally grateful for the views ok)) So, I'm going to take a step back, and forget about the views and concentrate on the quality of the post, kinda like a new me? :) 

So Hello, My name is Carys and I run a blog called 'Slightly Awkward Ginger' based on the fact that I'm ginger and awkward, but only slightly ;)

~ ♥Thank you for reading♥ ~

p.s I understand I have contradicted myself about 7989284812 times but I just needed to get that out there, I hope you understand me and don't think I'm up myself! 

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Blogging Tips

Hello Everyone! How are you all? So unfortunately *sigh* I have returned to school and counting down the days until half term, but anyway I thought today It would be useful if I did a post about blogging tips, It will be useful for me too so this is a win win situation really! Now, I understand I'm not a big blogger and the likely hood of ordinary me becoming big is extremely unlikely so I'm probably not the best person to give blogging tips but hey every little helps right? 

1. Create a name: This is fairly obvious but I find it better to recognise different blogs if they have a very distinct name, something memorable. 
2. Decide on a theme to write about: You might of created a blog because of an interest for something inparticular like penguins and so you have decided to dedicate a whole part of your life to it, and so as it goes that's your theme. Or you can be like me, no theme (purely because I am so indecisive, I couldn't decide on one)
3. Good grammar and punctuation: I always think blogs with good English (or whatever language you speak) looks more professional and more inviting. Obviously,I'm contradicting myself a bit here because I know that I have made a lot of mistakes, grammatically speaking. 
4. Colour schemes: Right, this is where some actual educated knowledge comes in. I study Media as a GCSE so I know that each colour has a different affect on the audience, for instance Black could mean mysterious, tense or dramatic. So, If you have a gaming or a movie review blog, than it would be better to have a dark theme as it creates tension whilst if you have a beauty blog, it would be better to have light colours as they are more inviting. However, If your blog has no theme like mine, then just pick whatever colour suits you best.
5. Don't give up: I think most bloggers have wrote a post that flopped on it's face (well I hope most bloggers have otherwise I'm the only one) but the most important thing to think is to not give up because the more you try, the more it will pay off. 

Some motivational quotes to keep you going:

"Good things come to those who wait, but the best things come to those who do"

"What comes easy won't last, What lasts won't come easy"

Please feel free to add some advice in the comments below if you have some good points!

~ Thank you for reading~