This guest post is by freelance writer Jocelyn Anne.
Have you ever finished one of your own blogs written by yours truly and finished the dang thing bored out of your own mind? To the point where it's too painful to even re-read it for basic proofing?
Well if you haven't, not to fear, your day is coming. It happens. All good things must come to an end, or so they say. Not that I'm saying you'll be boring forever. It's just a phase. Or something. Anyway. Here's what's up.
If you're bored, your readers are bored. And if your readers are bored, they're going to stop coming back—like, super-fast. Readers are finicky like that. While you may have faith that your temporary boredom is just a phase, and I may have faith that your last irritatingly boring post was just a fluke, other readers aren't likely to be so kind. They flee boring like mad.
So, what this boils down to is that you don't have a whole lotta time to dwell and wallow in your phase. Maybe a few posts (if you're lucky). Boredom calls for desperate measures. You're gonna have to ditch yourself altogether and become someone much newer and cooler and hipper than you are. Sayonara baby.
My favorite way to break the boring posting doldrums is to create an entirely new person. New alias, new pen name, what have you. I decide what I'll look like (always some sort of super model, of course), what my past was like, where I'm headed in life and how many hundreds of dollars I'm getting paid to write this blog (it helps). Then I decide what I'm passionate about. Who cares if it's even remotely relevant to what I typically blog about. Clearly neither I nor my readers can bear to read any more of that right now.
So. You're a new person, with a new passion. If you've got guts, you can post as yourself. If you're not so gutsy yet, post it as a guest blog. Bottom line, do whatever will allow you to have the most freedom and most fun. Be...
