This happened a little while ago, but I won my first blogging award! A day at the Dead Canary in Cardiff led me to come away with the 'Best Health Blog Pos…
This happened a little while ago, but I won my first blogging award! A day at the Dead Canary in Cardiff led me to come away with the 'Best Health Blog Post' at the House 21 Awards way in December (I say way back as it feels like centuries since December was here)
An award I never expected to win. Sitting amongst so many incredible bloggers and creators, I never thought I'd be walking up picking up my award and goody bag. To win something because somebody loved my writing makes the whole blogging thing truly worth it. That is the whole reason I started blogging. Not just to win goody bags filled with Charles Worthington Volume Spray (which has performed magical powers on my hair) and Clinique vouchers. Although they are perks.
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An award I never expected to win. Sitting amongst so many incredible bloggers and creators, I never thought I'd be walking up picking up my award and goody bag. To win something because somebody loved my writing makes the whole blogging thing truly worth it. That is the whole reason I started blogging. Not just to win goody bags filled with Charles Worthington Volume Spray (which has performed magical powers on my hair) and Clinique vouchers. Although they are perks.
I started blogging to write, to fulfil my passion, and to show the world what I can potentially do in terms of writing and creating content.
That's why I have made a little pinky promise to myself to focus on my blog more in 2020 than I did last year. Don't get me wrong, I was still churning content week in, and week out, but I subconsciously think I focused a little more on Instagram and creating my banging content for the app rather than my blog. For that, I apologise to my blog, I should have never put all of my complete attention into Instagram. With all the (dare I say it) algorithms, theories of trying to beat it, hashtags, post timings and engaging all of the time, I've gotten to a point where I think there's absolutely no point in concentrating my attention on the photo-sharing app. My blog is more important to me. Even though Instagram does allow me to stare at photos of the meal I'm eating, my writing and blog do need to come first.
At the end of the day, in the blogosphere, you win awards for writing, not for what you share on Instagram. Instagram does play an important part in the world of blogging, as does Twitter, Facebook (sometimes) and Pinterest, but the writing is the vital part. Remember why you started blogging? It wasn't to be Insta famous was it? It was purely to write your thoughts online. Simple as.
That's why this award meant the world to me. I won it, like all the other bloggers who also won awards that day because somebody enjoyed what I wrote. That thought alone fills my heart with joy. I won't ever put Instagram first again. I'll just post on there as and when I want to.
Where's my award right now I hear you ask? It's taking pride of place in my bedroom, precisely on my chest of drawers. It's kind of motivational to have a blogging award in your house, no matter how big or small. It has made me want to work harder on my writing, my blog and my content. I want to keep the small group of readers I do have, so I need to work my backside off!
That's why I have made a little pinky promise to myself to focus on my blog more in 2020 than I did last year. Don't get me wrong, I was still churning content week in, and week out, but I subconsciously think I focused a little more on Instagram and creating my banging content for the app rather than my blog. For that, I apologise to my blog, I should have never put all of my complete attention into Instagram. With all the (dare I say it) algorithms, theories of trying to beat it, hashtags, post timings and engaging all of the time, I've gotten to a point where I think there's absolutely no point in concentrating my attention on the photo-sharing app. My blog is more important to me. Even though Instagram does allow me to stare at photos of the meal I'm eating, my writing and blog do need to come first.
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At the end of the day, in the blogosphere, you win awards for writing, not for what you share on Instagram. Instagram does play an important part in the world of blogging, as does Twitter, Facebook (sometimes) and Pinterest, but the writing is the vital part. Remember why you started blogging? It wasn't to be Insta famous was it? It was purely to write your thoughts online. Simple as.
That's why this award meant the world to me. I won it, like all the other bloggers who also won awards that day because somebody enjoyed what I wrote. That thought alone fills my heart with joy. I won't ever put Instagram first again. I'll just post on there as and when I want to.
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Where's my award right now I hear you ask? It's taking pride of place in my bedroom, precisely on my chest of drawers. It's kind of motivational to have a blogging award in your house, no matter how big or small. It has made me want to work harder on my writing, my blog and my content. I want to keep the small group of readers I do have, so I need to work my backside off!
So let's raise a glass (or mug of tea) to my blog Lucy Mary, let's conquer 2020 together!
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