You're Going to Make Crappy Posts (and that's okay)

This has happened to all of us, I’m sure. Or, if you’re a new blogger and your posts are going well so far, maybe this hasn’t happened to you, but believe me, it’s inevitable.

You’re going to make a crappy post every once and a while.

Every once and a while, you’re going to post something that, for whatever reason, doesn’t get half as many views as your usual posts, or gets little to no comments. It’s sometimes hard to tell why; it could be because the title was boring or didn’t sound exciting enough, or the pictures weren’t as good quality as usual, or maybe you scared off all your followers by introducing a new topic or something, but it’s bound to happen. And it’s frustrating, because sometimes it might’ve been the one post you put a lot of time and effort into, just to see it flop. But guess what??? That is perfectly. okay.

Some people take the message of no one showing up to the party as “maybe I should take a break because I have no inspiration right now”, which is perfectly fine, but others may take it to the point of “maybe no one likes my blog because all my ideas right now are crap.”

I think it was Ed Sheeran (Word wants to change Sheeran to sheering I’m laughing) that first said this, but I heard it from Doddleoddle, because she’s my queen. xD There was this quote from him, ‘Writing songs and playing live is like turning on a tap in an old house; first you’ll get the mud and dirty water, but the more you get it out, the quicker the good water starts flowing.”

This is the same for blogging, or taking pictures, or drawing, or playing music, or—whatever. Whatever you do that is considered “creative”, this applies to it. People who decide to take the creative route in life often struggle with coming up with creative things with all the other creative people out there to compete with and get frustrated when people don’t like something they recently put out as much as their other things.

I mean Panic! At the Disco themselves shoved their album Pretty. Odd. in the corner because it didn’t get as much attention as all their other albums. (It was a beautiful album btw A+)

The point of all this is it’s okay to make “crappy” posts. It’s okay to end up making something that you’re not particularly proud of. It’s all part of being a ‘content creator’. If you ever decide to have a profession or even just a hobby that requires creativity, let yourself make a few not-so-great things along the way. Don’t give up because you’re in a slump or people don’t like what you’ve been putting out recently. If you want to take a break, that’s fine, but in order to keep the flow going, just keep the tap water running, washing out the dirty water, and soon hopefully you'll be able to get back into your old routine.

One comment I got from the fabulous Olivia, sums up the other part of this wonderfully. 

But, as a content creator, do let yourself take breaks every once and a while. Don't completely drain every little bit of energy from yourself because you feel like you NEED to put up another blog post for your followers because you promised one the day before. There's a difference between being out of ideas when you really really wanting to post and completely draining yourself of all your energy. It's so very frustrating to not be making something, as someone who's constantly doing things, (I know because my school website had a surprise shutdown last week and even though everyone kept telling me 'LUCKY YOU DON'T HAVE SCHOOL' I couldn't help but panic because I felt like I had to be doing something. It just felt wrong not doing anything.) but you need to give yourself time every once and a while to step back from everything. 

this was the video that inspired this post. it also partially inspired

 my manufactured personalities post.

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I'm so sorry I disappeared again, I've been writing posts I swear, see here they all are

obviously you've already seen some of these

wow look at all those posts A+ to me for actually getting something done.

Now if only I could bring myself to post them.

Which is exactly what I'm going to be doing now.

Thanks for not unfollowing me during my little hiatuses (hiati????)

I HOPE YOU'RE ALL DOING JUST WONDERFUL THIS WEEK AND THAT

SCHOOL IS GOING WELL SO FAR, AND IF IT HASN'T HERE'S A MAGICAL PICTURE OF PETE TO GRANT YOU A GREAT REST-OF-YEAR

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY FOR ME

DRINK LOTS OF WATER STAY HYDRATED KIDS

STAY IN SCHOOL DON'T DO DRUGS

AND READ A MAGICAL BOOK FOR ME AND LISTEN TO SOME GREAT MUSIC

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one thing that I really love about these more wordy posts that I've been trying to get into is that I'm actually getting better at talking to people in real life, which means the absolute world to me. I'm not so scared anymore to talk to my teachers and other classmates and I've been able to smile at strangers more often and say thank you to the waiters and waitresses and everyone else I can't even explain to you how happy I am about this guys. I'm not scared anymore.

back to school (a totally legit tutorial)

so before school actually starts, usually a couple weeks before the first day, I get to tag along with my family to buy school supplies and cry into bowls of ice cream (especially this year, because I get to cry about college stuff). Thankfully, I still have a good week yet before that happens, but since August is the month when most people start heading off to their first week of classes, I decided to write a totally legit tutorial on getting yourself ready to get back to school, inspired by Tadelesmith. Also, quick note, I wrote this in July right before I left to go on that one trip and never actually edited anything before posting, so if there’s any horrible typos or errors in general, I’m sorry, please bear with me.

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STEP ONE: PREPARATION – buying school supplies

Buying school supplies is actually the best part of getting ready for school in my opinion because heck yeah new pencils and fabulous blank notebooks and all that crap, the only actual thing to worry about at this time is running into old “friends” from school last year. In attempt to woo these people, showing them all how much cooler you have gotten over the summer months, I suggest dressing yourself in the latest “trendy” outfits, wearing dark glasses, and surrounding yourself with bodyguards to avoid getting beat up. Or, if you’re like me and are too lazy to go to all that trouble, you can just show up in your pajamas to show the world how you’ve really been living the past couple months.

This works too

STEP TWO: GOING TO THE STORE

Go to the nearest Staples, Target, Walmart (if u do go to Walmart pls say hi to me. Ill be hiding with the squirrels in the nearest trash can), or wherever your family drags you as you sob, still in your pajamas. Pick out the cheapest pack of pencils and notebooks, because your mom told you that we’re on a budget and $7.99 is absolutely ridiculous for a notebook you’re just going to be using to glue down pictures of Gerard Way to stare at while in science, while checking off the items on the supplies list with the cheesy cartoon pencil border your school gave to you to make sure you’re totally prepared for the year.

STEP THREE: REGRET

You should be about halfway done picking out all of your school supplies and you don’t think this is going all that bad and you’re just about to go down the other aisle to get a spray can of Bob’s Boys-Be-Gone for the year when one of the popular girls from your school who laughed at you when you got water up your nose when getting a drink at the water fountain comes around the corner, talking to her friend. Hide behind one of those big displays of pens they have in the middle of the aisles that always block your parents’ carts and grab as many sharpies you can get your hands on. Immediately draw a mustache and various stripes and dots on yourself in order to make yourself completely unrecognizable. In fact, just draw all over yourself. Go wild. Because let’s be honest, you’re probably going to be doing this to yourself halfway through the year anyway during your biannual ‘I’m supposed to be studying for finals but I can’t even see straight anymore’ breakdowns. Might as well start early this year.

STEP FOUR: RETREAT

As soon as the girls are at a safe 50 mile distance away from you, emerge from your sharpie pen fort and look for your mom who, probably at this point, has already checked out and left you. On your way, head to the ice cream isle. It’s the end of summer, so they should have a good 20% off sale going on about now. Grab as many tubs of ice cream you can get. Scratch that. Just sit inside in freezer and eat the ice cream right out of the tub while sobbing.

STEP FIVE: ESCAPE

At this point, you’ll probably realize that you’d probably make a better living selling hot dogs on the side of the road than you would crying in a classroom over a test packet. Go to the nearest costume shop and buy yourself a good disguise. Acquire a brand new identity and run away to first jungle you can find on Vacation.com and start building your treehouse to live with the monkeys. Goodbye Civilization.  

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(inspired by)

some of you are already in school

be careful out there, brave soldiers

Who knows what this post was. xD

But really, good luck all of you this year, whether you're going into 4th grade, 8th grade, or 10th grade, or just preparing for uni, I really hope you all have a wonderful year. 

Just don't get murdered, I need someone to join my 'Cry Over Bands With Me' club and I have like 2 friends irl. xD

I start next week, so my blogging schedule may go from 'a new post every hour when she needs to be studying' to 'is she still alive' so no promises that I will get much on here the next nine months, but we'll see how this all goes.

ANYWHO, HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY

DRINK LOTS OF WATER FOR ME

EAT LOTS OF PINEAPPLES

STAY IN SCHOOL, DONT MURDER ANYONE

AND HAVE A FABULOUS DAY <3