Why I Stopped Blogging After Writing 500+ Stories
I’m one of the writers who ended up empty after churning out too much.
There’s a flippant answer; got too busy with grad school. I started blogging in 2018, figured out what I was doing in 2019, and had a pretty decent quality level in 2020. Between 2018 and now, I published 550 pieces. You’re reading (lucky?) #551 right now.
Then, for the later part of 2020 onward, I got so busy with grad school that almost everything I posted was just grad school related and wasn’t my usual tone or focus. Nonetheless, this was a big difference in my internal writing processes. I was only writing when I had to, when there was an assignment to debrief on. I wasn’t ideating and writing based on my own thoughts and inspirations.
But then there’s a deeper answer.
If we write too much, we can sometimes stop offering real value.
I feel like I’ve noticed this in a lot of prolific bloggers; they post amazing content for years, but hit a point where if you’ve been following them for a while, you realize that their stories don’t have the same spark. Sometimes, they even get repetitive. I fell into this dilemma quite significantly; I was churning out pieces that were rehashing similar topics. I…
