Do I want to be a Super Blogger?

That sounds a little conceited, but, really, do I?

I discovered over the summer that it's possible over on my other blog. At least what I view in my mind as a super blogger. It is. If I devote time to it. A *lot* of time to it.

A super blogger to me is a person who receives a LOT of comments, not necessarily makes money. None of the bloggers I mention below make enough money to mention, except for the first category, and only then if they have devoted their entire professional and personal life to it.

I've noticed a lot of different types of super bloggers:

*those who magically can spit words out, make them make sense, be funny, and come up with wittiness about their intended subject on the fly. these bloggers usually blog mainly on one thing, with a little bit of lifestyle thrown in.

*those who spend a LOT of time blogging, have no job, and come up with things to mostly so they have something to blog about, although they enjoy them as well.

*those who have little kids whose everyday is filled with things to blog about because they are so enraptured by introducing their child to every new thing about the world, and thus introduce the world to every new thing about the world - other than this, they fall into the category above or below only be default

*those who have a job and somehow manage to keep up their blog, but, generally, have no social life outside of their blog and their husband. they have family events, other events, even blog dates, but regular get togethers, not so much.


All these people are super bloggers. The only one who seems to have the kind of life, motivation, and socialness outside of blogging that I want is the first one (and the third, but I don't have little ones currently). And I don't have that kind of wit, or that kind of laser focus on one thing.

I suppose I attempted it this summer because I *wanted* to make money off this personal thing I've been doing for my own pleasure all these years. Three steps into it, I realized a lot of these blogs only *look* like they make money. If they actually do make any real money, it is slightly slightly minimal, unless they fall in the first category and devote their professional and personal lives to blogging.

So, no, I don't want to be a super blogger. I want to keep my pretty blog for the rare times I have the massive amount of time it takes me to put up a super blogger worthy post. I want to keep this low-key, churn out a post in five minutes blog, and I want to continue to meet amazing people the way that I do with however I blog.

Updated to add this. Yes. And this.


Updated to add (again). A lot of updates, but I'll be updating this with articles or thoughts I come across that relate. Today's thought: I realize that when most people start blogging they think they can live their life like they normally do, and just blog about it and become an international superstar overnight. Not so. When you start blogging about your life and get a huge readership, your life becomes ABOUT your blog. Even the ones who do it for business - travel writers are fascinating to read, but they spend a majority of their travels in front of their laptop after an amazing day uploading pictures and reviewing the day. Not to say this is all bad, but if you want to be a superstar blogger, you have to realize blogging will become a huge part of your life. I say all this mainly talking to myself, because I see these amazing travel bloggers and am in awe and want to pack all my bags and go TOMORROW and blog about it, but I have to remember these details. Boy, that would be fun to travel the world as a family, though. I think I just did the opposite of my intention of writing this out to convince myself it's much more work than it seems. Oops. Probably because I don't know the travel/blog part personally, just the life/blog part personally which so does not work so well as mentioned above.