How does one become a confident woman blogger? There’s a lot of talk about how to become a confident woman, but not a confident woman blogger.
The Challenges to Being a Confident Woman Blogger
For us women bloggers, our confidence is challenged by our insecurities with every blog post we write. No one knows, except us, how much time we put into writing and editing until we feel we’ve made it perfect. No one knows what it takes to find the right image and deal with all the details before we’re satisfied. Yet, in the end, we are still unsure if it’s good enough.
We envy those who are professional writers or those we perceive to be professional writers. We can’t fathom how they turn out multiple posts every week, write witty comments, and are active all over social media.
Along the way, we learn the scary part that “everything is content.” That’s enough to cause us to Google search for everything we need to know. And, there are plenty who have been down the road ahead of us offering advice and training to bolster our confidence.
We get our courage up and commit ourselves to this blogging thing. We find our niche to write about. For motivation, we join a blogging challenge or Facebook groups. And, we keep blogging because other bloggers are relying on our participation. Our confidence builds.
Then there’s another confidence challenge. Our blogger friends not only leave comments, but we’re expected to reciprocate on their blog posts. We feel we need to say something intelligent and relevant at the same time. Sometimes the words flow; other times we have to pull the words out of the deepest parts of our brains.
There are also times our confidence takes a blow. We’d like to think we’ve always been a good writer until we read one of our old blog posts. We’re immediately embarrassed. How could this have been good enough to hit the publish button? We fervently hope readers to our site never click on the archive link.
Greater Confidence as a Woman Blogger
Eventually comes the realization of how many blog posts we’ve actually published. Awesome, to think that every week for some time now a post has hit the blogosphere. Our confidence surges as we master SEO and even have captured readers who are not bloggers.
We even get to the confidence point where we can admit that our latest work is pretty good. But, we can still be haunted by questioning if it is really good enough.
There’s only one way to know and that is to check out the links below of the top recognized women bloggers.
Top 100 Women Blogs And Websites Every Woman Must Follow, Last Updated Dec 21, 2017, |https://blog.feedspot.com/women_blogs/
Women in Blogging: 115+ Fearless Female Bloggers https://kikolani.com/women-in-blogging-125-fearless-female-bloggers/
100 Women Bloggers You Should Be Reading https://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/blogging/women-bloggers/
Most likely, many of these women didn’t start out as confident bloggers, but they are now. We can take some confidence building shortcuts by taking a closer look at how they write their blogs.
They say imitation is the best form of flattery. Even better is the confidence we get when we add our own personal style to our blogs.
So, let’s blog on and expand the ranks of confident women bloggers.
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Salute to all Alpha women, who made us all believe that womens are no less than any men. Todays generation demand diversity. Your article is very straight message to all new womens to be part of this digital era. Great writeup.
Time and experience definitely build confidence. When I first started blogging, hitting publish was not that hard because I had a background in journalism. When you’ve written for a newspaper, you’re pretty good at shrugging off those cringe-worthy articles. Meh, they happen. The beauty of a blog is that as the publisher and content creator, I can change the photos, polish the writing, and update any information. Looking forward to clicking on those top women blogger links.
Ah… that’s why your blog posts are so easy on the eyes and fun to read. In that case, I’ll be looking for you to shortly move into those top bloggers lists.
Oh Joyce, what a timely article. Not only do I question all of these things, I sometimes question how important it is. Developing into a confident blogger and woman involves practice, taking imperfect action, learning, developing our consistency muscle and more. You nailed it with this article. I’m going to check out the list you included. It’s time for a rabbit hole – lol.
Yes, Tandy, it can be a rabbit hole. But, so much to learn from others.
Hi Joyce,
Your post made me feel guilty. Because I don’t have any of those symptoms. Why? Because I have never taken my blog seriously. I like to write but have not been able to make blogging a priority for several years now. So I just throw some words on my screen, carelessly grab an image, and hit “publish”. I don’t even optimize it.
It will be interesting if I ever become a “confident blogger”.
Rachel, that may be what you do and not think that you’re confident as a blogger, but you sure put out great content. Keep blogging, I like reading what you write – confidence or not.
I don’t consider myself an actual blogger in the professional sense but I do it. I have a blog on my website for my biz – Empower The Dream. Over here we passionately support women to find who they are, what they want, purpose, big dreams, love, to be an entrepreneur or not to be…. (all that juicy stuff) and how they must align within + take external action (yep confidence comes into play here too). So… sharing, helping, being real, being vulnerable + making a difference comes with blogging about it too. We put fingers to the keyboard and find our way…we always do, right? (when we really want something). It’s pretty much part of everything we do – in one way or another. Thanks for helping along the way too “Money, Women, and Brains” – we are in this together!
Most definitely, Teresa, confidence is key to moving forward. Now, more than ever women need their own confidence rather than relying on the power of others. Yes, and we’re making it happen!
Wow Joyce, thank you. Very good read. As a Baby blogger (literally less than a couple of months), I can relate to some of these challenges. The entire process of one blog feels like a full-time job. But just like every thing else I’ve faced, I’m taking it one week at a time 🙂
That’s the best way to go, Teressa, one week at a time. Things definitely get better as you pick up things from others that make your blogging even better. Welcome to the blogging world.
This is definitely food for thought. I am confident in my blogs, but successful blogging is different for different people. I don’t think of myself as a blogger, as much as one who shares information to empower others. Thinking of myself as a blogger would feel like work to me. I’ll have to ponder this. Having said that Joyce, I do see you as a confident blogger. I leave your blogs feeling motivated, educated and connected. Thank you!
A good point about the term blogger, Candess. When I started, I didn’t think of myself as a writer. Those were the people that wrote these long and insightful articles. Although, like you, I did see myself as sharing information to empower others. I thought of the term blogger as writing these short pieces of information that were easily consumed by readers looking for a condensed packets of information. That part I could feel comfortable with and work to build my writing confidence there. I think we are also dealing with an audience who is drastically changing how they consume information. We are also being challenged to become podcasters and videographers if we want to reach that audience. Thanks for your confidence boosting comments!
I could easily identify with this, Joyce. Crazy how confidence can surge and disappear, depending on how you are feeling and what else is going on in your life. I often cringe at some of my past posts and plan to go back and improve them when I’m not caught up doing all the other things you mentioned, editing current posts, commenting on other blogs and keeping up with social media. I’ve bookmarked this so I can come back and have a look at your suggested links. Thank you.
Oh yeah, we all do get caught up in trying to make our blog posts better. One good thing about the old posts is that when compared to what we are putting out today, we’re so much better at it. Can’t wait until next year and see how much better we are than now!