Inspiration

remember how at the beginning of the year i said i was going to blog every week?

i discovered very quickly that i'm simply not inspired every week to write something. i mainly forgot to write something in all honesty or just didn't have any ideas. but i've just been on holiday to spain, and i began reading moranthology by caitlin moran. as the title might suggest, it is a collection of columns that she has written for the times (a national uk paper) over the years. the thing that inspired me the most about this book (so far, at least) was the introduction that she wrote.

she talked about how she started writing columns for a newspaper as she won a competition when she was younger and she said about how she struggled with what to write about - very relatable. but then caitlin said that she just eventually wrote about things going on in her life, things that happened to her or just issues that were on her mind. which then made me realise that i can do exactly that? in fact i automatically thought of at least five ideas for blog posts and then wrote them down in the notes of my phone.

a personal skill i want to get better at is writing. i also just rediscovered rookiemag.com - an online magazine for teen girls which is formed of content that is created by it's readers where they have a monthly theme. i currently have eight rookie magazine tabs open of content that i'm going to look at, and i hope i can become inspired by that too. although i highly doubt that the things that i create will ever be good enough to be featured on there!

i've realised too that whenever i go away for blogging for a while, i always want to redesign the look of my blog which is...interesting hahah!

all in all, this is one of those posts that is basically saying 'i will post more blogs soon' and i definitely want to this time. i want my writing skills to improve and i just want to create things really.