I am a female starting a typical beauty/lifestyle blog with an accompanying youtube vlog. The hardest thing I have is figuring out topics to blog about. Vlogs seem a little more easier because I can just plan to do something on the weekend and film it as well as sit down and do storytime/GRWM videos.
But short of copying video trends (boyfriend tag, ____ does my make up, challenges, etc) or trying to mirror a different blogger/YouTuber....anyone have advice on how they come up with topics and content that don't seem overly planned/scripted? Or do I just have to accept that blogging/vlogging isn't as organic as people make it seem and start pre-planning like filming 4th of July content in June?
I'm one to post long posts on facebook with opinions and such on topics and everyone told me "you just need to go ahead and start a blog!" and since I've done it...I still can't seem to find anything to blog about! I don't think my little social media rants are long enough to blog about, but I also don't find myself going on about topics where I'd have to research. Like, I'm trying to go vegetarian/vegan and it's a topic I blogged about and spoke about how I substitute mushrooms for meats and to add fluff, I did a little bit of research on health benefits of mushrooms, their nutritional value and all that stuff and It made blogging kind of annoying lol. I definitely want to stick more of towards opinion pieces with less research needed. I am trying to avoid celebrity gossip because I am also a model plus an aspiring singer and I don't need to be burning bridges trying to serve "tea" or gain "clout" by being messy.
Or maybe I just need to stick to vlogs? I talk a lot and while I haven't filmed a vlog just yet (I just got my tripod in today!), I've been sort of practicing by just speaking on topics as if I was filming and it all just seems to flow more naturally than typing about a subject. I feel like typing
I was also thinking about doing vlogs, then sending my vlogs off to be transcribed and edit the transcription into a written blog. So that way, I'm not making different content for my website and youtube, but instead making a single content adapted for both platforms.
But short of copying video trends (boyfriend tag, ____ does my make up, challenges, etc) or trying to mirror a different blogger/YouTuber....anyone have advice on how they come up with topics and content that don't seem overly planned/scripted? Or do I just have to accept that blogging/vlogging isn't as organic as people make it seem and start pre-planning like filming 4th of July content in June?
I'm one to post long posts on facebook with opinions and such on topics and everyone told me "you just need to go ahead and start a blog!" and since I've done it...I still can't seem to find anything to blog about! I don't think my little social media rants are long enough to blog about, but I also don't find myself going on about topics where I'd have to research. Like, I'm trying to go vegetarian/vegan and it's a topic I blogged about and spoke about how I substitute mushrooms for meats and to add fluff, I did a little bit of research on health benefits of mushrooms, their nutritional value and all that stuff and It made blogging kind of annoying lol. I definitely want to stick more of towards opinion pieces with less research needed. I am trying to avoid celebrity gossip because I am also a model plus an aspiring singer and I don't need to be burning bridges trying to serve "tea" or gain "clout" by being messy.
Or maybe I just need to stick to vlogs? I talk a lot and while I haven't filmed a vlog just yet (I just got my tripod in today!), I've been sort of practicing by just speaking on topics as if I was filming and it all just seems to flow more naturally than typing about a subject. I feel like typing
I was also thinking about doing vlogs, then sending my vlogs off to be transcribed and edit the transcription into a written blog. So that way, I'm not making different content for my website and youtube, but instead making a single content adapted for both platforms.
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