Post 12 in 'The 30 day blogging Challenge' Some what not to do's!!

Well my friends, I have had 'Bloggers Block' since last Friday. I thought I was travelling OK. Some days I was stuck for ideas for my blog, yet I thought that was understandable as I'm relatively new to 'blogging'.
My daughter helped me make some ideas lists, yet unfortunately lists aren't blogs; so there I was, trying to write post No 12, when I became stuck. I really felt like just stopping and giving it all away. "No" I reminded myself,"I'm not quitting!", so I decided to do an internet search for 'Blogging Tips.'. Ah, what a great idea I told myself!! I found a lot of listings with google and proceeded to investigate. One said "Inspiring tips for Bloggers". Now that resonated with me, so off I went to that site in search of 'support & inspiration'. Well about one and a half hours later, after reading pages and pages and following link after link, I shut down my computer.
Here's the gist of what I read. That people don't really want or need to know what you're thinking, or random ideas about everything or anything in your head, they only want to hear, read or learn for or about themselves. It said to review all (my) blogs, and look at how many "I's" there were on the pages and to replace them with "You's"; Now as a writer in the 1st person, which is for me how I write authentically and ( I like to think) from my heart), this was anathema to my soul. It got worse (in my mind!) It said that good blogs don't just happen and can't be written in 15 minutes, they take between two -ten hours!. Well that's it I thought. I just can't do this. I have time restrictions with my daily job in my web based business that I am still learning. I also realised that according to this website, that everything that I had been doing was wrong. I had been writing mostly "I's" and taking 30-90 minutes. This took the wind out of me and now I haven't been able to write for days.....
I've really missed 'blogging' but I just haven't been able to do it. My partner sweetly encouraged me to just write a paragraph, but still, I couldn't....
Then a dear friend called me and in between tears, I told her the story. She was crazy in her response. She said " That's what I love about your blogs!! How they are so personal, and you share so deeply and honestly. That's what I relate to.. I couldn't read those other blogs. They don't have meaning for me!!" She encouraged me to write a blog about this painful process......
So here I am.... tentative and vulnerable... writing again... in my own style that works for me... I suppose its about reminding myself that the enjoyment is in the journey, and as my dear friend 'Abraham' says "Don't go looking for love in all the wrong places!"

Blessings
Isabella