Lately I have been thinking about this blog. A lot to be honest. When I started this blog 6 years ago (yes It has been that long) it was a way to express thoughts to the world in a way that I couldn’t do with journalism and on a different level than writing stories. It became my diary. I would write two short sentences (in Dutch back then) call it a blogpost, and be done with it. It were very short expressions of how I felt at that very moment.
Lately I have been blogging daily since I’ve converted the blog into English. And after doing the e-course ‘blog love’ by Rachel & Elsie I’ve set myself a blogging schedule, regular posts about things I loved. My blog ended up as a dumping zone for my photo’s. Which was not what I had in mind, after all, that’s what’s Flickr is for right?
So I took a blogbreak. Took a step back from dumping dutifully stuff on the blog every day. And suddenly I found myself lurking around on my blog every day. I kid you not. I was on my blog every day. Writing drafts, looking up stuff. And then I realized. I don’t need no stupid blogschedule, I need to blog about what I want, when I want it. I looked what I wrote while I was away and every piece was different. Sometimes thoughts, sometimes triggered my pictures, movies and sometimes just random pondering.

So, what will change? Well, for starters, don’t worry, the blog will still be loaded with photo’s. I mean I am a writer, but I’m also a photographer (there, I said that out loud). But I will no longer keep myself on a schedule. I will share with you what I want, when I want. And yes, that will be daily. But I’ve noticed that when I don’t plan what needs to come online and when, the blogging becomes more heartfelt, more real, just more. And less, well, ‘oh, right, I have to do that too.. sigh’.
What can you expect then? For starters more personal thoughts and stuff that makes me happy. Of course photo’s, but also more insight in my writing and struggles to find my dream and actually living it.

So this will be the end of my blogbreak. And I’m back.