JUST KIDDING I LIED MADI GRACE STILL HAS AN IDENTITY CRISIS.
I think this always happens. I think I’ll have something figured out, and then nope! Curveball.
Swoosh. Out of nowhere. Seriously, why do I never see these things coming?
This time it’s between undefeated lifestyle posts and writing posts. They’re just too different. ☹️
to infinityyy and beyooond!
I plan to grow my traffic and increase my audience with social media stuff soon, and I’d be drawing in too completely different crowds. When it comes to blogging, the narrower your focus, the better.
I had to pick one or the other, and it like, ripped my heart in two. ?
Madi Grace will now be a complete lifestyle blog, with posts all about living life undefeated. At least that’s what it’ll be for 2018; it might change next year or something if I find a focus that fits better or if this doesn’t work out.
Some topics I have ideas for are:
- undefeated movie watching (and then movie suggestions)
- undefeated book reading (and then book suggestions)
- undefeated music listening (and then music suggestions)
- undefeated talking (how to change your world with your words and my personal testimony of turning from a pessimist to an optimist)
- undefeated dressing (modesty tips, epic mic drops on roasting immodesty, what immodesty really is, and what true modesty really is)
- basically any topic you could thing of about how to stop living a spineless life all depressed and defeated and moping all day long blah blah blah
picture from a new writing post coming up on madisongraceauthor.com
But what about writing posts? I love posting advice and tips about writing I’ve learned, like this post about conquering writer’s block and what to say when people ask what your book is about.
psst. we’re pretending I don’t actually have bad posture.
And I love documenting my journey of writing a book! Outlining, structuring, snippets, all that fun stuff. But where can I do that? It’s just too different and random to be on a blog about living an undefeated lifestyle.
Oh? What’s that? You thought you were going to be able to escape the snippet-shoving?
Nope! There’s no running from it, buddy! >:D
CHECK OUT MY NEW WRITING BLOG, MADISONGRACEAUTHOR.COM!
You can learn more about it on the Welcome post, but basically, I’ll post writing tips & advice, WIP updates, and my journey to becoming an author. (Not quite there yet. Don’t let the “author” part of the title mislead you. That’s just there because when I do become an author, it’ll be my author site. XD)
Want to know something absolutely crazy? I decided to start it, bought the domain name, did the design, and got it completely ready to launch in less than 24 hours.
Dude.
AHHH, I’m so excited! Oh, I forgot to mention, the Madi Grace YouTube channel will be starting soon and some of my posts will be videos (with transcripts if you like both audio and text versions to things like me). >:)
P.S. I now have three different accounts I go by on the web. That might be kind of confusing. But don’t worry! The following people are all me.
EEEEEKKKKK *goes to check the new blog out*
EEEEEKKKK YAY
Oh wow! Congrats on the new blog! I can’t wait to check it out! 😀
– Katie 🙂
Thank you so much, Katie! 😀
Ahh Madi this is so exciting! Can’t wait to read more about your writing and your life separately! (Though not in a creepy stalker ninja way. That’s your’s and Ari’s forte. XD) Happy New Year! Excited for your new blog! 😀
Aww thank you sooo much, Charis! That means so much! (XDDD) Happy New Year to you too and thanks again!
OMGSH AWESOME! I just commented on your buttons page, followed your blog, and flipped out. I am so excited that you have solved your identity crisis! I can’t wait to see those immodesty roasts––I love a good roast. Happy New Year!
AHH THANK YOU SO MUCH! HURRAY, thank you soooo much, Zella!! Same––roasts are awesome. XD Happy New Year and thank you so much again!
EEK! *pants* I’LL CHECK IT OUT. NOW.
HEHE YAY!!
Yay!! I am freaking out right now!!! 😀
I am totally excited for the future of your websites! Congratulations!!
No to go read and follow your new site! (and the term author will inevitably come true sooner rather than later). :):)
AHH YAY!! Thank you sooo much, Kendall!!
Aww, thanks so much! (That’s the plan! ?)
Congrats on your new blog! I’m definitely checking it out and following!! Happy New Year Madi!!
Thank you so much, Arabella! I hope you like it! Happy New Year!
I checked it out! It’s awesome, I followed by email and wordpress…. hehe 🙂
Aww, thank you SO much! Ooh, you rock. *high-five*
*high-fives back* Your welcome!! And you rock too!!
Aww, you’re the sweetest! *huggy-emoji-that-my-computer-does-not-have*
Congrats on your new blog! I’ll definitely go check it out if I can!
P.S. Yay for movie watching! Yay for watching movies all day! Yay for Narnia! Yay for Star Wars! Ahem. Sorry about that.
Thank you so much! I hope you’ll be able to visit it!
P.S. XDDD I just watched Voyage of the Dawn Treader recently! It was awesome.
P.P.S Yay for Toy Story quotes!
P.P.S. Hehe yay!
That’s so cool! (I’m very happy to know that somebody else deals with blog-identity-crisis’s, because I do quite often) I’m definitely going to go check out your new website. It looks amazing. 🙂
Thank you so much! (Agh, same. It’s totally common tho. Blogs’ focuses change over time!) YAY, thanks so much, Kendra!
Also, happy new year!
Happy New Year!!
EEK YAY!! That is so epic!! I can’t wait!!!
EEEK THANK YOU SO MUCH!
SO COOL!!! I’ll follow!
YAY!! Thank you so much!
No problem!
How exciting! I look forward to the new posts on this blog! XD
Thank you SO much, Maddy! XD
AHHH THAT IS SO EXCITING, MADI! I’m so happy for you! I shall definitely follow the new blog. 🙂
AHH THANK YOU ALLISON! Aww, that means so much! Thank you! <3
Aww, you’re most welcome, dear. 🙂
So many identity crisises. ?
There is no end. ?
*sees post in reader*
madi why
what was wrong
*reads post*
oic
I’m not going to pretend I wasn’t like, “madi what the heck”, but I do like this idea better now that you’ve explained yourself. XD I’m going to follow your new writing blog right now.
Oh, and movie suggestions? Yes please. Give me something clean that’s not lame. I’m the kind of person that liked The First Avenger.
“madi what the heck” ??? I think people think that a lot. XD AHH YAY! Thank you so much!
Same! I like the Avenger movies, but we can only ever watch them on VidAngel to filter out all the not-clean stuff.
What’s VidAngel? It sounds like awesomeness.
Oh my gosh, it’s amazing. It’s a filtering system for movies! You get to choose what content VidAngel will mute or skip over in the movie for you. It’s AWESOME. Me and my brother like the Avenger and Captain America movies, so with just the cussing / obscene romance / extreme violence filtering turned on, we can watch them!
Give me a link. NOW. BECAUSE I NEED IT. NOW. THIS IS SO AWESOME
Hmm — I literally don’t know! I know we have the VidAngel app on our Apple TV, but you might try vidangel.com?
Trying it 😀 Thanks!
That is so awesome! I recently had an identity crisis also (it ended in basically me sobbing, deleting my social media, and starting a new blog for the new year o.o) and I think your (*counts on fingers*) THREE blogs will all be amazing! The design for the author site is beautiful; I love all the shades of blue you use. Have a great year!
Thank you so much! AHH I KNOW WHAT’S THAT LIKE. o.o I love your new blog, by the way! And AWW, thank you! Ooh, I’m so glad you like the blues. I worked FOREVER on that color palette. ? You too! <3
Congrats on the new blog! I had to figure out what I wanted my blog to truly be about as well. I can’t wait to read it!
-Rose
Thank you so much, Rose! Argh, yeah, that’s always a tough decision. Thank you so much again!
YESAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS! (and that’s totally a way to cheer. :D)
3 in one.. hmm… okay then. XD
I’m the eleventh subscriber! *runs around cheering some more*
GO MADIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! Congrats on being awesome. 😀 😀
~ Light4theLord
YESAAAASAAAAAS! XDDD
Yep. 3-IN-ONE ME. I CAN DO THIS.
Hopefully but let’s pretend I didn’t say that. I HAVE NO PLANS TO FLAIL AROUND TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH MY BLOGS I CAN DO IT. >:D
AHH thank you so much for subscribing!! *claps excitedly*
Congrats on being EVEN MORE AWESOME! 😀
I’m back!!!! This sounds amazing! I am extremely excited!! I love love LOVE to read and I’m always looking for more good Clean books to read! I am super excited about all of these changes! And love the new blog!!!
Keep up the good work!!
Your friend always,
Liv
Ahh, thank you SO much, Liv! You’re the sweetest! Thank you soo much, that means a lot to me! <33
WOOHOO! This is awesome! 😀 I’m so excited for you! Checking out the new blog now. 😉
HEHE YAY! Thank you so much, Zielle! I hope you like it!
You handled the situation like a pro, yo! ? I love the look of your author site, super professional and classy. I’m definitely giving it a follow!
Phew, thank you! ? Aw, thank you SO much! That means a lot!
Cool idea!! I’m having some problems following blogs now (WordPress Problems) but don’t worry, once I get it sorted out, I’ll come back and follow!
Thank you so much! Argh, sorry ’bout your WP issues! Those are always annoying. Aww, thank you so much!
No problem!!! Ikr!
Can’t wait to check it out! I’ve been wanting to make my blog more professional and buy a domain and stuff but I don’t how. Any tips like where to buy a domain from and how it works, please?
Thanks, Kiki! <3
For starting out, GoDaddy.com is the easiest. I started out using that but eventually branched out because I needed more storage. 1&1.com is the cheapest for the first year (only $1, I believe). And Lightningbase.com will give you the most storage (that's what I use currently). I believe those have instructions on the site, but it's relatively easy to figure out! I THINK you can always just upgrade your plan to a paid WordPress hosting option if you don't wanna mess with any of that at all, but I don't know the pricing versus the three sites I mentioned.
If you want to take a professional route, you'll need to make money with your blog -- .com doesn't automatically make it professional, that's just what's required to start making money since hosting sites like WordPress won't let you make money on a free blog. For making money, I recommend Google AdSense or an Amazon Associates account (google those and they'll explain how it works). I hope that helps!
Thank you so much, Madison! I can’t wait to do some research ? I know other bloggers go through Blue host. Have you heard of it?
Also, how much money do you make with ads like that? My Aunt asked me that the other day and I didn’t exactly know.
No problem! I hope you find everything you’re looking for! ?
I was actually just thinking about Bluehost today! Why I myself have not used it, I know American Girl Doll Artist and Catlover02 use it to host their blog smalldollsinabigworld.com, so if you have any questions about that they might have some answers.
For Google AdSense, I get anywhere from a fraction of a penny to a couple cents each time someone clicks on an ad. For Amazon Associates, I get 10-12% of the money Amazon receives from whatever they order through my link.
Oh, ok thanks! I’ll have to ask them!
Oh, that makes sense! Thank you again, Madi <3
You’re so welcome! <3
Oh wow, another blog?? ? Well, kudos to you for dealing with THREE blogs all at once!! I’ll definitely have a look and hit that follow button. ?
I CAN HANDLE THEM ALL MAY YOU JUST WATCH. >:D
Hopefully, anyway. But nobody’s really paying attention to the hopefully part.Aww, thank you SOO much!I’m totally going to check out your new blog! ?
Thank you SO much! ?
I had this thought: since we’ve both recently had identity crises resulting in new blogs, could I interview you on your experience with having a crisis? xD It would be an… interesting collab to say the least
??? LET’S DO IT.
I’ll shoot you an email 😉
Alright! 😉