Chronicles of a chai charsee.

I need your help. Actually more like advice.

When I gave up on this blog, I set up two other. Since I’m now a freelance writer (yeah, didn’t tell you that did I? Well, I am) one blog was to showcase my life and experiences as a freelancer and the other was about life as an expat in UAE.

Somewhere along the way, after reading countless business blogging articles, I got it into my head that I could make money from my blogs. I probably could but it just puts too much pressure on me as a blogger! Courting advertisers for your blog means blogging regularly, get traffic regularly etc etc.

None of which I’ve any experience in doing.

I’ll start with my expat blog. I love the name and the url. Cuppa Life. I think it’s hip and happening and has an element of my love of tea as well. I spent hours putting up pages, ads etc. Tooks pains to research and install wordpress plugins, got a killer header as a blog warming gift too. Then I didn’t blog as regularly and let it all fall apart.

My questions to you are:

Should I remove the ads?

Change the theme, remove the ads and go back to what blogging is all about?

Incorporate this blog (chronicles of a chai charsee) into Cuppa life so that I’m concentrating on one blog instead of writing about the same thing in two places?

It’s fine as it is – you’re just never satisfied.

Stop trying to be so ambitious and flip the site?

Any other suggestions, advice and help would be much apperciated. Let me know what you guys think!

This place has turned into a ghost blog. What intended to be a short break before I cleaned it up and came back to blogging has turned into a (almost) 3 month desertion. In case you’re wondering, I haven’t been on a hiatus. Not at all. I’ve been writing at other blogs. They’ve been subject based though and one is professional so I’ve actually been blogging more regularly than I did when I was blogging personally.

I have to say though, personal blogging is so much more fun!

A lot has happened in the past few months. Work has picked up, I’ve started a writing course and I just got back from a 10 day trip to India.

My life is finally happening! I couldn’t be more excited or happy about it.

Is this place alive again? I’m not sure. I won’t make any promises but lately, I’ve found myself forming posts for this place in particular and I thought it was time to stop ignoring it. After all, this place sustained me during my darkest hours in the early months after I moved here.

Besides, the name of my personal is just too cool to give up ;)

I missed a day. Big deal.

Anyway, I have to say, blogging everyday has brought the end of this blog faster than it would have other wise. I think there’s only a certain number of post one can belt out in a blog. Or maybe I’m just becoming nomadic.

Anyway, Once this month gets over, I’ll be introducing my new place to you guys. A couple of you have already seen it. I keep thinking ill unveil it once I have everything in place. But I have a feeling that going live would propel the changes in faster.

Heading out for a drive to enjoy the cold and a bonfire. No time to write more.

Never again will I pledge to blog every day.