Searching For My Niche

Having had a couple of blogs in my life, I can't help but notice I've never been great at attracting readers. I think the biggest problem is that I don't have a "thing". When I was (much) younger, I had teen angst, and that worked reasonably well to attract similarly angst-ridden peers. But then....well, I'm not sure what happened.

There are so many different blogspheres it can be next to impossible to figure out where you fit. I tried infertility blogging, but instead of soothing me it only encouraged me to dwell on the negative. Not to mention nearly everyone on my blogroll got pregnant at basically the same time. Great for them, but not very encouraging to me!

I love beauty bloggers, but I don't have an unlimited Sephora budget. I like photography, but I'm only just learning it as a hobby and am in no position to be giving anyone tips. I enjoy cooking and baking, but I certainly don't have the skill to create recipes on par with the food bloggers I admire. My dogs are my life, but we don't compete in flyball or anything as interesting as that. And social work is out. I may be passionate about social issues, but it's just too heavy to write about 24/7! And sure, I'm on a serious weight-loss journey right now, but I don't want that to define me.

So this leaves me where?

I'm confident that I will be a wonderful mommy blogger....but that isn't exactly possible when I'm not yet a mommy. I would love to know how other bloggers find their niche. There are surely other jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none such as myself? How do they build their blogs? How do you find your audience when you can't even sell yourself as being a certain "type" of blogger?

All interesting questions that I unfortunately do not yet have an answer for.

~Michelle