There’s a great group of gals I chat with almost daily on Facebook about blogging, and over the past couple of weeks we started talking about the evolution of a blogger.

The conversation turned into this discussion about what the evolution of a blogger looks like, and I knew I had to draw it. If you’ve been blogging for any length of time, you’ve hit one of these blog milestones at some point. Whether it was a positive stage or a “what the heck am I doing here” type of feeling… the experience is totally shared.

Funny enough, I was actually IN a Twitter party this afternoon and I answered the question “why did you start blogging?”

My answer was simple, and what follows is a little of my own blogging evolution.

I started this blog for a couple of reasons. I met a group of other early twenty-somethings that were blogging, and I was a little bored. It gave me an outlet to document the shenanigans Jenn and I got into living in small town Wisconsin while we worked at OshKosh B’Gosh.

It was instantly something I loved. I could write about whatever I wanted or nothing at all, and if you check out my archives there was a ton of swearing. I’d shoot ten word posts to my blog from my phone, other times I’d write long rambling posts that almost read like stream of conscious writing.

And almost no capital letters. I was so ee cummings in my early twenties it’s not even funny.

That’s actually stayed with me for the long haul, though – it was only about a year or two ago that I decided to straighten up, fly right, and start paying attention to capital letter again. (Evolution as a blogger!)

Plus in my old age I’ve started paying more attention to site stats and search engine optimization. While my blog is still tons of fun, it’s evolved into more than a chronicle of fun. It’s grown into a solid marketing tool for my art and design business, and the numbers I see in Google Analytics make me proud of all the hard work I put into posts these days.

While I put a little more thought into posts, search terms, pinnable images, and stats these days…

I’ll still always write about rear ends.

I promise.

You can find posts by my In This Space blog cohorts through our shared Pinterest board, Pin This Space.

What’s your Take on the Evolution of a Blogger?

Leave a comment, or write your own blog post and link in the comments below. I can’t wait to see what everyone writes about!

About the Illustrator
Steph Calvert is the work at home mom and illustrator behind Hearts and Laserbeams. Her work has been seen worldwide on apparel, in print, and online. She’s been writing the Hearts and Laserbeams blog for over 10 years, and is a current blog contributor to Moonfrye.com.

Steph lives in Savannah, Georgia with her hilarious partners in crime, husband Josh, son Phil, and mom in law Carole. She enjoys coloring with her son, karaoke, and a good glass of wine every now and then. (But preferably now, thanks.)

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