After much thought and consideration, I have decided to close down my blog once and for all. I have said this before, but I think I mean it this time. I have gone a month, roughly I think, without posting any reviews and in that time I have been giving this a lot of thought. I started this blog as something as a class project and I kept it going because it turned out to be a fun little thing for me to do. I love horror movies and this blog gave me a voice to talk about each film I watched if I wanted to. The last couple of years I have been struggling with keeping things going. I would get excited about writing reviews for a while and then it became a struggle again.
I never wanted to just post a handful or less during a month but I find myself doing that more and more. It is hard to maintain readership when you don't post very often and this blog was never all that popular to start with. Not that I minded that. I was never in this hoping my blog would take off, it was just for fun after all. When I see a post hover around 30 views for a long time though and I haven't been feeling like writing, it just makes it harder to get back into wanting to do reviews again.
I have wanted to keep a steady stream of reviews going for this blog and while I had months that I wasn't able to do that, for the most part, I was able to. Since I haven't been doing that as much, this year has been my worst start ever, in fact, that is part of why I decided to shut things down. Another reason is that once I start to struggle to get a review done, my movie watching pretty much comes to a halt. I will get in the mood to watch a horror movie but decide against it because I haven't finished a review for the last one I watched. Before I know it, a couple of weeks have gone by without watching any movie at all.
This year marks my 14th year writing for this blog. This post will give me 1,620 posts. I could have done better than that, but I'm still proud of those numbers. Not too bad really. Of course, not all of those are mine, as I did bring in some guests now and then, but still. I think the main reason for me deciding to do this is I'm just not feeling it anymore. It was fun but it feels more like a chore anymore to write up a fairly long review. I always hated it when I would just post a small review because I have always hated seeing small reviews when trying to find out about a movie. Never fear though, I am still writing a bit. If you haven't followed me on Letterboxd, I have been writing smaller reviews after every movie, horror or not. I don't feel as bad about posting small reviews there just because mine is still longer than a majority I see there! If you want to know my thoughts or just see what it is I have been watching, follow the link and I will see you all there. I won't completely abandon my little blog here though. I will still check in on it and see if there are any comments. Maybe I will pick it up again down the road someday, but time will tell. Never say never, right?
Before I go, a big thank you to all of you who have stuck with me over the years or just read some of my reviews. It has been greatly appreciated and despite it all, I will miss all of you and this blog.
Thanks again,
Heather
I never wanted to just post a handful or less during a month but I find myself doing that more and more. It is hard to maintain readership when you don't post very often and this blog was never all that popular to start with. Not that I minded that. I was never in this hoping my blog would take off, it was just for fun after all. When I see a post hover around 30 views for a long time though and I haven't been feeling like writing, it just makes it harder to get back into wanting to do reviews again.
I have wanted to keep a steady stream of reviews going for this blog and while I had months that I wasn't able to do that, for the most part, I was able to. Since I haven't been doing that as much, this year has been my worst start ever, in fact, that is part of why I decided to shut things down. Another reason is that once I start to struggle to get a review done, my movie watching pretty much comes to a halt. I will get in the mood to watch a horror movie but decide against it because I haven't finished a review for the last one I watched. Before I know it, a couple of weeks have gone by without watching any movie at all.
This year marks my 14th year writing for this blog. This post will give me 1,620 posts. I could have done better than that, but I'm still proud of those numbers. Not too bad really. Of course, not all of those are mine, as I did bring in some guests now and then, but still. I think the main reason for me deciding to do this is I'm just not feeling it anymore. It was fun but it feels more like a chore anymore to write up a fairly long review. I always hated it when I would just post a small review because I have always hated seeing small reviews when trying to find out about a movie. Never fear though, I am still writing a bit. If you haven't followed me on Letterboxd, I have been writing smaller reviews after every movie, horror or not. I don't feel as bad about posting small reviews there just because mine is still longer than a majority I see there! If you want to know my thoughts or just see what it is I have been watching, follow the link and I will see you all there. I won't completely abandon my little blog here though. I will still check in on it and see if there are any comments. Maybe I will pick it up again down the road someday, but time will tell. Never say never, right?
Before I go, a big thank you to all of you who have stuck with me over the years or just read some of my reviews. It has been greatly appreciated and despite it all, I will miss all of you and this blog.
Thanks again,
Heather
