One of the first steps to starting a blog is choosing your blog niche. The internet says so. Unusual and more specific niches are better. No one will read your blog if it is just whatever pops into your head on a given day. It won’t hold the audience’s interest long term. The internet says so.
And really, the internet is probably right. For those trying to turn their blog into an income source, into a business, into their livelihood, a niche is pretty important. It will give you a huge leg up on locating, drawing in, and holding your audience. But Urban Earthworm isn’t a business and it isn’t about earning an income. Do I have that fantasy that nearly every blogger has that one day I’ll be turning over huge ad revenues and I can stop working and just blog for a living? Hell yea I friggin do. Do I think it’s likely to happen? Not even a little bit. Why? Because I’m not going to pick niche. Screw you, Internet, you can’t tell me what to do!
Still, I’d like to have at least a few readers. I’d like this blog to have some meaning to someone here and there. So while Urban Earthworm may fall short of filling a niche, it will have a personality – a realm of topics revolving around… well, ultimately – me. Here is what I have outlined so far:
Everyday sustainability and flippant soliloquies from the working mom trenches.
- Green lifestyle
- Recipes
- Gardening
- Sustainability ideas
- Family
- Parenting
- Relationships
- Polyamory
- Healthy relationships
- Sex
- Divorce
- Paganism
- Traditions
- Legal considerations for families/parents/etc.
- Reading
- Books
- Book travel – bookstores, libraries, book locations
- Kids’ books
- Life
- Professional Life
- Mental Health
- Recovering from abuse
- PMDD
- Mental Health
- Legal tips for everyday life
- Hobbies and crafts
- Geek
- Fandoms
- Cosplay
- Nerd
- Science
- History
Exhaustive list? Probably figgin not. Too broad for a “successful” blog? Totally. Should you stick with me anyway? Heck yes – I did say I was going to talk about sex sometimes, didn’t I?!
