A Fresh Start

Hi All! Welcome back to Curated by Carly! As you can see, things look a little bit different around here.

Since the creation of this space, I have grown and changed so much, and I think it’s only fair that if I’m going to continue writing in this space, that it grows and changes with me. The truth is, that over the past few years, I’ve lost the energy, stamina, and motivation for writing that I once had. After graduating college and moving out on my own, I lacked the creative environment, including my peers and friends that shared my same passions, that had been inspiring me to write. At some point in the past few years, I started looking at writing as a chore and not a passion. That’s not to say that the passion died off completely, just that its been lost. In all honesty, I’m not entirely sure that I’ve been able to find it 100% just yet, but I have realized that I need to keep writing.

It’s difficult to put yourself on a writing “schedule” per-say when you’re not sure what you even want to write about. In college, I wrote a lot of feature pieces, styled more like articles for a magazine than I did blog posts. I loved it! I had fun when I was writing for HerCampus and sitting in story ideas meetings every week, coming up with new angles for pieces that spoke to our targeted audience. And then when I branched off on my own and started this blog, I loved writing from my own personal experiences and almost as if I had my own advice column. I’m not sure if there is one style that fits for everyone (and every blog). My vision for this revised space is to have a little bit of both going on.

And of course, the book reviews aren’t going anywhere. If anything, I have way more to come now that I have a subscription to Book of the Month Club.

So stay turned! This space isn’t going to fill up overnight, but there is definitely stuff in the works that I’m excited to share with you all!

With Love, Carly