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Hello again everyone, and welcome back to week 2 of my Blogtober challenge. If you missed any of the posts that have gone up so far, you can catch up on the links down below: 1: Welcome to Blogtober 2: Types of Blog 3: Blog Names 4: Reasons I Blog 5: Planning Blogposts 6: My Favourite Posts 7: Writer’s Block 8: My One Blogging Tip 9: Coming Out to Yourself 10: Coming Out to the World 11: Pride 12: Busting Bisexual Myths For today’s post, I wanted to discuss something which may be controversial. I want to ask a question: Can sexuality change? If somebody asked me this question, I would have no hesitation in answering yes. Before you all get angry, let me explain my reasons for this. Simply based on my own personal experience, I believe that sexuality is a fluid thing which CAN change over time. Until around a year ago, I identified as gay but have since come out as bisexual. We are all evo...

Hello again everyone, and welcome back to week 2 of my Blogtober challenge. If you missed any of the posts that have gone up so far, you can catch up on the links down below: 1: Welcome to Blogtober 2: Types of Blog 3: Blog Names 4: Reasons I Blog 5: Planning Blogposts 6: My Favourite Posts 7: Writer’s Block 8: My One Blogging Tip 9: Coming Out to Yourself 10: Coming Out to the World 11: Pride Having come out as bisexual earlier in the year, I couldn’t do LGBT week without going into the topic in some way. What I have noticed is that there are a lot of stereotypes about certain LGBT identities, in particular bisexuality. Today, I wanted to address these stereotypes and discuss what I think about them. “Bisexuals are more likely to cheat.” Being attracted to multiple genders DOES NOT affect how committed you are when in a relationship. Bisexual people are IN NO WAY more likel...

Hello again everyone, and welcome back to week 2 of my Blogtober challenge. If you missed any of the posts that have gone up so far, you can catch up on the links down below: 1: Welcome to Blogtober 2: Types of Blog 3: Blog Names 4: Reasons I Blog 5: Planning Blogposts 6: My Favourite Posts 7: Writer’s Block 8: My One Blogging Tip 9: Coming Out to Yourself 10: Coming Out to the World Today I wanted to talk about Pride. To begin with, I’m going to talk about the experience of my first ever Pride. The first Pride I went to was in 2015. Having never been before, and seeing as I would be not only attending, but also WALKING in the parade, I was both excited and nervous about it. I had never been so open about being an LGBT person and to put this part of me on display for the whole world to see terrified me quite a bit. Going into that weekend, I had no idea what to expect. Boy, was I in for a surprise. IT WAS INCREDIBLE! So many things happened ...

Hello again everyone, and welcome back to week 2 of my Blogtober challenge. If you missed any of the posts that have gone up so far, you can catch up on the links down below: 1: Welcome to Blogtober 2: Types of Blog 3: Blog Names 4: Reasons I Blog 5: Planning Blogposts 6: My Favourite Posts 7: Writer’s Block 8: My One Blogging Tip 9: Coming Out to Yourself This is the second post about coming out as an LGBTI person. Yesterday, we dealt with the process of self-realisation and coming to terms with your own identity; coming out to yourself. Today, as part 2 of that, I’m going to look into the next stage which is coming out to the world and give you some tips and advice about this life-changing process. After dealing with your identity privately and discovering who you are, there will come a time when you feel comfortable enough in who you are that you will want to let other people know. However, this can be a daunting thing to do, and there ar...

Hello again everyone, and welcome to the start of week 2 of my Blogtober challenge. If you missed any of last week’s blogging-themed posts, you can catch up on the links down below: 1: Welcome to Blogtober 2: Types of Blog 3: Blog Names 4: Reasons I Blog 5: Planning Blogposts 6: My Favourite Posts 7: Writer’s Block 8: My One Blogging Tip Today is the start of week 2, which is LGBT week. To kick off this week of LGBT-themed posts, I would like to explore the topic of coming out. Originally, this was going to be just one post, but I have decided that I will instead split it into two posts, with part 1 today and part 2 coming up tomorrow. I am dedicating today’s post to the topic of COMING OUT TO YOURSELF. Before coming out to other people, there is a long process of coming out to yourself which most LGBTI people go through. This process can take a very long time, and can be both confusing and scary, but I hope the tips I share here can help...

Hello again everyone, and welcome to day 8 of my Blogtober challenge. If you have missed any posts so far, you can catch up on the links down below: 1: Welcome to Blogtober 2: Types of Blog 3: Blog Names 4: Reasons I Blog 5: Planning Blogposts 6: My Favourite Posts 7: Writer’s Block Today, as the last part of blogging week, I wanted to give you one piece of advice about blogging that I always try to follow for myself when writing my own content. For me, there is one thing which your blog should always be. There is one rule, one idea, one concept that you must follow if you are a blogger. It should be found in every aspect of your blog, from your header to the images you use, from your post ideas to your post titles, from the layout of your blog to your social media pages. This one thing should govern absolutely everything you do and you should always try and ensure you are looking after it and that it shows on your blog. Above everythin...

Hello again everyone, and welcome to day 7 of my Blogtober challenge. If you have missed any posts so far, you can catch up on the links down below: 1: Welcome to Blogtober 2: Types of Blog 3: Blog Names 4: Reasons I Blog 5: Planning Blogposts 6: My Favourite Posts For today’s post, I wanted to talk a bit about a problem I, and I’m sure many other bloggers, face on a regular basis – writer’s block. There are so many times when I want to write, and am so motivated to do so, but one of the following ends up happening. I cannot think of an idea to write about If I have an idea, I don’t seem to be able to write about it If I do end up being able to write, it doesn’t feel quite right so I delete it (several times in some cases) This can be such a frustrating thing, especially if you have committed to something, such as a blogging challenge and/or you’re trying but failing to meet a deadline. Not only do you get frustrated but it can totally sap y...

Hello again everyone, and welcome to day 6 of my Blogtober challenge. If you have missed any posts so far, you can catch up on the links down below: 1: Welcome to Blogtober 2: Types of Blog 3: Blog Names 4: Reasons I Blog 5: Planning Blogposts Today I’m going to hit you with a huge blast of personal blogging nostalgia (or “blogstalgia” if you like) as this week of blogging-related blogposts continues. With over 200 posts now on this page, I thought it was time I went back through them all and chose my favourite posts I’ve ever written. So, here are my top 10 posts. Trent’s Tracks 1 8 th January 2016 I love this post because this is where Trent’s Tracks, my music series, began. Since I put up this post to kick it off, I have done so many posts in the series, including two posting marathons. So many songs have been added to the list since this one, but this is where it all started in January of last year. Family 31 st July 2015 Here’s...