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You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
Published by kithri2
I am a writer and love also helping out the local animal rescues by doing animal foster care for pregnant and abandoned animals. I have owned such pets, besides the standard cat and dog, as chinchillas, pot-bellied pigs, parrots, and more. I love being outside during summer and autumn, but not during the cold Minnesota winters. I like playing computer games such as Aywas, Wajas, Sylestia, and Flight Rising among others. I am old enough to remember a time before personal computers and still like playing board games like scrabble, trivia pursuit and card games.
I am blind and have had several kidney transplants. I am a braille reader even though very few are being taught braille anymore due to the new digital technology, but I prefer reading books in it when I can find one. I use a screen reader program on my computer that reads aloud all text on the screen including letters I type, emails, web pages, text documents, but not pictures as those are graphics.
http://www.sourcepages.wordpress.com
I set this site up mainly to showcase the many varied links out there where people can find everything from accessible technology for the deaf or blind to information about various pets to some great sites to buy hand-made crafts. Please note that this is a work in progress as I still need to finish adding pages and links, but I am always accepting suggestions from my readers.
http://www.dragonbladeweb.wordpress.com
This site showcases my poetry, verse, and a few chapters from the novels I am getting published and will be selling. Being that I am a blind reader myself, I hope to also have my book out in some sort of audio format, but I plan to have it available on the Kindle platform or some other eBook format first. Though the Kindle and Nook devices are not accessible for us, the Kindle app is and can be used to read anything in the Kindle store, but I don't think the Nook in any form is accessible to us at all.
I also do editing and proofreading in case anyone needs that service for a manuscript of any type. Please feel free to contact me or visit the above link and check the editing services page for the ad.
I am putting my Paypal link up here just in case anyone would like to help me out in donating any amount of money to help get my book into eBook and print formats, something that does cost cash if you are going the self-publishing route.
http://www.paypal.me/ChastityMorse
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