Not that I am really a writer but anyway trying to blog! Some 5 months has passed since my last post when I kind of announced how I am going to start writing and share all these excellent content about professional blogging and monetization. So what is stopping me writing? That is what I was thinking about, I have created a whole list of fantastic titles and have all the ideas about things to write about but every week I am postponing it. The excuses are the usual… don’t have time, have a day job, need to be ready for it, run a commercial blog which is taking most of my free time (I don’t do the writing on that blog). That is all true but really writing about something I know very well and am passionate about should be easy right!? So what’s stopping me to spend say an hour in a weekend and write a post? That is a question I keep asking myself.
Tonight I think I have the answer(s). I have just stared reading the Huffington Post Complete guide to blogging. Some of the top bloggers on Huffington post share their thought on blogging and why they blog. Here are a couple of quotes that really resonated with me:
“My posts are still just a series of rough drafts; I think of the blog as a notebook!” – Jeremy Adam Smith, Daddy dialectic blog
To me that is the true root of what blogging is. It doesn’t have to be perfectly edited. My problem I think is I don’t want to publish until I am satisfied it is completely right in every sense. So tonight I decided to change that and approach this blog in more personal story telling way, being myself and not afraid of making mistakes. Just start writing! Like I am doing now. Not being native English speaker I do have an accent when I talk and so what I might have an accent when I write. No more excuses like I am tiered, have headache, can’t face the computer any more (I have some ideas to deal with that too but more about that later).
Another quote from the book:
“In the blog I try to be aggressive and adventurous and experimental. As a result, sometimes I am just wrong or offbeat, but I really try to listen to my reader’s feedback.”
And here some great advice about blogging from Penelope Trunk, a logger and Boston Globe career columnist:
“Pick a topic –you can change it when you know what you’re doing. This is like dating. Pick something that seems good, and if it isn’t, try again. Don’t get hung up on the topic. As in dating, you’ll know when you’ve found one that’s the right fit”.
That last advice is something I really need to listen to. Cause I am the master of getting hung up on an idea and keep dwelling, even when it’s not working, pushing myself and digging deeper which subsequently can only lead to procrastination.
Ok I have reached almost 500 words now and this whole post took me less than an hour to write. Good or bad I don’t know but at least I have stated writing and hopefully stop making too much of a big deal out of it.
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