Want to try your hand at blogging? Here’s how to get started

March 4th, 2008 Categories: Food for Soul and Spirit, Lighten Up, Oakville Real Estate News

What’s it like to blog?

It’s like being pulled by your pen to new places every day.

Writing is one of those things that the more you do it, the more you want to do it, and the easier it is to do.

Something comes to the top of your mind and you just want to record it so it won’t get lost. Perhaps someone else can relate or follow what you are thinking?

You have a desire to express something. A desire to connect with a reader.

I think we all have this desire inside us but we have been so indoctrinated into thinking that there is only one right way to write. We have had teachers that put red marks all over our feeble efforts at creative expression.

We have become writing-repressed and self-conscious.

The beauty of blogging is that you don’t have to get published. You just put it out there in the hope that someone will read it. Who knows? It might inspire someone else to write something. It might help spawn other writers out there. (I use the term writer loosely.)

You don’t have to be an English major or a prolific reader.

What’s the worst that could happen? What you write makes no sense at all? Still it would be your thoughts, a legitimate expression of what’s on your mind and in your subconscious.

It’s just a freeing thing to start typing on a blank page. Try it some time. Don’t think. Just put your fingers on the keyboard and let your pen take you where it wants to go. You might be surprised at the outcome.

I would be thrilled to read a comment from bloggers and would-be-bloggers out there who connect to others through your pen! On-line interaction is another fun thing about blogging but that’s for another post.

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