10 Ways That Anyone Can Become a Better Writer
Anyone who has a blog would like to be an even better write I believe. Fact is that we all could be. If we would just adhere to a few basic rules when it comes to writing. Rules that show the way to becoming better writers in general and not just when it comes to blogging. At least the adults among us should have learned to write well a long time ago. The sad fact is however that writing is undervalued and looked upon as merely a tool that you may have to master, but don’t necessarily have to be …
How to Make a Comeback or Make Sure You Don’t Need To
Even though I have only been blogging for a few months I have already been in a couple of blogging slumps. Not the serious kind where you have to actually fight to get out, but still enough downtime for both me and my readers to realize that something was not as usual. Sometimes you are just too busy with life as such or you are too ill to think about blogging. Other times is it the comments or lack thereof that gets you down or you are obsessing with your stats and why they look like they do. While health …
10 Essential Blogger Skills Anyone Can Learn
As a blogger you need about as many skills as you do undertaking just about any other complicated social endeavor. Some are more essential than others though. The key is not only finding out what makes the difference, but also to make the most of what you do well while trying to become better at what you do less well. Blogging is not for everyone and successful blogging seems to be for even fewer. Being aware of what skills it requires and why each is important is hence important not only when thinking about starting a blog, but also when …
Don’t Fall in the Expert Trap - Strive for Genuine Authority
Being fascinated with experts and preferring them to others when it comes to educating ourselves on something, when we need to consult someone for advice or need to make a decision is perfectly natural. However, at the end of the day no one knows everything about everything. Therefore is it wise to check what those possessing the most knowledge within a particular field know and not least what they can teach us so that we also know more about it before dealing with something within the field ourselves. If you want to start a blog you check the meta bloggers, …
The First Months of Blogging May Break or Make You
As I wrote in A Successful Blog Launch and the First Few Days Blogging is starting a new blog an exciting venture that however also has its disenchanting moments. The time following the launch have even more pitfalls and even more serious ones at that since you now have more to lose. The perhaps most serious one is that you lose the orientation. To begin with is everything so exciting and your sense of purpose seems so clear. The more other aspects that come into play and the more you work on carving out your niche the easier is …
