The Bloggers With The Most To Say
How do you blog?
When you go about blogging a post, how do you go about it, what is your process?
For myself, it's always different. There are days when a blog post is brewing inside of me, I think of little sarcastic remarks, and little silly ideas to make the post better and bigger. Other days, I just sit and I type. And I'll write out a sentence that I think might be smart and then it goes from there, never really making sense, but at least it's therapeutic, right?
I think my worst blog posts are the ones where I don't really feel like blogging and my topic is truly nothing - my week recap, what happened today - that kind of crap... I'm never happy with those..
Anyway, how do you blog?
For myself, it's always different. There are days when a blog post is brewing inside of me, I think of little sarcastic remarks, and little silly ideas to make the post better and bigger. Other days, I just sit and I type. And I'll write out a sentence that I think might be smart and then it goes from there, never really making sense, but at least it's therapeutic, right?
I think my worst blog posts are the ones where I don't really feel like blogging and my topic is truly nothing - my week recap, what happened today - that kind of crap... I'm never happy with those..
Anyway, how do you blog?
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Permalink Reply by Andrew G on -
First, I read books and articles. They provide me with plenty of thoughts that I can put into blog form. Sometimes it takes several days for a blog post to come to me because I'll be searching for the perfect angle to approach it. Or sometimes I'll take a week to research one post and I'll write smaller posts to keep the page active while I build up to a big release.
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Permalink Reply by MeCassieMarie on -
Sometimes, I really don't know what to blog about. It's usually just general musings of the day or whatever is going on. Then every now and then I'll get an idea to write a rant or something about things that I love/hate.
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Permalink Reply by Stacey Cash on
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Usually I sit down with a topic in mind, comb the internet for some further information and then write until it's finished. I'm not a big drafting/planning in advance person - although I do plan topics in advance, just not exactly what I'm going to write.
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Permalink Reply by Marie on -
That depends on what blog I'm on lol! Most things are updates on how things are going but when I really blog, I usually wait until I have a topic. Usually when a song plays or the weather is just right something will hit me and I just go from there.
I agree that my worst blogs are the ones where I'm forcing myself to write and nothing good is coming to mind!
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Permalink Reply by Stephen on -
To be quite honest, I know that if I were to overthink it, I wouldn't be as regular. So I just think of the most interesting thing that comes to mind, open the textbox and just let loose. Which means most of the time I will probably end up writing tripe, but there you go.
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Permalink Reply by Conor on -
For me, blogging is like taking a dump. You sorta take in lots of observations, jokes, scenarios etc to the point where you HAVE to take a blog dump.
If you try when you're not ready, you have a little stringy weak one, and if you don't post for ages, then you have a huge deluge that takes ages.
Wow...extended metaphor.
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Permalink Reply by Linda on -
I don't have my camera on today, but I try to already be ready to snap a picture to center a blog around. I also have a notation notebook to capture any thoughts I may want to journal for myself later or turn into a blog entry.
Lately it's been pretty tough to keep on it since I have a full time day job and a part time night job leaving me just weekends. Funnily, it's been getting me to update sometimes 2 times a day because I'm overcompensating.
Because of time is hard to come by, I'll start up a lot of drafts to save to polish later. It's becoming increasinly hard for me to sit down for an hour or two to write one blog straight through. Sometimes if I'm good on the weekends, I'll have them ready in advance to publish ahead of time.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Thompson on -
It depends on what I'm writing about. Usually I think about the post long enough beforehand that I can sit down and just write it in less than half and hour. Other times I sit down and have nothing. I have to think up a topic, outline, then write.
I actually find the "what I did today" kind of posts the easiest. It's just a recap. The ones I want to be good and reach people take a little bit more thought and work. I usually edit those when I just write and post others.
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Permalink Reply by Lizzie on -
I write if I have something to say - I love that feeling of doing a certain thing during the day or talking about something with someone and thinking, "This would make a great blog post!" I hate it when you feel like you've done nothing for a week and you'd be blogging about something random - the other day I made a post about Xmas Sales and feel like it was absolutely pointless. On days where I really feel like I have to blog about something but have no idea what, I use a writing prompt just to get me going and usually then there's no stopping me!
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