I learned when you are running a professional blog that has to be updated every day (or five days a week), you just can’t be brilliant every day. You have days where you have no clue what to blog about or when you’re just not inspired, but still you have to post. I also learned that posts I think might be amazing may get no response while other posts that I didn’t think were that great generate lots of comments. I have found ways to produce content that don’t rely on me having to write full blown posts all the time. I do a lot of Q&As (like this), repost some of the more interesting comments and have easy features like Ypulse Quote (where I find a relevant and interesting quote) or From The Ypulse WTF files (a short post about something that just makes you scratch your head).
I think blogging is a great way to work your writing muscles and develop/strengthen your writing voice — it takes focus and discipline and it’s public so you get feedback on what you do.
Tags: Anastasia Goodstein, Blogging, Ypulse
September 24, 2007 at 8:30 am |
I agree with your last paragraph. Blogging does help get my creative juices running. It hasn’t been easy but I’ve been sticking to subjects I know a thing or two about. It’ll be a while before I crank out my first proper and researched article but I’m working on it! Good luck to your updating.
September 24, 2007 at 9:17 am |
Dear Velvetwriter,
Thanks for stopping by and your comments–and, best of luck with your researched article.
One advantage with blogging I found is that, at times, you can do things bit by bit, and at the end of several posts, you can have an essay or article of decent length. It helps to keep things that way, for me at least.