Alicia´s last blog post..Celebrity Substance Abuse Problems Aren’t Sources Of Entertainment

Lots of great advice. I think the duties of a blogger as well as the information available are both so overwhelming that if you don’t have some sort of plan to somewhat follow, then you are going to get to the same place I get when I am on my treadmill – nowhere!

How many blogs do you write for now? I can’t imagine more than one at this point! If I could do it full time,(what a dream) I would love to do more than one.

- Get a plan. Like Kim commented about above, it’s so tempting to just jump right in (after all, the ideas and passion are flowing!); however, after a little bit of time, that starts to dwindle, and you’re left wondering where to go next. My first blog was about mental health. The company hired me to write a blog about mental health, and so that’s what I did. Yet, as time went on, I realized that mental health is a huge subject, perhaps too huge for one blog, and there are so many niches within the niche of mental health. I didn’t plan properly, nor did the company. (And, as far as plans are concerned, bloggers need overall grand-scheme-of-things plans, as well as week-to-week plans – ‘m still trying to perfect the art – or science – of keeping an editorial-type calendar for myself!).

- Don’t take anything personally. Unless someone flat out says, “That Alicia over at Celebrity Psychings is stupid,” I try not to take anything someone says personally. People have their own opinions, and if they don’t like what I write, then, they just don’t like it.

- NEVER hit the “publish” button immediately, and especially not if you wrote the post first thing in the morning or the last thing at night. (I’m still learning this, actually, ha.) There’ve been times when I’ve gone back and looked at posts and thought, what on Earth was I thinking? Things we write seem great as we’re writing them, but oftentimes once we let the passion of the post-writing cool down and go back and review the post, we find things we want to rephrase, clarify, delete altogether, etc.

Alicia´s last blog post..Celebrity Substance Abuse Problems Aren’t Sources Of Entertainment

It’s hard to have a plan if you don’t know what you are getting yourself into. I was SO anxious to get started but I forced myself to read Darren’s ProBlogger book first. It was great but I think only experience can teach me! I’ll have to go back and read ProBlogger again. I am sure I will be nodding my head a lot more this time around.

Tom,

I hope you didn’t have your other blog too too long cause it takes so much work to build up even a little ranking! Blogging is certainly a learning experience isn’t it?