Maureen started a conversation last week with her Seven Habits of Highly Effective Homeschool Bloggers. The principles apply to all bloggers though and there’s been a great response to the thread. If you are a struggling blogger, as I am, take a look, glean and learn.
Randi took a different approach and in the mindset of learning from our mistakes, she has posted Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Bloggers. Number One and Number Three go hand in hand for me and have kept me from blogging much at all.
I read a lot of blogs, I see wonderful posts and feel that I can’t measure up, so I don’t try. Or if I do try, I agonize over each word to the point of exhaustion and never post. Also, I figure that anything I have to say has already been or is being said by someone else.
Well, to borrow from the Natasha Bedingfield song, Unwritten
No one else can speak the words on my lips
I have something to say and no one else can say it for me.
My new motto and number one on my list to becoming an effective blogger, (though I have this wonderfully sinister thought that I might want to be considered an infective blogger instead) is:
Just Blog it!!
Immersed in the Mystery,
Cynthia
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Randi said,
June 8, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Hopefully you don’t worry about “measuring up” too much! I love your blog and I bookmarked it the first time I visited! I look forward to hearing what you have to say!
livingabundantly said,
July 4, 2006 at 9:21 am
Don’t worry – it’s a common writer’s fear (and block) to think you have nothing worth saying; nothing new to say. The truth is in blogging (and all writing) the absolute best thing you can do is be yourself. Just write, don’t think about it – pour yourself out on the page.
Personally, I think what you say is worth listening to.
(p.s. I moved my blog off homeschool blogger – stop by and let me know what you think)