4 Pointers To Blog Writing

By Paul W Wood

Start a blog

Seems obvious, but just start blogging about anything that you know something about. Once you have the blog up and running you can get used to the discipline required and develop your own writing style. As an example, you could start a blog about where you live. Just sign on with one of the free blogging services or purchase a domain name, install Wordpress or other blogging software and start blogging. Doing it this way means that all you have to come up with are observations about daily life in your town and write about them. It may not be riveting, but the point is that it gives you a source of material that you have to shape into something readable. This sort of blog may never get a large audience, but the fact that it is live adds a certain compulsion to write for it. If you were just writing for yourself without publishing it, there would be a greater chance of stopping through lack of motivation.

Write the way you think

For some people this may seem like a really bad idea, but the idea is to make your writing both unique and sustainable for you. If you try and copy someone else's style, you will not know how to express yourself within that style and you will end up as a very pale imitation of the writer you are trying to emulate. That's not something many people will go out of their way to read.

Always read before you post

I don't know how many times I have read a blog or article which has been marred by misspelling or the author copying and pasting a phrase twice and not editing the result properly. It is always possible to alter a post you have made, even after you have posted, but with Wordpress you can preview the page before actually publishing it. For some reason mistakes that you have not noticed in the editing window show up when you see the post in context, so always preview before posting and if you are as cautious as I am, read it again after posting. You will also notice problems with readability that you hadn't noticed before and can correct them to make the writing flow better.

Alter the size of the edit box

Finally a practical point. If you are using Wordpress, the default editor size is quite small and it is difficult to keep the sweep of the post as you have to scroll up and down to read it too much. Fortunately you can increase the number of lines by going to you Wordpress control panel and clicking on Options and then Writing and you can increase the size of the post box there. I find 20 is a reasonable line number, but you should may your own mind up on it.

Having a developed a style and become used to the discipline of blog writing, there are a number of ways you can make your blog more search engine friendly. This means that people can find it more easily, and I will cover this in future articles.

Paul Wood has been involved with computers since before there was an Internet, and has been involved as it has evolved and grown to where it is today. The experience he has gained from this has been invaluable to both his clients and those he has mentored. Although he now runs many sites, his Internet Business Centre provides a focus for his continued commitment to enabling others to make some sense of the sometimes confusing wonder that is today's Internet.

http://www.internet-business-centre.co.uk and his personal site http://www.livinginlymington.com is an example of what he has been talking about in this article.

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