Writing a blog post takes time, energy, thought, and preparation. You might start with a original idea, or a burst of inspiration. If you are the prepared type, a plan, editorial calendar, post it note, or book of ideas. Some know exactly what they want to post.
There are those of us who are sitting down, and writing as we go. One eye on the clock, the other mentally urging our computer to download photos faster. Whatever works. There can be great blog posts dashed off in 15 minutes. I've written posts in mere minutes, by the seat of my pants, my favorite TV show was coming on…and I wasn't going to miss it. Just don't tell the blogging police. Then there are other posts that seem to take days to show up, get themselves organized, and written, and rewritten, and done over again. One consistent aspect in blogging will always be that good content, and images are going to be be something that your readers will want to engage in. To read, to comment on, to share, to enjoy. While each of us is unique, and has our own style, setting our own personal standards there is nothing wrong with challenging ourselves to do a little better. We all have our favorite bloggers, the ones that speak to our hearts…they have a great sense of who they are. We might like the way they write, love their photography style, or are interested in the subjects they cover. They get their unique voice by constantly improving their writing, and photography. Great content means tweaking, and improving before you hit publish. Blogging is not a matter of how many words to write, or how many photos to include. You can have the shiniest, fanciest theme, tweaked by a designer…but it's a beautifully wrapped present with nothing inside the box if the content is poor quality.
The amount of followers your blog has, tens, hundreds, thousands, whether you post on Word Press, or Blogger, is no where near as important as the content. Good content stays around…it resurfaces, it's pinned, and tweeted, shared on FaceBook. And although it can be challenging sometimes to do it, it's well worth it in the end.
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