Category: Blogging

Blogging as exhaling: long truths of personal blogging from Nora Ephron

February 12, 2019

Nora Ephron gets the point of personal blogs — the freedom, the autonomy, the lightness, the speed, the whole democratic shebang.

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7 ways to “write for yourself first” when blogging

February 6, 2019

A personal blog is written for your own personal reasons, and so surely you had better write for yourself first. But what does that mean?

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What topic will you choose for your personal blog?

January 31, 2019

Certain topics are common in personal blogs, but the choice is yours. Finding a niche is difficult. Finding a theme may be easier.

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What to do when your personal blog becomes a burden: 6 tips

January 24, 2019

When your personal blog becomes a burden: make new rules and lose blogger guilt.

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6 conventional blogging tips that may make sense for personal blogs

January 10, 2019

Most tips for business and professional blogs are not much use to us personal bloggers. We are blogging for creativity or company or fun — or all three — or for other idiosyncratic, non-commercial reasons. However, certain time-honoured tips apply to every blog