If you’re new to blogging, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the advice out there.
Some examples of common advice about blogging:
- You need a niche.
- You must do keyword research.
- Every essay should be stuffed with keywords.
- Your essay should have a clear point and a clear call to action.
Whether this advice applies to you depends on your goals.
Although a clearly defined niche can help, not having one shouldn’t keep you from getting started.
In almost a decade of blogging, I have found that not every essay needs a clear objective and call to action.
In fact, ironically, my essays that have gone viral have generally lacked these elements.
Sometimes writing the piece and hitting “publish” IS the point.
I often say that the hardest thing about blogging is not the writing, but hitting the PUBLISH button.
The willingness to sit with what’s real is one thing.
It’s another level entirely to articulate our experiences and sentiments into coherent (or incoherent) sentences and speak them.
It’s next level to concretize them as words on a page (or screen). Many people do this in private journals or drafts of things they never show to the world.
The act of hitting PUBLISH to share those sentences with the world — whether on a blog or on any platform — is the highest level.
This is what opens the door to healing and transformation.
What we choose to share — through writing, art, movement, or any form of creative expression — can change the world. Or at least one person.
More important, what we choose to share can change us.
Sometimes the most important result from sharing your work is simply the fact that you shared it.
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