Blogging Advice

• Write with intent - what do you want your readers to do after reading your post

• Be useful - Successful blogs tend to be useful in some way. Does your post meet a need or solve a problem?

• Do the work - Study blogs that you like to read, learn from them. Connect with your audience. Put it out there. Have no regrets.

• Be patient - The challenge is to not only create the traffic, but keeping it. You have to build your blog slowly and genuinely.

• Craft a story - Recounting what you cooked for dinner will not keep people reading. Recounting how and where you learned the dish might.

• Be timeless - Will somebody still be able to read this down the line in a year?

• Write short sentences - Each sentence should have a simply thought and point. Don't confuse or over complicate it, people will not read it

• Don't overthink it - It is not an exam, it is not homework. It is a blog! 

• Be generous with other bloggers - We are all friends here! Promote others content, comment on how great you think they are!

• Just do it! - There are no rules to blogging, they only way to find your voice and make your blog golden is to jump in and start posting!