1. What is Blog? - Blogging refers to writing, photography, and other media that's self-published online. The hallmarks of blogging include frequent updates, informal language, and opportunities for readers to engage and start a conversation.
2. Steps in writing a Blog
- Steps in writing a Blog is essential. Bloggers cannot write a stories/encouragement if they doesn’t know how to caught the attention of each readers.
a. Purpose – Your purpose must be stable. is the goal or aim of a piece of writing: to express oneself, to provide information, to persuade, or to create a literary work.
b. Intention – Your intention must be right. It gives you a feel for the stories you most want to create, encourages curiosity, and increases your understanding of the world we live in. Reading with intention means choosing stories purposefully and letting yourself be inspiration to your readers.
• Pick something you’re passionate about. When you care about your topic, you’ll write about it in a more powerful, emotionally expressive way. • Pick something your readers are passionate/interest about. What does your audience care about? It’s important to know so you can engage them. And don’t be afraid to write negative (e.g. Five Common Foods You Should Always Avoid). The human negativity bias is legit. • Get inspired by other writers. We must be always teachable in writing. In writing a blog, we should not compete to other Bloggers because bloggers has different purpose, intention and contents so we must accept the criticism and suggestions from our readers.
*Preparations :
Planning a Blog Post:
- Things bloggers should do before putting pen to paper – outlining, or if you will write on site you can write your draft at MS word. This is to avoid deleting and repeating your post.
- Craft a headline that is both informative and will capture readers’ attentions. This is one of the important steps in preparations.
- Use images to enhance your post, improve its flow, add humor, and explain complex topics. This is to make your Blog Post colorful and not boring. Photos can help readers to keep reading on your content.
- Make sure to avoid repetition, read your post aloud to check its flow, have someone else read it and provide feedback, keep sentences and paragraphs short, don’t be a perfectionist, don’t be afraid to cut out text or adapt your writing last minute.
- Lastly, your PURPOSE and INTENTION should always remain and remembered by you. You can forget the preparations but if you will go back to your FIRST TWO (2) STEPS , it is easy for you to write a blog.