I know a lot of bright and successful people who do not like the idea of blogging. They think the idea requires some sort of special talent & ability to entertain with enormous creativity. I don't think it does. There are plenty of Bloggers who are about as entertaining as an infected toenail, yet they produce amazing localism posts, market reports and factoid filled blogs... dare I provide examples. I live against the grain, so none of that stuff appeals or interests me. I like doing things the hard way, always have. I eat my hamburgers upside down and I prefer to put tables together from IKEA without the directions, even if it takes me 37 hours.
The point is, you don't have to be the next Robert Frost or Lenn Harley to be inspirational to your readers. You can be as mechanical and dry as you like. Because there's nothing worse than watching someone trying to be funny when they're aren't. I can think of so many examples from the political scene.... but I'll pass.
I'm one of those guys who types like I talk. My english teachers in high school were not impressed to say the least. I think a lot of newbie bloggers fear that they will be critiqued and even shunned because they are far too often guilty of typing the word advise when it should read advice. Or worse, they are the Queen of run on sentences and King of misplaced commas and hyphens.
The most important thing is that you don't seek how to blog. You just do it. And you do it with passion. Anything done with passion is everything done with heart. Grandma's apple pie was made with passion and nobody cared that it was served on a cracked plate in an 80 degree kitchen.
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