Blogging & Writing

10 Nuggets of Advice for Aspiring Personal Bloggers

I can already imagine you rolling your eyes and sighing. “Another blogging advice post?”

Yes, you’re right. The blogosphere is full of such posts, each one of them resembling the other, and I’m fairly confident that with today’s post, I’m not going to add anything new. Besides, if you’re anything like me, you instantly feel the urge to rebel and go against the tips you see from other bloggers.

And after all, I’m far from being a perfect blogging model to follow. Still, that won’t stop me from writing my opinions about this subject, which has now become so important in my life. But first, I better give a clearer picture of what this post is meant to be.

This post will NOT be:

a step-by-step guide on how to create and manage a blog;
a surefire way to achieving clicks and success;
a technical post (I hardly know SEO myself — and no, dear ‘professionals’, I’m not asking for your help).

What this post will be:

advice to a hypothetical friend who wishes to start a blog but is still lost;
oriented towards motivating newbies to improve themselves and to bring out their personality through blogging;
derived from all the blogging tips I’ve read in recent months, but heavily influenced by my personal opinions.

So here are my own 10 nuggets of advice for aspiring personal bloggers!

6th November 2016 by Tiziana

Blogging & Writing, Self-development

10 Things I’ve Learned from Blogging (So Far)

Update @ April 2017: This post was originally meant to celebrate my 100th blog post, however after some recent modifications, the number of published posts has decreased. In any case, this article still stands as a 1st-anniversary post!

Today I want to look back on the past one year, three months and two weeks, to see how my blogging journey has defined me and my blog.

I’m not the kind who analyses everything in terms of statistics and success. I have my own purposes and goals. Therefore I will look at those aspects which interest me the most. It will be a list of the good, the not-so-good and the potential of my blog.

So, it is better to state the nature and the aims of my blog again, in case the About page is not enough.

Scrabbled Rambles is not a business, I earn nothing from it. It was set up as a hobby, as a personal need to voice out my opinions on my favourite topics, and as a means of writing practice. Another reason for opening this blog was to test myself, to see if I could become more responsible and if I could keep up with such a responsibility.

My blogging experience feels a lot like an intimate journey. What have I learned on the way?