Why newbies shouldn’t be afraid to dance with the devil - and his friends

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When you’re first starting out blogging its whole existence seems really daunting, you read a lot of blogs that are really interesting and have fantastic content, links and information.  You look at what a blog is, and sometimes you’ll be confused about a-lot of jargon – does this sound like you?

Well, it was certainly me before I started this blog, I would read and read and read more blogs; I started to understand RSS and what a blog actually did.  I then looked at how much a blog could grow in a matter of months, that you were communicating with actual readers (which are termed visitors or community members) and people were having conversations online.

I started to wonder whether I had the knowledge to actually write for a blog; whether I could formulate any type of writing for other people to read – I hadn’t really written any interesting content since a few years previous whilst at university, and that was in ‘academia form’, a style that is formal, structure and coherent – hmm, I thought to myself, what could I do to make my writing less formal and more believable.

I started to read more and more blogs, such as Yaro’s and Darren’s, and I became more confused, in awe and slightly intimidated on the content I was reading from their blogs.  The amount of detail that goes into their blog posts, podcasts and conference calls is just brilliant.  Posting on both blogs since 2005, both these bloggers know what they’re talking about – that’s what  I thought anyhow.

Don’t become consumed

There are many excellent blogs out there to be read, but don’t have 100’s upon 100’s of them stored in your RSS feed reader, as this would be detrimental to what you want to achieve – or at least it should be.  Reading other people’s writing all day long won’t be good at all, as it will overload your brain with other people’s thoughts, achievements and goals – be interested in them yes, but don’t spend more than an hour a day on blogs you like, it just won’t be worth it in the long run.

Release the devil in you

I used to ask myself this all the time – should I take the chance or not?  Should I blog or not?  Taking chance is what life is for us and if you think you haven’t the experience, knowledge and expertise to become a blogger then you need to shake yourself and get started.  Quondering whether you should begin writing won’t help you in the long-run – get to it and start a blog, as you won’t combat any fears if you don’t try something.  Just think, in a years time you could be getting paid to blog.

Watch out for some advice that isn’t evil

Every weekend day – starting from Saturday the 12th of January – there will be a post in the small newbie steps section of the blog.  There are a total of 50 and will therefore last for around 25 weeks – taking us to June of this year.  If you want to keep updated of these then please subscribe to the road2blogging.com feed.

And who is the devil in the title?  Well, some say John Chow,  but I’ll put it down to your own in-securities, mind-set and ‘get-up go’ attitude.

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