No matter what you want to accomplish in life, educate yourself. I’m not talking elementary education or college, although both are worthy – might I say needed – to accomplish many personal goals. No, I’m talking about learning all you can when you try something new.
I started this blog as a way to share background information that didn’t make my books or little tidbits I thought would be interesting. My goal was to present a glossary, character list, and even a few maps to provide general background for the Farseen Chronicles series that I’m publishing.
I took my goals and, after researching, settled on wordpress.com to house my blog. I set everything up, ignoring most of the features because I “didn’t have time” to learn the tools available to me.
After a few weeks, I had found a theme, loaded some content, and learned the difference between pages and posts; but I still wasn’t happy with my progress. One evening I noticed a Blogging 101 course was starting up. I had seen the announcement before, but come on. I was too busy. I have a day job. It would take too much time.
Finally, I decided to try the class and maybe figure out what sticky posts and widgets would really do for me. Perhaps there’s a reason to use categories or tags. Heck, I might even figure out what all those options on the posts form meant.
Four weeks later and I know all about sticky posts, widgets, categories, tags, and all manner of display options for posts and everything else. I still want to make some improvements, but my blog is better organized. I also learned how to find other bloggers and connected with useful content. I even tried my first flash fiction – after reading about it on other blogs.
Thank you Blogging 101!
January 31, 2015 at 4:51 PM
Great advice. Blogging 101 has really helped me to focus in my blog. I’m starting Blogging 201 Monday!!
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January 31, 2015 at 5:27 PM
Me too.. see you in Blogging201
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January 31, 2015 at 4:52 PM
It has been great – I think a lot of us have a much better idea of the technology and of our direction. I’m about to set off to find your flash fiction, it’s something I’m planning to start posting as well. See you in blogging201?
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January 31, 2015 at 5:27 PM
Yes, I’m doing Blogging 201 as well. Still a lot left to learn.
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February 1, 2015 at 6:25 PM
I just realized I never sent you the link. My first flash fiction is titled Rosemary and Thyme. Hope you enjoy it.
https://nrtucker.com/2015/01/28/rosemary-and-thyme/
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