Blogging 101: a quick summary for new bloggers

Let’s look at some simple basic questions new bloggers or wannabe-bloggers often have.

Why blog?

If you have time on your hands and you like to write, blogging might be for you. If you really have something to say, you should consider starting a blog. Just about anyone with daily time to devote, a sense of humor, and a message can blog. Besides, it’s fun.
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Where was your blog this time last year?

I’m going to be heading off for Christmas vacation here soon (the grown-up version, meaning that two-week holidays are a fond school memory, but because Christmas and New Year’s Day are Mondays, I’m taking a week). By the time I return, it will be a whole new year.

I know the New Year’s Resolution is currently a bit out of fashion, but I love the reminder the New Year gives us to reflect on the year past and contemplate the year to come. Darren at ProBlogger is doing a “Reviews and Predictions” Group Writing Project this week, and that fits in nicely with the mood of these last few weeks of December.

So, with that, a request: tell me about your blog this year. Last December, did you have a blog? (Do you have a blog now?) Did you blog on the same topic as you are now? Has your blogging changed your life in any way (small ways are okay!) over the last twelve months?
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