Developing Writing Skills and Blogging Together Makes Sense

As blog mania has caught on, many people want to have a blog of their own.

However,  quite a percentage are not sure of their writing skills. They want time to improve the skills to a certain level before they start a blog.

I am not talking about procrastination.

I am mentioning about the genuine people who really want to start a blog, have identified deficiency in their writing and want to improve on it.

Let us suppose that you are waiting for your writing skills to improve.

Beginning today you you start are working on your skill development.

You identify your weaknesses and lacunae. You do whatever is needed.

You learn the language, increase your vocabulary, read a lot of books & articles and write to practice the skill.

You give yourself  6  months.

Let us suppose that you are rigorous and regular with your new learning and develop it to the desired level within the set duration.

Everything is set, you need to learn blogging now.

Now consider this-

You start a blog on first day. You can keep the posts private if you want. You develop your skill as you do in previous scenario but all the writing is done on the blog.

You use blogging as practice ground only. Instead of MS Word, you write everything on your blogging software.

As your posts are kept private, you need not to worry about reactions of people.

This also gives you time to develop your blogging skills in addition to developing your writing skills.

You get to know the blogging software earlier and recognize of abilities and limitations.

As you grow your content by everyday practice, the blog software would organize your writings in chronological order, and keep a monthly record too.

It is easier to evaluate and monitor progress.

You can categorize the posts if you wish.

You will find that asking for feedback is easier. All you need is to send a link to friends and you would be rewarded.

It would also make you confident of your writing skills sooner than targeted period. You can, if you wish make your blog public sooner.

You may or may not want to show your practice content to others. But you can let it stay there for years to come, still private.

All you did was to shift your practice ground.

Makes sense, isn’t it.

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