Got a story to tell? Just want to learn this blogging thing? Like good writing and love to share your views on what is and what is not? Well you can do all that here and find out how to do it for your own blog. As the header note indicates blog writing is different. How different?     Let me count the ways …

With software tools for muses
It does reduce excuzes.
So write or publish others
Whatever is your druthers.

Over time we’ll take a look at the tools available to assist you in both blog writing and in identifying content resources, research how-to, SEO (search engine optimization), traffic building, monetizing your blog and how to manage your blog and your time to get it all accomplished successfully. ( Note that this writer has a tendency to write some longer than advisable sentences - bear with me and call it “style”.)

Note the quote above says “reduce” excuses. Writers can always find excuses not to write ( or why they don’t write well. We are going to take action here to reduce those excuses with tools, how-to, examples and models.

With regard to the “publish” part of the quote above, I learned a great lesson from Alan Bechtold, one of my early online mentors: Think of yourself as a publisher rather than as a creator of writing. Search engines, article directories, blog directories and other writer’s website and blog writing can provide you with more content than you will ever be able to use as a publisher. You can use your own writing if you have the time, skill and will to do so. But keep that concept of publisher in mind. Think of outsourcing (contracting with others on the internet or locally through Craigslist.

There is software available to find articles or blogs on most any keyword you can think of as well as Google and the other search engines. We’ll be taking a closer look at each of these resources in the days and months ahead. There are also alot of bloggers who write and blog about how to do this magical and mysterieous business of blog writing.

One thing about the World Wide Web/internet, it gives you access to human writing resources - there are scores of writers around the world who are available to write for you for comparatively small fees for their services. You as publisher can access those resources but you still have the responsiblity to edit the writing for quality and readability as any publisher would.

Well, I can go on and on - and I will but not now in this Welcome post. Almost all blog experts recommend keeping your posts to between 300 and 500 words. (This sentence makes it 461.)

So I will close in less than 40 words while giving you my heartfelt and sincere welcome as we embark on this blogging journey together. Let’s write and enjoy it – helping each other along the way (499).
Val