Be passionate about your blog

Today in Blogging for Journalist's class, we read an article that discuss the main reasons for having a blog, and the main reasons for avoiding having one. The article of the blog is "If You're Not Passionate About Your Message, Don't Start a Blog."

(I will link the article at the bottom of this post.)

Now, let's take a deeper look at what the writer analyzed.

You have to be passionate about what you are writing: If you want to start your blog, you need to know that it will take time to build up a good profile. Also, you have to be passionate about what you are writing about! People want to read the things you love the most. They are not here to read blurbs about your daily life. Be creative and express yourself well!

"Another reason you need to be passionate about your message is so you can be a leading learner. A leading learner never runs out of things to talk about because they have a natural drive to learn more about that topic. Do you have a deep well to draw from?," said Jonathan, writer of Jonathan's Blogging Journey.

You have to start your blog with the right motives: Please, I ask you not to start a blog looking for money. You might get money out of it, but that shouldn't be the main reason. When bloggers are getting paid to write for a certain audience, they stop writing about what they want, and start delivering the content based on what the audience seeks. Don't do that! Let the words inspire you!

You might want to stop blogging: Don't worry, it happens to the best bloggers out there. There might be moments when we get caught with the busy life, and forget to give attention to the blog. That shouldn't make you stop blogging forever though. Instead, that should motivate you to write ever more. Don't get caught up with the crazy chaos we live in. Write it out.

Be open minded and unique: A narrow view won't get you long in the blogging life. You need to write your own experiences the way you wanted it. Everybody is unique, and we all have something amazing to talk about.

"A worldview allows you to share your opinion, vision, and unique perspective that causes others to either passionately connect or politely disagree. It’s hard to share a worldview and not be passionate to some degree," said Jonathan, writer of Jonathan's Blogging Journey.

Here's a link of his article: http://bloggingyourpassion.com/if-youre-not-passionate-about-your-message-dont-start-a-blog/.