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Don’t Worry… Even If Your Grade School Grammar Teacher Reads Your Blog, She Can’t Go Back And Change Your Permanent Record…
Blogging is part art, part science, and part determination. And the most important part is the determination, because if you don’t make a decision to write on your blog, and follow through with actual writing, nothing else matters.
In order to write a blog, you have to write. And the biggest issue that keeps people from blogging is a desire to produce perfection. Don’t worry about perfection… it is elusive. Worry about getting something written. Kill the mistakes later.
I have NEVER written a blog post without a mistake…
And I likely never will. It isn’t that I don’t want to, but that I know that the posts NEED to get done. When I go back through posts, I almost always find a word misspelled, a comma misplaced or a syntax error. So I fix the errors. I use spell check (usually). I get emails from friends and other folks I know telling me where there is an error.
Oddly, sometimes I am the Grammar Police.
I read a lot. It is one of the best things I can do to be able to write better. Heck, if someone had told me in 3rd grade that writing would be incredibly easy if I just read a couple hundred pages every day, I would have been a much better writer (that is NOT true, because I wouldn’t have been willing to do all of that reading then).
So, as Nike says, “Just Do It.” Post up your first blog. And then do it again. And then some more. When you find a mistake, fix it. If you don’t find any mistakes… find someone else to look, because there is likley a mistake or three hiding somewhere. It isn’t like you spent a year chiseling the post in stone… you can go back and fix it pretty easily.
And as you write, several things will happen:
- It gets easier.
- It gets better.
- You’ll find your “voice”.
Enjoy.
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