Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

Time changes some things, and some things never change with time.

i’m in that weird transitional phase.

college was…a learning experience.  each year definitely different.  yesh.

i am in love with traveling.  but its only fun while it lasts. 

the
aftermath…is where i am now….where the only thing keeping me from
falling asleep in this empty apartment is a load of laundry and small
talk from friends who might actually become semi-strangers sooner than
i’d like.  but i guess that one’s up to me. 

summer storms….keeping me awake.  a drop of rain just turned into a bucket of glue.  again.

I’m different and the same.

when i was 16….i told someone that 99.8% of the advice you give,
you should probably take yourself.  i think the .2% was for
safe-keeping…ya know…like a disclaimer. 

 but you should
always believe it.  there’s no .2% safe-keeping when truth or trust or
whatever you want to call it is involved.  you’re messing with honesty
and purity and loyalty and friendship and who knows what else. 
self-dignity, even.  time to grow up.

 more later.  maybe.  or…not.  we’ll see.

“everything you’ve always wanted to be, you already are”

…said
Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish, after he told us how he lied,
cheated, and stole on his route to being undistinguished. maybe you had
to be there.

he told some stories that made me miss
writing. he told stories about winning 4th grade contests, passing
chemistry tests, and why he had to kill his teacher. ok, so maybe none
of it was true. maybe all of it was true. well, probably only some of
it.

funny though..what do you really know about a
person…aside from what they tell you. and of that, how much do you
believe and to what extent do we really trust people….to tell truth,
to act truth, to be so comfortable and honest as to be openly naked in
our eyes. to be…real. with us…to us. i’m not sure how much of that i
do myself. i’m not sure that i think about it. maybe i should.

aside
from the awesomely amazing experiences and friends i’ve made in these
past four years of college…i’m not sure how much has changed.
granted, i’m sure i care a little more about some things and a little
less about others…all in the natural state of “growing up,”
“maturity,” whatever.

i think i will never get tired of
meeting people and putting myself in awkward situations and learning
how to deal. at the same time, i think this carefree sense has made me
hard and careless.

to be honest, i think i’m wearing down. what i miss the most, is having a best friend. do i have to slow down for that?

if
i am who i am, which i think i am, then ya know what…i’m pretty
satisfied with that. i’m pretty happy with myself…and my faults.
granted, although i’d rather be the first to point out my own
mistakes, i’d like to think that i’m open to them as well. we are who
we are, always more, never less. everything.single.thing.influences.
even the woman who beat me to the bike path this morning…because of
her, i have a better understanding of how to manuever my bike through
the trees. the little girl walking with her dad today..perhaps taking her first few steps, reminded me that
fathers are proud of, and always love, their daughters. the random guy who found James after the
induction ceremony just to share that, he too, was from Bayside, NY,
showed me what community means even to a busy northern American.
but…i wouldn’t notice these things, if they didn’t already mean
sometime to me, eh? if something about it, didn’t already strike a
chord. always more, never less.

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