Blogosis

As a fairly new blogger, I gain massive amounts of experience every day. I am starting to learn how to use my blog more effectively to make it promote itself as well as me. I am becoming an extraordinary writer while doing it as well. Take a look at my first posts, and compare it to my newer blog entries. The difference is astounding to me. So basically this is a giant learning experience for me.

Unfortunately, I have a lot to learn, not just about blogging, but everything else. Today, I made a crucial mistake that is related to a mistake I made a few days ago when I missed my classes. I was able to make it to my 9 o’ clock class, which is my media production class. Today’s class was a continuation of Tuesday’s. It was mostly about the elements of art, which I mastered in high school, so I didn’t listen anyways. It is hard to listen to a teacher that says “Uhhhhhhh ummm uhhhhh” after every other word (I should give him some leniency though. He is Thai, but that does not make him a stupid person. In fact, he makes a lot of money from media production.)

When we got to the actual production session in the course, we were assigned an element. I was assigned “Line.” Simple enough. I just had to draw images that were made of lines. The kicker was we had to provide art to a specific audience. This reminds me off a post on how selfish your audience is, which I know see is applicable in art. Anyways, I was assigned “Generation X.”

Oh, this is where it goes downhill for me. Remembering those old, old, old Pepsi commercials from 13 years ago (1995) that had the slogan and something about Generation X in it? Well, I was 7 at the time and all I could remember was that phrase. So I thought it was like, a kids thing. You know? Emos, Goths, and Punks. Oh, if you are from this “generation x” you are either laughing your ass off, or unsubscribing from my blog. I hope it is just the first.

It was not until after I had turned in the assignment that I realized that Generation X was made up of hippies. I looked up Pepsi Generation X in Google Image search, and this is what I find:

Britney Spears in a hippie outfit. Generation X is a term coined for those hippies born in the 1960s to the 1970s. Yeah. Whoops. Way to know your audience, Justin. I am hoping my professor is confused as to what the difference are between Generation X in Thailand and that of Americas. Chances are, he is not, and I just failed an assignment. Big oops, but something that should have been completely avoidable.

If you don’t know, do some research. Research is definable by any type of way you can gain information. Had I gotten over my confidence and my other personal issues (I am a bit shy, and I didn’t want to come off as an idiot to the class) I would have done some research and asked the teacher what Generation X is classified. Instead of “Emo hair”, smeared make-up and writing LOVE IS PAIN with a black heart, I would have been drawing flowers and swirls with psychedelic colors, dude. LOVE IS PEACE would have been a more appropriate answer to the subtitle.

This applies even if you do “know.” As shown by my example, you may think you know, but you could be wrong. Look up some facts before you take a wild guess and post them on your blog. Provide your readers with real content, or they will prove you wrong and leave you. Ask for the facts if you can’t find them through traditional sources of research. Had I done this I wouldn’t feel like such a dip-head.

I’ve learned my mistake, and I will be applying this to just about every part of my life, school, work, and of course you will be seeing much more accuracy on this blog. Ever make an embarrassing mistake like this in school, at your job, or on your blog!? Step up and let it out. I sure feel a little better now that I have shared this.

Hints and News: The giveaway winner will be announced in about 12 hours! Also, Blogosis is one of the top 500,000 websites according to Alexa! Yay!

If you are a constant reader of my blog, you know I sell my blog contest like a wh… scratch that. You know I sell my blog contest like my supermodel girlfriend sells her magnificent body in magazines and on tv. That’s a bit more family friendly. If you don’t know about it, I highly suggest you go read it and join. Joining the contest is as easy as subscribing by email. Even when this months contest is over, as long as you stay subscribed by email, you are always entered in the Blogosis Monthly Contest/Giveaway (I think I need to change the name of it to Giveaway because you really aren’t competing for anything).

So, I have gathered all the data I need to determine what the final prize will be for the month of January. As you should know, if you read the giveaway blog post, I will be giving out a $25 shopping spree on Amazon.com (Unfortunately, the gift card is already registered to my name, so you will pick out the prize and I will have it shipped to you. $25 dollars needs to include the cost of shipping.). I also told you I would give you $20 dollars in celebration of my 20th birthday. On top of this, I will be giving all my Entrecard credits away! And on top of that I am giving away 10% of all the money I make online, whether it be from Yahoo ads, Sponsored Reviews (that I post on other blogs, never on this one), affiliate marketing, or whatever else I do online to make money.

So, I know you really want to know… how many Entrecard credits someone will win?! As of now, I have 585 credits! This number will continue to grow as I won’t be ending the blog giveaway for another 24 - 48 hours. That is enough to advertise on Problogger two times plus some I think. I don’t check cause I don’t care to advertise with Entrecard, but you might. I think I saw people bidding for 500 credits for about 20 bucks on Ebay. That is sad. And here I give it to my subscribers free. I’m awfully generous aren’t I?

And as for the 10%. I never made a killing with any of the CPC campaigns on my blog, so I haven’t received a deposit from any of them (I’m sorry, but I can’t give you money I don’t have.) However, I did manage to make about 190 big green ones in the past 27 days or so that this blog has been alive. About 150 dollars of it came from the past two days actually, and my blog is partly to blame for this money. It will actually keep making me money everyday, at about 40-50 dollars for 3-4 hours of work. This is amazing pay for me, especially considering the daily wage for someone with a masters degree and working at a nice bank will make that much in 8 hours in Thailand. I have money to do things I couldn’t do before, and for once I will be able to take my supermodel girlfriend out for a dinner treated on me. Hey, she offers to pay cause she is the one that makes the money around here.  Oh, yeah! Sorry, I went on a rant again, didn’t I? 10 percent of what I made is about 19 dollars. I will bump it up to $20 dollars just as an extra bonus ;).

So the prizes are:

• 585+ Entrecard Credits
• $25 for anything on Amazon.com
• $40 dollars via PayPal

Wow! That’s a lot. And if you want in, you have to subscribe by email. Check here for other chances to win. The giveaway ends in 24 - 48 hours!!!

Next month will be filled with Weekly Giveaways! I will post more about that in February! Also want to use this to say “YAY! 50+ subscribers to Blogosis!”

Kitties. Alright, I didn’t really want to use that word, but I hope you get what I was implying by starting a sentence like that. This blog entry is not about you, but what should be affecting the way you write. At sometime, for those that are considering creating a successful blog, you the blogger will have to realize you are going to have to stop blogging for yourself, and start blogging for someone else.

These someone’s are your blog’s subscribers. Facing this fact is kind of a horrifying idea. You really want to be writing for yourself. You want to be in control of your blog. A successful blog, however, is built around its readership. If you are providing good content for yourself that is rubbish to your readers, you will only ever have one reader (Two if you encourage your mother to subscribe. Thanks, Mom.).

I really hate to classify you in this category, but subscribers are greedy and selfish. Blog subscribers are cruel, critical, and they will find any little way to condemn your blog that they can (The three C’s?). Even if they have a small reason, even one that may not directly pertain to them, that reason will be enough for you to see a drop in subscriber numbers. New readers won’t even have a reason to not click the back button if they find one thing they don’t appreciate about your blog.

They will hate you for your blog design, the colors of it, and how the ads are laid out. If they only like blogs with “magazine-style” themes and you use a traditional blog theme, kiss that reader goodbye. If they don’t like the personality you show off, a subscriber won’t want to read you. Have a typo or grammar error? No problem! Not. The worst thing they could hate you for, though, is your content.

Write original gripping content and a reader may be able to look past their dissatisfactions. Capture them with an amazing title, and drag them further and further into your content with “flow”. Use hooks. Use stories. Use twists and turns. Use your life experience. Show off creativity in your blog with images. Make it complex enough for a subscriber that reads your blog posts minutes after you post (Link love to ESVL), yet make it simple to hold a new readers attention.

It is an incredibly difficult balancing act between aesthetics in your writing, and whether or not your kitties have something to learn from reading your content. So please those selfish kitties. Write for them while maintaining that inner voice that they love from your blog content, are alter it so they will love it.

This morning the bus came at 11:55. I had just awoken. Today, my classes started at 9:00. I was peacefully dreaming of my lovely girlfriend (or was is ‘peaceful’… hehehe). Today was a harsh lesson learned in being on time. I have previously skipped classes because I just felt the content was too boring to stimulate me, or I had more fun things to do (Hello, supermodel girlfriend… I think that will be the official inside joke of Blogosis), yet today was the first day I had ever overslept through not one, but two of my courses.

Actually, I slept through one, and was forced to wait for another bus to pick me up halfway through the second course. I arrived at school just as my professor for Formal Logic had walked out of the classroom. I approached like the approach a kid makes to his teacher when he just misses his class. Yeah, good use of a simile.

“Well, I was well awake and kicking during your course, sir. I just had to sit on the only bus 11:55 until now. (Now was around 2:00 pm).”

“You had plenty of time to run here,” he replied jokingly (campus is 25 kilometers from my apartment. That is about 15.5 miles for the Americans) “No worries,” he reassured me, “Just come to class on Thursday. All you missed was a pop-quiz.”

I was prepared for that quiz, too. Quizzes are only 10% of the grade, but 10% is the difference between an A- and a B-. I wasn’t too happy that I missed an important part of a class I actually find mentally stimulating. On top of this class, I missed my Media Production course which I love. It’s a graphic design course with an amazing Thai artist, marketer, and producer. Those are the 3 best things rolled into one tiny guy named “Buddha.” Yes, his name is really Buddha. Awesome, right? I missed that, though.

Now, I could go blame the people that take care of the bus schedule for missing my Formal Logic course that started at 1:30. Who puts a 2 hour break on buses that show up every 45 minutes during the other times of the day? Had a bus come at 1:00 I would have made it to class just on time. I have no reason to complain for missing my first course at 9 am. This is why I really have no reason to complain as far as my mathematics class. This is my fault, and I am to take full responsibility of it.

Had the college not made it known when the buses come, I could have been excused for this. Had I just come to Thailand, and my school had not made an announcement as to when my classes were to start, they could have been put to blame for this. However, I am well aware of the bus schedule, my courses and their times. I was unprepared, slept far too late, and my alarm clock was set just too close to my hand.

What does this have to do with blogging? Like your education, blogging is a job for most. It requires time. Time requires a schedule. You need to blog on a schedule and prepare yourself for shocks to that schedule. I am not saying you need to schedule your blog posts, but you need to provide to your readers, just as I should have showed my presence in class today. Fail to show up and you fail your readers. Fail to show up to class, and you are placed into academic proration.

I have done a few things today to prepare myself if I am stuck in a similar situation like this one, and tomorrow I will finish those preparations.

Set your clock, and when it goes off, wake up!

I will no longer hit the snooze button. When it is time to get up, it is time to get up. When it is time to blog, it is time to blog. If something gets in the way of my school or blogging schedule, I will attempt to fix it by getting to the solution the fastest. To fix my school situation today, I got on the next bus and contacted my teachers with my situation. Luckily, they were sympathetic as they knew getting to school without a car is no easy chore. If you cannot blog now like you planned, put it in the top of your head, write it down, and get to is the next chance you can.

Have a back-up plan

In the case of blogging, I will always have unpublished articles in my ‘Draft’ box. If I can’t publish a new article, then I just sign on and click “publish” on one of my previously stored posts. In the case of school, I will always wake up in time, as I have now purchased a second alarm clock and placed it behind my monitor so I have to struggle to hit it.

Keep visual reminders

I grabbed 5 bus schedules from my university today. I know have one in my main wallet pocket, one in a side pocket, one schedule is tacked to the wall next to my computer, on taped to the top of my laptop, and one taped to my door. I will forever be reminded the last bus to get to my Formal Logic course is at 11:55. As for blogging, I always have the Wordpress CMS opened in my browser so I know I can always add a new post when I feel it is blogging time. I also keep track of my posts in a notebook.

That’s my story and those are my tips, kiddies. (I can say that now that I am 20. Yuck.) You will always have your schedule, but you need to be prepared to work around other peoples’ schedules. Stick to your schedule when you can and change it to fit the others. Usually, you can make it work out to where you bounce right back into your normal schedule.

This was a long article! One-Thousandth word is here.

Just a little update. I have just been playing with widgets and Yahoo ads. Got them to show up for me, at least. I hope they show up for you. I am not pleased that I am only seeing 1 ad in each block, but I’m sure that will change.

I took out the WidgetBucks widget on the sidebar, as that was pretty useless for this blog. I think I’d be better putting up an E-book there. Maybe I will put mine there and sell it for a buck each. Haha.

I replaced the WidgetBucks widget with a little text that I will be updating everyday that I can access the computer at least. “How much $ [money] did I make online today.” It will show how much money I made in one day, how long it took me to make that money, how much that means per hour, and then I will add up the totals by this month and then the whole year. I won’t have this months report until I can figure all my balances out, which will come before I announce the contest winner. Today, I made a cool $40.40 in only 3 hours of work online. Not bad for a college student if you ask me. I will be continually striving for around 40-50 dollars a day in a few hours using the techniques I am now, and I will share them in one way or another. The extra 200+ bucks a week will come in great handy. Thats my monthly eating allowance, a full months rent on 1 of my apartments, almost another Samsung 2232GW Computer Monitor, half my yearly hosting fees, or just 200 dollars I don’t I have to take from my student loans. Yay!

Oh yeah, on some days the number will jump high like when I get a deposit for Yahoo or sponsored posts (which I don’t do on this blog). I will calculate this on the side so you can see effort put in to hours on the “actual work” I did. We all know sponsored reviews take 5 minutes so it’s not worth it to calculate that all out.

I’m hoping most of you were able to catch my post, “Dropping the F-Bomb: Blogging with Naughty Words,” over on Problogger (and I know a big chunk of you came from Problogger). If not, check it out. Now look at the comments. 120 comments. It got such a huge reaction, Darren posted a follow-up poll to it here. I wasn’t expecting this kind of reaction at all. There were people supporting why they swear, why they don’t, arguing with each other, people subscribing to my blog, then people unsubscribed from my blog, and Blogger Unleashed took a swing at my blog stats as well. This was my first dip ever into viral blogging. So, now knowing what I know from this I will be able to write many more viral blog posts. I want to share in my success with every other blogger, cause the more we write virally, the less Google owns (That was a joke, Google is now signing deals to own Al Gore’s soul).

Get Support

My swearing post would have never got the reaction it should have on my blog. I didn’t realize this, because all I wanted was a guest post on Problogger. I was proud when Darren accepted my post, but didn’t know if it would really help my blog grow. It sure did, but the post is what really shines. You are going to have to get your blog post out to as many people as possible. Submit it to big blogs if you don’t have a large readership on your blog. Had Darren not taken my post I had a list of backups (Shoe, Chow, Cow, Noob, even Blogger Unleashed).

Write About Something with Two Sides

You need to force the readers to pick two sides. I evaluated both sides of swearing or not swearing on a blog. I chose, and explained why. People followed suit on the comments. They were forced to say they swear or don’t. They like it or don’t like swearing on blogs. People will naturally try to persuade their view is better than others. This creates stimulas for arguement.

Write About Something Controversial

When John Cow wrote a blog entry using the C-word, lots of people were shocked. I had this in the back of my mind, but didn’t want to list anyone specifically in the post. Swearing is something that is still controversial, despite its wide coverage of the earth. Do we allow because of its commonality, or shun it because of history says we should. This is a point that conjoins with forcing your readers to take sides. Controversial topics generally have 2 or more sides, so we are forced to pick.

Leave the Ending Open for Discussion

In the end of my post, I did not specify which one is better, swearing or not. I left it up to those who wanted to comment to decide. This is an excellent way to bring your readers in. Make them want to comment by asking a question, asking for their opinion or leaving a very broad ending that implies you want answers. Basically, let your readers finish the post for you.

The implications of that post are still lingering strong on this blog. My daily unique views have more than doubled, my subscriber count went up by about 35%, and oh my god, I made some CPC money. Write something viral, study the effects it has on your blog, and get back to me on how it was. What other tactics can you take to help make your blog posts viral?

My Girlfriend (She’s a super model, btw), bought a couple rabbits. I certainly was not pleased to see them running around leaving their wonderful surprises all over my room, despite how adorable they actually were. I’ve had to take care of them, feed them, clean them, and whatnot. Now, it just seems so natural, and I have fallen in love with them (for the most part…). It has reminded me of blogging. You dread it, you hate it, especially in the beginning. I certainly went through this stage, but as you, the blogger, grow with your blog you can see it become a part of you. For some it may take some time, and for others, less than a week. If you want this to come easier to you though, you need to care for your blog just as you would any rabbit. Let me show you how.

• You need to feed your blog, and feed it correctly.

A rabbit needs  to be fed food and water several times a day. Your blog might only need it once a day or a couple times a week, but you still need to give your blog some original content. This isn’t all a blog needs though. If you feed a rabbit spoiled vegetables or dirty water you are left with, well, crap. If you aren’t writing original well thought out content for your blog, what are you going to get out of it? Just the same. Also, every once in a while, you might please your rabbit with a snack. This is perfectly fine. Put something fun on your blog. Write an entry that is off the seriousness of your niche. Make your blog a happy blog!

• You need to give your rabbit some shelter

Now what could this imply? You don’t want your rabbit running around on someone else’s property, otherwise, they can do with it whatever they please. What I am saying here, is get your blogs off of free web hosting. Set up your blog on the Wordpress CMS and pay 60 bucks for hosting and a domain name. Putting your blog on Blogger or Wordpress’ free hosting shows that you are extremely unprofessional, and not too serious about blogging. I can understand some may not have the money or credit card needed to get that hosting. Get a job for one day, work 8 hours, sign up at Dreamhost and get $50 dollars off when you use the code OSIS. Alternatively you could steal your parents credit card, but I don’t condone this, I am just getting you ideas. I don’t let my rabbits run off into someone else’s hands. Neither should you.

• Clean your rabbit and its habitat

After about 3 - 4 days, these rabbits stink. Their cage is full of crap and what not. It’s a total mess. My girlfriend (the supermodel) doesn’t always do this, so a lot of the time I am stuck with the chore. It’s not a big deal, but something that should be done regularly. You should always check your blog to see where you can clean up parts. You can clean up your blog posts, wash your sidebars, or scrub upon your new header design. You don’t need to do this every week though, maybe once a month is even too much. Make sure your blog presents itself nicely though. People love clean rabbits, just as your subscribers love clean blogs.

• Play with your rabbit and let it have a little fun
  

This is an important one. This will show that you really love your rabbit, and if you love your rabbit, it will love you back. Get involved with your blog’s community. Have a little fun with them. Converse, joke, tease, post interesting things related to your blog, make a contest. ENJOY IT! Being a blogger is a great ‘job.’ You get to write about things you love and are passionate about. If you aren’t passionate about it, maybe you need to think about giving the blog to a friend, or selling it. I would hate to do that to one of my rabbits, but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.

And that is how you love a blog like a bunny! Silly how all these connections really make sense to me. I dropped out of my philosophy class because of what a joke it all seemed to me. Now look at me. All life seems to be connected to blogging. I don’t need no stinkin’ philosophy class to teach me that. Maybe I’ve confused you, my subscribers though (At an amazing 45 after less than a month!). Need me to guide you more upon these connections of mine? Have any connections between your bunnies, or any animals for that matter, towards blogging? Let them be known. Comment!

Make money by posting blogs here.

Wow, Wow, Wow and Wow! I bought myself some new blogging toys, and I gotta say, if you have been blogging on a notebook screen its time to check out and check up. I bought the Samsung 2232GW for about 350 dollars, using my birthday and Christmas money, and it is totally worth every penny. Not only can I see like… everything… I can see, well, everything! I can see you! I’m a bit giddy about it myself. The colors are perfect straight out of the box! The added desk space is magnificent! On top of all this, it is effing gorgeous (see above picture) . I am totally blown away Samsung. I can’t wait till I make enough money from this blog to buy a second one.

Alright, now that I’m over my Samsung-fandom rant, I want to update you all about the Blog Contest/Giveaway! I’ve had lots of entries, but I want more. I originally was going to cut off submissions to the contest in about 24 hours, but I’ve decided to extend the contest all the way until January 31st ends, central standard time. That will be this coming Friday for me, Thursday for those back in the states. Remember! 11 chances to win, people. Here they are:

• Subscribe via email. Its right under my giant subscription button on the right. If you can’t find it, ask your dog or something. He’ll help you. (1 credit) [Also, some of you may think you are subscribed by email, but you need to ACTIVATE IT by finding that link in your email to do so]
• Write a blog post linking to my Blog Contest Post (That can be found HERE), and comment there with the link. I had some joker try and convince me some forums were his blog, so don’t try that. Haha. This is worth 5 credits.
• Add me to your Blogroll and comment that you did so here. (Another 5 credits).

Let’s do the math. 1 + 5 + 5 = 11. 11 Chances to win a prize package over $50 dollars. Yay! I can math! I’m sorry. This monitor is freaking huge.

Another update on Blogosis here. You should be seeing Yahoo ads here (I think you should. I don’t, but I think that is Yahoo’s way of solving the invalid clicks problem. Way to go Yahoo!). Heck yes, they accepted me to the  program, so I am able to get some decent CPC money rolling in. I’m having a decent click-through rate of about 1% so I can see the cents starting to turn to dollars. On top of these ads, if you would like to see the opportunities I have for advertising on the blog, click that Advertise button on the top. I know, pricey right? Well, gotta make money somehow. Blogroll links are only 3 dollars though!

And a bit of a personal goal update for me. I have decided to get into the realm of Affiliate Marketing. What does this mean for the blog? It means more money for you in my blog contest. So expect to see updates on this here and there. No, I will not make this a make money online blog. That is a completely separate blog. I want to be the next Problogger, not John Chow. He has bad taste. Anyways,  I plan to let you know more about this soon.

Here are some funny stats for my Search Engine Rankings on Google.

• “Adbrite is a nice performer.” - 5 hits - This goes to my 40+ Adsense Alternatives post. Unfortunately, some blog scraper took the post and stole it from me, so he ranks first. Jerk.
• “Girlfriend” - 3 hits - I don’t know who the hell is going to my blog for this, or what is going on. I know this is because of a picture I linked to of my super model girlfriend a few days ago. (Yes, that is my girlfriend… Come to Thailand if you want one… haha)
• “Biology Blog” - 1 hit - Lol. I wonder if that nerd is one of my subscribers now.
• Cloverfield Big Post Restaurant Reviews - 1 hit - What? No, no, no. Cloverfield is here. There is great blog for restaurant reviews out in the make money blog niche. 5 cents to whoever guesses right!
• Opportunity Signs College He Games - 1 hit - Say what? How they found my blog from that, I haven’t a clue.

Alright, this wraps up this update I think. I don’t classify this as a real post, so I will be following up with another unique post. Think I will spit it out in an hour or two so keep track! Thanks!

Ah! Mr. Problogger Darren Rowse posted my guest post on his blog already (Holy crap, it got 77 comments as of now!)! I was sleeping so I wasn’t prepared to fully introduce myself to all the Problogger subscribers that might float over here. So let me do that now!

Anyways my name is Justin Dupre. I am a full time university student from the lovely state of Minnesota. The only special thing is I live and study in Thailand. I am not allowed to have a job here (legally) so I began to research online with what I could do. I now work on several blogs and websites to try and make a little money so I don’t dip into my student loans (about 20k dollars a year… eek).

I want you to go check out some of my favorite and best blog posts:

First of all, go check out my contest! It is ending in a few days, and I will give out more than 50 dollars in prizes. All you have to do is sign up by email and you are in. Cool! Also, it is a monthly contest, so as long as you are still an email subscriber you have a chance to win.

Blogging: The Next Olympic Sport - Alright, not really, but you can check out why Olympic Athletes and Bloggers are one in the same.

6 Ways to Make Your Blog as Big as Cloverfield! - Yeah, I compared blogging to the movie Cloverfield. I like to think of myself as a unique blogger.

40+ Adsense Alternatives – I had my account disabled by Google. (Thanks Google, We love you). So I put together a list of what you can use instead.

Yeah, I am in a rush writing this because I don’t want to miss any new users that may visit my blog because of this. So what else can I say? I hope you enjoy Blogosis: The Process of a Blog, and that you subscribe. That would make me one happy blogger.

What is the driving force behind any great writer? How about for any great blogger? No matter what you are writing about, you should not be writing for money. Even if your blog is about money, don’t write for money. Any good writer will tell you they write because they have a passion for it. Any great blogger will tell you just the same.

This is why we have niche blogs. You shouldn’t be picking a blog niche that is “guaranteed to make money” unless that niche is one you truly have a passion for. I quite enjoy writing and blogging, so I joined in the ‘writing a blog’ niche. I have a huge interest in technology, and live 1 KM from one of the largest technology store complexes in the world, which is why I just opened pcmonitorreview.com. Both of these blogs allow me to passionately write about what I love.

Think about the great things you can blog when you truly love what you are writing about. Those were some good posts, right? So keep writing about that. Don’t jump off the boat and swim in murky waters, if you know what I mean, unless you are truly interested in murky waters. Let that interest guide your writing. If you lose that interest, if you lose that passion, stop and rethink your blogging plan. Is this what you wanted? No.

The benefits about writing from your passions are limitless.

1. Gain a sense of fulfillment from your blog posts
2. You will write much better
3. You may write a lot quicker allowing for more time outside of blogging
4. Readers love blogs that are fueled by passion
5. You are less likely to need outside reference to write a blog post
6. You can just get an idea and instantly write about it
7. You will have more to blog about
8. You will have more personal experience listed in the blog
9. Easier to think of a blog post
10. Easier to think of a blog topic name
11. Get satisfaction from letting others know about what you love
12. Makes you want to actively participate in the community
13. Community will come to you for answers
14. Less headaches
15. Don’t need to think about writing as it comes naturally
16. You don’t have to find a blog topic, the topic finds you
17. Passion comes with original content
18. More fluid blog entries
19. Become the professional of the community
20. Create a very strong voice

Those are just 20 of my ideas about blogging from passion. I know there are a ton of other ideas that could be written here, but I want to leave chances open for the community to respond. Do you write from passion? If not, how the hell do you do it?