Starting a New Blog in 2022

There’s a lot to think about when writing short. A blog post, a short piece of writing, requires careful consideration, just like a longer text.

But there’s no need to struggle with writing blog posts on your own. There’s quite a lot of blogging advice out there, most of it written by people who have built up a large following and/or have managed to parlay their blog into income. Their advice is directed towards people who want to do what they have done. What they say is almost always based on a here’s-what-I’ve-learnt approach. Nothing wrong with that – but of course what works for one doesn’t always work for another. So successful bloggers’ advice doesn’t necessarily neatly translate into scholarly blogging. But some of it is of course helpful.

Their checklist includes seeing whether the titles of posts give people a reason to read, so writers need to look to

• see whether the title is specific – the checklist talks about the one main goal of the post
• check whether the title involves an emotion such as shock, fear, encouragement, anger, or curiosity.

You can even?use a blog template?that has exactly this structure.

If you are new to blogging then it does help, I think, to read some of this kind of advice and see what sits well with you. It’s also important to read scholarly blogs and see what kind of writing and format you find most appealing. It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, that, if you are writing for someone else’s blog, you need to follow whatever rules and style guide they have set for word length, use of illustrations, mode of address, and so on. If you are guest posting it's likely that the editor will work with you to make sure that your post meets their explicit rules, but also fits their take on writing clearly and engagingly.

If you want to start your own blog today, you can start by simply planning the content and organizing your thoughts in a mindmap in order to converge them all and convert them into your blog.

Here I am giving away a simple template that you can download and use in your research and thought process to start your blog.