𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝐼️ 𝒮𝒶𝓌 𝐻𝒾𝓂 𝐼𝓃 𝒜 𝑀𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝐻𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝐼️ 𝒞𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒟𝑜 𝒲𝒶𝓈 𝒥𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝑒 . 𝐼️ 𝒟𝒾𝒹𝓃𝓉 𝐻𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒜𝓃𝓎 𝒮𝓎𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓉𝒽𝓎 𝐹𝑜𝓇 𝐻𝒾𝓂 𝒲𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝐻𝑒 𝒲𝒶𝓈 𝒥𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒮𝒾𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 . 𝐻𝑒 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝑔𝑒𝒹 𝒜𝓈 𝐼𝒻 𝐻𝑒 𝒲𝒶𝓈 𝐻𝓊𝓂𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝐼𝓉 𝒲𝒶𝓈 𝒪𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝐹𝑜𝓇 𝒮𝒽𝑜𝓌 . 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝐼️ 𝒯𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝐵𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒜𝓉 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐻𝑒 𝒫𝓊𝓉 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝓀𝓈 𝒪𝓃 𝐻𝑒𝓇 𝐹𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝐻𝑜𝓌 𝒞𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝐵𝑒 𝒮𝑜 𝒮𝓉𝓊𝓅𝒾𝒹 𝒯𝑜 𝒯𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝐻𝒾𝓈 𝒜𝓈𝓈 𝐵𝒶𝒸𝓀. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼️ 𝒯𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝐵𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒜𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒲𝒶𝓈 𝒪𝓀𝒶𝓎 , 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒰𝓈𝑒 𝒯𝑜 𝒜𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝒦𝒾𝓈𝓈 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝑀𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝐸𝒶𝒸𝒽𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒟𝒶𝓎, 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒰𝓈𝑒 𝒯𝑜 𝑀𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝐸𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝒪𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝐿𝒶𝓊𝑔𝒽 , 𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒰𝓈𝑒 𝒯𝑜 𝒫𝓁𝒶𝓎 𝒦-𝒞𝒾 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒥𝑜𝒥𝑜 𝒜𝓈 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒮𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝒜𝐿𝑀𝒪𝒮𝒯 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝒹𝒶𝓎 . 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒩𝑜𝓌 𝐼’𝓂 𝐹𝓁𝒶𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝐵𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝐼𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝑅𝑒𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑀𝓎 𝒯𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓈 𝒜𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝐻𝑜𝓌 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒮𝒾𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝐻𝒶𝒹 𝒲𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝒲𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑔 …..
𝒯𝒪 𝐵𝐸 𝒞𝒪𝒩𝒯𝐼𝒩𝒰𝐸𝒟

-La’Miyah Armstrong

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.