While I may not be the worlds biggest blogging cheerleader, I know I’m one of the biggest in Indiana.
A few years ago, I attempted a local effort to teach people to blog. With the auto industry jobs leaving my surrounding tri-county area, I felt a calling to help the newly unemployed learn how to make a living via the Internet.
What I found was a wall of resistance. So many people have a strong fear of writing because they’re afraid of putting a comma in the wrong place or using the wrong variation of there, their or they’re – Isn’t that sad?
It’s my personal belief that everyone has a story that someone else wants to hear or read.
A person can take whatever lacks in their writing ability and create a character entirely around it.
If E.E. Cummings can become one of the worlds most recognized and celebrated poets without the use of periods and entirely in lower case, anyone can take writing faux pas and churn out success.
The secret is the passion.
In all my years working online, I have found it easy to overlook writing errors when the passion for the topic shines.
It’s that fear of writing that brings me to my personal challenge to all of you. Did you know there’s a rather large list of blogs that accept guest posts? Many of those blogs are a page rank 5 or higher which can in turn be a tremendous benefit to your own online efforts.
Are you brave enough to submit a guest post to one or more of those listed? If not, what exactly is stopping you?
Thanks so much for the list! I am originally from Indiana and in the area I am from, internet work isn’t widely known or accepted. I think it is fear of exposure as much as fear of writing. They focus on the scary stories associated on the internet. I’m not trying to generalize the whole state, just the area where I’m from.
I took a chance by submitting a guest post to Freelance Fwitch and it posted last week! So now I’m really motivated to get out there more. I think what holds me back from writing about blogging is that I don’t feel I have enough experience yet, but I’ll get there.
Indiana does tend to focus on the horror stories associated with the internet. I wonder if it’s because we’re so close to the northern edge of the Bible Belt?
Nice to meet another Hoosier – even if former
Congrats on the submission.
Sometimes even the lack of knowledge can be used as a writing method – more of a quest for knowledge. Readers love to educate and influence. Writing a post asking a question and explaining your lack of knowledge could generate a great deal of educational links and resources.
I, too, am from Indiana and I never even heard about blogs until I moved back to Florida. I was back in Indiana three years because of my mother’s failing health and never once heard about blogs. The heck of it is, I considered myself to be rather internet savvy. Now I’m back in Florida and started a blog in March without a clue as to what I was doing. I just knew I needed to do it and have been enjoying the learning process along with the writing. Thanks for the list. Now maybe I’ll try taking another step forward and submit some guest articles.
The immediate thing that stops me is lack of time – I’m at full tilt with things I enjoy already.
A more imponderable thing is that the list you linked says only “Error establishing a database connection” to me.