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Why you should always blog on a topic that interests you
Ever tried blogging on a topic that has nothing to do with your range of interest or knowledge? If you have some experience in this area, you’ll know that not only it’s time consuming, brain cracking activity, it’s also the best way to describe yourself walking through an endless pitch black tunnel, knowing that you’re going nowhere, oblivious to everything ahead of you.
Yea yea yea, why don’t I get a flashlight and scout my path ahead.
I wish it’s that simple.
Although I must admit that blogging something unknown is not something totally impossible, that length of effort you need to throw in is just not worth it. Well don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that all of us (me included) should not do it just because we don’t have the slightest idea on it. If you love challenges and obstacles, why not – this SPELLS fun, literally.
More often than not, all of us just simply don’t have the time to do constant research, opening up the big head of ours so that we can take in more information and totally brand new knowledge, which we obviously aware that it’ll just dissapear in the next day or so.
Some might say, “Hey why don’t you just Google it, get to know more and rewrite everything you digested in that short period of time in your own words? I’ll be the richest and most successful writer in this world if it’s that simple. Sure it’s doable, but heck, nothing beats the natural flow of constructing sentences based on understanding and knowledge.
What am I really talking now? I have no idea myself.
My point is pretty simple really. Just blog something you have some knowledge or experience in. You’ll be doing yourself a big favour by making your blogging life so much easier. However, easy is not the word we’re trying to discuss here.
Predicament, troublesome, nothingness, inappropriateness, etc.
If you find yourself being a magnet to such words above, then look no further. You’re talking about the Internet, and hell yeah, you can find anything you want. Let’s say that for some weird and unexplainable reason or reasons that you want to blog something about mosquitoes (for example), and the only thing you know about mosquitoes is that they need to die and to leave everybody alone, unfortunately, you’re not going to survive blogging just by having that information. Let’s not wipe mosquitoes the heck out of this world though, they are there for a reason, but nonetheless, they’re EXTREMELY annoying.
Having said that, the best places where you can find additional information on your lovely insect friend are :-
- Wikipedia
- Yahoo! Answers
- Google Groups
- Forums (on mosquitoes) – BoardReader (Forum Search Engine), etc.
- Articles (Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com, etc.)
- Google News & Yahoo News
- Youtube (yes Youtube, you don’t have to wipe your eyes) or any other video sharing sites
- Social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, etc.
- Free Ebooks – Gutenberg.org, Getfreeebooks.com, etc
- Online Encyclopedias – MSN Encarta, Encyclopedia.com, etc
- Search Engines – Google, Live, Yahoo, Altavista, Answers, etc
- and you can always search for organisations that are specifically established that is closely related to the chosen topic, which in this case, e.g. http://www.mosquito.org/
Now who said it’s difficult to write something you have no idea about.
Come on, start writing something!
If you have such similar experience in writing / blogging something you have no prior knowledge, feel free to share your adventure and how you overcame the obstacles, or rather how it overwhelmed you and made you quit. Anything, please do leave your comments …