How not to start a new blog
Here’s how not to start a blog:
- Sign up for a domain and a Wordpress account on a whim after reading a really excellent article on blogging by Steve Pavlina.
- Start writing immediately without giving any thought to a plan for your blog.
- Not building up a stash of already written articles for when I didn’t have time to research and post.
- Have your first child a couple of months after starting your blog.
- Have the focus of your blog become completely pointless (when we decided not to make the move to London).
For an excellent description of how to start a blog properly as well as tons of other useful information, check out Chris Guillebeau’s 279 Days of Overnight Success on his Art of Non-Conformity blog.
Now that my adorable son is almost three months old and I’m getting a functional amount of sleep – I’d like to get back to blogging! I just need to decide what direction the Pond will take.
In an interesting side note, I recently started reading Pam Slim’s inspiring Escape from Cubicle Nation blog and it looks like she started blogging when her son was about the same age as my son now. This must be the time when new parents can finally come up for air!