What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
When you open a blog, you never really know what to expect. Most of us didn’t open one to be famous, or even have more than a few, family readers, with a few kind friends thrown in. And, for most of us, that’s what we get.
On the other hand, there are those blogs that suddenly take off like a house afire, building readers like a muscle builder on testoripped builds muscles. And why they become popular is as varied as the people who write the blogs. Some are effective communicators, finding a niche and addressing a need. Some are wonderful photographers, able to tell a story in a picture, more evocative than words can express. Others are just so frickin’ funny, you go there to laugh and feel better. Others can move your emotions with their words… bringing you to righteous anger, or inexpressible sadness.
What all of them have in common is the fact that they all manage to tell a good story. An effective food blogger makes a recipe engaging enough that even someone with absolutely no desire to cook that dish, much less eat it, still read raptly to the end. A political writer makes you stand up and want to shout in agreement.. or disagreement.. but you read either way. A humorist manages to make a semi-tragic event and have you simultaneously laughing and crying. They’re writers.
Someday, I’d like to be an effective writer. I”m working on it. It’s a work in progress.
