I think I better start off with saying I do believe in self betterment. Anyone should strive to do better and improve oneself no matter it is just blogging or anything else in life. The fact is, the desire to do so should stem from one’s own accord. From the bottom of one’s heart to do it for nobody else but themselves.

I love to read about blogging pointers from sites that talks about better blogging. I hang out in these sites alot and I daresay there’s a lot to learn. But the sad fact is, too much reading onto all these just overkills. These so-called professional individuals who contributed to the site (I won’t divulge which) talked about blogging style, grammar and pleasing readers. How to reach out to your readers, how to convey your thoughts into your blogs and yadda yadda, you get the drift. The more I read, the more I see the irony there. Please!

Blogging took off for the very fact it is accessible. Anyone with a PC and internet access can write. You don’t need a journalistic degree or some PHD to start sharing your thoughts online. Yes, there are gifted bloggers and there are some not so gifted… some even to the extent of downright bad. But then, so what? This is what blogging is all about.

It is for everyone. You can be fat, thin, gifted, not gifted, rich or poor. It doesn’t matter. Blogging is not something conformed to the elitist who can memorize Shakespeare or pen down literature with words you need to scramble to lookup the dictionary. Bloggers are not journalists nor writers which need to conform to certain qualities demanded by these profession. Most bloggers who blog don’t get paid and merely write to try to reach out and hope somebody out there clicks with them.

Please readers? I rather think bloggers write not to appeal to readers, but hope to find readers that find his/her blog appealing. Like in life, there will be people who like us and others who don’t. You can’t win them all.

I just hope I’m not reading too much into these ‘good blogging practices’ that sort of turn off what blogging is in the first place. A venue to pen our thoughts…. not-so perfect writing style and all. It is who we are…. yes, most of us are no journalist or writers. We are just bloggers.

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