Bloggers, what we are supposed to good at?
A lot of time I faced the question “what am i good at?” especially after i officially declared to my friends and family i am a full time blogger. All the people personally knows me (they have very little idea about blog) at least once asked me “what I actually do?” . Very few of them actually believed me when i said write articles, since i never went to journalism school or had any previous skills on writing any sort. I remember last Saturday when i went to my brother-in-law’s house to attend a family get together event, someone throw me a question that- you are writing but aren’t you supposed to be a computer scientist/programmer? That question i couldn’t reply back, and brings me a question in my mind too “We Bloggers what we are supposed to good at?”
A lot of successful blogger out in blogosphere, i think merely a handful of them came from journalism/ writing background. Starting with Darren Rowse, who was a hard working church minister, warehouse worker, student(Theology) & temporary worker at the same time. It don’t need a wild guess to understand that none of those work have any relation what so far with blogging or writing. If you read his this article you will see what makes him so successful, experience and educational background means very little to blogosphere. Second person would be Chris Pearson, who is more of a blog designer rather then blogger. He has a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering and into lot of things, none of them fits with CSS or design does it? But he did became a legendary CSS expert, who’s blog design are famous all over blogosphere. Next is Jeremy Wright, who was more of a web /graphic designer rather then writer. There are many more successful blogger can be listed here who never did had any connection with journalism, writing or anything similar. So what makes them successful blogger? what they are good at?that should be the perfect question, since how they got success can’t be compared.
Bloggers supposed be good at expressing themselves with clarity, seamless idea generation(more or less for everyday topics), ability to become a vulture (since vulture wait and wait for its pray, i couldn’t find better example for patience), reading (writing skill will evolve day by day) and finally lots of hard work. All the successful blogger i came across posses at least these quality along with some personal qualities to impress. The last part you can ignore since, people will be much impressed when you have the necessary qualities i mentioned.
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