Ways to Enhance Your Blogging Skills

“Do your best, and be a little better than you are.”

– Gordon B. Hinckley

Recipe for Writing a Blog Post:

1. Create a topic and gather the facts.
2. Create a unique headline that will reel in readers.
3. Begin writing your post.
4. Include pictures that relate to what you’re talking about and will grab the reader’s attention.
5. Edit blog post. Make readers want to keep reading.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing a Blog

Did you know that there are more than 1.52 billion blogs on the internet and WordPress.com alone has over 60 million of them? Every half a second, a new blog is created.

When you first start writing a blog post whether is for fun or for your job you will always have a guideline to follow. When writing a blog, you want to be sure that the topic you choose is an interesting one. You want your readers to be curious.

Customizing plays a big part in blogging. You want to be sure that your page is well organized and structured to the point that it is phenomenal to your readers. Examples: Adding enticing photos, having attention grabber headlines, links throughout your blog, and free of error.

What you don’t want is a boring blog that features no pictures and is very unorganized. Examples: long paragraphs, many errors, and no headings. Your blog can be plain, but still interesting.

The Do’s and Don’ts in the Sports Journalism Industry

Blogging in the Sports Journalism industry is so much fun because you can talk about anything pertaining to sports. However, there are still rules and guidelines that have to be followed. When writing, punctuation must be excellent! Who wants to read an article with many errors?

Being a Sports Journalist consist of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and lastly publishing.

• Prewriting requires time to brainstorm questions and ideas. Questions that answer who, what, and how.
• Drafting requires you to actually frame/write those ideas down.
• Revising requires you to improve your writing.
• Editing requires you to go back and make corrections.
• Publishing requires you to share your work with the rest of the world.

Becoming A More Proficient Blogger Each Week

In order for my blog posts to be readable, memorable, and worthwhile to my audience, I have to keep incorporating unique ideas about different topics that I discuss in my blogs to keep my readers engaged.