I bet there is a university close to home that needs to add Introduction to Blogging to their fall line up. And you already have the curriculum started.

I’ll have to check. I didn’t actually make the connection until about ten seconds into that last comment, but it was sparked in part by an email conversation I had with Julie Roads yesterday over what it is that makes her writing so special.

She’s mastered the blog-story format. I should do a feature on her sometime.

Do you have your notes?

I took a class in college, “Individualized Writing,” which was all about writing personal nonfiction in an interesting way. At the time, it seemed like a strangely narrow topic (especially for a required course), but looking back on it now, it could just have easily been named “Introduction to Blogging.”

For storytellers, it’s so easy to get caught up in creating new worlds and people, and stringing together a fascinating plot…and lose track of the storytelling. I feel like blogs force us to bring everything back to real life, and relearn the art of saying something ordinary in an interesting way.

Yes, you need to write for YOU foremost and the “rest” will follow.

Having a blog is the perfect way to practice your skill and refine it.