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Oct 16, 2016 9 years ago
Pepperdragon
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Geuze

Hi!

I don't want to make a blog to be famous or make money, this is mostly to stimulate my mental health, get thoughts out of my head and have a small hobby that involves writing since I love to write. What I'm looking for is tips on how to properly maintain it, how to make proper articles if possible? Or generally tips that might help me get started or improve my blog over time! While I don't want to be an internet celebrity it would be nice if I could get a small following, but again this is not my priority.

What I was thinking of writing:

  • First an introduction so people will know who I am
  • Throwback Thursday where I'd post about old games I have played with a small review of said games
  • Current games I'm playing with a review
  • My top 10 favourite XX (fav movie/game/series/cartoons, fav characters, fav pokemon, you get the idea)
  • Magic the Gathering reviews (old decks of MTG I played, reviews of old sets I played previously to reminisce and reviews of the new sets)
  • Fantasy artist feature. I pick an artist (from a game or someone online from FR, deviantart, tumblr...) that I like, feature my fav artworks of them (limit 5 or so) and a link to their page.
  • Movie reviews
  • Series/Anime reviews - Cooking recipes that I tried out and loved (? I dunno I already have so many things)

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to cram this much things into 1 blog page. If I keep it nerdy without the cooking it might work?

Oct 16, 2016 9 years ago
Kysnier
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Sarah Connor

I've been blogging for 5 years now and I've changed how I do things (what I do) multiple times. Usually not planned so...yeah...XD

Basically feel free to change if need be and don't feel stuck. If something isn't working out don't be afraid to change it.

And people will love and hate you so be prepared for hate. Just don't feed the trolls.

I would suggest getting in a group/site of fellow bloggers as you get a good community that way and that's a way to get support.

Also be prepared for the first try at a type of thing (like reviews) to not be the best and that's okay. It took me a little while to become comfortable in front of the cameraXD

And about worrying about cramming too much in...figure out which ones you like doing and, if you care, which ones bring in viewers. I tend to do a bunch of smaller stuff so I get content released at a decent pace while spending more time on longer projects.

Sorry if I rambled too muchXD

Oct 17, 2016 9 years ago
Wizardpinky
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Sweetheart Potion

well i never blogged but the ones I usually read have some kind of theme that is related to one another so if your able to blog about all of them but still make them connect that will be good. Also, I would definitely be interested in Series/Anime reviews blogs since I'm in love with anime xD. Hope this helps a bit!

Oct 19, 2016 9 years ago
Pepperdragon
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Geuze

Thanks for the advice! I'm going to try and write an introduction post at least and maybe a few articles so I have some material to release gradually over a few weeks (for the throwback Thursday for example). Thanks for the troll tip, I'll definitely keep that in mind! I'm not going to vlog so I got that going for me at least :') I'm guessing that a top favorite X (Movie characters, Game characters...) are small posts I can release in between to fill up some space a bit faster!

Hmm I'm guessing that my blog will be an entertainment blog which includes games (also card games) movies/anime OVA and series/anime? I'm going to try and write some stuff up and see if that works for me and release things gradually. Thanks for the tip!

I made a blogger site already but right now it's just a poor empty space! I'll try to fluff it up a bit and try to go from there.

Oct 19, 2016 9 years ago
Kysnier
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Sarah Connor

Welcome n.n

Depending how you do the posts they could be released quickly :)

I find top favorite lists hard for me to write as I have trouble deciding which thing is better than whichXD

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