Are You Interested in Blogging?

I just posted the 1,000th blog post on the local mom blog I began back in 2008. It has been three years but I love it more than ever. Blogging is a hobby and a professional pursuit which I highly recommend.

You know what?

It's not too late.

You didn't miss the boat.

You can start a blog and you can start it today.

Sure, there are veterans out there who have been pouring their words and wit onto the Internet via weblog for over a decade, but thousands of brand-spanking new blogging voices sign on and start posting every day.

Your voice is unique and no one exactly like you has shared his or her words before. You have something original to say and are bursting at the seams to say it. You're dreaming of your URL and writing posts in your head - don't let anything stop you from making it a reality. What are you waiting for?

Blogging makes one of the most powerful genres of literature - the personal memoir - available for immediate consumption by the hungry reading masses. It gives both the layman and accomplished writer the gratification of publishing whenever he or she desires.

A blog can be whatever the writer wants.  There's no editor or boss red-penning your copy, diluting or changing your message. No matter your blog's reason for conception - be it the documentation of your daily life, the recording of your child's milestones, the promotion of your business or brand or a soapbox for your political agenda - your basis for starting your blog is pure. Whatever inspires you to share your words is legitimate and blog-worthy.

I finally started blogging after pining to do it for five wimpy years. I have honed my writing, widened my horizons, made friends and exponentially increased the scope of my communication with others. 

Though riddled with doubt that I was a novice, a poseur, a sham of a writer, I soon realized that as long as I was writing and communicating in a way that was real and true, no one judged. All I needed was the desire, the words, the geeky bravery to hit publish and the drive to repeat it all over again.   

One of the greatest benefits for starting a blog today is that it can be completely free of cost and the blogging tools have been whittled into user-friendly submission. The templates and software and framework are waiting for you, the only thing you need to provide is the message.

Focus on one aspect of your life or write about the whole messy enchilada. There is no single way to go about it. There's no right or wrong way.  All you need to do is throw yourself into the river and the current of your passion will take you where you want to go.

If you have been thinking about blogging but something is holding you back, don't let it any longer - just do it. There's no better time. What the heck are you doing still reading this drivel?  GO.  Start your own blog today. I can't wait to read it.

Jessica McFadden began her personal blog A Parent in Silver Spring in 2008.