A little bit about me

As you can tell I am just starting to do this blog thing. In my url it says food but I am not writing about food. Sorry for that it’s just what the website put in the url. I don’t just want to put everything out there all at once so lets just start with the basics. My name is Abigail Brady, but I let everyone calls me Abby. My birthday is November 7th. I am a highschool student and I’m graduating a year early. I love to write but lately I haven’t been able to do so. I am hoping that starting this blog will help me to start writing more. I have two cats, one named Kit-kat, but she has many more names than that. The second cat’s name is TK. My cats mean everything to me so you will probably read a lot about them. My life changed in July but we aren’t going to get into those details right now. There is a lot more to say but I am not going to say it in the first blog post but we will get to everything in other blog post. I am not going to promise a post every day or every week. I am going to say that I am going to try my best to post when I can. But for today this is all I have to write.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
What topics do you think you’ll write about?
Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

My First Blog Post

A little bit about me

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)