4 Tips to Finding Your Blogging Voice

Blogging? 4 Tips to Finding Your Voice

Oh man, the growing pains of blogging and discovering what’s unique about you. Tough! I struggle with it all the time. I wrote about blogging rules and how they are like matching socks. They stink and you never find two the same. 🙂

I’m redneck and random and I don’t like “fitting” in but I also don’t like getting totally left behind. So what to do as a blogger search for voice among the millions of blogs on the internet?

I’ll tell you what has helped me. In NO particular order.

1. Permission to write wrong: Free writing with no back tracking for a set amount of time helped me get past perfectionism. I participate in Five Minute Friday’s with The Gypsy Mama, because writing is a muscle and I’m far too critical of myself. I have 52 blog drafts because I don’t have time to go back and “fix” them.

2. Find The Source: Pray a lot and get back into daily devotions. I literally started with 1-3minutes a day while the coffee brewed. I plan to blog about that because I used to think it had to big a big hurkin’ deal. But now I know that Jesus is the big deal, not me.

3. Your story is important: Those things I mentioned above, my many passions, life experiences, quirky struggles and stories I think are boring…write about that. No one else thinks they are dumb but you.

4. Generosity & sincerity: You do not have to “sell anything”, give away anything amazing, or be who you aren’t to build a community online. You just need to be generous and sincere. Share great blogs by others, comment often and be encouraging, give away other people’s stuff.

My first blog was a gluten free food blog, because I thought I had to “sell” something.

Problem?

I’m a terrible cook!

Then when I started switching over to mom blog, redneck randomness, I tried giveaways and gimmicks.

Problem? No one could find me. I didn’t have a platform from which to do great giveaways. Just a few good friends who thought it unfair to sign up for a giveaway when they could walk next door and borrow the darn book.

I still struggle to find a groove that I’m comfortable with, but I’m getting a better rhythm and learning to be me. How about you?

Have you had blogging growing pains? How have you overcome them?

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Gina Conroy

Gina Conroy

From the day I received my first diary in the second grade, I've had a passion expressing myself through writing. Later as a journalist and novelist, I realized words, if used powerfully, have the ability to touch, stir, and reach from the depths of one soul to another. Today as a writing and health coach, I inspire others to live their extraordinary life and encourage them to share their unique stories. For daily inspiration follow me on https://www.facebook.com/gina.conroy and check out my books here https://amzn.to/3lUx9Pi