Blogging Insights # 58 — Family and Friends

 

TODAY’S QUESTIONS:

How supportive are your family(or friends) of your blog?

Do they do anything to help with your blogging efforts?

Do they read your work and offer a critique, if so, how do you react to it?

MY ANSWERS:

How supportive are your family (or friends) of your blog?

They are all quite supportive in that they recognise my fondness for writing. Although they never say so, I feel that they are all a little proud of my blogging endeavours.

My friends were all very encouraging. One of them set up a WordPress account to read my blog posts; later she launched her own blog and is now a very popular and successful blogger.

 

Do they do anything to help with your blogging efforts?

When I first launched my blog, I was not very good at computers apart from what I needed for my professional work. My daughter set up my WordPress account for me and managed the payment and plan etc. She was  the sounding board for my initial ideas etc. and also helped me figure out how to add images, links etc.

The rest of the family often provide food for thought that can become the inspiration for a post. A discussion with my son led to a series of posts about decision fatigue.

 

Do they read your work and offer a critique, if so, how do you react to it?

My mother was the one to read all my work. She retired as a professor of English so she offered valuable input on grammatical errors and typos. More recently, she does not visit my blog as I am mainly posting about blogging.

 

Okay guys, that was my bit. Now I am longing to read about your experiences.

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