Hi y'all! Welcome to the blogger meme I'm co-hosting with my friend Karen at For What It's Worth Reviews. It's time to open up and share (and vent) about our blogging experiences!
Guidelines: Do not criticize other bloggers or authors in your post or in the comments! We're here to support each other.
Our current question is:
For March 5th: Let's talk about the positive side of blogging! How has blogging influenced your real life in a positive way? (not related to books or reading) Have you learned to be organized or are you more social now for example?
Tiger's answer:
Completing staying away from book and reading-related answers, I think blogging has improved my professional confidence. I'm a naturally loud and theatrical person, so social shyness has never been a problem for me, but I would often feel shy about my writing ability or my professional skills. Almost more than anything else (degrees in my field, work experience, etc), blogging has made me confident in my abilities as a writer. My blog is an open portfolio of work that I can look back on and say to myself, "I can write about anything I put my mind to." I've spent over two years arranging my thoughts and posting them on an almost-daily basis. Thinking back on my blogging experience is very comforting and it bolsters my spirits when I need a bit of a boost. :-)
Blogging has also improved my computer skills. When I started out, I didn't know how to hyperlink or add more than one image to a post! Now I'm still no computer whiz, but I can change my formatting the way I like it, and I'm learning new things like making my own screenshots and captions for the TV shows I review.
Finally, blogging has improved my mental focus. Thanks to enough time spent reviewing books, I can zoom in on necessary details more quickly than I used to, whether it's fictional details or things that have real-life practical applications. I don't quite feel like blogging has made me smarter, but I do think it has made me sharper. I'm coming to the same conclusions I always would, but I'm figuring them out faster.
So how about you? Has blogging done anything for your confidence, computer skills, or mental focus, or are your non-reading "blogging benefits" of a different nature?
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This meme will be hosted twice monthly, on 1st and 3rd Mondays. Here is the next question--
March 19th: Everyone LOVES that book! Why don't I? How do you handle being the one reviewer who doesn't like a book that's taking the blogosphere by storm? Do you write a review? Pretend you didn't read the book?
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