Thank you. I’m glad you found my post helpful.

Thanks for stopping by!
Jeanne

Glad we’re in agreement!

Thanks for the visit!
Jeanne

The first lines should strike the reader and persuade him/ her to read a bit more. That bit converts into more, and that finally converts into him / her thinking that it was a good essay.

Thanks for your kind comment! Glad you enjoyed my article, and hope you’ve found it helpful.

Best wishes for your essay-writing success!
Jeanne

Jeanne

Thank you again for the excellent guest article. Thank you as well for taking the time to comment on so many other people’s articles this month. You were a great asset to the conversation.

Sounds as if you have a natural affinity for writing! That should help you a great deal in blogging! It can take a bit of time to get used to blogging, though, since every blogger must develop his or her own unique blogging voice. Every blog is different — in nature, purpose, topic, and personality of the blogger who writes it. But this variety is one of the very things that makes blogs so fascinating.

You’ll also find that blogging is a very forgiving form of writing, providing a writer with a great deal of latitude for experimentation (along with a perpetual opportunity to go back in and edit a post — one of my favorite things about it). As you gradually develop your own blogging style, you’ll really enjoy this freedom to try different things. And, as long as you remember to engage your readers all the way through, you’ll do just fine. (It might also help to think of your blog posts as essays.)

Hang in there and keep experimenting! This time next year, you’ll be an expert!

Thanks so much for your comment!
Jeanne

I find the essay one of the easiest things to write. It’s everything else that I’m having a really tough time with.

Perhaps this is why I’m struggling a bit to grasp the blogging voice. It’s a different type of writing for the most part and I’m stumbling trying to get a handle on it.

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