Five Tips for Establishing Your Blogging Voice

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New bloggers sound like asshats. In the beginning, they come off as proper and pretentious. This is for a couple reasons: Blogging expectations are gray. All other media is written by specific professionals under a specific set of standards we’re all familiar with (we know how a newspaper article should read; we know the tone […]

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Be a More Efficient Blogger: Quit Falling in Love with Your Writing

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I care a whole lot about the posts here on Alternative Badassery, my third blog. That’s not to say I didn’t care about the posts on my other two blogs–I spent a ton of time writing those–I just didn’t have a clear vision for my site and blogging efforts. I kind of just set up […]

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The Catalyst (or What Led Me to Grace You With My Blogging Presence)

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I Once Was Really Bummed Four months ago, I was stuck in quarterlife crisis hell. I had determined the career path I was on was wrong for me, and identified about 8,000 different better-for-me directions to go. I couldn’t choose, and it drove me crazy. Each one seemed awesome and shitty, depending on the day. […]

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