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Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

När Jättar Marschera lyrics

Original Swedish

Bland moderträd och dystra snår

Något trampa med tungaste steg
Snart eka ett mäktigt vrål
Ny fly både modig och feg

Nu jättar vandra, skaka mark
Åskviggen slå och stormar samlas

Fäller furor och skakar bark
Domen falla, glaciärers makt

Eldjättar frusta slammors hav
Dovt grymta hrimtursars rad
Skogens troll och resar i trav
Fly for jättarnas marsch

De bär fram på vindens vis
Över fjäll, urskog och evig is

Tills de nått till människors marker
Då frigörs, glaciärers makt

Eldjättar frusta slammors hav
Dovt grymta hrimtursars rad
Skogens troll och resar i trav
Fly for jättarnas marsch

Frusen vidd med monument av stål, de smulas ner av kylans tand
Haven skölja bergens vägg, människobarn gråta oceaners salt
I stormens öga under ske, där allt ligga tyst nytt liv ta över
När jättars marsch nu kommit loss, det nyas början men slutet för oss

Inget minne, ingen tanke, ingen själ

English translation [from darklyrics]

Among mother trees and gloomy branches
Something stomps with the heaviest step
Soon echoes a mighty roar
Now flee both the brave and the cowardly

Giants are walking now, shaking the earth
Thunderstones strike and storms gather

Pines are falling and bark is shaking
Judgement falls, the might of the glaciers

Fire giants whip an ocean of flames
The ranks of Hrimthurs growl deep
Trolls of the forest and journeys in trot
Flee from the march of the giants

They carry on with the wind
Over mountains, primeval forests and eternal ice

Until they arrive to human territories
Then the might of the glaciers is unleashed

Fire giants whip an ocean of flames
The ranks of Hrimthurs growl deep
Trolls of the forest and journeys in trot
Flee from the march of the giants

Frozen vastness and a steel monument, crumbled by teeth of the coldness
Sea washes the face of a mountain, children of man weep the salt of the oceans
In the eye of the storm a wonder occurs, where all stood silent new life takes over
When the giants’ march comes to an end, a new beginning but an end for us

No memory, no thoughts, no soul