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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.

She plucks a clover from the ground; presses it flat between two pages in a book, somewhere in a chapter about kings; removes it and places it under the mattress; closes her eyes and begins to dream.

* * *

A creature stirs.  It kicks and thrusts a foot and fist at the air.  It rips off transparent vines – riggings that have kept it at bay – and pulls itself to its feet.  ‘I AM HUNGRY,’ it cries.  ‘I AM HUNGRY!  Goo goo g’joob.  GIVE ME FOOD!’  It tosses aside an isolette cover as a shroud – a creature, no longer a creature, emerging as a child – and she dives to the floor, navigating the strange waters and beings that chase her in vain.  She cries, ‘Goo goo g’joob, GIVE ME FOOD!’ and goes about plundering the unit.  Others stir and wake.  An accomplice springs from his chamber bed, bounding from flotsam to jetsam in her wake.  They kick and bounce and stream in tune ‘Goo goo g’joob, GIVE ME FOOD!  Goo goo g’joob, GIVE US FOOD!’  One by one, the multitude creatures wake and wail and tear into the wreckage.  Each crying, ‘Goo goo g’joob, GIVE ME FOOD!’

The event is chaos.  Bedlam.  Pan’s de-monium.  The end of a plank, the end of a Geisel story, the end of the sidewalk as a
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the Walrus berates the
Yipiyuk first mate

In its decades long history, the staff had never experienced an incident such as this before as 52 & 2 infants declared mutiny and stormed the sixth floor NICU at Memorial Hospital.