Tuesday's Tip's & Technique's - #49

Blogging from the Heart:

I know it can be a scary thought LOL but, I was thinking this morning as I was reading my emails and it kinda hit me that my one year was coming up. It is kinda hard to believe that it has been a year almost but I guess the saying is true, "time flies when you are having fun".

I have met so many people since I started that to be honest I have more friends in the blogoshere than I do here and there. Today I am doing a Tuesday's Tip's & Technique's on a slightly different subject. It will be on blogging the outdoors or just plain blogging, however you want to look at it.

First, I started blogging for somebody else 2 years ago who set me up with what I thought was my own blog and not knowing what I was doing went along with it for a year before realizing I was blogging for someone else that was making more money that I was at it. I decided that was not for me and that I wanted something different. So, I branched out and got my own blog which is where your at right now.

I found that by blogging for myself was the way to go. I was more happy, I had more control over what I did and why I did it and it made me write differently I think. That is the reason for this post today.

The best Tip & Technique that I think I can give for blogging is, "Blog from the Heart". I was told awhile ago that a blog is basically a place where you can write what your doing and where and about your passions so others can read. I think a personal blog is more than that. I never knew how "Whitetail Woods" was going to turn out but I can honestly say that I am very pleased so far. I took my passion/obsession for deer hunting with everything it entails and started from the heart. I write from the heart and I write what I see and how I see it. I make no judgements other than my own opinions. I don't beat around the proverbial bush so to speak.

That is what I mean by blog from the heart. People and readers will see that in your writing and will show support most of the time. That is why in just one year I have aquired 70 followers and hoping to get more and have had just under 27,500 visitors which I feel will only increase by the 17th. which is the actual 1 year date for me.

I just wanted to mention a few friends/bloggers that I feel deserve mention for one reason or another. Albert Rasch from "The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles", Othmar Vohringer from "Outdoors with Othmar Vohringer", Tipper from "The Blind Pig & The Acorn", Kristine from "The Outdoor Blogger Summit" & "Tenderfoot Diaries", Jody from "The Hunter's Wife", Blessed from "A Blessed Crazy Life", Terry from "Women's Hunting Journal", Ed from "Wild Ed's Texas Outdoors", Arthur & Jeff from "Simply Outdoors".

If I haven't mentioned your name it is only because I plain just forgot to put it down. Everybody has equally showed support in one way or another which makes it easy for me to Blog from the Heart because you all deserve nothing less than that.