Realities of a New Blogger, Blogging Advice, and Blogging Tips for Beginners
Table of Content
- Why I Became a Blogger
- My Blogging Journey
- 11 Best Blogging Tips for Beginner Bloggers
- Resources and Blog Tips For New Bloggers From Around the Internet
- Books On Writing That Help Me Write and Blog Better
- What’s Next in My Blogging Journey
Why I Became a Blogger
It doesn’t seem like yesterday when I started my personal growth and travel blog, On My Canvas. Update 2025: Now I have been writing it for eight years.
In April 2017, I returned to India from a nine-month solo trip through South America. Constant itch to write, events such as quitting my job and taking writing workshops prior to the journey, and a deep reflection of what I wanted to do next brought me to the conclusion I should write full-time.
I love writing. Stories liven me up. Whosoever read my earliest work told me I write simply and have an innate ability to share my deepest emotions.
I had worked hard to achieve many desired and serendipitous goals: cracking the joint entrance of engineering colleges in India, dragging myself through a Computer Science degree, juggling corporate jobs. I braved a lifestyle unapproved by the Indian collectivist society. I was almost 30, was unmarried, had quit my investment banking job, and traveled the world alone-that’s not a typical scene for a small-town Indian girl from a middle-class family.
I knew if I worked hard I would be able to make something of my own with writing, too.
I wanted to share the cornucopia of my experiences with others who were running the hurdle races I had jumped through. So I took up writing as a career at 30.
After brainstorming through a plethora of blog names, mostly related to some funky animal (for who knows what reasons), I launched On My Canvas to share my life experiences and travel stories.
The idea was to tell the world, and fellow Indians, that it’s okay to ask why. That we don’t have to compromise.
I wanted to show people that wishing to live a meaningful life full of zest and passion doesn’t make you a bad person. That fears exists mostly in our minds. That marriage is not the end goal. That a desk job isn’t for everyone. That the world is to be seen. But travel is not the only thing in life, for the universe has many other wonderful offerings: human connection, communication, and our own emotions.
Through my blog, I want to give the everlasting itch-I can do anything if I give myself a chance-to everyone else.
How would you know if you got what it takes?
Sometimes you know you will make it before the journey begins. At times, you figure out during the work. Even if you don’t realize anything, you still make it to the finish line.
Update 2025: I am not sure if I have made it to the finish line, but I am thrilled to say that my first book came out earlier this year.
MY FIRST BOOK
Journeys Beyond and Within...
IS HERE!
In my vivid narrative style (that readers love, ahem), I have told my most incredible adventures, including a nine-month solo trip to South America. In the candid book, the scoldings I got from home for not settling down and the fears and obstacles I faced, along with my career experiments, are laid bare. Witty and introspective, the memoir will make you laugh and inspire you to travel, rediscover home, and leap over the boundaries.
Sikkim Express: "Simple, free-flowing, but immensely evocative."
The Telegraph Online: "An introspective as well as an adventurous read."
Grab your copy now!
The memoir is available globally. Search for the title on your country's Amazon.
Or, read a chapter first. Claim your completely free First Chapter here.
Have I got what it takes to run a successful blog? How’s my blogging journey coming along?
In the two years of blogging, I have seen a lot of ups and downs. I’m afraid these lows and highs would continue to sway me through this thing called life. (Update 2022: Standing at close to five years of blogging, the only thing I can testify to is the continuous uphills and downhills. Here are seven scintillating years of On My Canvas, and even in 2025, after eight years of blogging, if the sun sets, it rises, too.)
One thing is for sure-I cannot see myself not writing. In the end, I will at least have a story to tell.
Maybe, I will have more than a story.
The blog is doing good. You-my readers and subscribers-are joining me every day and inspiring me in your own way. My writing is becoming more fluent. My travel scribblings read more like stories now. My self-development ideas are more mature.
As a new blogger, I have learned a lot during the last two years, and I see myself falling and getting up every day.
Growth and learning-these seem to be the two constant companions down the road. I cannot speak about the pace, but if speed breakers come, highways await, too.
Related Read: Highlights of 2018 – Blogging, Writing, and Living as a Digital Nomad.
Let me share some tips for blogging that I collected from these two thrilling years I have survived as a blogger. Some of the points I have written below are popular blogging questions from new bloggers and readers.
Best Blogging Tips for Beginner Bloggers: Things I’ve Learned From 2 Years of Blogging
1. Should You Become a Blogger? (A Must Ask for New Bloggers)
Becoming a blogger is not like waving the magic wand, but it is nothing less either.
One of my most important blog tips is to please ask yourself that why do you want to start a blog. Answer honestly.
Only start a blog if you love to write or can hire a writer while managing the rest of the blog work yourself. In both scenarios, you will stay close to writing-and editing-all along your blogging journey.
Blogging could be your escape from nine to five. But if you don’t like to write or read, blogging for beginners can seem like a horrible five to twelve.
More questions are to be asked and answered, which I tackle further.
I have a guide on writing about traveling where I share my nine secrets to travel writing. Read if you are a travel writer.
2. You Need High-Quality Content, and a Lot of It
Millions of blogs exist, but the most successful blogs have the best stories and brilliant ideas-and a lot of them.
In 2015, I started working on my writing sincerely. My grammar stank more than rotten mushrooms. I spilled stories; people put them together. But every day after returning from a busy corporate office, I wrote. Instead of lazying around or exploring after teaching English to Spanish students in Chile, I wrote. I signed up for writing workshops and got cursed for writing horribly. I started many blogs on cooking, life, and travel, and let all of them die a painful death.
They rest in peace (hopefully). I have moved on.
Now my friends say my blog reads professional. My stories connect with readers. Clients want to hire me to write because they find my blog well-written.
I’m still learning.
Give what it takes to write great articles. Wake up early. Sleep late. Go out. Read. Grow mushrooms. Curl up in your bed and cry. Blame yourself. Get up and write. Edit. Write. Read. Laugh. Dance. Edit some more. Repeat. Let yourself become who you are, as Nietzsche said.
Your best will improve with time. Until then, put perfection aside, and let the world read what you are writing. Improve constantly. (Here are my 27 tips on writing better for new writers.)
Insider Tip: Use your titles carefully, in real life and blogging.
3. Write For the People, Not For Yourself (The Most Underrated Blogging Advice)
You should always write for yourself, first. Write what feels true. Write what aches you. Write what makes you laugh. What scared you on that long flight to Santiago should be in an article. How you came over a breakup is a good personal story. Waking up every day at five am and running makes for an inspiring read.
My most popular blog articles are the ones in which I have laughed upon myself and the world while telling a sad or unfortunate cultural or solo travel tale. When I wrote narrative pieces on how one should never quit, readers applauded. If I published the incidents I was most scared to talk about, everyone related.
Spill it out. Read the draft to see if someone else would also find it interesting and informational. If not, rewrite, cut, edit until you feel others would gain something from your piece.
Everyone loves to read an inspiring or entertaining story rather than a self-blaming saga. Make your life’s most embarrassing story a fun read or a life lesson.
My best blogging tips for beginners is: write for others. Focus on good writing.
4. Write Often
If you want your blog to take you somewhere and not the other way around, publish your best articles frequently.
I still have a hard time publishing an article every week, even after five eight years. Most of my articles are more than 2,000 words long and go up to as much as 16,000 words. My travelogue on Spiti was more than 6,000 words, and this post on healthy and purposeful living is almost 11,000 words. My longest piece, completing five years of nomadic life in India, is 30,000 words long.
I don’t limit myself by the length of the article. The right people always read. But writing such long pieces is not like going for an evening walk.
Also, those right people only come back to your blog if you publish often. If I don’t write for months, who would remember On My Canvas?
You lose readers if you don’t publish regularly. Google doesn’t take you seriously. Numbers go down. You need a lot of articles on a topic to create authority. And that process would take longer if you publish infrequently.
Writing good-quality, long-form, well-thought-out content that adds value isn’t easy. You will stumble in the beginning. Words won’t come out. The story will play hide and seek. There won’t be enough time ever.
Don’t give up. Call it a day. Do something else. Wake up the next day and continue.
As a beginner blogger, focus on writing good pieces even if you publish one article per week. Make that article count.
I started this blogging guide for beginners yesterday. After an hour, I was sure I won’t be able to finish it. I wasn’t inspired. I questioned if it made sense to write an article just because the blog celebrated its second anniversary.
When I opened the draft today, I started typing as if I had drunk a few cans of the Red Bull drink.
That Red Bull will flow in your veins, too. Give it time.
Also Read: Follow a Creative Schedule, and My Guide on Habits will also help.
5. Only Writing Isn’t Enough (My Hard-Earned Blogger Tips)
As a new blogger, I didn’t worry about SEO or social media marketing.
Hey-I love to write. That should be enough.
I guess not.
Readers enjoyed my blog and came back for more. But the same people asked me why my readership and social media followers were less while my writing was good.
After a year of blogging, I realized that even if I screamed from my tiny corner, the world might never find my blog.
I had to work alongside Uncle Google. I had to share my writing on other platforms, too.
Irrespective of how much you hate talking about yourself, you’ll have to share your ideas and writings with the world unabashedly. Writing them isn’t enough.
One of my pro blogging tips and tricks: Hire a freelancer for things you can’t do yourself, don’t have the time for, or don’t want to do. I hired Pinterest help once. I hired a designer to make the colorful banner of On My Canvas. Though the designer was my friend, I often look for professionals on Fiverr. From SEO marketing, writing, blog design, all kinds of freelancers are available to hire on Fiverr. The platforms ensures to list responsible professionals, you can read their reviews, and in case you run into any issues, Fiverr will help you out. The platform charges a small fee.
6. Uncle Google May Be Moody But He is a Friend If You Follow a Few Rules-In short, SEO will save you down the road
SEO or Google Search Engine Optimization isn’t a lottery system. It’s a simple system with its, more or less, well-defined methods and best practices. So ignore the hundreds of emails in your inbox, their subjects flashing: We will grow your blog 100 times in 10 days. Follow our tips on how to become a blogger. Etc.
I have been following the best SEO practices from the initial days of On My Canvas. But I followed incompetent resources and wasted time. Or maybe I didn’t utilize those tools well.
I read Neil Patel’s blog and used his tool UberSuggest to find keywords. I emailed other bloggers to leave comments on my blog. I put a Facebook ad. Just one. I reached out to bigger bloggers saying I had linked to their blog and thanked them for their content. Most of them never replied. I pitched to the most popular magazines and websites while ignoring the great blogs right in front of me.
I also started an email list, and that’s one of the better things I did during those innocent times.
Now when I look back, I can see I was trying my hands at a lot of high-level stuff. As a beginner blogger, first, I had to do some basic stuff right.
I had to get the right tool to find keywords. For as much as I could be thankful for a free tool like UberSuggest, it never got me the keywords I should’ve ranked for. I should have taken a basic SEO course. I should have joined Facebook blogger groups who help each other when you pull your hair out at two in the night alone.
Better late than never. Now I do all of these. I use SEO methods, and my readership is growing. I’m grateful for my blogger friends and their ever-available tips for blogs.
Find yourself a good keyword tool. I use KeySearch and trust it with my eyes closed. Invest in a simple but good “how to become a blogger” kind of course. Ask for blogging advice from experienced bloggers. Join Facebook groups.
Apply the science of SEO, and let the system work.
7. Do You Need to be Active on Social Media to Succeed as a Blogger, Especially as a Travel Blogger?
Social Media was another beast that I knew was out there, but I preferred to ignore it. Hell, I wrote an article on how poisonous social media is.
Now two years later, I think you can manage social media as you like. If you want to make anything out of social media, stay consistent.
People will connect. They will praise you. Some will like your pictures, and a few will give a thumbs up. Many will find your content inspirational.
No one would care about you on social media unless you provide value. Remember-first, give honestly and consistently. Then with time, you might get a return.
Depending on your blogging niche, your social media requirements will change. For me, Medium has been a better tool for personal growth articles, and travel pieces have done better on Facebook and Instagram.
Social media is a choice. I know bloggers who write good searchable content day and night while never caring about followers. Some content creators are Instagram-based and don’t have a blog.
Bloggers versus Instagrammers is the most viral debate right now. Instagrammers create fast content that needs low attention span. Bloggers write long-form articles that need more time to prepare, and, of course, to read too.
Bloggers can have an active social media presence. Instagrammers can have a blog. But an Instagrammer who never writes a blog post isn’t a blogger.
Leaving that debate for later, one of my best tips for beginning bloggers is that social media platforms are important for public presence. Though your blog is your priority, you shouldn’t ignore social media completely.
Why?
Because not all readers read blogs anymore. Also, social media is a good tool to get discovered.
A journalist might find you from your tweet. A popular account might tag you, bringing you in front of many interested readers. Your article might go viral if a writer reshares it on Facebook.
There are all kinds of things.
How to manage social media? Even keeping two social media accounts active is enough.
Create your profile. Post regularly, or use a scheduler. Write short and relevant messages at times when people read. Put yourself out there. Share your worst moments along with the good ones. Appreciate others’ work. Connect with people. You can consider hiring someone on Fiverr if you don’t want to do it all yourself.
If you aren’t active on social media, you would miss out on people who depend on it to stay connected with the world. At the end of it, you are the boss. Decide what works for you the best and what keeps you sane. Experiment.
I’m also on a social media learning curve, and I will keep this space updated with my findings. Update 2022: Four and a half years of running this blog, and I’m on the same page. Social media isn’t essential but sharing something every now and then doesn’t hurt. Two active accounts are enough. Scheduling posts work best for people like me who focus on writing and don’t want to tweet or put up a Facebook update in the middle of the day. Many blog readers follow me on social media. And many social media followers end up becoming loyal readers. Update 2024: Still holds true. 2025: The same. My social media followers were also delighted to read and buy my first book.
You can join me on my Social media accounts to stay in touch: Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
8. Blogging is a Business (Practical Tips for Blogging That One Should Know From Day 1)
If you want to blog full-time, you need to make money out of it. Can you earn by blogging? Yes.
Earning from blogs takes at least two years, and mostly longer. And to make money out of any endeavor, you have to treat the thing as a business.
Bloggers are passionate people. But to survive as a blogger, you would have to feed your passion while putting on a business hat.
When I started my blog, I knew I’d have to be patient. I still don’t make a consistent amount from the blog, but I do earn from here. My main income sources are affiliate links and freelance projects which come to me through my blog. Update 2025: I am an affiliate partner with Stay22, Amazon, and I am soon going to start with Travel Payouts, too.
If you are a beginner blogger, I would suggest keeping your job while blogging. Or do freelance work alongside. (After covid, remote jobs are quite the trend.)
Save enough until your blog generates money. Make a business strategy as soon as you start your blog and keep evolving it.
One of the most undervalued tips for beginner bloggers: Only if you are financially stable or have a smart plan, you would be able to blog and have fun with it.
9. Blogging is a LOT of Work
Like Uncle Scrooge, bloggers are buried deep in work throughout the year. The difference is that bloggers might be smiling upside down; you call it frowning.
A typical day in a blogger’s life start from anything to writing, editing, guest posting, learning about SEO, daring social media, connecting with other bloggers, trying to revive a dead site, cleaning up broken links, editing pictures, finding new topics to write, to fretting over the unfinished drafts while ideas sprout up like mushrooms in her head day and night.
I didn’t even mention the money part.
In short-blogging is a job of multiple professionals. You have to be a writer, a critique, an editor, an entrepreneur, a marketer, a photographer, a software engineer, a planner, and a communication expert while having a full-time job or while freelancing, until your blog makes money.
If you don’t like writing, please think twice before starting your blog. Blogging involves a mountain of work, and like in all jobs, not everything is fun out here either.
For all those who want to travel blog-If you want to have your personal travel blogs to get to travel for free and earn money, let me tell you it isn’t that easy. You would get there, but that shouldn’t be the aim. You should start a travel blog if you like to travel and enjoy taking pictures and writing and doing this repeatedly. Free and paid trips would be the byproduct of a successful travel blog. But if you aren’t passionate about travel blogging, you would tire out soon. (These 9 creative writing techniques I employ in travel writing makes my travelogues fun to read, as readers tell me.)
Don’t let fear stop you from beginning a (successful) blog. You might be unclear about what you want to write or how to monetize the blog. These questions will answer themselves on the journey.
On rough days, when you would have to push yourself (believe me those days will come) you should have the right reasons.
That’s all.
Helpful Read: Practical Tips on Learning How to Learn with Josh Waitzkin
10. Connecting With Other Bloggers is Crucial (My Best Blog Tips I Learned a Bit Late)
When I was a new blogger, I only focused on my writing desk and my pen. Soon I got lonely writing alone all the time.
I wanted to talk to people sailing on the same ship. Only bloggers can understand the pain and joy of being a blogger.
I began searching for good blogs and blogging guides. I wrote appreciative emails to other bloggers. Commented on their articles. Followed them on Instagram. Stalked my favorite writers on Medium. Started going to blogger meetups. Thought of ways to collaborate with my favorite female bloggers.
I realized that the blogging and travel industry works through networking. Bloggers cannot survive in solitude. They need help, and they should help others.
So as early as you start building a blogger friends group, the better it is. Instead of following the pre-existing groups, you can also launch a group related to your niche on Facebook. Become a leader. (Here are my best practical tips on working from home productively and staying social.)
11. Never regret the time gone
I still agonize and overthink about not understanding everything as a beginner blogger. I compare myself to other bloggers and blame myself for not being up to speed, whatever that is.
Please don’t do the same. Move towards the future, for that is the only way to succeed. (Update 2022: I don’t regret anything anymore. I’ve realized that putting my head down and writing is the best way to live. Onwards in 2024 and 2025, I still do the same.)
An article that always helps me when I worry: 15 things to think less about. These also help: Lessons I learned in my 20s, Excel in Your 30s With These Ideas, and Van Gogh on courage and perseverance.
Have fun blogging. When a long task list awaits you on a Sunday morning, and you wonder what happened, remember why you started it all. To be your boss. To tell stories. To share your experiences.
Don’t get lost in lists that seem to take you towards a destination. Focus on the journey. Enjoy the process. Create through the chaos. Be patient.
Resources That Make Blogging for Beginners Easy and Fun,
- Backlinko’s List of Google’s 200 Ranking Factors
- Writers Write (I sign up for their challenges often or look for prompts when I can’t write at all.)
- Grammarly for editing (less and less now)
- Pexels, Unsplash, Pixabay (and many others) for stock pictures (I prefer my own pictures and only use these websites for a one-off photo I don’t have.)
- Smartblogger’s Proofreading: 7 Editing Tips That’ll Make You a Better Writer
- Smartblogger’s 298 Filler Words & Phrases That Rob Your Writing of Its Power
- Hemingwayapp (To check if I’m back to writing long snaky sentences.)
Make Traffic Happen Facebook group to connect with bloggers and ask questions.Update 2025: This group is not active anymore.- Legal Nomad’s guides on blogging (I’ve yet to read this social media one.)
- Keysearch tool to find keywords (I trust this tool, it’s easy to find great keywords which have a lot of search on Amazon, and the tool also let’s you know if you would be able to rank(appear in the top searches) for a particular keyword.)
Books on Writing That Help Me Write and Blog Better,
Now go get them.
What’s Next?
I still have a myriad of things to know, understand, and implement.
I’m still learning about pitching to corporations and travel agencies, pitching articles to newspapers and media to get published, still getting a hold of my digital nomad’s lifestyle while I travel for months and work on the go, building my social media profiles, connecting with fellow bloggers and the media, and sourcing more work as a freelancer.
Update 2022: I don’t pitch to travel agencies, I’ve made peace with the bite of social media I’ve got, I travel indefinitely, and freelance work just comes to me.
Update Jan 2024: I travel with my money, and the opinions on this blog are honest. Having said that, going forward, I would want to work with travel adventure companies which are responsible and curate travel experiences with sustainability on their minds.
Latest in 2025: Despite what I said, I didn’t work with any travel company. I have never gone on a press trip, and I don’t think I would start now. Traveling my way at my own schedule is the only way.
Every day I am setting new goals and achieving them. All while having fun, being my own boss, working hard, and not regretting it.
Taking it day by day, you know.
I’m grateful to all of you who have supported me on my journey and continue to do so by reading my work and sending your heart-warming comments and emails. Thank you. I hope I haven’t disappointed you.
Of course, tonnes of stories and ideas coming your way to make you think, laugh, and run.
How did you like my beginner blogging tips? Do you still have questions on how to become a blogger? Tell me in the comments.
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MY FIRST BOOK
Journeys Beyond and Within...
IS HERE!
In my vivid narrative style (that readers love, ahem), I have told my most incredible adventures, including a nine-month solo trip to South America. In the candid book, the scoldings I got from home for not settling down and the fears and obstacles I faced, along with my career experiments, are laid bare. Witty and introspective, the memoir will make you laugh and inspire you to travel, rediscover home, and leap over the boundaries.
Sikkim Express: "Simple, free-flowing, but immensely evocative."
The Telegraph Online: "An introspective as well as an adventurous read."
Grab your copy now!
The memoir is available globally. Search for the title on your country's Amazon.
Or, read a chapter first. Claim your completely free First Chapter here.
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Post incrível, eu escrevo também, desde cedo resolvi colocar nos cadernos os meus pensamentos e com isso me vi escrevendo e inventando histórias, as suas escritas me mostraram como é bom ler sobre alguém que tem as mesmas peculiaridades que você, não sou de viajar, mais a leitura e a escrita me levam a lugares que talvez não possa chegar fisicamente mais no meu íntimos visito regularmente, seu post é inspirador é válido por dicas preciosas, com certeza voltarei e lerei esse post mais uma vez para que possa guardar as suas dicas.
Hola Erica! No puedo entender todos que me dijiste pero entiendo. Esta hablando en portugese no? Yo hablo espanol pero no portugese! perdon! Y estoy feliz que le gusto me articulo y que le gusta leer y escribir. Te mando buen suerte en todos! Que estamos en contacto 🙂
Thanks for Sharing!
Thank you for reading 🙂
Appreciate the insights you’ve shared.
Very helpful tips, thanks for sharing.
Most welcome 🙂
Wow, what a wonderful experience! Excellent blog, greetings
Thank you 🙂
Your article gives me the motivation to continue blogging.
Thank you for inspiring people…
Good luck 🙂
Amazing article! I am in year 2 of blogging and this article definitely hit home. But like you ended, focus on the journey, the process, and remember why you started in the first place.
Thanks!
Eric
Most welcome! Good luck 🙂
We are now going through this same path where our blog is still on the growing curve. But we are still committed towards writing and traveling as it makes us happier than any other thing. Each and every word in this article connected with us so thanks a lot for pouring your experience in such a friendly manner. And most importantly, it made us feel inspired!
Most welcome! I am glad it resonated, and hope the blogging is going well 🙂
HI , I am an enthusiast whose story telling skills just lighted up after reading your blog. I have so many short stories to tell people which are full of lessons and learnings , it would be very generous of you if you can guide me up regarding where should i start from ? awaiting ur reply
The best way to start is to write. Best of luck 🙂
You have written such a valuable content. I have posted complete guide of starting blog for beginners hope
You love it
amazing story.. I have learnt a lot from this article.. Hope this will help me in my coming blog journey ..
I’m glad. Thanks a lot for letting me know.
Thanks for this blog… Your story has a lot of similarity to mine, along with some teaks and add-ons… Will write you soon an email …
sure 🙂
By reading your blog I can sense that you love writing! I think is just pours out! It is very hard for me to write but, my passion share is what keeping me going. Any tips to writing?
Priyanka these are awesome tips. 13 year blogger here.
Ryan
Thanks, Ryan 🙂
I have so many writing tips on the blog. Hope they are helpful 🙂 I wish you good luck!
hey..such a grt infoo…first time commenting on a blog and first time read a blog too long….I had also started a blog. Posted 15 articles till date which is between 1000-2000 words. I am posting articles daily because by researching i found that new blog should post daily in order to reach 1000 daily traffic in next 6 months. But from last 1-2 days, i am feeling very low and feeling worried about my future which results in no post from last 1-2 days. Also I don’t have any income source now which create some worry on my mind. If the blog doesn’t give any income in next 6 months then? Can you plz plz give solid tips or mindset which i should follow in my starting journey? Also, how much time will it take to see some income flow on my blog? Is it safe to take it as a career? plz plz reply
My advice is that you should manage your expectations, you have to grow and establish your blog before thinking about the monetary gain, making money in blogging takes a lot of time, somewhere from 2 years and above. So don’t expect anything in 6 months time, you don’t end up becoming faustrated.
well said 🙂
hey, thank you Priyanka for the inspiring and Honest articles, as a beginner to the writing blogging world your words made so much sense. wishing you never ending travel.
Thank you. I wish you good luck, and hope it’s going great.
Thank you for great tips. The article will help me a lot. I have started writing my travel stories. Your tips will help me.
Thank you, Nalin ji. Hope your writing is going well 🙂
Great article! Helped me get the motivation and right direction to start out as a new blogger.
Thank you, Dharmendra 🙂
From “When I started writing, my grammar sucked more than rotten mushrooms” to “Now I earn my living as a freelance writer”. That highlights your passion and zeal for writing.
Thank you, Suman. It is true. Though I should have said rotten tomatoes. I love writing and want to send the whole world my words to keep the people going no matter what. And messages like yours help me going so please continue commenting 🙂
I stumbled across your blog today and I’m really impressed! Estoy en México y aprendiendo Español tambien . Espero que algún día tenga un blog como tuyo.
Aah! Bueno! Gracias por sus complementos 🙂 Que habla muy bien Espanaol. Buen suerte amigo!
Such a great, inspiring post!
I’ve only been blogging for 6 months and I’m still continuously improving my writing, my post layout, my blog layout and my SEO knowledge. The learning curve is huge! Your tips are really helpful and I will definitely be implementing some of the them. So thank you 🙂
Thank you so much, Dominika. You are right – the learning curve is huge. I am glad that you found my post helpful. Purpose achieved. Good luck on your blogging journey. Let me know it is going.
Great post! Really helpful too.
Thank you so much 🙂
Amazing post. Thanks for sharing so many tips from your blogging journey. I recently quit my job to go travel solo, starting a blog along the way, so I totally relate with your story!
Thank you, Solene. I am glad my article helped you. Good luck on your journey and let me know if you have any questions.
I am so glad I stumbled across On My Canvas. Being new to Blogging you have inspired me to continue as I love writing and photography. You have helped spell out how much and in what order I should plan ahead. You have such a delicate way with words that is so refreshing. I have found it difficult to find other Blogs out there that I connect with on as many levels as yours, if there are any you can suggest?
Hi Rachel. I am glad you came across my blog and that I could be of help. Please keep reading. I am sure you will find your way and feel free to drop questions as comments here so that we can all help each other. I read many blogs and Medium. Actually, I like legalnomad(her storytelling is brilliant and I am a storyteller, too), some writers on Medium, and then I read people like Mark Manson and Bakedsuyo for the inspirational stuff. I read NewYorker and Granta. I also research a lot on the go and read everything that comes my way. So its is a mix of all of it. Good luck.
Looking forward to hear more from you.
Nice tips! Since you mention that connecting with other bloggers is important, let me mention my blogpage here 🙂 Personal travel stories from Turkey and beyond
Thanks for the comment, Jake. Sorry for removing the link, links are not allowed in comments. Your blog is linked via your name. How is your blogging journey going? Hope all is good.
Wow!!! This was the blog I was looking to make me inspired.Quite touching.!!! And very relivent.
Thanks for your life story…
Gunasindhu
Hi Gunasindhu. Thanks for your generous comment. Good luck. Stay in touch.
It’s great to know, how you found your way out of those begining steps. You have elaborated it so well. This is a huge inspiration to all fellow bloggers. To be honest I have always loved your Instagram narratives. This is the first time I read your blog and here I am thinking why I didn’t read it earlier?
Hey Supriya. Thank you for your kind comment. I am glad that you finally read my blog and liked it. Looking forward to hearing more from you.
Thanks Madhurima. You read all my articles and send such generous comments – Thank from the bottom of my heart. I am glad you enjoyed reading the article. Let’s do it.
“You must read and write as if your life is dependent on it!” I have inked those words on my forehead! As usual a great read. and inspiring!