Creative Writing in Blog
By Ollie
http://www.salsabeela.com
The little decision - 2004
The big result - 2009
At first…
What is blog? Your online journal
Why blog? It’s fun
Why blog? Practice your writing skill
Why blog? way to get published
Other blog books
Create your blog: It’s free
FIRST, FIND OUT:
• Who you really are
• Your signature style
• Your blogging topics
o Things you love or hate the most
• Your blogging schedule and stick to it
• Your blogging goals
Practice
• Write your own ‘About Me’ page.
• Write in 5 minutes
Catch the writing mood
Blogging tips
• Use killer title
• Make it scannable
o List, formatting – bold, italic, short paragraphs, use pictures
• Start with surprising facts, key points and ended with explanation
• Write fast, review later
• Be informative, passionate and entertaining
• Research to add value in post
• Always write the ‘moral of the story’
Moral of the story
Good writing
• People can relate to

• Have purpose
• Conflict and resolution
• A story that you love and love to tell
Don’t Forget: Writing elements
• Setting
• Plot
• Conflict
• Character
• Point of View
• Description
o What you see
o What you hear
o What you smell
o What you feel
Practice
• Describe Picture
• Do in 10 minutes
Online Research
• Google.com
• Technorati.com
• Flickr.com
• Answers.com
• Wikipedia.org
• LonelyPlanet.com
• YouTube.com
Practice
• Do some research
• Collect the information & write in 10 minutes
What more can you blog
• Reviews
• Interviews
• Social Experiments
• How-to
• Your insight of the latest news
• Blog in foreign language promoting your country
• Interesting photos

Transcab experiment
Blogging blocks
• Simple everyday story counts
• Read more articles or books of your favorite topics
• Watch movies or YouTube
• Experiment! Try something new everyday
• Overheard
• Get some Blog Prompts
Blog prompts
Mobile blogging: capturing ideas
Any Questions?
Mini blog competition
Good luck!