The 10 Natural Laws of Blogging: Observations from a Novice

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Having written a total of 5 posts so far, I don’t know why I feel qualified to post these observations.  But here goes.  Please add your own laws to the list, and maybe there will be an “intermediate blogger” edition down the road (say, after at least 10 posts).

1^st Law:  The moment you start a blog, all the time you thought you had available to maintain it will be filled up with other priorities

2^nd Law:  Your theme will never look quite right, at least for more than 10 minutes.

3^rd Law: You will begin to think through every experience in terms of whether it would make a good blog post.

4^th Law: No post will be written as well as it was originally conceived in your head.

5^th Law: Just before falling asleep the night you complete a post, you will think of an outstanding point you wanted to make.  You will then proceed to forget it again the next morning, and it will haunt your entire next day.

6^th Law:  The moment you post a conclusion based on observations, you will immediately begin disproportionately noticing contrary evidence to said conclusions.

7^th Law: After one week, you will think of a better blog and domain name, and then be torn because the 2 subscribers to your RSS feed and all links you sent out may go bad if you change.

8^th Law:  The post you think will be most interesting to your readers will bomb, and the one that seems least interesting is most likely to go viral (well, at least get tweeted once).

9^th Law:  You will notice every plug-in used on every blog you visit, and your first reaction will be that you must have it too. Later, you will realize that you have 5 plug-ins doing the exact same function.

10^th Law: You have not officially “arrived” on the blogging scene until you create a post made up strictly of a numbered  list.

1^st Amendment:  You will soon realize that the world has too many bloggers so no one cares, and if you are doing this for attention instead of your own growth and satisfaction, you have chosen poorly.

Go ahead, please tell me what I am missing.

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