Lessons Learned on My New Blogging Adventure

I actually decided to start a blog about three weeks before I started with this course. And even though I’ve put hours of work into the internal aspect of my blog for weeks now—crafting just the right header and images for the appearance, it didn’t look like much on the external side. Having to actually post a homework assignment, got me to stop being such a perfection and focus on what’s really important to a blog, content.

My blog is titled, I Want to Work for Vogue. To give a little background, I have a potential interview with Conde Nast, Vogue’s publisher and I needed a way to stand out. I mean this is Vogue! I’m competing with people who are more fashionable and connected for this job so I needed to carve out my own niche. I decided that I was going to blog about my journey trying to land a job at Vogue. This entails embarrassing, desperate stories of a lowly college student begging for a job, posts about a potential life in NYC and posting about my life here in Michigan. I want to make people laugh while also making them understand how badly I want this job.

People should read it because it follows me, an everyday Midwest girl, trying to pursue the biggest dream I’ve ever had. It will follow my path from life as a cheap college student living in East Lansing, Mich. to (hopefully) taking on New York City, working for my dream company and living the life I’ve dreamed of for so long.

In setting up my blog I have learned a few things. First off, there are so many more details that go into setting up a blog that aren’t visible from an outside perspective. So when creating my own blog, words that sound like they’re from Harry Potter, like widgets and readomattic have become part of my vocabulary. It has taken a while but I’ve been able to teach myself how to operate in Wordpress and that has provided a sense of accomplishment. Secondly, I’ve learned that before thinking about writing for my audience, I have to think about writing for myself. I've learned a lot by looking at my friend, Andrea Kerbuski's fashion blog called Blonde Bedhead. Kerbuski is always true to herself first then thinks about her audience. My blog is supposed to show the blogosphere who I am and if I’m too caught up in what others think my blog won’t reflect who I am.