General Discussions

**Logan Graham** · 10-11-2009, 03:02 PM

I will be starting a new blog about students and life (because I am one, and I have one). I want to be prepared though, so I've set a goal of writing 20 articles before publishing them on my blog.

Should I start my blog now (or, when I have an idea for a name)? Or should I wait until I collect a lot of articles?

P.S. - Names would help very much. Keywords for ideas:

Students, tips, study, school, life, help, guide, hacks, ideas, fun

**serandfae** · 10-11-2009, 03:25 PM

I think about 5 would be good to start with, and keep working on the rest to add to it.

Think about your target audience and what you want the blog to have in look and feel, start thinking about themes, whether you use a premade one, modify one or make your own. Titles tend to come once you've gotten the ball rolling, and you can change it later.

tim

**chrishirst** · 10-11-2009, 03:30 PM

Forget the keyword name garbage it doesn't work like that, names should be memorable or catchy.

If I were you, I would employ a sense of humour to the name and call it ...

Logan Joshing

I'll explain the humour

Rogan Josh being a curry (Curry being the staple diet of many of the students that I know)
Joshing is a word meaning to engage in banter
Logan being your first name.

apply a little lateral thinking and hey presto!

**Logan Graham** · 10-11-2009, 05:06 PM

Thanks Chris. I shall try to think longitudinally (I mean laterally).

**serandfae** · 10-11-2009, 07:06 PM

How about simply:

BLAUUUUUUGH!!! (or, How "Blog" Ought To Be Spelled)

A Personal Account of How I've Survived Until Now

tim

**Scarthingwell** · 10-12-2009, 07:10 AM

I would start now. Typical student, put off until the last minute, lots of excuses why not to do it now. If you don't start you'll always find another excuse not to get going.

Once you do start ideas should start to flow more and you should begin to get some responses. If you wait for your 20 articles you may find after the first five you are going in the wrong direction.

**verstyle** · 10-12-2009, 11:15 AM

Yup this a very good idea. And you are personally a student so you can manage it very well. My all best wishes are with you.

**Logan Graham** · 10-12-2009, 12:04 PM

Hey Guys,

Thanks so much for your help. @Scarthing - I've done about 6 articles now, so I just need to think of a domain name (harder than you think). So far, I've got:

SurvivingSchool.com
Itsastudentlife.com
SchoolSurvivor.com
TheStudentPlace.com

(Many thanks to Corey Freeman over at Writer7 for some lovely domains)

**Goldenboy** · 10-13-2009, 03:13 AM

Yup, This ideas looking very effective and useful to you and you can mangae with yourself.

**gimmie** · 10-14-2009, 05:20 AM

IMO, start right now, and keep on adding new content, but, don't add one article, and then post anther one until one months later!

It will be better if u have already got some stock of great articles!