I have the great honour of being nominated for this award by the wonderful Laleh Chini of A Voice from Iran, whose blog is absolutely marvellous. She tells the most excellent short stories which have so much heart. I always look out for her posts in my e-mail inbox because I know it will always be a great read. If you don’t believe me, check out her blog here:
https://avoicefromiran.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/blogger-recognition-award-nominations/
The Rules
1. Thank the blogger that nominated you. – Thank you Laleh, Much appreciated 🙂
2. Write a post to show your award. – Here you go
3. Give a brief story of how your blog started. – OK
4. Give two pieces of advice to new bloggers. – OK
5. Select 15 other bloggers you want to give this award to. – This is where I’ll become a rule breaker.
6. Comment on each blog and let them know you have nominated them and provide the link to the post you created.
How my Blog Started.
Well, I have written about this before, see here:
To summarize.
- Always loved writing
- Did a creative writing course that was like throwing petrol on the fire of my creativity
- Saw a link to WordPress
- Started Blogging
- Loved every minute of it.
Advice
Well, I am no expert. I don’t really know what I am doing and I am not the type to plan things in advance. I just wanted somewhere to put all the stories and poems that I had floating around in my head. This seemed the best way to do it. I am just grateful that people have stopped by my blog, read what I have done and liked it and left helpful comments. There is plenty of advice out there about how to build up your blog, but two things I will say is:
- The key is to write about something you love.
- If it starts to become a chore then take a break.
My Nominees:
There are so many wonderful blogs out there that I enjoy reading, quite a few have decided to become non-award sites
Like Denny at
https://theceaselessreaderwrites.wordpress.com/
and
Granonine at
https://lindaswritingblog.wordpress.com/
And others I can mention like, The Haunted Wordsmith, Crushed Caramel, Bitchin’ in the Kitchen, A Guy Called Bloke, The Floating Thoughts, Novus Lectio, Esther Chilton, Melanie B Cee, Kristian at Life Lessons from Around the Dinner Table, Cyranny’s Cove and Dee Kelly from Thriving not Surviving, to name but a few.
I also don’t want this to become a burden to anyone.
Basically, If you read my posts, and you want to take part in this award, particularly if you haven’t done it before, then YOU ARE NOMINATED.
🙂
Thank you and have a nice rest of your Sunday,
Tales from the mind of Kristian 