Gray Nomad,  gray with an a for active seniors lifestyle.
 
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I am heading to bed early (for me), tonight because tomorrow, I finally get to meet Tina, the author of Tina Gray {dot} Me  Experiencing life at several WTF's per minute! ~ Blogging about family, home, health, photography, shopping and more.

My friend Tina, is one of the best of bloggers J.  I am looking forward to our meeting and lol, I forbade my husband from adding garlic to the evening meal he cooked tonight, I didn’t want to have to head to the chemist for bad breath treatments on our way to visit Tina  and family.

How I started Blogging .

I met Tina on a forum, long before we were facebook friends.  At that stage I was not even blogging, was not sure what a blog was. I had done some writing and had been a reporter, then an editor for two small newspapers  and had a few self help booklets published, won one poetry competition in the Argus Newspaper as a child and a writing competition probably a decade ago, with a $500. value software package prize  and had been going around with my unwritten novel in my head for so long it had grown into 5 novels.

I was chatting to Tina one day and she mentioned about earning an income from blogging. At that stage, I was considering penning my novel.  I had done the plot draft and a few chapters and  I was starting to look around for publishers. At hearing, you could earn an income from blogging I immediately wanted to learn more as I wondered if I could somehow publish my novel over the internet, it seemed if you could earn money from an essay then a novel,  could be published on line and earn an income too.

 Tina and I began chatting more together,  she was an enormous help, to me and I would not be blogging today to the level I am now, without that start from Tina. I am earning an income from blogging, in less than a year from starting from scratch.

What I Gain by Blogging .

I did not begin blogging with the intentions of making my blogs earn a lot of money. I just hoped they would cover the cost of the internet connection service, the computer, the domain names and web hosting service. Then with these expenses paid, in what I hoped would then be a self finding hobby,  I could enjoy the creativity of blogging and be learning to develop the habit of writing 1,000 to 2,000 words a day while improving my writing skill. Then when I do sit down to write the novels, I will have the discipline  knowing how to time manage and balance my writing time with fitness activity and the improvement in my writers skill, acquired through practice, through my frequent blogging. 
Add to this, I just LOVE Blogging and would do it even  if I could not cover the expences as I am now well able to do. THANK YOU TINA :-) for helping me get started in blogging :-).

 
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Comments

Tina

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 2:07:50 pm

What a great way to start the day, reading this!:) Thank you so much for the mention. I'm so excited about finally being able to meet you today! So...saying that, I'd better get a move on otherwise I'll be turning up in my pj's!

 

Me

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 4:44:21 am

Love reading about how you got started - when I have the time I would like to make money from my blog - one day I'll get there !
Take care and lotsa hugs !

 

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