Want to Attract Attention? Use 'Autobiographical Essay' Technique

By far the most anguishing theme throughout the blogging world, especially with people who are just entering the realm, is how to get your story read and understood.

More than half of all bloggers have never really written anything substantial before now. The questions are typical: What do I write about? Where do I begin? Why is nobody reading my blog? What am I going to do?

By far the most critical point is: Draw from your own experience first. "Autobiographical essay," I call it, only don't worry about writing a whole essay. Just a little piece of it. Deal with your own experience.

Make no mistake: Every life is important, and every waking moment has with it experiences that might not seem important at all -- but they are very important in the wider scheme of things. Reading other bloggers' material also expands your own horizons.

My favorite blogs I read are from those who are not "professional writers." Spelling and sentence structure might be nonexistent but usually I can determine what this person is trying to get across. Vulnerability and innocence are exposed. A deep sense of happiness, deapair, and deep longing seem to seep through without the writer of the blog even realizing it. It is almost like someone's soul reaching out to touch someone else's.

But in this case, unlike idle chatter, the blog is there forever. Forever in cyberspace, as long as there is an Internet, a collective consciousness.

The main point to remember is that the Internet won't last forever. A cataclysm could wipe out our ability to share with one another in this fashion, so make the most out of it. Sure you can earn money, but first and foremost you can get your story out.

Your "autobiographical essay."

That's how Eminem got so big, for example. His film "8 Mile" and all his rap lyrics (his "blog" if you will) all deals with the angst of his white life amidst black Detroit, a difficult childhood with a single mom, living in a trailer, all of that. And we all know how that story was transformed into a massive show-business career. It is a prime example of an average story told by an expert storyteller.

So don't think your story will get lost. Thanks to blogging, it can join the rest of the known universe and be shared with us all.