Give your newer sisters and brothers-in-WordPress one piece of advice based on your experiences blogging.

If you’re a new blogger, what’s one question you’d like to ask other bloggers?

7th May, 2013 – this was my first attempt to tell you all about it.

Good morning everyone. My name is Mrs. Angloswiss and I am a Blogger.

(Claps and cheers of encouragement from the audience)

This is my first Blogger Anonymous meeting, so please excuse me if I am a little nervous.

It all began many years ago: out of boredom, out of a search for a purpose in my life? Who knows? I had a computer and decided to go places and do things. It was then I found my first blogging site, but there was only disappointment. No-one noticed I was there and I had no ideas of what to blog about. I was lost, in a maze of questions with no answers. I tried another place in this world of bloglessness, but with no success. There must be somewhere where people want to read what I have to say. I was searching in a desert of homeless words until, yes, I discovered the place where I now am.

(Mutters of sympathy from the audience. Some were drying their tears with a paper handkerchief, other wiping them away with a corner of their famous blogger web site t-shirts)

To continue, the fateful day arrived when I discovered something called a daily prompt telling me that “sharing is caring”. What could I share and where are the carers was my first thought, but I decided “what could possibly go wrong” and I did it. I began to write daily, regardless of what could happened and soon I discovered that I was not alone in my quest for likes and clicks. There were more of us, brothers and sisters on the same quest, we were one big happy family.

(Nods of appreciation and mentions of well done, we love you sister, we like you, halleluja)

To continue, I was happy and satisfied. I had found my purpose in life, or so I thought. They are small steps from liking and habit to addiction, brother and sister bloggers and I went through it all. My life was organised according to the time of the arrival of the daily prompt. My iPhone was programmed and I would despair if I received a prompt and not know what to write. I am sure we have all experienced this symptom. Some call it writer’s block and others might give up, but we bloggers continue.

As we all know it is not a task of ignorance leading a blogger’s life and one day, when you least expect it, the repeat prompts will arrive. This is a test that might make or break you. You see the abandoned tiles on the  daily prompt pages of those bloggers that have departed, gone to the happy, or not so happy, hunting grounds of bloglessness.

One night the first dreams arrive. You awake covered in a cold sweat calling “give me a prompt”, “let me tell you all about it”. You are now in the throws of cold blogger, there is no nocturnal prompt (unless you live on the other side of the world), you must wait until daylight arrives. You arise and switch on your computer. Is there a like, did someone read my blog, what did the others have to say? Blogging is now taking over your life. Yes, beware, it will happen to all of us.

Eventually the fateful day will arise when you notice the same prompt has arrived, not just once, perhaps twice and even thrice. You want to ignore it, but cannot. Your blogging fans are waiting. Yes you have acquired a sense of responsibility to the others, and so you continue.

Is there a cure? You can leave it of course but not only do you then have withdrawal symptoms, but your computer, and so you continue.

My advice is carry on regardless, do not let them win, you can do it. I rest my case

(Cheers, claps and roses being thrown to the speaker on the stage. There is a bright light descending from above, encircling the confessing blogger and choir voices can be heard singing in unison)

And another meeting of Bloggers Anonymous comes to an end.

Daily Prompt: Key Takeaway: Bloggers Anonymous