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While I will not be blogging here regularly, I will be posting articles every now and then to create a collection of blogging tips for both myself and you, the reader(s), to refer to. This is not a serious project, as I've previously discovered that meta blogging really isn't for me, but I do enjoy writing articles on such things when
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Some common answers to this question are:
- "I like to write."
- "For fame."
- "To attract potential customers."
- "To document my life."
- "To meet new people."
- "To make money."

These are all good reasons to have a blog, but if you want to be a successful author, you need to keep your priorities in proper order.

If you are blogging for fame and fortune alone, you are most 
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