Writing a good Blog!

It’s always a good idea to remember that Face to Faith is your chance to teach other people around the world about your life and experiences! Part of the purpose of this site is to give you a voice that be heard around the world about the things that are important to you – so don’t waste the opportunity.

It doesn’t matter how long your blogs are; what’s important is that it is worth reading, and will show people the important ideas, strong feelings, powerful beliefs and key experiences that have made up your lives.

Please make sure that you always use your own words.  Material copied from elsewhere on the internet will be removed. 

What shall I write about?

Well, anything that is worth doing – so good topics might include –

• Your experiences of videoconferences.
• Descriptions of important things in your lives –
• The celebration of festivals (how do you and your family celebrate?)
• Visits to special places (particularly places of worship and pilgrimage)
• Family events (how do your family welcome new babies or celebrate weddings?)

Remember:

• That your readers may not know anything about your culture or faith, so put in lots of detail and explanations.
• To add photos and videos to show people what you are writing about.
• To include your own feelings (and possibly those of others that you’ve talked to) – make it personal! (A really good guideline is to think – “is this something that someone could find out from reading a book?” if not, you’re on the right lines)

Read proactively.

• When you read other people’s blogs make sure that you “favourite” the ones that you think are really good, so they become popular.  
• Write comments – praise what they’ve done, but ask for more detail as well – use them as the basis for starting discussions. If someone is writing about something that is interesting to you, then ask them for more!

For more suggestions on writing blogs, and adding pictures and videos, see our Youtube Channel;

http://www.youtube.com/user/Face2FaithAdm