Aug 12, 2016 / First Friday

First Friday

New blogger? Welcome! Share a link to your first post, say hello to some other new faces, and find your first few readers.

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If you’re not new and are looking for support or feedback, the Community Pool is the place for you!

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To find, copy, and paste your link:
Head to your blog’s home page — not your dashboard, your blog itself. Click on the title of your post to open the individual post.

Highlight and copy the URL you see in your browser’s address bar, and paste the entire URL into a comment here.

Welcome to First Friday, a weekly open thread where any new blogger can share a link to his or her very first post with the larger WordPress.com community. To share your first post with us, copy and paste the link right into a comment here. (If you’re not new, you can still be a part of First Fridays: visit a link or two, and leave the blogger a like or comment!)

Please don’t use this as a space to share your first post…. that you published three years ago; ditto for simply sharing your latest post. Posts should have been published within the last month, and should be your first post. We’ll remove other posts to keep this space focused for new bloggers.

We ask that you help us keep this space focused by following a few additional guidelines:

  • We encourage anyone who shares a link to visit a few other bloggers. New readers for all!
  • When commenting, the third time is not the charm: don’t share the same link repeatedly, or in multiple First Friday threads. We’ll remove repeat posts.
  • Link directly to your new post, rather than to your blog generally — it makes it that much easier for folks to like the post or leave you comments.
  • Avoid repeated “Follow for a follow!” comments. (Tip: if you’re trying to build a readership, it’s much more effective to visit and comment on individual bloggers.)
  • To keep from losing your place while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on links to open them in a new tab or window.
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    1. hi! when i started reading, the first thing i noticed was the spacing between paragraphs. you might want to do something about it since right now it kind of looks daunting to read (but maybe that’s just me). and your border is probably too thick, can be distracting. the story seems interesting, btw! 🙂

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  12. Check out my blog and give me your feedback via comments ! I’ll check yours and comment back

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  16. I’ve been meaning to start a travel blog for a few years now and have a backlog of posts I need to write about different places I’ve been. I’m hoping my posts might help others planning a trip away as I always find reading other people’s experiences useful. Here is my first post about a trip I’ve just returned from

    Croatia

    comments appreciated 🙂

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  27. Hello, everyone! I’m not a new writer but I am new to blogging. My blog is an online revival of a weekly column I wrote when I was editor of a small-town weekly newspaper for several years. I wrote about whatever struck my fancy, and I got a lot of positive feedback from the community. I have many interests and expect I’ll get a feel as I go for how to narrow my focus and target specific audiences. But for now, I’ll write from personal experience and/or observation on topics that will probably include stories about family/extended family, living the single life, late in life career changes, music, rural life, individual and corporate worship, and more. Here’s my introductory post. Enjoy! https://bemusings.net/2016/08/14/the-return-of-bemusings-its-about-time-dont-you-think/

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