Learn to Blog With Find Your Blogging Spark
Find Your Blogging Spark is an 8-module self-directed online course for beginner and experienced bloggers
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I believe that with the vital ingredients of confidence, courage and curiosity, you can build a blog that takes you places, a blog that’s true to the raw and unpolished roots of blogging, and one that makes your life better.
For many would-be writers, the greatest obstacle to blogging success is perfectionism, shame, and an undervaluing of one’s own voice and ideas—all of which are born from cultural expectations that conspire to keep women small and quiet, struggling to fit our lives and stories into impossibly limited containers that were never designed to hold the reality of our lives.
So let’s bust out of those tiny boxes and build our own containers.
Who am I?
I’m Kerry Clare, and I provide online courses and consultation to bloggers (aspiring and otherwise), artists, writers, and entrepreneurs who are seeking direction in creating fun and fulfilling blogs that don’t just fit their lives, but even make life richer.
Because blogging is all about blazing a trail and breaking the rules, my job is to help you resist the tiny/tidy boxes and find your own way toward a sustainable blog that not only showcases your business or creative work, but where you can find the confidence to use your voice and explore new ideas while challenging the toxic tone of online discourse with nuance, thoughtfulness and curiosity (i.e. your own small corner of the internet is going to make the world a better place).
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Twenty Years of Blogging Experience
I have twenty years experience as a blogger, and have blogging about books and reading since 2007 at my popular online literary blog, Pickle Me This.
From 2011-2015, I taught a blogging course at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and I also teach blogging workshops at literary festivals and training sessions throughout Ontario. And now with this new online program, I’m excited to apply what I’ve learned from nearly twenty years of blogging and from my experience as a blogging instructor to help you create the blog you’ve been dreaming of by empowering you to find and follow your own voice, to pursue your own curious avenues.
This way you don’t get caught up in those small and limited cookie-cutter templates of what a blog should be, or the way a person ought to exist on the internet, and can build an online space instead that is your own unique creation, as original and wonder-full as you are.
Getting Started With Find Your Blogging Spark
What you need to know:
- Course is online so that you can study at Blog School from wherever you are
- 8 self-directed modules so you can learn at your own pace and convenience. (A general guideline is that you work through one module per week)
- Each module includes a writing exercise to generate ideas for future blog posts
- Each module features a writing assignment so that you will complete the course having 7 new blog posts published
- Modules are structured as blog posts so you can get comfortable engaging with the blog format within the course itself
- Each module comes with optional further reading to inspire you with the work of other bloggers and creative people.
- Check in upon course completion so you can keep building on your momentum
Cost: $200.00 CDN
You can build a blog that takes you places, a blog that really fits your life and makes it richer.
Let’s work together to build a better world online—and even beyond it.
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What students are saying about my blogging courses:
I want to take a moment to somehow stitch into words my gratitude for this experience. It’s beyond the encouragement of why to blog, but it’s so much more than that. It’s confidence, it’s permission, it’s encouragement, its community, it’s love. —N.
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Blog School was enriching in all sorts of ways. I no longer think of my blog as something I “really should do once I get it figured out” but as something that can grow and learn alongside me, in all kinds of wonderful and weird ways. Honestly, sitting down to write my posts has become the most enjoyable part of my week, and I put it all down to the courageous, kind, and just pure FUN approach to blogging that I learned from Kerry.
P.S. Oh, and if you want to stick it to the capitalist patriarchy, this is a great place to start! —Lindsay Hobbs
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“Check out the Blog School offerings. Kerry Clare is a multi talent wonder. Without the weekly deadlines and the incredibly helpful feedback and guidance, I would have continued to only think about fleshing out my web site with a blog. It seemed unwieldy. Now it seems simple. Miraculously, I’ve overcome my fear of technology and figuring out Divi Builder and WordPress.” —Christy Ann Conlin
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Do you already have a blog but want a new approach to it that feels fresh and exciting? Then Find Your Blogging Spark is for you!
And if you’re brand new to blogging, the course is a great place to get your start.
Prerequisites:
Curiosity, a sense of fun and wonder, a desire to learn and explore. Oh, and you need a blog. (Don’t have a blog yet? Sign up for a free one at WordPress or Blogger.)
Course Outline:
- Module One: A Letter to the World
What’s a blog? What are blogs like? And why a blog at all?
- Module Two: The Advantages of Being Lost
The details of starting a blog, and finding your focus
- Module Three: Take the Reader by the Hand and Show Them What You Love
More on finding a focus and what to write about
- Module Four: On Using the Ingredients You Have at Home
More thinking of what to write about, finding time to write
- Module Five: On Blogging Like No One is Reading
Finding an audience. “Why would anyone care what I have to say, anyway?”
- Module Six: The Gifts of Imperfection
Stop polishing and publish that post! And how blogging taught me more than Brene Brown ever did
- Module Seven: Why a Blog Is Not a Hustle
In praise of slow blogging, immediacy, and why monetize means compromise
- Module Eight: The Future of Blogs Starts Now
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”