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Having become a blogger, I was surprised to find myself interested in such a thing as writing. I came to believe that inside every blogger there is a writer.

When you come to think of it, a blog entry is like a story in many ways. As a blog author first of all I have to form an idea of what I'm going to write about, then develop it, trying to keep my entry quite short. Like a story, a blog entry has to have its readers, without whom it can't be complete and whose comments add very much to its appeal.

Therefore, in order to develop one's mastership as a blogger, one can learn both from successful bloggers and writers. Having come to this conclusion, I started to search the web.

It was definitely my day! I came across very useful tips from a full-time blogger and part-time freelance writer. Here is what Razib Ahmed writes about himself: "I started my career as a University teacher of English language but then I realized that I wanted to be a writer. In the end, I became a professional blogger." In his blog www.blogging37.com the author describes his 7,5-year-old blogging experience. Despite the fact that the blog is not being updated now, it is definitely worth a visit.

I'm also happy to have come across a wonderful blog How to Write a Short Story by Deborah Nelson containing short story lessons for the beginning writer. What I like about her blog is that the author keeps her entries short and up to the point. One can find there the essentials of writing, without any "water". I'm very sorry that the author doesn't seem to update her blog any more. If she did, I'd be happy to subscribe to it.

Surfing through other blogs held in store another surprise for me. Thanks to this entry on Eden Glenn's Blog, I found out that a story is the core of one's future novel. By the way, the post made many things clear to me. I learned the difference between the plot, the theme and the story itself. What's more I got acquainted with a very useful exercise of describing a story in 25 words or less. Well, I haven't actually thought of writing a novel.But after reading such a post a small hope began to creep into my mind: and why not, after all?