I finally decided to start a blog. I have been contemplating the idea for quite some time, but every time I got as far as the blogger.com sign up, I felt a little wave of uncertainty wash over me. In order to diagnose my cold sweats, I did what any normal person would do. I googled it. Unfortunately Mayo Clinic didn't recognize my symptoms, but I finally came to a diagnosis. And then I discovered the just the medicine for my fear of public over-sharing:
Blogophobia Conquered
This 88-page book is a must-have to every blogger or wannabe blogger. Each chapter addresses a different blogging phobia.
- Technophobia: I'm technically challenged
- Decidophobia: I'm not sure I need a blog
- Scriptophobia: I'm afraid my writing skills aren't strong enough
- Formatophobia: I don't know how to format blog articles
- Socialphobia: I'm worried about the attack of psycho commentators
- Borophobia: I'm thinking nobody but my grandma will read my blog
- Addictophobia: I'm terrified I'll get addicted to blogging
First of all, no, i didn't make this up. Here is a picture to prove it.
Second, it helped me in a different way than you might expect.
Although I have experienced every one of those fears in about the last 63 seconds, I actually figured if someone could get something this ridiculous actually put into print, then what the heck. I might as well put my decidophobia aside and give self-publishing a shot.
