Don’t lose your originality
Something that a lot of bloggers strive to achieve and in most many situations end up giving up on, is a little thing called originality.
There are two main ways to be original and keep the originality: Personality and Original Content. We’ll talk about both.
Personality
When starting a blog, most bloggers try to give it a “personal” touch, or to have a unique way of delivering content. One blogger that particular stood out to me in doing this is Jason at The University Kid.
He gives his posts a personal touch by talking directly to you, and steering clear of talking in third person about himself. This is something that looks professional at first, but can really become irritating to readers eventually.
In the same way, many bloggers make their blog original or personal by using techniques like these. But the problem is keeping the originality in there.
It’s not so tough throwing in personal touches, or a corny joke here and there 
, but eventually, if you don’t keep at it, your can lose your originality, and eventually lose your charm as a blogger, and your revenue, readers, and reputation may be lost.
Original Content
As is having personality in your blog, having original content is not hard at all; when starting out. After the first week or two, maybe a month, it will become extremely hard to have original content.
One of two things usually (and unfortunately) happens when you reach this point as a blogger.
- You get “stuck”, and give up blogging.
- You end up just reiterating what someone else has said.
When you do this, you end up killing your blog.
Don’t Give up!
But don’t give up friends, as that doesn’t have to be the end!
I’ve learned that you can do one thing to “spice” up your blog and content, and really keep that personal touch and originality to it, is to talk about unique viewpoints on something already brought out by a friend or blogger.
At some point, you are just not going to have something to write about that absolutely no one will have ever said, hinted to, or thought about for that matter. 
But you don’t need 100% unique content! I know you guys are going to trash me for it , but hear me out.
Like I said, you’ll have extreme difficulty at some point to find something totally unique to write about. But what you can do is this: Take a point, story, tip or anything else talked about by someone else, be it a blogger, friend, co-worker, etc.
Than what you do is take whatever it is, and revamp the meaning and the way it’s portrayed. What this means is take something someone says and either change the point or meaning of it, or take something said and then write about it from a different viewpoint. If someone looks at the grass from this side, write about it from the other side! You’ll get more buzz for contradicting/agreeing with another blogger, and people will just eat up the content and try and piece together each side.
I think that this is a great tip and I personally use it myself, and I hope you will too!
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