141: How to Create a Story Post [Challenge]

Challenge: Create a Story Post This is 4th challenge in ProBlogger’s 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off a couple of episodes ago. To recap - every day for the next week I’m going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create. My challenge is to create and publish that challenge - to join our ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook and to share your post on this thread and to check out the other posts others are submitting. Today your challenge is to publish a ‘story’ post. You can listen to this episode in the player above or look for episode 141 on iTunes. The challenge with stories is finding a way to tie into the rest of your blog and make them relevant and to ensure that they have some point to them that is useful to your readers on some level. In Today’s Episode 14 Types of Stories You Can Tell on Your Blog Personal Discovery Stories The #1 Reason My Blogging Grew Into a Business Stories as Analogies and Illustrations My Search for the Perfect Cafe [And What it Taught Me about Blogging] Success Stories How to Quit Your Job, Move to Paradise and Get Paid to Change the World Failure Stories How NOT to Send an Email: A Day We’d Rather Forget But a Story We Need to Tell Biography/Tell Someone Else’s Story Beginner Week – Katie180’s success story How I did it Stories $72,000 in E-Books in a Week – 8 Lessons I Learned Autobiographies Becoming a ProBlogger – A story in Many Parts Picture Stories Case Studies 12 Blogging Income Streams [And the Story of My 10 Year ‘Overnight’ Success] Fiction Reader Stories Collective Stories Imagine If…. Stories How to Craft a Blog Post – 10 Crucial Points to Pause A day in the life - Walk your readers through a typical day The Challenge: Create your story post - publish it Head to the ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook and share the link with us on this thread Check out some of the other reviews people have written. Comment, like, share Update: Here are the rest of the Challenges in the Blogging Groove Series Challenge 1: Create a List Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here. Challenge 2: Create a FAQ Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here. Challenge 3: Create a Review Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here. Challenge 4: Create a Story Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here. Challenge 5: Create a ‘How to’ Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here. Challenge 6: Create a Discussion Starter Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here. Challenge 7: Create a Link Post - Listen on iTunes here - Submit to the Facebook Group Here. Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hey there friends, it’s Darren from ProBlogger. Welcome to the fourth challenge in ProBlogger’s Seven Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back. This is Episode 141 of the ProBlogger Podcast. As I said, I'm Darren Rowse, the founder of ProBlogger, a blog that’s dedicated to helping bloggers to get the most out of their blogs to create blogs that change the world but also sustainable blogs, blogs that are profitable. We’re over halfway not through this seven day challenge, a challenge where I'm giving you a challenge everyday for seven days to create a piece of content that has a different style. Everyday I'm giving you a style of blog post to create and allowing you to choose the topic and then asking you to publish that challenge within twenty-four hours and share it over with us in the ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook. It’s been great to see so many hundreds of bloggers participating in this particular cha...