Sharon Hurley Hall is a freelance writer and ghostwriter who has worked in writing for 20 years. Sharon specializes in writing about writing, but she has also written on parenting, education, youth work, web development, business, finance and the metals industry and has reviewed books, films and software. She has written informational articles, sales and marketing copy, blogs, ebooks, children's stories, short stories and poetry and has designed books and magazines. Sharon is a nomad who has lived in England, France and the Caribbean. She holds an MA in Media and Culture and an MA in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from Coventry University.

Sharon blogs on freelance writing at GetPaidToWrite and shares her creative writing in her Writing Lab.

My passion is ...

Reading

I know too much about ...

UK finance

My parents always told me ...

Learn well

My childhood ambition ...

To be an architect

My favorite memory ...

My sister dressed up as a flower for a school performance

Why I write ...

Because I love it

My first job ...

Working in a bookstore

My best moment ...

Hard to choose - getting engaged, getting married, holding my child for the first time

My inspiration ...

Anyone who has achieved their dream

Arts & Humanities > Internet Writing & Blogging How to start a blog

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The easiest way to start a blog is to let someone else host it for you. That means you don't have to mess around with code. Good options for this include Google's Blogger.com, where you can be up and running in less than five minutes. Although it has a bad name because of the number of splogs, it is still probably the quickest way to start your blog.

Another favourite is Wordpress, hosted at Wordpress.org. This is popular because it is easy to get started, and has hundreds of cool templates and useful plugins. If you like Firefox, then you're sure to like Wordpress.

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