So You Want to Write a Blog by Emily Finkelstein So you want to write a blog. Who doesn't? Waiters are getting book deals, flight attendants are writing screenplays, call girls are starring in television series, and Julia Child fans are making films with Meryl Streep. Never mind that plaxoed was fired from Google and a congressman sued The Washingtonienne . You have something to say and you want to share it with the world. Your stories will be published in literary anthologies, the Canadian Authors Association will invite you to give seminars and workshops on blogging, local businesses will commission articles from you, you will be awarded a government grant to write a book based on your blogs, and your book editor will commission from you a blog about blogging entitled, "So You Want to Write a Blog." Oh wait, that's my story. I started Dance Diary in September 2008. Since then I have posted stories about my life every two weeks and accumulated just under 10,000 hits on my site. 10,000 hits! That was my first surprise. I started the blog to keep my friends and family updated on the wild shenanigans that went on at ballet school. Turns out, a lot of strangers were curious too, because I can assure you I do not have 10,000 friends or relatives. The second surprise was that other writers were interested in my work. In 2009 one of my blog posts, "Falling From Grace," was published in Volume One of