On starting a blog

About a year ago, someone asked me for advice on starting their own blog in the comments section of Classic-Horror.com (specifically in a post related to the closing of said website, so maybe not the best source for advice).

I ran across my reply today while doing some comment maintenance and I thought it was not terrible. I couldn't stick to it for the life of me, but it's good advice.

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I am nearly 100% certain that *some* of that was accidentally paraphrased Neil Gaiman advice (beyond the part that was quoted and on purpose). So, um, credit to Neil Gaiman for the Gaiman-y bits.