Top 6 Things I’ve Learned in a Year of Blogging | Part 1

Posted on November 17 by Jennifer Avventura

It’s hard to believe that one year has passed since I began writing My Sardinian Life | La Mia Vita Sarda. I never thought I would actually write things that people would read, and I never thought I had the courage to publish what I’ve written.

My first blog post was written one year ago today. It’s a simple post on how everything, I mean everything in Sardinia happens domani, tomorrow. Things still happen domani, even after a year. You can’t change a culture, but you can change yourself.

I started My Sardinian Life | La Mia Vita Sarda with no set goals in mind. I’ve been a writer my entire life, but my writings were always kept private. It was time to come out of the closet and announce to the world that I, Jennifer Avventura am a writer.

Here is a list of the Top 6 things I’ve learned in the past year of blogging. Continue reading →

Writer’s Block Overload | Photo Post

Posted on November 15 by Jennifer Avventura

I’ve been a lazy blogger, I think. But I’ve been busy studying the ropes in this sphere called blogging. There is so much to learn that it’s exhausting at the best of times. I thought I could just come into the blogging world, write some pieces and fame would fall upon me.

Well the fame part didn’t happen … yet (crossing fingers, toes and eyes.) I have written over one hundred posts in the space of twelve months, but I feel it’s not enough when I look at other more prominent bloggers.

I’m writing some pieces, putting final touches on other articles and reading all I can about owning your own blog. There is a ton of information to take in for those in the beginning stages of blogging. Every day is a learning experience.

Did you know that My Sardinian Life will be one year old this week! That’s right folks, I’ve been blogging, writing and commenting my way though thousands of blogs in the last year. And I’ve had a blast doing so.

To tide you folks over for a few days while I try to finish some articles (I’ve never been good with deadlines, and knowing that I’m writing a guest post, makes me nervous as heck, I want it to be perfect) here are a few photos from this past weekend.

Cala Calboni

Historic Aragonese Tower of Isola Rossa

No one is holding me down to write, nor am I being held captive by my keyboard. Writing is something I want to do, something I crave to do, something I love to do.

At times I find myself in a deep black hole trying to climb the writer’s block out. I can’t come up with killer headlines or any headline at all, or the first paragraph should be the last and maybe this photo isn’t the best choice and it’s possible that I’ve gotten myself so far in that there is no other way out but to write. Write anything.

How do you kill writers block?

Blogging Awards Bountiful

Posted on September 26 by Jennifer Avventura

These last few days at My Sardinian Life | La Mia Vita Sarda have been busy ones. I was awarded with The Liebster Blog Award on September 22nd, and just yesterday I was awarded with The Versatile Blogger Award by sami116 over at The Embarrassment. This is My Sardinian Life’s second Versatile Award and I appreciate the effort The Embarrassment took into adding me on their list of great blogs.

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La Avventura is Versatile

Posted on April 1 by Jennifer Avventura

That’s right folks. La Avventura has been given the honor of VERSATILE BLOGGER. La Avventura has only been blogging for five months; so it is with great pleasure to receive this award from The Hook – The Book of Terrible.

And now it’s my turn to pass the baton to seven glorious bloggers that I have followed in the past five months. In no particular order of importance, the baton goes to.

White Girl In Black Face – Have you ever dreamed of being the underdog?
Haikugirl’s Japan – Ever wanted to go to Japan but couldn’t? Be an arm-chair traveler through her blog. Very informative.
grrrl style. – A 15yr old feminist who is destined to become a music journalist.
The CHASE Project – An inspiring woman who lives life to the fullest. And she’s just completed her first marathon. Kudos.
Not From Around Here – Follow the adventures of an American living and working in England.
JetHead – “The World from 30,000 feet at 500mph”. He’s a pilot, a captain and an English teacher. Get over your fear of flying or planes by reading his blog.
Life in Bloom – With a passion to service those less fortunate, this blogger has volunteered in the Gulf Coast after hurricane Katrina as well as in Haiti and Nicaragua.

Seven things you didn’t know about La Avventura:

I have taken karate, thai-kick boxing, boxing and jujitsu.
I danced lyric jazz professionally for fifteen years.
I played soccer with my local soccer club for fifteen years.
I broke my tibia playing soccer as I scored the winning goal.
I have three tattoos.
Guinness is my favorite beer.
My three nieces are my light.

Blog Surfing One Peace At A Time

Posted on March 16 by Jennifer Avventura

WordPress and writing have been but a distant memory this past week. And now I’m back with a brand new attitude. I’ve found with blogging (what do I really know? I’ve been blogging for only a few months) that if you want readers, you need to be a reader. It’s also VERY important to comment on the blogs you’ve read. I want to know who my readers are and am pleased as punch when they gift me with a comment. With writing and WordPress, there is homework. If you want traffic, you will need to put in the time to direct them down your street.

This post will highlight some of my favorite blogs, right here on WordPress. I’m a subscriber to these blogs for a reason and I hope you find some value in each one. Have fun.

Follow the wonderful and wicked adventures of Gaia and companions travel the world. http://wanderinggaia.com/
Because everyone should know. http://unkeptwoman.wordpress.com/
A Divorce Brick? For Wonderful wit and humour. http://mikaleebyerman.wordpress.com/
A great blogger who keeps me reading. http://unsanityfiles.wordpress.com/

Did you know that WordPress has this really cool tool called the Readomattic. It’s in your dashboard. Click it to discover the most recent posts on WordPress. I’ve found some amazing blogs. The following are ones I’m discovering now, in this moment.