4. Aren't challenges and issues the same thing?
Challenges and issues can be similarly the same concept, however for the sake of my blogging I am looking at challenges as the personal problems I face in being a travel journalist/blogger and issues as the problems I face from feedback on my content.
Creating a blog is no simple task. I have to decide on a layout, what my content will focus on, what main audiences I will target, how I will defend myself when audiences target me, and what ways I need to speak in order for my audience to understand me. And that isn't even all of it.
Though, some more in-depth challenges I might face in blogging as a travel journalist can include not keeping up with my posts (updating my audience), gaining a good following, and keeping my content more interesting apart from all the other travel journalist/bloggers.
In, "Psychology of Blogs (Weblogs): 2002," Dr. Grohol discusses that if blogs aren't kept up, they lose a following and are forgotten, "Blogs simply don't work when the author isn't committed to maintaining them regularly in a qualitative way." I fear that as a travel writer, I will often be traveling and not have time to keep my content fresh and up to date. My followers might be expecting those pictures from Morocco and not be getting them. Therefore, they could not revisit my blog and dis credit me as a travel journalist.
Sources: Grohol, John M., Psy.D. "Psychology of Weblogs: 2002." Psych Central. N.p., 23 May 2002. Web. 16 Mar. 2014.