livejournal newbie

It is a great site, but can be difficult to use. Good luck! More friendly sites are Archive of our own, tumblr and fanfiction, depending on how you want to use it

Heya! I was reading manga on my mobile, but I went to my laptop just to write this, lol. Disregard if you must.

I have two livejournals: one for fandom purposes and another is a private journal where I blog about my dreams (which are crazy and interesting). I believe blogs are mainly about life and the owner's opinions, almost like a diary. Depends on how professional you want to make it. Making your blog focused can be useful. Write about your hobbies. Take a picture of your food and describe it everyday. ETC. Blogs can be about anything.

Since you're asking for help on a manga site, perhaps you should make your blog a review blog. Read a chapter of a manga or an entire manga, a oneshot or etc. Write a review on it.

I'm not sure what requirements you must meet though so this is the only thing I can suggest. Good luck!

Livejournal is simple to use so I believe it's easy for bloggers. :)

thank you very much for the tip (●'◡'●)ﾉ

thank you very much for this (≧∀≦) though i think im going to have a hard time managing a blog hope you can tell me more (๑•ㅂ•)و✧ about this kind of stuff

I'm not much of a consistent blogger myself and I wouldn't say I'm too adept at it, although if you still want my help I can give it. I don't know what the requirements for your course is.

The reason I think writing reviews are easier because you don't have to tell too much about your private life. In this case you would develop a criteria to review a given work or etc (song, movie, drama, book, anime, manga, stage play, games, food, restaurant), give a summary and your opinions, give a rating and done.

When you post your blogs can be at random when the desire to write strikes you, but if you want to be consistent give yourself a schedule. Do a blog post every day, every other day or every week. I don't think blogs are hard to manage. It just all depends on you and what you want to happen with it.

well...I have been using it for about 4 years. To tell you the truth, it can be quite boring for newbies. At first I just made an account & left it without posting any entries for 2 years. Than, I got into the habit of writing reviews & random posts about anime,manga,novel etc. Also, there were a lot of scanlation groups which required a certain amount of entries & comments posted for the member acceptance. Both these facts acted as a motivator for me to write more & more entries. And the more I wrote, the more I commented, the more I joined the communities - the more fun it became. It took me around 6 months - 1 year to finally get the hang of it. Now, I am really comfortable with it. I do occasionally leave my journal inactive for 1 month or 2 sometimes. But not more than that. I guess there are just too many BL that inspire me to write (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Anyways, if you ever open an LJ account, you can add me there. The link to my LJ is on my mangago profile here. Although you don't need to add me to read my entries. All my entries are public except the ones about my private life. OR you can also PM me here. I'll be glad to help you out.

Thank you very much for this (*^^)v I'll try the way you did and hope something will happen in my journal (≧∇≦)

Thanks I'll try this and do some reviews about stuff （⌒_⌒）

Livejournal, a requirement? As opposed to, say, Wordpress, which has a platform that easily supports transitions from amateur to professional status? This course isn't about professional writing, is it?

At any rate, Livejournal has committed a significant number of blunders over the past few years that caused it to hemorrhage members, especially after censoring communities like Pornish Pixies, Yaoi Daily and popular fan artists like Pondorosa, who fled in droves to Archive of Our Own, Dreamwidth, Tumblr and various other platforms. There are still a few warm spots left here and there, but it has none of the excitement that it did a decade ago.