As I was making posts for my blog I had the mindset that I am just some random nerd sitting in my apartment blogging about my hobby.
Why should anyone pay any attention to the stuff I write or be interested in helping me create content?
Then a couple of weeks ago I was reading up on some game developer sites and I thought to myself that it would be really cool if I could make a post that was actually based on real interaction between me and a game developer, and not just me ranting monologue style.
So with no hope of getting a reply at all, I set about writing to a few game companies, sending out mails with a few relevant questions for their games and asking them if they could possibly take some time out to answer me.
Much to my surprise I actually got a response back the very next day from the "Orcs Must Die!" game developer "Robot Entertainment", where they answered my questions perfectly.
This resulted in a post on my blog and it was incredibly cool to be able to put something up that was actually coming from someone making the stuff that I was writing about.
I think this is a good lesson that you should not feel afraid to reach out to the creators of the subject matter that you are writing about.
Have a food blog?
Maybe you can ask your favorite chefs for a comment on a particular subject.
Maybe you won't get an answer, but then no harm done.
But maybe you *will* get something back and you will be able to post something that is based on feedback from a real authority on the matter.
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