WSS Featured Blogger: Laura from Beauty of the Dream

Name: Laura
Blog: Beauty Of The Dream
Location: http://beautyofthedream.blogspot.com/ London, UK

1. How did you start blogging? Why do you keep at it?
I belong to an online writers group and read about the experiences of other writers with blogs. It took me a while to gain confidence (I had another blog that I scrapped completely for its sheer idiocy) but now, I find myself wanting to blog about everything. I keep at it because –as my mother constantly reminds me – I’m full of righteous indignation at the way people (especially women) are treated in our society.

2. What are your most important issues?
There is so much that bothers me in this world – poverty, discrimination and smoking are just three of the issues that really get me agitated. However, I think engagement in the political process is my most important issue – the only way to change things is to make sure that those in power know what we the people want and that good people run for office. It really concerns me that people don’t believe in voting anymore – especially women who had to fight so long and so hard for a chance to have our voices heard.

3. What's the nicest recognition you've ever received from the media and/or the blogosphere?
I love getting e-mails from people who say they like my writing or that something I’ve written has touched them. To know that my ideas and opinions are mattering to people – well, it’s a great ego boost.

4. Who is your audience? What is unique about your blog?
My audience is mostly women although I don’t write exclusively about women’s issues. As for uniqueness…I’m a young woman who is starting to feel comfortable in my own opinions. I’m very open to debate which I believe can strengthen and refine opinions.

5. Most frustrating aspect of blogging?
I’m greedy – I want more feedback!
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6. What's the one point you'd like a reader to take away from your blog- the one thing for them to really "get"?
I want my readers to get that even though the world sucks for a not small portion of the time, we’re not prisoners to all the bad stuff. We have the power to change things and to really create something beautiful – a free, fair, equal society where nobody is left behind and nobody suffers.

Quote: Aside from the Eleanor Roosevelt quote by blog title is a paraphrase of?<BLockquote>“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
- Robert F. Kennedy</Blockquote>

I'm a woman with strong opinions - check them out at http://beautyofthedream.blogspot.com/