Every blogger, as you probably noticed, writes in his/her own style, sometimes very different from everybody’s else, other times following a certain ‘trend’ but with pitches of originality here and there. In the end, every voice comes out in a unique and hardly reproduceable style.
I will assume that you have blogged already, as I wouldn’t see a reason for a complete newbie to start blogging with the added ‘difficulty’ of pretending to be someone else (a Character), aka role-playing. In your blogging experience, you have been through times when you blog in more a ‘chatspeak-like’ style, and other times when you posted longer, more grammarly corrected and somewhat ‘literacy’ entries. Now, you will want your Character to be like you in his/her entries, but I would strongly suggest that you make your Character’s writing style somewhat different than yours. That is to avoid identity clashes; i.e. you may risk to start blogging about yourself while writing in your Character’s shoes. Setting up some differences will help avoid this kind of mistake.
In my previous article I mentioned rating and I suggested to make your Character’s writing no upper than PG-17, mainly because of the majority of readers being pre-teens or teenagers. There is also another reason: finding a free host when you are going to write about adult themes might become a challenge. Also, if your Character is aged between 10-15, it might seem awkward to make him/her blog about adult themes.
Another thing you should think of at this stage is how detailed you should make your Character’s entries. It’s good to make him/her write about his/her life, but you should decide before hand whether you should have him/her type every single detail of the daily adventure, or just his/her feelings with a summary of the events, because you should make your best to stick to that style, unless you have your Character blogging in a rush, and of course that eventuality will explain itself.