gone are the days when blogs were just an outlet to dump chronicles of heartbreak success and rants the idea has evolved and blogging has now become a powerful and significant medium to share news opinions and experiences chennaiittes are now using blogs for a plethora of activities a group of housewives in chennai often met for kitty parties on weekends but ended up discussing and trying out new recipes in the kitchen one of them decided to document these ideas thus a blog that provided its readers with new experimental recipes was created ritika venkat the brain behind the blog informs how the blog has gained popularity among readers in every age group since they wanted to break away from the conventional idea of just putting up recipes on their blog the challenge was to come up with something new one day while watching the movie julie julia the idea of arecipeaday stuck me i discussed it with my friends and we decided to take the plunge we kept our readers hooked for a year with easytomake recipes and got an overwhelming feedback in fact after the first three months we were flooded with mails and responses that gave us strength to carry on says venkat while ritika and her friends are basking in their newfound fame online 18year old vinayak sridhar who is pursuing his undergraduate course in literature made the city proud in an international fiction writing competition vinayak loves to pen short stories and essays recently he entered a fiction writers competition online that is hosted by the australian fiction writers guild annually one of his horror stories was recently selected by the guild online as the most spectacular story both thrilled and proud about the achievement he says this has encouraged him to blog more i want to become an author i am already working on my first book of short stories so when one of those stories was selected by this guild i was ecstatic informs sridhar travelogues are pass and if you want your travel blog to gain popularity you could follow travel enthusiast nakul dsouzas footsteps the 25yearold techie who has been touring the country on his bike puts his experience in the form of a story and also hosts interesting quizzes based on the places he travels to he believes that to get noticed in the world of travel bloggers one needs to think outofthebox no one wants to read where you travelled to and what you ate any more to grab readers attention i decided to weave a story around my experiences it demands a lot of creativity but i love spending time in weaving these tales says the biker who dreams to turning his blog into a book some day