I've seen you recently answered a couple of people's requests by recommending they start their own free use blog, and it's made me consider actually doing just that. Do you have any advice on getting started?

The queue is your best friend. When you have time to write several captions/stories, you can set them up to automatically post one a day and then when you need a breather or your life gets busy, your readers are still getting new content.

Make sure to tag your posts and remember, only the first five (I think) get into the tag search results (bringing in traffic), the rest are just for your own Tumblr page and organizing things.