What Makes a Good Blog?
I gave this its own entry because I was leaning towards doing so before Ralphie even commented…thanks for the push.
I have been thinking about BlogHer ‘06 a lot lately. I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to wear, which I’ll admit right now is extremely high school of me, but more importantly I’ve been thinking about my writing. The thing is, I have a hard time seeing it the way others see it, and the more I try to edit, the more confused I get. This edit-frenzy creates a kind of echo effect where I lose track of things I’ve already said, I start mercilessly hacking away at my posts after I’ve already hit “save” and I start getting kind of cranky. By the end I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing, even though I’ve been doing this blogging thing in one form or another for seven or eight years already. Is my writing getting better? Worse? Is it completely boring? I have no idea. I know a lot of you are going to say “don’t edit–just be yourself.” But that is so much easier said than done. Seriously, if I didn’t edit…I wouldn’t even bother having a blog. If I were a musician, I’d not only have the letters written on the keys I’d make sure I lived on the first floor so I couldn’t push the piano out the window.
Saige inherited this anal retentive, perfectionist streak, by the way. She wants to do it right, do it right the first time, and do it all by herself. It’s hard to do all of those things at at thiry-one let alone three. That kid is going to have a tough life.
So. What do YOU think the key to good writing, a good blog, and/or a good cappucino is?
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Links:
How digital are you? (I got 139, though I’ll admit I cheated on the Bluetooth question. Bruce got 80)
What’s your personal DNA?
You knit what??
DaddyTypes is my hero. HE FOUND THE BIKE! Now how the hell do you order one?
That blog post could have been 4 different posts and could have been chopped by about 50% ty\ext-wise. Boom. For what it’s worth. I’m a bit of a hypocrite there — I talk AND write WAY too much, but never no mind. We’re all hypocrites; it’s just a matter of degree.
Think of each blog post as a paragraph. New idea or them? New post.
:: PILLS
:: DOCTOR’S APPOINTMENT
:: A FAVOR FROM MY READERS
:: LINKS
BOOM
“Don’t edit–just be yourself.”?!? Sounds to me like you want to grow, so editing and learning is a part of yourself.
Any way, I think we’re not done with this… Cheers!
Raphie
P.S. Seems the technology is going to turn this all into one paragraph! Ah, c’est la vie.