…or things not to do while blogging.
Ok, this isn’t strictly things not to do, there are things that can be done as well in the list.
- Never blog in anger. – If you must rant, and at times you may decide that you have too, let your anger settle down first. You never want to have to go back and say ‘I really shouldn’t have said that, I can see that you might have taken it personally now, and you’re a person I would rather didn’t take that personally.’ Spend time, do the research. If you write something that could be taken personally, make sure that it’s the thing you want to have taken personally.
- Try to be creative and complimentary about things. – ‘Due to the high concentrations of energy in the supersized meals at various Scottish named fast food purvayors, the average american is now walking around with more stored energy than at any time in American history.’
- When being critical, come to the point, and don’t flower it up. – We’ve all seen them the movie review that just goes on and on about pretty much the entire movie, and ends with a ‘don’t bother to see it.’ statement at the end. The only real effect of the review is to use up that daily quota of words that the review has to get written. If you’ve seen this variety of review from a movie critic in the past, save yourself some time and go to the final paragraph.
- A ‘good’ blog is focused. This applies to the over-all blog that is being maintained. I’m not saying that my own blog is any sort of an example of this, pretty much about as contrary as you can envision. But then as you might expect, I don’t claim that this is a ‘good’ blog either. I tend to write about whatever comes to my mind. At times that may be of interest to you, at others, probably not. If you are hanging on every word I write, you’re being even more obsesive than I am about my writing.
Who knows this may be a recurring theme.
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