Writing For Bloggers

To be a blogger you need to be able to write, so I am always reading about writing.

In his book On Writing, Stephen King writes:

• “One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

I think this is very true, I see it all the time where someone learns a few big words and then tries to use them where they don’t belong.

How I Read on the Internet

I think about the way I read on the internet.  I can handle about 50 words at a time. If there are more than 50 words at once, they better be very very interesting.

Something that I am just dieing to know about other wise I skip down until I see something that looks like they might be starting a new topic and I try again.

I use this scan and skip method of reading because there is so much to read on the internet I don’t have time to sit and waste my time with 1000 words of something that does not interest me.

So when I am blogging I keep this in mind and I try to get to the point quickly.  If I have something important to say I try to say it fast.  Then if I want to do into detailed explanation I do that later.