The Bloggers With The Most To Say
Do you still write the same way you did when you started blogging?
Who feels like their writing has changed?? Like completely.
Do you still include the same emotions you did when you started? Do you write more because (more)people are reading as compared to when you started when you were just "writing for yourself"? Has it become easier to write?
Has your style changed? Have you become a better writer since you started? Do you feel you write to please your readers or do you stick to your original goals?
So many questions. I could go on but I guess you get my drift...
Do you still include the same emotions you did when you started? Do you write more because (more)people are reading as compared to when you started when you were just "writing for yourself"? Has it become easier to write?
Has your style changed? Have you become a better writer since you started? Do you feel you write to please your readers or do you stick to your original goals?
So many questions. I could go on but I guess you get my drift...
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Permalink Reply by Phyllis on -
well, in terms of how i write...yes. I started blogging when I was 14 (and have been doing it on and off since) and my first entries look something like this
"OmG lyke 2DaY suKed sooooooo MuCh. I cAnT BeLievE i Use 2 taLk lyKe dis."
and now, although i forget to capitalize sometimes (small oversight) they resemble something English as opposed to something in teen girl speak.
as for what i write about, i used to write about my day. it was very rare that i wrote about something beyond what i had for lunch and how much i hated my peers. these days, i tend to rage against other things. :)
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Permalink Reply by Christina Brown on -
I hope you are joking O.o lmao.
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Permalink Reply by Mr. Apron on -
When I started blogging, I had no audience, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing, or if I was writing for myself or random people in Tanzania, so it was very free-form, like Terry Gilliam's animation without the acid.
However, as I joined 20sb and I slowly realized that the vast majority of my readers were my age, I tended to shape my writing to suit my audience, which I think all bloggers have an obligation to do, to some degree, if they're going to have and encourage commenters/followers.
One thing I've definitely done is I've stopped trying to be clever by hyperlinking to funny pictures. First of all, I wasn't giving photo credit for any of them, which is bad, and, second of all, I decided it was more important to just be clever in the writing.
Whenever practical.
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Permalink Reply by Writing to Reach You on -
I also had no idea what I was doing when I first started. I didn't read a lot of blogs before I started my own, and I had a hard time imagining that I'd ever have readers.
That said, my writing really hasn't changed that much. I just went to look at some of my older posts to confirm. I'd say the biggest difference is that I sometimes acknowledge now that I know people are reading. I don't really tailor my writing for an audience, but I'm always surprised to realize I'm on such the same wavelength as a lot of other people in the 20sb community.
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Permalink Reply by Mimi on -
you see that's it, do you write because you have an audience, doesn't that censor you in a way?? do you write just bcoz someone is reading and so you have to keep on writing to please them??
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Permalink Reply by Writing to Reach You on
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I don't think writing when you know you have an audience is writing just to please an audience. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that it matters to me that people are reading. If it didn't, then I wouldn't be posting it in a public place. The people you get to interact with are what makes blogging so much fun.
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Permalink Reply by Mimi on
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So if you had something to write that you think your audience wouldn't like, agree with or relate to, then you wouldn't write about it? My issue is not with the readers but rather with the writer.
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Permalink Reply by Writing to Reach You on
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I don't know why you would assume that. I write about politics, which sends a lot of my readers running for the hills. I also write about theology when I am much more liberal than a lot of the people reading. Like I said, writing with an awareness that you have an audience (and even a fondness for your audience) doesn't mean writing just to please them.
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Permalink Reply by Marzuki on
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Me me!
My writing has changed completely. Initial entries sounded more Singlish than English. Now it's much better. Perhaps I became a better writer too. I guess practice makes perfect. However, my original goals remain the same. I do not write to please anyone. I guess I write as I always do and am happy if people like what I write.
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Permalink Reply by It's All About MiE on -
Not at all. I write completely different then when I first started blogging. At first I was timid about what I wrote about, almost afraid of what other people might think but that quickly went to the wayside. I now write for myself and if someone else can relate than great. If not, great.
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Permalink Reply by David Stehle on -
Thankfully, no!
I used to write in a very reporter-ish style when I first started blogging back in January 2005 and only posted about tech news. Since then, my style has changed a lot! I write more from the inside, so to speak - write how I feel, what I think, just be myself. My post topics are all over the board with a large part of them being very personal in nature.
I'm not worried who will disagree with me or who I might offend (of course I don't try to be controversial or offensive on purpose).
And I don't write for an audience because I find it much more freeing to write like no one is reading. Although if people want to read it, great...but if they don't, that's fine too.
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