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jongibbs shares some tips on mistakes to avoid in blogging. Many of these are good, some debatable. My thoughts...1) Don't be boring. To this I add: Know what you and your audience consider interesting. There are different branches of blogging; the core of one is often annoyingly irrelevant in another.
2) Don't tell people what to do. Applies to some branches far more than others: there are advice blogs, and general blogs where the author is an expert whose advice is relished by their audience.
6) Don't promote yourself or your work in someone else's blog (unless invited to do so). I'd simply amend this to "... in a way that annoys people." Because one of the best means of self-promotion is also a terrific content-booster: making a comment about your work when it is relevant to the discussion. I mean, come on, if I see someone lamenting, "Everyone tells me to write my own rituals, but nobody says how!" then of course I'm going to point them to Composing Magic. That's WHY I wrote the book! Again, this varies by blog branch. Pimping is disliked in personal-blogging, but often embraced in professional or hobby blogs.
10) Filling in the blank, I add:
* Don't vanish. People get antsy if you post frequently and then disappear for days without a word. And if your posts are erratic to begin with, people tend to drift away.
* Don't write so badly that the technical errors drive away your audience. Good grammar, punctuation, and spelling are your friends.
October 11 2010, 11:25:23 UTC 10 years ago
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October 13 2010, 01:09:50 UTC 10 years ago