Sunday, February 15, 2009

Writing Guidelines - some things are universal

Problogger is a well established site for bloggers who hope to make a living blogging. Granted, there are relatively few people who are successful enough to give up day jobs to do this, but this site has great suggestions and ideas about how you might pursue making money with a blog. As you might imagine, good blog writing isn't that different from any other good writing. Here's a post from that site with five rules for good writing. The first two shouldn't surprise anyone: revise and proofread.

On a related note, here's a persuasive piece that suggests that even if your writing isn't perfect, the key to getting readers is providing great content. After all, the Federal Tax Code probably doesn't have a lot of grammatical errors, but for most of us, it's hardly scintillating reading.

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