Better Blogging for New Bloggers
Got a blog? I have really respect for bloggers who are able to “market” themselves as established bloggers in the community – even with their imperfect grammar they are able to speak their ideas to the reader very clearly. I also have respect for bloggers who write with perfect grammar without the impression that they very educated people in the field. Personally I like the combination of both and there are very few bloggers that can do this well. They are often the ones who can write very long definitive posts that make readers prod on. They can catch the reader’s interest with short sharp posts too.
Where am I?
I think my writing skills are more like the first group, and I largely blame it in my upbringing. My engineering course in the university exposed me to lesser English subjects than most other courses. My job experience demanded more of my technical skills in machine troubleshooting and programming than learning how to write better technical reports for my boss.
I left my engineering job just last year and started finding freelance opportunities with my skills. The first opportunity that I got is writing for others. I learned how to write in blogs and since I do this full time everyday, I get to improve my writing skills. Although my grammar still needs work (I still rely on Microsoft Word to automatically check my grammar because it saves me time) I believe that I am better than when I started. Previously a 400-word post was a very difficult task for me, but now I learned how to “divide and conquer”: write subtopics and write sentences that work around a main topic sentence which I have not been doing before.
Got Some Tips Today from a Mentor
photo credit: MikLav (SXC)
Copywriting Tips and Ideas is a good resource that I have found while I was looking out for some writing opportunities. It is only more than three months old, but it provides numerous posts that help people learn improve not only copywriting skills but how they can express themselves in writing. I strongly agree that bloggers should learn from SEO writing tips that Sarah provided in her blog, as there are more bloggers joining the blogosphere who still need to prove themselves and make good impressions – perhaps better writing skill might help them elevate to being respected bloggers in the community.
