How to Write a Blog with Bite!

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How to Write a Blog with Bite!

Have you ever had a hot dog without mustard, onions, relish?
What is a hot dog, after all, but something to embellish?
The same is true of blogging. It has to have some spice––
an interesting title is my opening advice.
Remember your first sentence should invite us in.
An opening poorly stated? The worst blogging sin.
Don’t start you blog apologizing you have naught to say.
If you have nothing for us?  Just don’t write today.
Make your first line snappy, original and clear.
Don’t show your indecision, for you’re the expert here!!!
Nobody else can possibly know where you’re going to go
if you write about a topic where you are in the know.
Hook them with your opening–confident or funny.
Your readers are the buzzing flies. Give them a little honey!
Start right in with your topic with no wandering around.
We shouldn’t have to search for where the real message is found.
A blog is like a fine-tooled belt that you have carved from leather––
not just a pile of sentences that you have heaped together.
Do not use tired comparisons that you have heard before.
Each sentence that you write should be like opening a door
and finding yourself in a world that’s fresh and new and bright.
And then you’ll have a hot dog blog that we will want to bite!!!


Here are some links to just a few of the exceptional blogs that never give short shrift.  Read them every day and their excellence will pull you along with them. Set your standards high and you will soon have a readership that will make you want to excel,  just to keep them happy!! (photo is a stock photo from shutterstock.)

https://redswrap.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/the-old-days-of-big-wine/

https://alotfromlydia.wordpress.com/

http://teepee12.com/

https://momshieb.wordpress.com/

okcforgottenman.wordpress.com

https://ourrumblingocean.wordpress.com/

https://yournibblednews.wordpress.com

https://helenmeikle.wordpress.com/

http://thegadabouttown.com/

 

 The Prompt: What’s the key advice you would give to new bloggers:?

30 thoughts on “How to Write a Blog with Bite!”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      It somehow gets the juices going for me, Jacqueline. The rhymes sometimes (often, perhaps) are rather silly, but just seem to be what want to be written. Thanks for telling me you like them!

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  3. Jan Wilberg's avatarJan Wilberg

    Thanks for including me in this great company. I don’t say it enough but I marvel at your ability to create such fast, funny rhymes. It would take me a week to do what you do every day.

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  4. Olga's avatarOlga

    Judy, you are a rhyming genius. Wonderful advice in a humorous style. Loved the comparison of us readers to buzzing flies ready to be attracted by words of honey. The last line is perfect, “a hot dog blog that we will want to bite.” A must read post!

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  5. hirundine608's avatarhirundine608

    I don’t eat hot dogs, usually made from snouts and holes.
    But more to the point, I don’t eat or partake, of warm blooded mammals,
    The grilling and consuming of this type of sandwich,
    The blogging of which can make me all twitch
    When its assumed, or expected, me enjoying the deaths of these animals

    BTW Pigs contain human DNA. It sets them apart from wild boar. … Hmmm, wonder how it got there? Cheers Jamie.

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  7. Pat Gentilini Warrick's avatarPat Gentilini Warrick

    Thanks, Judy, for your daily blog. I am the little bee waiting for my daily dose of honey. Keep up the great job. Pat

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  8. Marilyn Armstrong's avatarMarilyn Armstrong

    Great post, great poem. It’s wonderful advice. I feel a bit weird because unlike a proper writer, I have no process. Stuff just falls out of my fingers into a keyboard. Then I mess around with it unless I decide it’s too whiny, pointless, or stupid in which case — I delete it.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Marilyn, I notice that in your message, the “f” disappeared as mind has been doing when followed by an “i.” Is this just in the comments on my blog or is it happening in yours as well? So strange.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Kathryn–I think there are a number of things to learn about blogging from all of the bloggers these links lead to. I’m sure there are favorites I’ve missed,as well, but I ran out of time. Another hint: I’ve learned that looking at who comments on blogs I love also sometimes leads to new “finds” of really excellent blogs.

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      1. Kathryn Grace's avatarKathryn Grace

        Like minds, Judy! I’m a comment-reading junkie. The people who show they’ve read a post and add some zip of their own one way or another always pique my interest and clicks. I actually have to set a timer to limit my reading, or I forget to do anything else.

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          I know. That advice someone gave to new bloggers about always writing before reading was a good one. But, even if I resist reading blogs first, who can resist reading comments? And that alone can consume a few hours where time vanishes.

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    2. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Thanks, Kathryn. I checked out your blog right after I saw your “Like” and quickly hit the follow button. (Well, when I could find it. I have “follow” blindness and hate how they hide that button in a different place on every blog.) At any rate, I left you a message. I am very happy to find your blog as well. I’m tired of the same old recipes I’ve been cooking for so many years. And I have a killer recipe for bread pudding that I’ll send you when I get home in 2 months. Judy

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      1. Kathryn Grace's avatarKathryn Grace

        I do love a good bread pudding, and always willing to try a new recipe, Judy. Thank you for your kind words. I often have trouble finding follow buttons too, although it’s easier now that WordPress puts one in the bottom right corner. As long as the blogger doesn’t turn that off, I know where to look. But I had to figure out that WP only shows it to us when we scroll up, not down. Ha!

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          Aha…I think it just showed up on your blog when I posted a comment, but perhaps that was just when I noticed it. And perhaps I’d just scrolled up as well. Another mystery solved. Thanks, Kathryn.

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