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/
https://momshieb.wordpress.com/
https://ourrumblingocean.wordpress.com/
https://yournibblednews.wordpress.com
https://helenmeikle.wordpress.com/
The Prompt: What’s the key advice you would give to new bloggers:?
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 