This is the first blog post from a blog or blog post I’ve written for a year. I’ve had a lot of fun blogging about what it means to be a writer and how to be a writer.
My first post on this blog was the opening post. It was in response to a question from an editor who wanted to know a little bit about what goes into the editing process. It’s about a common misconception about the process of writing a blog post. When we start writing a blog post, we often think that we’re writing for ourselves and not for a larger audience. That’s not so.
Its not as easy as just sitting down and typing, but its not as hard as you might think. It all comes down to building a solid structure of sentences and paragraphs, and then writing the prose that gives the reader a sense of what is going on. In my case, the writing process was very similar to the editing process. For the first 20+ hours after a post is written, I spent half my time writing and then the rest of the time editing.
You could put a value on this, but it seems to me that a good example of writing that achieves that sense of discovery is this post by Paul Krugman. I won’t list the exact sentences, but his post was an example of writing that achieves that sense of discovery. I like this because I feel like he was writing for himself, and not for a larger audience.
As the title suggests, it doesn’t just work for the content-heavy content that we’re describing here; it works for the small audience that we have. It also works for the larger audience that we have, and it’s a good example of how we can build a strong narrative that uses the content of the post as a means to develop a deeper connection between the content and the subject matter.
I mean, if it was just a post, then I could always just use the title to get that first link, but this is a post, so I’ll need to use the title to get to that first link.
I’m sure some readers will disagree with this notion.
Yeah, that’s a fair point, I’ve only been using the title to get to the post link, but this is a post, so Ill need to use the title to get to that first link.That’s a nice idea. Just make it so that the title is a little more descriptive, and then you don’t have to think about what you want to do.
Yes, the title is a bit more descriptive, but it’s also more difficult to search for. I’m glad there is another way. If you want a link from the title, you’re better off with the first link.
I know it’s a bit of a hassle, but this is one time where the title alone can be useful to search engines. They look at the title, the headline, the first few words, and decide if they think the title is valuable enough to link to. If they do, then you can usually get the link you want by just typing in the title of the post.
