Comments on: 7 Certain Ways to Crucify Your Content

By: geld lenen

geld lenen — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:19:15 +0000

Very nice improvent tips. Deliver value is the most important thing.

By: hypotheek rente

hypotheek rente — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:58:10 +0000

I noticed that especially the use of headlines should be limited to necessarities.

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By: Hypotheek

Hypotheek — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:29:09 +0000

these points are actually also real good in giving presentations and such.

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Passive voice and Lifeless content – those 2 most important issues.

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By: Myth SilverStar

Myth SilverStar — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:16:13 +0000

I agree with MIKE above.

I am going to quote Einstein again, “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

By: J.D. Meier

J.D. Meier — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:21:50 +0000

I like the way you integrated your own lessons and the lessons from others.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:15:47 +0000

Speaking of hackneyed, there is an INCREDIBLY hacneyed list of “writing tips”: this is, in essence, “Writing 101 for People Not Really Interested in Learning Much About Writing But Interested In Feeling Like They Are”. First of all, these “tips” are so badly over-used (passive voice, for example) that they over-simplify the complex form of art that is “writing”. Second of all, the Hemingway-thing. This is SO over-cited it’s laughable. What Hemingway was doing WAS NOT GETTING RID OF ADJECTIVES, he was using an editing technique that was meant to teach the writer to edit out 7/8’s of what he wrote (sometimes called the iceberg theory). Though adjectives and adverbs often fell to the side, what really fell to the side was the “editorial voice” (which, btw, is THE voice of blogging). It also meant that for any piece of writing, 7xwhat you finished wouldn’t appear. Don’t reference Hemingway while teaching bloggers how to write: he would have absolutely HATED the blogging voice, adjectives or no.

This entry is really, really poorly informed and SO incredibly generic (You might even say full of “lifeless content”….) that it does more to mislead writers than educate them. I know lists are important to bloggers, but seriously: if you are going to write lists (which are surely blogging’s most hackneyed form), at LEAST write a list that is both knowledgeable and…..NEW.

Though apparently the “need for invention” is a minor part of “art”.

By: DeeK

DeeK — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:03:18 +0000

Not much new here, but don’t see this opinion as criticism. Keeping my writing simple returns as my biggest challenge. Your advice confirms its importance.