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Writing a good blog, like most everything else in life, is a matter of cultivated habit. It takes commitment, of time and mind, to post regularly; and a clarity of vision and purpose to generate enough interest to make readers want to come back for more. And that's just your run-o-the-mill, me-too blog. An engaging idiom is, always, an added bonus. If you can work in a little bit of wit and humour into your posts you might just be able to put out a really good me-too thingy. It helps, of course, if you lead a wildly adventurous life (in the bedroom, outdoors, whatever...) or are gifted with a particularly vivid imagination.
To be completely original, however, you'll need much more than just this. You'll need at least a fair few ounces of creativity and that's not exactly easy to come by. Then again, creativity alone is never enough, is it? I'm sure this guy is pretty creative but he's got something else too, hasn't he? Yup, what you also need is a feel for the pulse- what do people really want to read? Or, more importantly, can you convince them that they want to read all the drivel that you write?
Not least, of course, is the packaging- layout, navigation, indexing, commenting, RSS and all those bells and whistles that geeks and designers love to expound about. Apparently it's this bit that really brings out the inner you and bares it for all in the public domain to ogle at and be, as the case may be, suitably impressed or thoroughly disgusted. If all of this doesn't seem like work enough and you insist on being a stuck-up perfectionist you can resort to a whole gamut of interactive doodas, now readily downloadable of the web, so your blog looks, feels and behaves just so.
Sounds like a lot of work? You bet your ass it is. Which is probably why, for the last 2 odd years or so, this blog has been spewing what can only be described, even by the staunchest of loyalists, as mostly garbage.
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