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Bellee
I did address this after I read this and several others you have written recently. I just posted on BLOGGER IN TRAINING that you had been trying to tell us something. Just letting you know I am using your name.
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Justi
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November 26, 2004
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You got that right BB.
posted by
word.smith
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November 26, 2004
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All writing is general if you ask me...
Broken down all text is just a bunch of letters; where do you sart the organization? Interesting prose you have there though.
posted by
Diversion4u
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November 26, 2004
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it probably would work for someone with an individual blog
because people would be logging on for that person's opinion on what ever the topic was - kind of like if Oprah had a blog page. She could blog about pets or food or celebreties and people would still log on. Here on blogit, you really are competing for attention in specific fields.
I have a sneaking suspicion though that people tend to skip over the category that a blog is in when they cick on a particular bloggers name - the number of times I've had people ask more personal questions on my fiction or humour blog is quite an interesting statistic.
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littlemspickles
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November 26, 2004
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sorry ... go for
posted by
beachbelle
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November 26, 2004
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Littleems
the "p" word is like a bus and will be along again. No I just mean that manyh instructional blogs will make for a worthy but dull section. I know I used to write the b...... things.
I tbink that many people out in the land of individual blogs ot for either personal or news-linked blogs
posted by
beachbelle
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November 26, 2004
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Merry Anne
I was wonder about that sort of thing. But you know even if we had that people would still sometimes get it wrong.
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beachbelle
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November 26, 2004
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Just picking up on what LEGant and yourself mentioned...
I think that having categories is a good thing but perhaps there are too many choices for people and then their writing style crosses over. I really wouldn't want to lump the stuff I write about school, into the same blog I post my fortune cookies too or my poetic attempts. At the same time I could possibly put the teaching stuff and the pet stuff into my everything else blog but then I think I would lose those who aren't interested in pets or teaching perspectives....
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littlemspickles
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November 26, 2004
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a site i used to write on
let you put your blog in several categories at the same time. You know Pets & Family & Journal. then you could write what you wanted.
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MerryAnne
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November 26, 2004
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beachie
blogit, will never become dull.....
there's too much scandal to be unleashed and competing writers' egoes!!!
Hang on, dare I say the "P" word, we haven't had a good shake up in a while....
posted by
littlemspickles
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November 26, 2004
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wordy
Everything else is a repository for many wondrous things
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beachbelle
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November 26, 2004
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MerryAnne
I suppose you mean like subsections - but if that happend all `"writing" should still be under a broad section for people like me who look at everything in writing
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beachbelle
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November 26, 2004
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Littlemespickles
I think if we become too rigid on topics it may become too dull. =
posted by
beachbelle
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November 26, 2004
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We're left to our own discretion
to interpret whatever we can.
Ann
posted by
A-and-B
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November 26, 2004
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Scriber
If there was a category which fitted your work, you would have it to yourself ;-)
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beachbelle
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November 26, 2004
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L.E.Gant
I tend to agree. That is what blogs are like outside of our world. Personally I would like two and post to two mainly - one more serious, one about domestic stuff.
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beachbelle
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November 26, 2004
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Might be a dead issue...
Blogit's advice to people is to write ONE blog only. They're kind of enforcing this with the new subscription structure (the new basic is supposed to have only one blog, while the gold subscription allows upmto five).
The point - maybe it would be simpler to have ONE blog holding everything that a blogger/writer puts in to the whole...
posted by
L.E.Gant
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November 26, 2004
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Beach--I have moved my work to "Fiction." While it is mostly fact, there
is no category that I feel fits my realistic style writing. I may move back to On Writing, a category I had been in since joining Blogit more than a year ago. Or I might call it, "Scriber's Ass" and go into Sex and Romance.
posted by
scriber
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November 26, 2004
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Beachbelle
I always thought the "On Writing" section was to discuss tips, ideas and techniques on writing. I understand how a journal type approach might fit in as a struggling writer etc, but I think they should go in the journal section. I also think all lists should stay in the list section, even though, I know one could probably write a list of ways to crack the writing market.If there are pieces that are showing us how to write by example, then they need to be annotated, otherwise, how do the uninitiated realise what they should be doing? No one can learn that much just from writing a great piece of fiction/non-fiction, especially when most people here, and yes, I overgeneralise, won't read too much more than 3 paragraphs.
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littlemspickles
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November 26, 2004
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I think that the "On Writing"
section should be blogs about the craft of writing. There should be another category for serious non-fiction and perhaps a some sub categories in the fiction category like serial novels, short stories and experimental fiction.
posted by
MerryAnne
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November 26, 2004
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Hmmm
good point I never thought of it like that
posted by
_Symphony_
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November 26, 2004
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I believe 'there is a place for everything...
and everything in it's place'. Blogit was considerate and gave us an 'Everything else' category to put all the extra stuff. On Writing should be about writing or as close to it as possible.
posted by
word.smith
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November 26, 2004
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BB, Hey, I didn't realize we had a blog category "ON Writing"!
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kingmi
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November 26, 2004
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