Post by account_disabled on Jan 5, 2024 22:07:12 GMT -6
I have to make a premise before you continue reading. Almost seven months ago I wrote a similar post talking about what creative writing can teach bloggers and copywriters , a sign that many times the topics come back to the surface when we feel we need to say something else. Ultimately, however, today's post is different, because I deal with other aspects of fiction that can be useful for blogging, because they also exist in blogging. An original idea When I gave my definition of original content , it emerged that it is almost impossible, today, to write a truly original post. The article I wrote – was it original, according to my definition? – he also wanted to be a little provocative: as if to say “abandon all hope, by now we have already written everything that can be written”. Anyone who opens a blog today is making a huge mistake. Not all, let's be clear, but on some topics, such as SEO, social media marketing, blogging and the like, this error is very frequent. The error is called emulation .
A euphemism for not copying. I ask myself: what is the point of writing a post on a topic that the web is full of and which has already been covered by experts in the sector? You who open a blog today and are not an expert in certain subjects, why do you write posts on those topics? Some topics seem almost obligatory for some blogs: they are used to attract visits, to position Special Data the blog on search engines. The problem is that writing about a popular topic is absolutely useless . What we need today is an original idea , both for the blog and for its contents. Those who write novels know this well: it is useless to rewrite sagas that all readers already know. It is useless to continue with vampires and zombies, because we always end up emulating, copying stories already written and read. The decency of the story's title I have a mania for titles.
Some bloggers have not yet understood that you don't need imagination to write post titles , but only logic. In this sense blogging differs from fiction, because novels such as Gone with the Wind , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , 1Q84 , The city and the city had their success, they worked perfectly. Reading those titles, without knowing the story, without having read the books or known the authors, they mean nothing at all. What do they tell us? Nothing. But that's narrative. Blogging is different. I've written six posts about titles and I'd say it's time to stop. Perhaps. A title must communicate everything to the reader , otherwise the risk is that that post will not be read. If the title of a novel must be decent, with all the meanings we want to give to the word decency, that of a post must be even more so, because it represents the heart of the article.
A euphemism for not copying. I ask myself: what is the point of writing a post on a topic that the web is full of and which has already been covered by experts in the sector? You who open a blog today and are not an expert in certain subjects, why do you write posts on those topics? Some topics seem almost obligatory for some blogs: they are used to attract visits, to position Special Data the blog on search engines. The problem is that writing about a popular topic is absolutely useless . What we need today is an original idea , both for the blog and for its contents. Those who write novels know this well: it is useless to rewrite sagas that all readers already know. It is useless to continue with vampires and zombies, because we always end up emulating, copying stories already written and read. The decency of the story's title I have a mania for titles.
Some bloggers have not yet understood that you don't need imagination to write post titles , but only logic. In this sense blogging differs from fiction, because novels such as Gone with the Wind , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , 1Q84 , The city and the city had their success, they worked perfectly. Reading those titles, without knowing the story, without having read the books or known the authors, they mean nothing at all. What do they tell us? Nothing. But that's narrative. Blogging is different. I've written six posts about titles and I'd say it's time to stop. Perhaps. A title must communicate everything to the reader , otherwise the risk is that that post will not be read. If the title of a novel must be decent, with all the meanings we want to give to the word decency, that of a post must be even more so, because it represents the heart of the article.