Website review: Why Great Writing Doesn't Matt...
MenWithPens discovered this in Writing
•15 reviews since Mar 8, 2008
writing, blogging
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MenWithPens discovered 4 months ago- Is Content really King? Or is Crap Content all that matters? Check out the controversial idea of this post - it's guaranteed to have purist writers shaking their heads.
- prepass rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "Average writing abilities are more than enough to write great web content. Average ideas are not. Your words aren't your content " they are just the vehicle for it" C'est bein vrai ça ! Vingt Diou !
- michel2k rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "People don't read online. Nor do they scan. They extract ideas, resonating with some and disregarding others. They do so at breakneck speed, only slowing down when a particular idea truly warrants it."
- jfritz12 rated 4 months ago
- Ah Skellie, such a clean beautiful blog and wonderful writing. A creative soul for sure.
- sunsinger rated 4 months ago
- While bad ideas can be dressed up in beautiful language and journeyman writing gets the job done more often than not, perhaps lowering standards and saying great writing doesn't matter is yet another way of making writing on the web seem more democratic. Web style is different than novel style. It's grab and go. We can stipulate that. But the writer is trying just a little too hard, I think, to convince us that skills are out of fashion.
- yeepiao90 rated 4 months ago
- You don't need great writing to survive online.
- hopewilbanks rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "Unless you're a truly bad writer (and I highly doubt that you are), go easy on yourself. Shelf The Elements of Style. You don't need it. Your readers aren't looking for great writing -- if they were, they'd look inside a broadsheet newspaper, a well-loved magazine or a Pulitzer Prize Winning novel. They want your best ideas. They want information that means something to them."
- Hakicoma rated 4 months ago
- Really interesting! As usual! Thanks Skellie!
- kdfrawg rated 4 months ago
- To me, at least, good writing matters. When I find bad writing, I don't bother reading it. Or scanning it. Or extracting ideas from it. I just pass it by. I can see, though, why this concept would appeal to those who don't write well. If you don't care about the writing, you may as well stick with the cute kitty photos. It would be a bit like going to an art exhibition by people who can't draw, let alone paint. You can do it if you want, but what's the point?
- frankinoz rated 4 months ago
- Great information on writing for the web. Excellent detail and guidance
- jaybol rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "Traditionally â€good†writing can sometimes cloud good ideas. Itâ€s why so many journalists make lackluster bloggers. They arenâ€t aware that their writing is no longer being read. Itâ€s being mined."
