Comments on: Wordcamp 2006 http://nerdcereal.com/wordcamp-2006/ A blog about art and the internet and their intersection at web design. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Wins http://nerdcereal.com/wordcamp-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Wins Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:17:40 +0000 http://nerdcereal.com/blog/wordcamp-2006/#comment-6 Hey... good times chattin' with you yesterday. I just installed the head-meta description plugin and it already seems peculiar why i haven't done so years ago... Good luck with your blog dude :-) Hey… good times chattin’ with you yesterday. I just installed the head-meta description plugin and it already seems peculiar why i haven’t done so years ago…

Good luck with your blog dude :-)

]]> By: Brady J. Frey http://nerdcereal.com/wordcamp-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Brady J. Frey Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:00:30 +0000 http://nerdcereal.com/blog/wordcamp-2006/#comment-5 One things I'd say I have reservations about, that should probably be clarified is: "write for your readers not for you" I used to be a political editor, and did my share of writing before getting into blogging - and there's a half truth to this, atleast in my experience. My content writer, Doug, probably said it best, paraphrased: "You should write for the reader to an extent, of course - the reader would not understand your content if all you wrote was meant for yourself... but writing is always for you as well." If you don't write for yourself, you'll have no passion or love for the writing - it'll taste stale, it'll read like a chore. Write for your audience, but also write for you - it's how some of the more compelling authors grab your attention - they wrote for the love of it themselves, just as for your readers attention. Just my 2 cents, but I felt that comment was misleading when noted:) One things I’d say I have reservations about, that should probably be clarified is:
“write for your readers not for you”

I used to be a political editor, and did my share of writing before getting into blogging – and there’s a half truth to this, atleast in my experience. My content writer, Doug, probably said it best, paraphrased: “You should write for the reader to an extent, of course – the reader would not understand your content if all you wrote was meant for yourself… but writing is always for you as well.”

If you don’t write for yourself, you’ll have no passion or love for the writing – it’ll taste stale, it’ll read like a chore. Write for your audience, but also write for you – it’s how some of the more compelling authors grab your attention – they wrote for the love of it themselves, just as for your readers attention.

Just my 2 cents, but I felt that comment was misleading when noted:)

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