How To Write A Good Blog
Because of their “ease of use” blogs afford a ready medium for the publication of special articles, or “special feature stories. Some bloggers publish these articles from day to day or have special days that they blog on a certain type of “story” or topic.
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The articles published in or “on” a blog come from four sources:
- Syndicates that furnish blogs with special articles, illustrations, and other matter, for simultaneouspublication;
- Members of the blogs staff; that is, reporters, correspondents, editors, or special writers employed for the purpose;
- Or so-called “free-lance” writers, professional or amateur, who submit
their “stories” to the editor of the magazine section.
- Of course, the blogs publisher may write their own articles.
Reporters, correspondents, and other regular members of the staff may be assigned to write special feature stories, or may prepare such stories on their own initiative for submission to the publisher or editor of the blog.
In many offices regular members of the staff are paid for blogging, especially when the subjects are not assigned to them and when the stories are prepared in the writer’s own leisure time.
Other blogs publishers expect their regular staff members to furnish the blog with whatever articles they may write, as a part of the work covered by their salary. If a paper has one or more special feature writers on its staff, it may pay them a fixed salary or may employ them “on space”; that is, pay them at a fixed “space rate” for the number of “pages” that an article fills when printed out.
Free-lance writers, who are not regularly employed by the blog publisher as staff members, submit articles for the editor’s consideration and are paid at space rates or article length. Sometimes a free lance will outline an article in a letter or in personal conference with an editor in order to get his approval before writing it, but, unless the editor knows the writer’s work, he is not likely to promise to accept the completed article.
To the writer there is an obvious advantage in knowing that the subject as he outlines it is or is not an acceptable one. If an editor likes the work of a free lance, he may suggest subjects for articles, or may even ask him to prepare an article on a given subject. Freelance writers, by selling their work at space rates, can often make more money than they would receive as regular members of a blog publishers staff.
For the amateur writing for other blogs offers an excellent field.
- First, their are hundreds of thousands of blogs, and almost all these blogs publish special feature stories.
- Second, feature articles on local topics, the material for which is right at the amateur’s hand, are sought by many locality niche blogs.
- Third, some blog editors are may be less critical of form and style than are the larger blog editors.
With some practice an inexperienced writer may acquire sufficient skill to prepare an acceptable special feature story for publication in a widely read blog, and even if he is paid little or nothing for it, he will gain experience from seeing his work in print.
About The Author:
 Debra Conrad is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2007. She is also co-author of "The Public Domain Treasure Hunter's Survival Kit" available here. For more info Debra, click here. |
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