Tuesday, April 07, 2009

The Top 7 Things Not To Do If You Want a Successful Blog Post

1) Don't try to multi-task. You think that episode of 30 Rock playing in the background via surfthechannel.com won't distract you, but it will. You'll have no original ideas, save the post to a draft, and then feel bad later as you erase it.
2) Don't make promises. If you want to write, you'll write. If you won't, you won't. Guilt has no place in blog-land.
3) If you spend 6 weeks in another country and have this cool idea about changing the color/language scheme on your blog to reflect that, and then post a lot about all the amazing revelations you're having, don't not do it. It would have been cool. Oh well, next time, sigh...
4) Don't fall in love with a guy who a) doesn't have internet in his apartment, b) suggests taking a walk and seeing what's going on when you're bored, and c) doesn't know what a blog is. I do, however, recommend the former in terms of raising your quality of life. Just not your quality of blog.
5) Don't insist on being profound. Or minimum 500 words. Or witty. Or anything. Just blog it!
6) Don't name a post The Top " ." You'll always come up one short.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Welcome back. Hope you stick around.

Cameron said...

Well, what a surprise! I thought you'd died. ;-)

Good to hear you're still alive and kicking.

And I thought *I* was bad, not posting in my blog for six weeks.

You must be taking a lot of walks.

Please don't wait til December to post again. No pressure.