Looking over the past few months of blog entries, I've noticed that some of mine get far more reads than some others, and they're not always the ones I think are going to attract attention.
With that in mind, I put a question to all of you. What do you like to see in a blog entry, and what do you not?
There's one thing I'm quite sure should be in the "not" list, and that's my complaining about my writing problems. It would probably be better, in that case, to find an individual who can sort of hand-hold me through my first few stories, until I have enough confidence to post them without constant feedback from someone else. It's unfair of me to dump on all the rest of you.
It can be hard to know just what to put in a blog entry, considering I decided long ago not to post much about my personal life. (Chalk it up to paranoia about a member of my family coming across a blog entry in a Google search.)
It's also very seldom that I come across a news item, whether serious or "News Of The Weird"-like, that I think might be interesting to others here. So, that doesn't really leave much.
So I ask again, what would you want to see in any future blog entries I make?
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Write what you like to read
Okay, confession: I rarely read blogs here. Sometimes I peek at something if a title catches my attention while I'm looking for new stories, and even then I often just scroll to the end of the page to read the presentation part shown there in the new entries.
That saaaid, ironically enough the blogs I would be most inclined to read (and engage in commentary with), would probably be those discussing various techniques in writing. I've been rolling around ideas in my head about making a post about plotting out a story, the importance of foreshadowing in larger works, or how useful it is to collect a "character gallery" for your main protagonists. There's a lot of work - at least, there is for me - behind the actual scenes. I would be interested in reading about how other writers do, in case there's anything I can adapt into my own style, or something that makes sense to me :)
Otherwise, I guess cooking recipes are nice? Know anything that uses parsley? I've got too much parsley by far.
Parsley
Parsley and eggs is good. Parsley and potatoes. Parsley in salad. Parsley as garnish.
Anyone know why parsley is used as garnish so often? Because it is a breath freshener, helping to cancel out the smells of things like garlic, onion, cheese and meat.
You can add parsley to homemade sauces and salsas. Substitute it for spinach or cilantro in recipes. Go easy there, the flavor is very different from spinach.
Make garlic bread or cheese toast and add parsley to the topping. Use some parsley when making your stocks.
Sautee veggies in butter and add parsley and garlic at the last moment.
Minced parsley with herbs in nut oil can be used in lots of pasta dishes.
You can freshen the smell of a pet's bed with a sprig of parsley left there for a few hours.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I call for a parsley
Apparently, you can also invoke it to get an audience with the captain of the ship, even if some consider it to be more of a guideline.
... no, wait, that was the other one, right?
I've not tried parsley in a lot of pasta recipes, though. I'm usually all about the oregano and basilica when it comes to that. Hmm... there's an idea for tomorrow, maybe. Thanks, Erin-person! :)
Huh?
You put a whole cathedral in your pasta? How many are you feeding there? An entire diocese?
Penny
Pastafarian?
Ooops. That was a slip-of-the-culture there, Penny-person. I suppose it's basil. To be confused with certain temple structures at your own culinary peril :)
Now I'm kicking myself
I was just at the market.
Didn't get any parsley.
Now I'm kicking myself.
Kris
{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}