I love blogs, blogging, anything related to books from blogs, you name it. But I’ve been seeing a lack of good execution of story on many blogs (including mine). It’s not that the desire to tell a good story is not there, it’s that the execution of the story telling on the blog is lacking.
Blogs have followers and as such it is easy for us bloggers to talk a mile a minute about what’s been going on in our lives without providing enough information for the reader. Who, what, when, where, how? These are not just journalism tools, these are the templates for storytelling.
If you’re a blogger, try one thing for me this week: place us firmly into place and time when you start to tell a story. Where were you? What did it look like? What day is it? What’s the weather like? Not a whole page of description, though, mind you, just a few quick lines to orient the reader.
Trish Ryan does a great job of this on her blog.
I’ll be doing the same.
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