Ethan Reigns
Scooby
@Mr. Pole
Agreed on Blogger for Word. It lets you write your blog in Word and once you are satisfied with it you can upload to your blog without having to do your editing on the blog hosting software itself.
Additional thoughts:
1. Be at least several blog entries ahead of the blog. This gives you time to edit properly without the hassle of being tied to your computer. In this sense, you are like a cartoonist who has to keep ahead of the submission dates and the best way is to build up a buffer of unreleased updates. The concept of having blog posts available early allows you to edit the posts to react to comments received.
2. To a limited extent, you can use Twitter and Facebook to drive people to your blog, but the effect is fleeting and can be overdone.
3. Beware of libel. If you say a character in a story did something wrong or was badly written, that is fair comment and not subject to libel. If you want to say the actor or director or producer did something wrong, be very circumspect.
4. Respond to comments without getting personal. If you disagree with a comment, you can say so and say why without getting into an ad hominem attack on the person making the comment.
5. I am not convinced that everything under the sun has been said. We still have people raising new issues from time to time on this site. If that was not the case, this site would have collapsed long ago since it is more than ten years after BtVS and Ats went off the air.
6. Cut loose and have fun! The less political correctness you have, the better. Blogging is about what you think, not what you presume everyone else thinks you should think. You can cast aside your inner censor.
Agreed on Blogger for Word. It lets you write your blog in Word and once you are satisfied with it you can upload to your blog without having to do your editing on the blog hosting software itself.
Additional thoughts:
1. Be at least several blog entries ahead of the blog. This gives you time to edit properly without the hassle of being tied to your computer. In this sense, you are like a cartoonist who has to keep ahead of the submission dates and the best way is to build up a buffer of unreleased updates. The concept of having blog posts available early allows you to edit the posts to react to comments received.
2. To a limited extent, you can use Twitter and Facebook to drive people to your blog, but the effect is fleeting and can be overdone.
3. Beware of libel. If you say a character in a story did something wrong or was badly written, that is fair comment and not subject to libel. If you want to say the actor or director or producer did something wrong, be very circumspect.
4. Respond to comments without getting personal. If you disagree with a comment, you can say so and say why without getting into an ad hominem attack on the person making the comment.
5. I am not convinced that everything under the sun has been said. We still have people raising new issues from time to time on this site. If that was not the case, this site would have collapsed long ago since it is more than ten years after BtVS and Ats went off the air.
6. Cut loose and have fun! The less political correctness you have, the better. Blogging is about what you think, not what you presume everyone else thinks you should think. You can cast aside your inner censor.
