What Comics Can Teach You About Story Structure

Comic Punch

Originally this post was entitled “Blogging and Fuzzy-Wuzzy Bunnies” as a reply to the outpouring of comments about last week’s post, but then I thought more about it and scrapped my notes completely. I still stand by the post and love the discussions it started and there’s so much more we have to talk about, [...]

Are You A Blogger Or Just Posting Stuff Online?

abandoned computers

A man walks into a pawn shop. He sees it hanging on a wall and give the man behind the counter $112 and drives home. Once safely at home, he opens his new case, pulls out the Fender Stratocaster he bought and begins to pluck strings. With no prior knowledge  of the instrument, he is [...]

Spring Cleaning

Spring Cleaning

Like Santa, it comes around once a year. Unlike Santa, usually it’s dreaded and you end up with less stuff than when you started. I’m talking, of course, about Spring Cleaning. I’ll be honest, not everything about blogging is fun. Some things flat out suck. This is one of those things and I wouldn’t blame [...]

Nobody Cares About Your Damn Blog

Nobody Cares

(Picture from: Spillly.com; Artwork by: Hugh MacLeod, Gapingvoid.com) One hundred and fifty-four million, four hundred and forty thousand blogs go completely and utterly unread. Let me write that number out for you so you can really take it in: 154,440,000 That’s not even the number of blogs yours is actually competing with, those are just [...]

The Importance of Your First 50 Words

Teenage boy looking bored

What’s worse, someone not taking the time to even open your blog, or someone opening it, getting bored and leaving, never to read you again? Yesterday, Aaron wrote to you about the importance of writing awesome headlines. He did an excellent job, but the problem is that you read his post and stopped there. Your [...]

What Super Mario Bros Taught Me About Blogging

Super Mario Bros

I love video games. I’ve been playing them for most of my life and it’s nearly impossible to talk about the pure awesomeness of video games without talking about the Italian grand-daddy of popular platform games. With dozens of official versions and probably hundreds of unofficial ones spanning almost three decades, it’s safe to say [...]

Take Your Blog Offline

computer being thrown from a window

We talk a lot about blogging, or web logging, here on For Bloggers, By Bloggers. It’s pretty much all we talk about and that’s perfectly fine because it’s what we set out to help people with when we started this adventure. So a title like “Take Your Blog Offline” probably raised a few eyebrows when [...]

What Bananas And Mayonaise Taught Me About Blogging

Groceries

If you’re anything like me, you’re very methodical about grocery shopping. You probably know when the best days and times are to go and make out a detailed list beforehand. If you’re really into it, you may even have a path mapped out in your head. If you’re anything like me, you take grocery shopping [...]

Blogging And The Way Of The Dandelion

dandelion

It become apparent to me over the weekend that I was definitely losing the battle for control of my yard to the weeds. Even though weeds aren’t the most welcomed or popular things to appear in a yard, it got me thinking about how in essence we want our messages and blogs to spread like [...]