BTM, You have a beautiful blog David, I really like it.

Salutations,

Fred

How could we not agree with such a writing? It’s impossible…

So, I would like to suggest a book to David: “On Writing Well” by William Zinsser. For Zinsser, a good writing is a “human” one. One that you know it was written by someone human This is applicable for any type of writing: corporate, personal, memo note, technical, anniversary card, etc.

However, when I read this book some months ago, I tought that all bloggers ought to read it. Everything is in the writing style :)

I think I blogged something on this book… wait I’ll check it… Yes I wrote something about the general idea of the book, but I tought that I had wrote some quotes, unfortunately, I didn’t. So, you can have an idea of the book by reading this post.

I hope you’ll enjoy it,

Salutations,

Fred

The hardest thing I find though is to show personality in a blog because many of the jokes that people tell sometimes have more of a personal “inner-circle” meaning rather than a general thing everyone can understand and relate to.

I find the best written blogs are from people that would be considered by most to be well-rounded, and interested in the world they live in, and their surroundings, and while they usually have a positive message, sometimes bad things happen to them (and then they complain and are bitter) which makes them seem more human rather than text on the screen. Dooce is a good example of that in my opinion.

If a blog is always positive and happy and the person has nothing negative to say, after a year or two you wonder if you are only getting a highly filtered version of them, and that as a reader of many blogs, makes me feel disconnected from the writer. I don’t need to know when they went to the washroom, but I’d love to feel like they want me to understand something about them.