Comments on: Tell me a Story

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:30:36 +0000

A few weeks ago an almost helpless seagull chick landed in my back garden. I started to blog the experience of keeping her fed and watered until she could fly. The first post “Surrogate to an Orphan Seagull” is the second most clicked on feed on the blog. It was only beaten by a post which was linked to by Doc Searl who posted the full feedburner feed, yielding 598 clicks. So, yes, a story, whether human or not will always drag in the punters, especially if it’s true.

By: Julien Marchand

Julien Marchand — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:20:29 +0000

I think than telling a stroy is much better than plain hard facts in many regards. First of all, as it has been said, it captivates the reader and drives more traffic to your site. It’s pretty straightforward. The other reason that is often neglected is that writing such content often keeps the writing interest much higher than it would otherwise be.

But I think that some blogs are better suited than others for this kind of writing. I’m running a science news blog, and it’s pretty hard to adopt a story-like style. Some sites do this well, such as Problogger and Cooking For Engineers (a personal favorite!)

By: Gone Away

Gone Away — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 21:20:00 +0000

Heck, that’s the whole reason behind my blog. And I thought it was a state secret…

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:58:19 +0000

Storytelling is the essential skill for writers, blogs or not. Excellent blogs, like Problogger, do this well. He’s right on.

By: Freelance Dustin

Freelance Dustin — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:56:17 +0000

It's funny a post I put up yesterday I told a story of how I lost my wedding ring. I was just about to post the story of how my boat passed me on the freeway when I was a teenager! No selling in any of these stories ;)

By: Todays Blogger

Todays Blogger — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:55:43 +0000

Creative Weblogging offers attractive incentive

I have several sites that I hit everyday. One of them is Pro Blogger and another is Creative Blogging. I mention Pro Blogger because if it weren’t for them I never would have found Creative Weblogging. I think it is…

By: Jennifer Apple

Jennifer Apple — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:43:17 +0000

Telling stories involves “writing” stories, and I think you’ll enjoy reading this from the Creating Passionate Users site:
“Conversational writing kicks formal writing’s ass”
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/09/conversational_.html