Comments on: Do You Write From Your Heart ?

By: Claude

Claude — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:46:54 +0000

To add to #5: Gerald Weinberg puts it this way: “Never attempt to write something you don’t care about.”

By: Lenin Nair

Lenin Nair — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:45:10 +0000

Yes haha, Darren! you are damn right. I well think if my readers will like my post or not. And the second thing: whether someone else wrote about it? also gives me some thought. Writing good english occupies me the most however. Since the blog is about creative writing and grammar, I have to proofread a little closely to find mistakes (sad that I am bad in editing).

However the most important question is are you honest in writing? I am 80 per cent honest, and 20 per cent dishonest (mean money oriented). I don’t target keywords in my writing, but it makes me sad that I cant give hundred percent honesty. There is a reason My blog is not making enough money (not even a penny from it so far) to quit my job. So, I have very limited time in which I have to post new entries every day, and do link building campaigns and commenting like this. So, some of my posts are quickly written! But definitely this is my field, and I am looking forward to full time blogging. When I can earn from my blog, my posts will be hundred percent pure, as your posts here are, Darren.

Lenin

By: GirlPie

GirlPie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:29:02 +0000

Smart post, good quotes, but I must suggest that, while writing from the heart is perfect for a first draft, there’s more to connecting with your Reader than “just say it.”

Writers must remember that the point of writing anything other than a diary is TO BE READ, to connect with the Reader. So we must take into account not just “saying it” but also “what the Reader ‘hears’.”

If the writing, usage, and punctuation are poor, they hinder the Reader from ‘hearing’ your point. You should ‘write from the heart’ in your first capture-the-passion draft. THEN review, re-read, correct, edit, proof-not-just-run-spellcheck, and look at it with fresh eyes, like the Reader you intend to reach.

Using the writers’ tools correctly doesn’t hamper your passion; it’s the 2nd stage of the process of writing to connect with your Reader. Just ’saying it’ leaves the Reader out of the equation. Sorry, but that’s called a diary.

Terrific post –

By: Technology Blog

Technology Blog — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:40:52 +0000

It feels good to know that Hinduism and words of Swami Vivekananda helps in Blogging. In India we are forgetting our own roots and becoming more western, when people from the west are using our principles. Let me not deviate from the topic. Nice post, very informative. You forgot to tell THE most important point, ‘to use common sense’

By: Clay Collins | The Growing Life

Clay Collins | The Growing Life — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:08:01 +0000

You said it! Great post, Abhijeet.

By: Clay Collins | The Growing Life

Clay Collins | The Growing Life — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:06:36 +0000

You said it! Great post, Darren.

By: Pentad

Pentad — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:34:20 +0000

Can’t be done any other way!

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:09:26 +0000

When I am writing a blog post on my blog I don’t consider whether users will like my post because it is my blog and most of the stuff I post is written with full passion. Majority of the times my readers tell me if they don’t like something in the post.

Which helps me to write better the next time …

By: Writing Solutions for netrepreneurs

Writing Solutions for netrepreneurs — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:52:55 +0000

I agree with you Dave and like I posted:

” If it doesn’t come from you then where will it come from?
Will it come from advanced Google searching…
Will it come from PLR articles…
Will it come from advanced plageurism…
Or will it come from your mother…”

Only that which is original will truly endure the tests of time.

By: Dave Hughes

Dave Hughes — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:07:45 +0000

To me, it goes back to one of the most basic pieces of advice a blogger can receive…”blog on a topic you’re passionate about”.

If you do that, it’s almost impossible to NOT write “from your heart”…heaven knows I let mine bleed all over my MMORPG blog. Why?

Because I care about the topic I’m writing about.

I think this was an excellent piece, because if you’re asking yourself ANY of those questions while you’re writing…well, you’re doing it for the wrong reasons in my opinion.

To me, writing is an activity that something inside you makes you feel you have to do…success is just a potential by-product.

By: Eugenia Renskoff

Eugenia Renskoff — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:53:45 +0000

I think that writing from the heart is great. I have often been told that this is one of my talents. I just write what I feel. Eugenia Renskoff

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:36:41 +0000

Abhijeet…wow…thank you for echoing all that goes on in my mind and heart, as well! My blog is new, right now I’m getting zero views and no clicks, and while alot of that may be the ‘layout’ etc., I think much of the reason may be my subject matter. But I am writing about what I believe in with deep passion and conviction, and I will not alter that for increased traffic or monetary concerns. Solid encouragement, thank you again.

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:58:54 +0000

Well, I always wrote my articles which I felt from what I feel and what I feel is right. Everything in my blog is straight and straight forward. I do not hurt people’s feelings. About the articles in my blog, I try to write about as much unique article as possible.

By: Scott Fillmer

Scott Fillmer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:30:11 +0000

There is an old saying but probably true, “do what you love and the money will follow”. Meaning not that we will all be rich, but that we can probably make a living out of doing what we love if we try.

By: Avinash

Avinash — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:24:22 +0000

Great post Abhijeet. Terrific blog as well. Keep up the good work.

By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:17:33 +0000

good post and I must say that I sometimes I just blog with my head instead of my heart. I think head and heart must be 2 become 1. Language sometimes do get in the way, like how to spell it in other words.

By: Paul W. Davis

Paul W. Davis — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:33:47 +0000

I must write from the heart. It won’t work any other way. Of course, I don’t write for money either.

By: GolfSpy X

GolfSpy X — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:43:31 +0000

So true! Great point.

By: zowoco

zowoco — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:30:15 +0000

Yes, I almost always write from the heart. When I want to plug an affiliate product I don’t feel I can do my sales pitch justice unless I have already bought the product for myself and am using it to good effect in my daily online activities.

When I write about marketing and business strategies in general I always connect to something I have done or am implementing. Then I can write with authority which is experience.

When I write about self improvement I draw on my general life experience that I pick up along the way. If we don’t write from the heart what is our writing but shallow dross that will fall by the wayside.

Think of all the great classical writers, poets and playwrights we revere: their work endures because they wrote from the heart. They innovated, did not copy.

Read more from the heart of online marketing tips at zowoco marketing.

By: Caleb

Caleb — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:15:08 +0000

#2 is something some I talk with don’t understand. They sell themselves short with the thinking that “somebody I already wrote about it”.

It’s the unique viewpoint that matters ;)