11 Reasons Why I Won’t Be Returning To Your Blog…

Posted on by Chris The Story Reading Ape

To read this very informative article by Amanda Patterson on WritersWrite,

click on Amanda’s photo or the link below:

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30 thoughts on “11 Reasons Why I Won’t Be Returning To Your Blog…”

  3. Anything with a title like “11 reasons I won’t like you” (or your blog) is bound to irritate some people. I approached that post feeling defensive — before I even read it! I agree totally with one of the comments on the post that objected to gifs and other flashing, bouncing, rage-producing features in a blog post.

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  5. I’ve seen other people say it too, but personally I don’t really see why a blog posting infrequently is a reason against following it. (Obviously you do get more chances for people to notice and follow you if you post more, but that doesn’t mean good but infrequent content shouldn’t be followed by those who do notice it.)
    I follow a fair number of blogs that post less often than once a week, I also don’t unfollow blogs that seem to have stopped entirely; after all following them is the best way to know if they ever start back.

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  6. I thought she made some really valid points that I can learn from. I need to be more consistent, and I never really thought about the background color making it difficult to read, for example. I don’t agree with ALL of her points, but overall I found it really helpful.

    Thanks for sharing it!

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      • I recently visited a blog written by someone who isn’t a writer. Once my mind adapted to that fact, the information about women in history was captivating. I’d be concerned that a blogger with so much to offer would feel inadequate, be discouraged, and abandon blogging. My mom’s favorite old cliche was this: “Never throw the baby out with the bath water.” The concept is as true today as it was 200 years ago. Blogging isn’t the same as report writing and there’s an audience just waiting for every blogging style. I like the way that drewdog2060 put it, “…the rules applicable to penning a business letter or a university assignment can not simply be read across to poetry or other forms of writing.”

        I’ll get off the bandwagon now. I apologize if I’m beating a dead horse (2 more great cliches). 🙂

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  9. I wrote her an answer that will not be to her liking. She is welcome never to read my blog – but we all know here that my blog is written in German anyway, so she would not even be able to understand. She sounds VERY entitled. I would even have used the stronger arrogant, but I wanted to make a point, I did not want to insult her.

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    • I’m curious regarding how Amanda might react to MY blog Fran, since I concentrate on presenting information, promoting of authors and contributions from others, injecting humour and variety rather than do all the writing myself (and rarely at that)
      Then there’s my photo…🤔😄😄😄

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  10. So sorry to hear that she won’t be visiting my blog (or visiting it again).

    I began a blog because an agent said I needed a “platform.” I continue my blog solely for the purpose of writing my heart out. Some days that means an overuse of adjectives. Other days it means poetry, rants, humor, conversations with myself or descriptions of dogs and cats living together. NEVER will I understand the idiosyncrasies of English grammar, punctuation and editorial squiggles (my sister, an editor for over 40 years, tried her best and all she accomplished from the gargantuan effort was a better understanding of dyslexia). If it means I’ll continue to have 30 likes instead of 300, I’m good with that. 🙂

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