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All night restaurant, North Kildonan. Luke warm coffee tastes like soap.
I trace your outline in spilled sugar, killing time and killing hope

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You have 56 views, tard.

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You have 56 views, tard.

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I knew my friend must have been wrong. Considering the count hasn't gone up.

Where do you see it?

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All night restaurant, North Kildonan. Luke warm coffee tastes like soap.
I trace your outline in spilled sugar, killing time and killing hope

Check out my photgraphy

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Quote: from Chocolate Thunda at 4:47 pm on Dec. 3, 2009

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You have 56 views, tard.

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I knew my friend must have been wrong. Considering the count hasn't gone up.  

Where do you see it?

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Your profile page will show you it on the left hand side.

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Like a runaway

In any case, if you want your blog to keep up the traffic, I do suggest that whatever you write about, you should try keeping whatever you post concise. If it's general complaints you're doing, you don't want to ramble on unless you have a good reason to (which you may have had in that entry) - you should try to cap yourself around 500 words, kinda like what I've done in my troll blog. No longer than this, but no shorter than this. This makes your entries very easy to read for the type of writing you're doing.

Post edited at 3:36 pm on Dec. 4, 2009 by Bud2400

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58 views is still a fair number of views for just one real entry, though.  I guess you have a large circle of friends and acquaintances who took a look at it?

In any case, if you want your blog to keep up the traffic, I do suggest that whatever you write about, you should try keeping whatever you post concise.  If it's general complaints you're doing, you don't want to ramble on unless you have a good reason to (which you may have had in that entry) - you should try to cap yourself around 500 words, kinda like what I've done in my troll blog.  No longer than this, but no shorter than this.  This makes your entries very easy to read for the type of writing you're doing.

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Well, my English class is around 30 people, and I think almost all of them have read it, and just random people from around my school.

Thanks for the size tip, I do realize now how long my first one was. I just made another one, and I feel it was much more fitting for length and, although not as controversial, still might catch the interest of people with an opinion.

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All night restaurant, North Kildonan. Luke warm coffee tastes like soap.
I trace your outline in spilled sugar, killing time and killing hope

Check out my photgraphy

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Thanks for the size tip, I do realize now how long my first one was. I just made another one, and I feel it was much more fitting for length and, although not as controversial, still might catch the interest of people with an opinion.

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The thing about writing smaller entries is that it makes it far easier to read, believe it or not.  People are much more inclined to read something that's only a page long than something which appears to extend to more than that.  As a result, if you're gonna want to talk at length about a topic, I'd strongly recommend you do it in parts - you address one point in one post, another point in another post, etc.  You can sum up the overarching point in your first post.  That makes it all a lot easier for people to digest.

Blog writing is a lot like news and editorial writing.  If you want to write well for a blog, you should look to see how news articles write.  That kind of writing is designed specifically to appeal to an audience of casual readers.  Opinion articles are a little more in depth and lengthy, but they're decent too.  You find that stuff in a lot of blogs, so if you go that route you'd need to either make yourself unique in some way or just be something for mainly your friends and acquaintances.

But the length thing is hardly a universal rule.  I see a lot of blogs that have really lengthy posts every time (like this one) but do well because of they offer some really extraordinary analysis and do it regularly.  Whatever works for you works, I guess.

And moreover, if you want people to be more interested in your posts, controversy does help a lot.  Style is everything - how you present your opinion is more important than what your opinion actually is.  Just take a look at Abs on here for example - his opinions are quite informed and are fairly reasonable, but he presents it in such a controversial way that people often take issue on that alone, thereby polarizing them from his opinions.  Not sure if you want a lot of controversy, but I will guarantee that it would make any blog more interesting to read.

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The thing about writing smaller entries is that it makes it far easier to read, believe it or not.  People are much more inclined to read something that's only a page long than something which appears to extend to more than that.  As a result, if you're gonna want to talk at length about a topic, I'd strongly recommend you do it in parts - you address one point in one post, another point in another post, etc.  You can sum up the overarching point in your first post.  That makes it all a lot easier for people to digest.  

Blog writing is a lot like news and editorial writing.  If you want to write well for a blog, you should look to see how news articles write.  That kind of writing is designed specifically to appeal to an audience of casual readers.  Opinion articles are a little more in depth and lengthy, but they're decent too.  You find that stuff in a lot of blogs, so if you go that route you'd need to either make yourself unique in some way or just be something for mainly your friends and acquaintances.  

But the length thing is hardly a universal rule.  I see a lot of blogs that have really lengthy posts every time (like this one) but do well because of they offer some really extraordinary analysis and do it regularly.  Whatever works for you works, I guess.  

And moreover, if you want people to be more interested in your posts, controversy does help a lot.  Style is everything - how you present your opinion is more important than what your opinion actually is.  Just take a look at Abs on here for example - his opinions are quite informed and are fairly reasonable, but he presents it in such a controversial way that people often take issue on that alone, thereby polarizing them from his opinions.  Not sure if you want a lot of controversy, but I will guarantee that it would make any blog more interesting to read.

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If I was to go onto more detailed parts in different blogs, on top of that huge one I wrote, would it be a bad thing? Like talk about the school system as a whole or something. I wouldn't want to repeat myself, but I also could go into more details.

Post edited at 7:29 am on Dec. 5, 2009 by Tavis

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All night restaurant, North Kildonan. Luke warm coffee tastes like soap.
I trace your outline in spilled sugar, killing time and killing hope

Check out my photgraphy

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If I was to go onto more detailed parts in different blogs, on top of that huge one I wrote, would it be a bad thing? Like talk about the school system as a whole or something. I wouldn't want to repeat myself, but I also could go into more details.

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It's not bad, but it would be heavy reading if you did something very comprehensive like that.  In a blog setting, it's typically better to just break it all down in a bunch of little points (like one small point per post) that you can just bring all together in a later post.

But who knows, I did link you to that one guy who makes rather long posts almost daily and scores around 200 - 300 comments per post.  If it works, then it works.  This is just what I've found when I did some blog writing.