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Are You a Blogger or a Writer?
Bloggers and writers are creatively similar but their habits differ considerably.
If you’re trying to be a blogger, then be a blogger. If you’re trying to be a writer, then be a writer. I think it’s useful to sort the two and decide what you’re trying to be.
The hill of wildflowers vs. a carefully planned garden
Think of a hill of wildflowers vs. a carefully planned garden. Among those wildflowers may be patches of utter beauty. There are flowers here and there that shine among the neighbors, but overall, there is a wildness to it all. That’s the blogging world.
The carefully planned garden allows each variety to shine within its neighborhood, placed in just the right light next to plants of a supporting role. That’s the writing world, with its careful displays in bookshop windows.
Now take a carefully planned garden that looks like a hill of wildflowers — that can be the highest form of written expression, a work of genius, the illusion of wildness but with a supreme deftness of control.
Or that same garden that looks like a hill of wildflowers could be a failed work, something that overshot its mark and just doesn’t work. Such is the subjective nature of judging art. One…