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Are You a Blogger or a Writer?

Lee G. Hornbrook
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6 min readJul 19, 2021

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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…

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The Brave Writer
The Brave Writer

Published in The Brave Writer

The next generation of writers breaking barriers together.

Lee G. Hornbrook
Lee G. Hornbrook

Written by Lee G. Hornbrook

Writer, Writing Coach, Writing Process Expert. I can help you become a better writer. Follow at leehornbrook.substack.com

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You have a very romantic conception of the writer. I think that I was a writer and I was disappointed with the job that had taken me forever to complete. Blogging is a system for disciplining myself to sit down and write. It is practice makes…

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No idea what I am.

I blogged.
I wrote.
I had a book published.

What am I?...

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Thank you. Just thank you.

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