Our guest speaker on Tuesday was British writer Alan Smith. We were privilaged to have him as our guest because he has more of an international view on blogging. As a writer, Mr. Smith focused more on the rhetoric side of blogging. He is more of a critique of the grammar, spelling and other English based qualities. He was helpful to me as a blogger because one of the big blogging questions i had, finally been answered. Yes, grammar and sentence structure is a very important quality to a successful blog. Conforming to popular rhetoric and slang within a blog post is the quickest way to become viewed as cheap and immature.
As a writer, Alan was always trying to come up with new and improved writing styles in order to keep the attention of the viewer. He 110% sold his ideas to every publisher despite how negatively he viewed his writings. You have to sell the idea in order to even get thepublisher to consider reading it. Along with that, you actually have to have decent writing to get your work published. Another piece of advice Alan gave was that if you can't distiguish the apostrophe placement in your, you're, you might as well give it up!
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