Same Old
Much of what I've written since the beginning of the month has been written before. I wrote it before. What I write now is not the same as what I wrote before. The basic message might be the same, but the words are different. This is what we strive for, the difference in words.
I don't care if you write about the same subject every day for the rest of your life. Each day will be a little different from the day before. What you write at the end of the year will be vastly different from what you wrote about the same subject at the beginning of the year. This means that we can always write about a subject with a fresh perspective. This means that the same subject can have several useful lives.
Take one of these blog entries, for example. These blog entries may be slightly informative and entertaining. The same subject I write here could easily be turned into an article for a writing magazine. Refined even further and it might make its way into a literary journal. The same information, with adaptations, can be used by several sources. This is good business.
This means that we don't always have to be unique and have a fresh topic. This means that we can expand on things we've written in the past and turn them into useful articles. This is not to say they weren't useful to begin with; this is to say that we can breathe new life into our work by revisiting past topics.
Yes, it is repetitive. If you were to read my blog from beginning to end, you would find many things repeated throughout. Is repetition always a bad thing? Not necessarily. A good message can stand to be repeated. A good message might make a greater impact when stated in a different way.
We interact with our readers on many different levels. Not everyone is going to get what we have to say on the first read. If we present our arguments in a couple of different ways, we have a better chance of being got. We also have a tool for writing even went we aren't inspired to come up with new topics. And, if we can use these examples to publish a couple of articles in different places, we've done a good thing for ourselves. We have a chance to boost our own egos and to keep writing while not inspired. I think that is a double bonus.
I don't care if you write about the same subject every day for the rest of your life. Each day will be a little different from the day before. What you write at the end of the year will be vastly different from what you wrote about the same subject at the beginning of the year. This means that we can always write about a subject with a fresh perspective. This means that the same subject can have several useful lives.
Take one of these blog entries, for example. These blog entries may be slightly informative and entertaining. The same subject I write here could easily be turned into an article for a writing magazine. Refined even further and it might make its way into a literary journal. The same information, with adaptations, can be used by several sources. This is good business.
This means that we don't always have to be unique and have a fresh topic. This means that we can expand on things we've written in the past and turn them into useful articles. This is not to say they weren't useful to begin with; this is to say that we can breathe new life into our work by revisiting past topics.
Yes, it is repetitive. If you were to read my blog from beginning to end, you would find many things repeated throughout. Is repetition always a bad thing? Not necessarily. A good message can stand to be repeated. A good message might make a greater impact when stated in a different way.
We interact with our readers on many different levels. Not everyone is going to get what we have to say on the first read. If we present our arguments in a couple of different ways, we have a better chance of being got. We also have a tool for writing even went we aren't inspired to come up with new topics. And, if we can use these examples to publish a couple of articles in different places, we've done a good thing for ourselves. We have a chance to boost our own egos and to keep writing while not inspired. I think that is a double bonus.
posted by Vickie at 9:45 PM
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