Writing For Your Blog is a Discovery

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Let's take for example that you want to create a blog entry about your visit to a city park. The first step would dictate that you immediately start taking notes about what it looks like, sounds like, smells like, and so on(Prewriting). You list details from the bench you sit on, the way the leaves look in the breeze, the sound of the newborn sparrows, and the smell of honeysuckle. Once your visit is complete, you read through your notes and decide that you have sufficient details to begin writing your rough draft. As you begin writing your outline and rough draft, you focus on the parks beauty, which you feel is the most prominent feature. Therefore, you immediately cross out the notes about the sound of the sparrows and smell of honeysuckle.

Unfortunately, you remember the parks most beautiful quality, a pond that is home to wildlife such as ducks and geese. So, before beginning the second draft, you start taking down notes and writing in your outline about the way the pond looked. But you forget many of the pertinent details and you return to the park to gather more notes.

As you see, writing will not always take you in a straight line from start to finish, from information gathering to final product. You may have to double back to gather more information, to eliminate facts and ideas that are no longer important to your project, or to focus on aspects of your subject that need clarifying.

That's how you can make writing for your blog, always a discovery, and that's what makes it exciting. The more you discover about a subject, the better you understand it and more likely you are to create an article that others will be interested in reading. Such a discovery can often lead to a change in the original focus of the entry, but don't be discouraged by this, such changes are important stages in any project. These changes typically mean you are developing skill as a writer and as a thinker.

-Tone Baily