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title: Blogging for real people
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Writing blog posts is already a hard task, imagine if you want to write for
other people...! Let me try and share my thoughts on this, it's even a way for
me to keep up with my writing habit.

What better way to know what to do than taking a look at good blogs out there!
I'll take some of the best that I know, if you know others please spill 'em
out!.

* A <strong>catchy title</strong> should already make your brain spark inside,
  pretty much like this one I guess. If you have your own blog it should be a
  subject of your interest, or if you don't but would like to start one blog,
  now it's a good chance to start off pretty well!
* A <strong>simple shorthand</strong> like [Bryan
  Veloso](http://avalonstar.com)'s is a killer, I just love to know what the
  post is all about with a simple touch of uniqueness. Like a newspaper, every
  article always has a shorthand to let the reader know if the article is of
  his interest or not without reading it all.
* I don't need to say that grammar should be checked before publishing a post,
  but more important than that is actually **providing a story line** that
  enhances its reading in the way that readers enjoy a story more than loose
  thoughts. This way you even create more reasonable means to actually
  understand the post's content and it sticks in people's mind.
* **Images / videos** support an idea like nothing else does. I
  guess I don't need to say anything else.
* There's also another thing that I found lately and I find of the upmost
  importance: **the text to read should be visually appealing.**
  - I used to have a dark purple _background_ under white text and it
    was not the best idea I came up with because it was freaking hard to read.
  - Not just the colors, _whitespace _should be taken into
    consideration.

These really play a big role for me. [Dave Shea](http://mezzoblue.com)'s blog
is a great example on this matter.

How about yourself? Do you have any other details you take into consideration?
Should you have a certain blog you find readable, leave your contribution!