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layout: post
title: Blogging for real people
tags: [ miscellaneous ]
published: true
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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!
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