Rules for blogging
“Is this your ‘fall gothic’ blog look?” Karin asks.
Nah, I just compulsively reformat and revise, as regular readers know.
The most significant change is that the section-separating diamonds (♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦) are now tomato-colored, not orange. This would be tricky to implement globally rather than one entry at a time. So I haven’t done it all yet.
Some of my rules for blogging:
Nah, I just compulsively reformat and revise, as regular readers know.
The most significant change is that the section-separating diamonds (♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦) are now tomato-colored, not orange. This would be tricky to implement globally rather than one entry at a time. So I haven’t done it all yet.
Some of my rules for blogging:
- Get the formatting right
- Corollary: learn the necessary HTML
- Get the prose right
- Revise style unstintingly
- Revise substance sparingly
- Post ten times per month (this constrains revision)
- Tell the truth
- Use free fonts
- Don’t try to make money
- Don’t track pageviews (I do see what countries my readers and reader-bots come from, but I can’t distinguish between them)
- Allow comments from human beings, not bots (right now, I’m failing to allow comments at all)
- Don’t worry about who reads (exception: Madame)
- Don’t worry if your wife doesn’t always read
- Don’t worry if people who once read don’t now
- Don’t worry if your content is utterly trivial
- You have almost nothing to say
- This blog is for exercise
- Just follow your very long nose; then retrace and clean up
- Write more like a Briton than like a gringo
- Corollary: some convolution is acceptable
- But emulate your stylist-heroes (e.g., Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh)
- If, in overall conception, you must emulate someone, let it be Pepys
- Read more Pepys so you know what you’re talking about
- The Shorter Pepys should suffice
- But it might not