Finding Writers Who Can Actually Write
My personal vision for the Bloggy Network is that it must, at its core, be a creative outlet for quality writing. If I could release my pet genie, I’d have all the greatest minds and writers in the world sharing their views on our blogs every day of the week. The thing that attracted me to blogging in the first place was its creative potential- the fact that one can immediately publish your writing (your personal opinions, thoughts, dreams and experiences) and share them with others across the world without geographic boundaries, political censorship or any time delay. The same could be said for the internet as a whole, but none as user-friendly or mainstream as is the case with blogs.
We must write unique, original and interesting stuff. And if we don’t, on my head be it. The dilemma, as any “blog network” owner must find- is getting people who can actually write. The only way to achieve this (that I can think of) is to create a platform that is sufficiently prestigious, so that those with the skill to articulate “life” on a certain level – will want to do so for free, knowing that the exposure guarantees impact.
That means a Top 100 blog and we’re not there yet! When I think of one of my most successful author friends, Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later, etc)- if I paid him and instructed him what to write about, apart from charging an arm and a leg, he’d do it begrudgingly for me at best. If I begged him to write about something he wanted to write on (knowing him, whatever he was feeling annoyed about at the time) and told him I couldn’t afford to pay him at all, he’d do it happily and enthusiastically!
Such, ironically, is the psyche of writers who can actually write....
So the aim here, first and foremost, is to create a blog that will attract the very best in writers and then, by natural recourse, a quality reader base. I have my doubts about whether you can “buy” this. It’s tempting at this point to do a bit of mud-slinging. I’m just amazed at the nonsense that is spewed out daily on some fairly high-profile blogs, owned by well known blog networks. So many, many words and such little sense. Aaargh! I’ve got my own problems. Sometimes discretion is indeed the better part of valor...
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On joining blog networks: Be careful what you sign up for // Bloggy Pro said this on September 26, 2006 11:32 pm