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Blogs Translating Into Print

The Wonkette has released her first book - a Manchurian Candidate type tale with blogging interwoven into it. The NY Times has given it an ambiguous thumbsdown.

Do blogs translate well into print?

It’s my opinion that in most cases, they don’t at all. A writer can be a blogger, but a blogger can’t pretend to be a writer. It’s one thing to be the master of the witty–oh-so-clever-and-entertaining short post, but it’s a different ball game when it comes to writing anything beyond 2500 words for most bloggers people.

Writing a novel is akin to running a marathon race. You have to have discipline, determination and training. It’s not like you sit up in bed one morning and say “Hey, I think I’ll write a novel and maintain a blog at the same time”.

Blogging also makes you lazy. You get used to saying what you want to say in highly condensed short bursts of sentences. It makes you shy away from developing plots or char development. This makes for a lousy read.

Anyway, I’ll go buy the book and read it first, ok?

Disclaimer:
Look, I’m not even going to pretend that I’m a writer. My grammar and spelling is atrocious - it makes my editor grimace in agony whenever I send her anything.

Unless a blogger already previously existed as a writer, it seems the natural profession for a blogger would be a columnist: opinions and insights of current events in short-and-sweet bouts of witticisms.

I can so imagine her grimace lol ;)

Good grammer does not a writer make. But that aside, I think people forget that readerships of blogs and print are not necessarily the same.

reading blogs is free. the proof in ur “good writing” is when ppl actually have to pay for it/

and i dont think there’s only commentary stuf that bloggers can do. why limit yourselves? there’s alw niches that other ppl avoided that u can snuggly jump into. :)

you should check “Hope they serve beer in hell” by Tucker Max.