Comments on: Wearing Two Hats – Writer or Blogger?

By: The Jose Vilson — Express Yourself (Do It To It)

The Jose Vilson — Express Yourself (Do It To It) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:31:20 +0000

[...] – Blogging Without Writing: Writing’s great, and I love it to no end. I love taking my time with what I’m saying, and expressing myself as I please, taking my time with what I write. Others won’t. There’s a difference. However, just because you don’t write well doesn’t mean you can’t be a good blogger. (There’s a good discussion on it here.) [...]

By: rüya tabirleri

rüya tabirleri — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:14:52 +0000

My logic is simple ….If you write sth on papers u r a writer …if u write it on net u r a blogger

By: charlotteotter

charlotteotter — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:39:04 +0000

I’m coming to the party late here, but I found this post very interesting because it’s a question I’ve considered. I think I am a writer who blogs. I am a freelance journalist, so I have customers who pay me to write. I am an aspiring novelist, so I write creatively. I am also a writer who blogs – for fun, for entertainment, for release, for inspiration, for making contact with other writers and readers. Thanks Lorelle for making me define myself!

By: ecko4inc

ecko4inc — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:58:37 +0000

As a newcomer to blogging and an “amateur” writer, your posts have been tremendously useful in giving me some idea as to how to overcome the personal temptation to just go “blah” onto the web. Blogging is a genre of writing as much as say, science-fiction, and has its own set of rules and guidelines, forms of expression. Freedom of expression is by no means a guarantee of good forms of expression and I intend to keep an eye out for more tips and hints to improve my skills in the blogging genre. The “how to write like a wanker” certainly gave me pause for thought as to what I’m posting and why. Its easy to feel alienated and lost in front of your computer, blogging just to get things off one’s chest – in (cyber)space, noone can hear you scream.

By: The Best Bloggers Edit « Lorelle on WordPress

The Best Bloggers Edit « Lorelle on WordPress — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:07:45 +0000

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A Beginners Guide to Blogging at Business Performance Coaching — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:04:54 +0000

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By: Lorelle on WordPress » Blogger or Newzblogger? Good Question

Lorelle on WordPress » Blogger or Newzblogger? Good Question — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:51:41 +0000

[...] Ad Age’s article, “A Blogger is Just a Writer With a Cooler Name”, echoes an earlier post on this site about the differences, and similarities, between writers and bloggers, but sums it up by admitting: And it occurred to me that there is no such thing as blogging. There is no such thing as a blogger. Blogging is just writing — writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology. Even though I tend to first use Microsoft Word on the way to being published, I am not, say, a Worder or Wordder. [...]

By: jennifercoke.com » Blog Archive » Me, Me, Me

jennifercoke.com » Blog Archive » Me, Me, Me — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:58:14 +0000

[...] Then in troubleshooting my crashed site at WordPress, the weblog platform I use here, I stumbled on Lorelle VanFossen’s article on the writer as blogger, which then led me to this interesting piece, The Author’s Dilemma: To Blog or Not to Blog by Claire E. White. Told you I was a master squanderer of time! [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:03:30 +0000

Ria: You found it! Actually, there are a couple others in there on purpose.

I left that in there to see if 1) Anyone noticed, 2) An example of a common error, and 3) to make the point that the article also represents, which you just made for me.

As for your last statement, I know a lot of writers and photographers, including myself, who also blog, so the lines are definitely blurry.

By: Ria

Ria — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:28:01 +0000

“I will rework a phrase or *to* that leads you from one paragraph or section to another”

Sometimes those critters sneak through the finest editing.

I think the biggest difference you mention is between a professional and an amateur writer. The other distinctions are too blurry. A writer writes; a blogger blogs; a photographer photographs.