Coming to your site, which is great by the way, has shown how drastically writing styles can differ from print media to electronic media.

When I submit an article to the copydesk, there can’t be spelling mistakes, structural errors or poor grammar. It’s easy to get in strife when you force the copy editor to act as co-writer of a piece. A five hundred word article for print can take anywhere between five and twenty-four hours of work, in total, depending on the content – an advertorial for example would require less work because the facts don’t need to be so thoroughly checked.

I’ve posited my blog as an online alternative to local and provincial news media outlets. Essentially, I intend to run stories I’ve pitched that haven’t been accepted in print – at least, the ones I think are good copy.

The blog will live or die on content. I can’t imagine putting up three or four posts a day that just reference another media outlet. However, I think I’ve got a bit of work to do with writing style: the ‘running dialogue’ issue is very important, as I’m used to presenting a complete article. I want to put up complete articles, but I don’t want to turn potential readers away because the articles seem too inaccessible or impersonal.

Thanks for the excellent posts, by the way.