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		<title>By: Lorelle VanFossen</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-78856</link>
		<dc:creator>Lorelle VanFossen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The key to successful blogging, and in anything, is doing it because the passion drives you to do it. Not because you expect something in return. If you do, you are already failing.

As for your use of the word "spammer", I don't understand your usage of the word.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The key to successful blogging, and in anything, is doing it because the passion drives you to do it. Not because you expect something in return. If you do, you are already failing.</p>
<p>As for your use of the word &#8220;spammer&#8221;, I don&#8217;t understand your usage of the word.</p>
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		<title>By: knight17</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-78674</link>
		<dc:creator>knight17</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 23:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am not interested in writing articles and opinions about what Google will do next OR what is the next lawsuit that targets Microsoft.
I hate such blogs and do not really like (Nor I do not have any respect to them).Because it will not give the user any thing, the companies may get profit but I don't get anything, why waste time.
I read productivity blogs..I am a spammer?. If you can consider me as a spammer then well-known blogs like Life hacker etc are in company with me.
I have written about news stories I won't do that extensively, because it is worthless.I try find original stuff and inform about it in my blog, writing everything from scratch is too much time consuming, and I don't have enought time for that after all I am not getting something as a return,
Please don't consider I am aganist you opinions, I respect you and value your suggestions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not interested in writing articles and opinions about what Google will do next OR what is the next lawsuit that targets Microsoft.<br />
I hate such blogs and do not really like (Nor I do not have any respect to them).Because it will not give the user any thing, the companies may get profit but I don&#8217;t get anything, why waste time.<br />
I read productivity blogs..I am a spammer?. If you can consider me as a spammer then well-known blogs like Life hacker etc are in company with me.<br />
I have written about news stories I won&#8217;t do that extensively, because it is worthless.I try find original stuff and inform about it in my blog, writing everything from scratch is too much time consuming, and I don&#8217;t have enought time for that after all I am not getting something as a return,<br />
Please don&#8217;t consider I am aganist you opinions, I respect you and value your suggestions.</p>
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		<title>By: Lorelle VanFossen</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-75573</link>
		<dc:creator>Lorelle VanFossen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do you want the honest answer? If you don't, then don't read farther. ;-)

The content on your blog doesn't appear to be original. Maybe it is, but at first pass through the first several pages of content, it looks like blockquote references to other people's stuff. A paragraph or two and a blockquote, especially when you are using a Theme that doesn't highlight blockquotes visually well, makes it appear like a splog, a blog that uses other people's content, either by full or partial content, as their content. I didn't see anything that looked like your opinion, expression, or original thought. Do you write original articles or mostly quote and reference others?

Trust me, it is better to be the one linked to than the one doing all the linking.

There are English spelling and punctuation problems, which are troublesome for fluent English readers to struggle with, but not the worst things. Why don't you write in your own native language? Why English? I'm always stunned by the passionate attempts non-English speakers make to speak and write in English, especially on blogs, when there are so few blogs of quality out there in their own language. Not that they shouldn't but I'd love to see that same passion available to their fellow native speakers.

Traffic, readers, and attention comes from creating consistent, quality, and focused original content, even if it is combined occasionally with blockquoted content. Make yourself the "source" for information rather than a referral service and you might get the answers you need to your questions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want the honest answer? If you don&#8217;t, then don&#8217;t read farther. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>The content on your blog doesn&#8217;t appear to be original. Maybe it is, but at first pass through the first several pages of content, it looks like blockquote references to other people&#8217;s stuff. A paragraph or two and a blockquote, especially when you are using a Theme that doesn&#8217;t highlight blockquotes visually well, makes it appear like a splog, a blog that uses other people&#8217;s content, either by full or partial content, as their content. I didn&#8217;t see anything that looked like your opinion, expression, or original thought. Do you write original articles or mostly quote and reference others?</p>
<p>Trust me, it is better to be the one linked to than the one doing all the linking.</p>
<p>There are English spelling and punctuation problems, which are troublesome for fluent English readers to struggle with, but not the worst things. Why don&#8217;t you write in your own native language? Why English? I&#8217;m always stunned by the passionate attempts non-English speakers make to speak and write in English, especially on blogs, when there are so few blogs of quality out there in their own language. Not that they shouldn&#8217;t but I&#8217;d love to see that same passion available to their fellow native speakers.</p>
<p>Traffic, readers, and attention comes from creating consistent, quality, and focused original content, even if it is combined occasionally with blockquoted content. Make yourself the &#8220;source&#8221; for information rather than a referral service and you might get the answers you need to your questions.</p>
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		<title>By: knight17</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-75506</link>
		<dc:creator>knight17</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a non English speaker (It is my 3rd language.) I am really having issues writing stuff on my blog.(I know no one is visiting it :( ).I have great content (IMO) but I really fear about the presentation factor. If it is a long post I am worried as I say sometimes to my friends as things get complex(read bigger/lengthier) the chances of errors(read as to keep focus of the reader) becomes more and more difficult. So partitioning it will help but coordinating those pieces to form a "single" post is "very" hard in my case as I don't have many loyal readers many comes to my site from search engines. They will just leave after they get what they want.

Bigger articles are a big NO. Make it short (Write it as different topic Part 1, Part 2 etc) and find a "nice" ("Innovative?") way to organize and present them before the reader.
I really find it astonishing why native English speakers are thinking it is too difficult to write. 
From the most famous blogs to geeky blogs I was able to understand everything. So basically the native English speakers are not using their full potential (What is the difference between me and them?).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a non English speaker (It is my 3rd language.) I am really having issues writing stuff on my blog.(I know no one is visiting it <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> ).I have great content (IMO) but I really fear about the presentation factor. If it is a long post I am worried as I say sometimes to my friends as things get complex(read bigger/lengthier) the chances of errors(read as to keep focus of the reader) becomes more and more difficult. So partitioning it will help but coordinating those pieces to form a &#8220;single&#8221; post is &#8220;very&#8221; hard in my case as I don&#8217;t have many loyal readers many comes to my site from search engines. They will just leave after they get what they want.</p>
<p>Bigger articles are a big NO. Make it short (Write it as different topic Part 1, Part 2 etc) and find a &#8220;nice&#8221; (&#8221;Innovative?&#8221 <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> way to organize and present them before the reader.<br />
I really find it astonishing why native English speakers are thinking it is too difficult to write.<br />
From the most famous blogs to geeky blogs I was able to understand everything. So basically the native English speakers are not using their full potential (What is the difference between me and them?).</p>
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		<title>By: Starting out &#124; bishopeous</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-66553</link>
		<dc:creator>Starting out &#124; bishopeous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This article about writers block seemed appropriate as I try to work out where to start with this blog.  Writing is hard work [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] This article about writers block seemed appropriate as I try to work out where to start with this blog.  Writing is hard work [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Lorelle VanFossen</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-64721</link>
		<dc:creator>Lorelle VanFossen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the kind words, and a bit of a tip. DO NOT use a commercial site, whether you like it or not, for your "name" or website URL when posting a comment. I had to pull some of your other comments out of my spam catching filter because they were thought to be comment spam. Use your name, or a name you make up, and if you don't have a blog or website, you don't have to put anything in the blank of the comment form. It won't hurt you, and in fact, may allow your comment through much easier.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the kind words, and a bit of a tip. DO NOT use a commercial site, whether you like it or not, for your &#8220;name&#8221; or website URL when posting a comment. I had to pull some of your other comments out of my spam catching filter because they were thought to be comment spam. Use your name, or a name you make up, and if you don&#8217;t have a blog or website, you don&#8217;t have to put anything in the blank of the comment form. It won&#8217;t hurt you, and in fact, may allow your comment through much easier.</p>
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		<title>By: shafeek</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-64678</link>
		<dc:creator>shafeek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Judy Rose and Lorelle VanFossen for giving me the chance to read those tips

i didn't start my own blog yet ( can't deny i'm already planning to ) but you make me feel like blogging because i'd love to see people checking what i've wrote today and waiting for tomorrow's article</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Judy Rose and Lorelle VanFossen for giving me the chance to read those tips</p>
<p>i didn&#8217;t start my own blog yet ( can&#8217;t deny i&#8217;m already planning to ) but you make me feel like blogging because i&#8217;d love to see people checking what i&#8217;ve wrote today and waiting for tomorrow&#8217;s article</p>
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		<title>By: Lorelle VanFossen</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-63996</link>
		<dc:creator>Lorelle VanFossen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I adore your blog, Judy, and may be highlighting more in the future. Keep up the fabulous work!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I adore your blog, Judy, and may be highlighting more in the future. Keep up the fabulous work!</p>
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		<title>By: judyrose</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-63866</link>
		<dc:creator>judyrose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Lorelle,
Thank you for your link to my post "When You Can't Get Started Writing". It is gratifying that even now, many weeks after I wrote it, people are still reading it, and finding it helpful. My hits just about doubled too!
Judy Rose</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Lorelle,<br />
Thank you for your link to my post &#8220;When You Can&#8217;t Get Started Writing&#8221;. It is gratifying that even now, many weeks after I wrote it, people are still reading it, and finding it helpful. My hits just about doubled too!<br />
Judy Rose</p>
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		<title>By: Maria</title>
		<link>http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/getting-past-the-writing-starting-gate/#comment-63658</link>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can attest to the power of talking it over before writing it.

Some weeks ago, I had these three rough ideas for things I wanted to write about. They were somewhat related. But I couldn't decide, I wasn't sure if they were good ideas or not, and in some way I wanted to use them all in one post, and didn't know how to do that... So, I "pitched" the three to my husband, asking which one sounded more interesting to him. Which one he would want to read first.

As I explained my ideas, I realized that I was a little more excited and had more to say about one in particular. My husband confirmed it by selecting that one too. The discussion helped focus my thoughts. I was able to write around the main more interesting idea, and just mention tidbits of the other two. Those other two were not strong enough for a post, but were complementary to the main idea.

The discussion was a very good exercise.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can attest to the power of talking it over before writing it.</p>
<p>Some weeks ago, I had these three rough ideas for things I wanted to write about. They were somewhat related. But I couldn&#8217;t decide, I wasn&#8217;t sure if they were good ideas or not, and in some way I wanted to use them all in one post, and didn&#8217;t know how to do that&#8230; So, I &#8220;pitched&#8221; the three to my husband, asking which one sounded more interesting to him. Which one he would want to read first.</p>
<p>As I explained my ideas, I realized that I was a little more excited and had more to say about one in particular. My husband confirmed it by selecting that one too. The discussion helped focus my thoughts. I was able to write around the main more interesting idea, and just mention tidbits of the other two. Those other two were not strong enough for a post, but were complementary to the main idea.</p>
<p>The discussion was a very good exercise.</p>
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