Comments on: Blog Exercises: Random Editing Day http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Blog Exercises: May Random Editing Day « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-992850 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:57:42 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-992850 […] May. It’s starting to warm up outside in the north, and growing a bit chilly down under, but it’s that time again. It’s the May Random Editing Day. […]

]]> By: A Simple Checklist for Editing and Optimizing Old Blog Posts http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-978436 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:00:53 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-978436 [...] you browsed through our last links mashup edition you may well have come across Lorelle's Random Editing Day post. To put it in her [...]

]]> By: The Best WordPress Posts Across the Blogosphere in January 2013 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-976156 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:00:53 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-976156 [...] Blog Exercises: Random Editing Day: I love the concept of a "random editing day" (although I perhaps wouldn't make it so random) and am definitely going to start doing it myself. [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-975550 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:08:46 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-975550 Thank you. I agree that it is important for us to edit before we publish, but the web makes it easy to fix it at any time, unlike traditional media that preserves our boo boos eternally. We just need the incentive, thus the monthly random editing day idea. I’ll have inspiration for the types of posts and the ideas to consider when editing the posts in the future, keeping it fresh.

]]> By: Eleanor Vincent http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-975515 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:33:42 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-975515 Since I am an editor in my day job, and a writer by vocation and trade, I love this post! Thanks, Lorelle, for encouraging bloggers to revise. As a wonderful teacher of mine once said, “Writing is rewriting.”

I appreciate all I learn about WordPress and blogging from you. Excellent work!

Eleanor

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-975317 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:14:32 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-975317 Hey, Maria!

Those of us with thousands of published posts – random is the best we can get. LOL! I call it the stumble-upon effect. If the post is hit by social media like StumbleUpon, I edit.

We have a link list exercise coming up, so I’d love to have you share your tips on how to create these links when that arises. We’ll also be tackling link checking as well, a never-ending job. Oh, I wish it was easier. Isn’t it easier yet? LOL!

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-975316 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:12:11 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-975316 Sorry you lost some formatting during the transition, and good for you. Excellent!

]]> By: mercedescoleen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-975302 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:56:09 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-975302 Hello Lorelle

I smiled as I read your post. I do have random editing days in which I mainly retag my posts and edit paragraph formatting which went missing in action when I moved my blog to WordPress.com.

Peace, blessings and angelic proserity.

Mercedes
http://pppministries.wordpress.com
http://thelordsangels.wordpress.com

]]> By: Maria http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-975290 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:23:09 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-975290 I do this occasionally when I re-read old posts. But my archive has over 2,200 posts, most of which are at least as long as this one. (5,000 words is not uncommon.) So I know I’ll never get through them all.

One of the things I also do is combine daily link lists (generated automatically as WordPress posts by a plugin that works with Delicious) into a large monthly link list. Because I often have 10-20 of these daily lists a month, it reduces the total number of posts. While it’s true that I’m breaking links to my site when I delete those old lists, I think I’m sort of neatening up the site. And I check those links while combining the lists, too.

]]> By: Susan Jones http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/blog-exercises-random-editing-day/#comment-975213 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:07:02 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7655#comment-975213 OH, MY! VERY useful information. Thanks, Lorelle… love this hotlist. Quite a few I hadn’t thought of. :)

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