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6+1 Ways to Compelling & Elegant Blog Posts

June 7, 2006 by Liz

Atilla, the Great Idea Killa

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Ideas. Everyone talks about getting ideas. I get one. It’s great. I jump on it. I start to write. Soon enough I find myself in a pile of mush — words all over, thoughts in too many places.

What made me think this was a great idea? Now I’ve wasted all of this time. Here I sit — still no blog post and now one mangled idea. it isn’t pretty. What the heck am I doing wrong here? I was sure this idea was great. I am Atilla, the Great Idea Killa.

Yeah, I do that too.

I Want Compelling & Elegant!

The truth is that most ideas misbehave. They’re just not strong the way they come to us. They have a problem staying on track. Sometimes they fall apart. Often, they’re too large or stray all over the place. Your average idea needs a little help to be what it will be when it grows up to be a “Hey, lookat me” blog post. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Checklists, Idea Bank, Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Personal Branding, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: 6+1-Traits-of-Effective-Blog-Writing, bc, blog-promotion, blog-writing, focusing-ideas, ideas, Writing-Power-for-Everyone

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