BEANERY ONLINE LITERARY MAGAZINE
TIPS ON HOW TO WRITE
The first two newspapers I worked for basically took the articles I submitted and published them “as was.” Errors, incoherencies, and all.
Then I met Paul Heyworth, editor of the Fay-West section of the Greensburg Tribune-Review (PA). Having recently moved to Connellsville, Pennsylvania, I hadn’t been motivated to approach the newspaper about writing for them until I signed up for a conference on gangs. In my previous community, where I headed a family support program and was a pastor’s spouse, I had often submitted articles to two newspapers on conferences and seminars I attended. I believe it’s called “multi-tasking.”
I set up an appointment to speak with Paul—I believe it was an “interview.” He told me to bring in several clips. When I arrived, he used speed-reading to evaluate them before asking me how many articles a week I was planning to submit. I only intended, at that point, to write the one.
After getting by that bump in the interview, Paul told me he expected me to be in the news office when the articles were edited.
In a very early submission, he questioned a word I used.
“Don’t you think that word is too large for Fayette County readers?”
I said that I was a county resident who read the paper, that not all readers were unable to understand that word. Not all readers were uneducated.
“Besides, don’t you think that some readers will look the word up in a dictionary and learn something?”
After that, I made certain there was one challenging word in each article I submitted. These words were never removed.
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This is a roundabout way for me to introduce a post I read: 11 Smart Tips for Brilliant Writing. And in using “larger” words, I violated Tip number (more…)
Blogsite or a Website: What’s the difference?
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BEANERY ONLINE LITERARY MAGAZINE
BLOGSITE OR WEBSITE: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
What’s the difference between a blogsite and a website?
This question was raised at the Beanery Writers Group (Latrobe, PA) meeting in early May. It is a significant question, because the group’s unique project is publishing the Beanery Online Literary Magazine (www.beanerywriters.wordpress.com ).
Being computer illiterate, I had to plead ignorance of the answer. I held the impression that blogs were easier and cost less.
To answer the question, I plugged it into the search engine.
Examining various sites made me feel better about being unable to define the differences. …since the differences have become increasingly blurred for many bloggers and users*— the difference…is steadily vanishing. These channels are definitely converging.*** there are shades of gray.##
Initially blogs, a condensation of the word “weblog,” were viewed as a web log or online diary… a place where a blogger can generate a log of interesting personal comment and intimate details and information about a particular niche subject or topic * Today, although many blogs continue to be personal ramblings about daily life,…that is only one aspect of the blogosphere – and a fairly trivial one at that.***Currently, blogs range (more…)