Know your elders.
Since launching my site I experimented with writing templates that I created. Writing is a craft, and takes more care than I’ve put into it so far. But I need people who can teach me…
George Orwell gives writers the basics of writing in his essay “Politics and the English Language”. I need to take his principles on writing well and find someone to guide me through the discipline of writing that matters (content) and a style that modern readers care to access (blogging). Sure – Dylan Thomas and space rock, re-imagining, and the benefits of delegation are important to me. But who is my audience? I don’t know! Friends on Facebook? or Twitter? That’s still an awfully small amount of people who don’t have particular interests in any of these three examples.
People like Michael Hyatt got me in to blogging, and it is resourceful people like Jeff Goins that Hyatt suggests teach you how to blog. So last night I signed up for Goins’ free blogging tutorial: “Intentional Blogging”. It’s a twelve week course in Goins’ best practices for writing fresh, interesting content.
Be on the lookout for updates to my website and blogging style in the coming weeks. I plan to have consistent style, tone, and look to my website come May.
Thank you for joining me. I hope you enjoy what I write, and will see that I intend to grow along the way.
Cheers,
Josh
Joshua Encinias
Seems to me, Joshua, rather than agonizing, just write. If you have something pertinent to say, people will be interested. I like how you think, and would be interested in just about any subject you’d like to talk about. So, quit worrying so much and just do it.
PS Orwell is a weird looking dude. I had no idea.
I love this quote for writing:
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
— C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
You can go ahead and fix my broken html, if you don’t mind.