Apr 28, 5:10 AM
How to Write a Good Blog
Anime Relations:
Naruto
So you want to become a blogger but you don't know where to start or how to write, well in this blog I'll show you how to make a blog easily. It's actually pretty simple how to write and once you know how it's very fun to express yourself. To get a blog at same standard as me, you’re usually looking at around 900 words minimum that's mainly opinionated throughout. You can, like me go a bit above that just to be something somewhere in the 1000 words ballpark or can be even more up to 3500 as long as it's more opinion than facts.
(If you're doing a review of an anime, you can review the 5 points; story, characters, sound/voices/music, animation, art (style)/character design, enjoyment as well)
First before you start you need a plan or what you are going to write about, so put the premise or helps to have an idea of the title of the blog first. Also, if you're doing a anime, review, then start the description of the anime or character. Once you know what you wanna talk about them here's where you put the bullet points of everything you have on your mind and the topics in the blog, write all your thoughts down even if it's messy; you can even do this when you're watching or reading (this is what we call a rough draft) You can put your points at point and re-establish when you make opinions and talk with your opinion about them. Opinionated means your thoughts, feelings, personal reasoning, using explanation. Stating just the facts without using opinion, will not be able to get featured so always add in your opinion as much as possible.
Now before we start to write we have to take an English lesson on how paragraphs work. The layout for a paragraph is usually point, evidence, explain & opinion and you add contrast, comparison, analysis, opinions within or after the explain to strengthen your writing. It starts with your point "Anime like this and that all do this", then evidence it "has this because blah blah", explain and opinion the "reason it because this" and "i find this amazing because….". Make sure to put your opinion every paragraph and as much as you can or it won't be able to get featured. Also, a blog or a topic usually starts with an introduction so make sure you lean the audience into what you're about to say so it's more engaging.
You can do the PEEO to start a paragraph then expand with an analysis, where you want to point the thing you want to analyse, collect your examples, construct your argument or claim compared to your examples and almost debate with yourself to prove your point, then you present the why your side is correct or you can say the cons and pros as well. Now you don't have to use this layout but you can switch them around as long as it's a paragraph that makes sense and is readable and opinions or personality which we'll talk about on how to level up your blogs.
Now after you do your first paragraph, you can expand more branches off your thoughts bubble, if you have one in your mind or you can make a thought bubble on paper. For example, "this is why I extremely like this because.." expanding your paragraphs will strengthen your thoughts and blog. You can also reference and contrast to other example to show how it's better or worse than the reference to prove your ideas, "when anime uses this I really like it and makes me feel super excited for example in Attack on Titan when this happen or someone does something … etc, etc"
Now, the best way to learn how to blog is to practise even if you're terrible or even if you can't write 900-3500 words. The best policy is to just have a go if you really want to write because your passion and drive will make you get into your own world like you're reading a book. Then you'll have written more than you expected, it's like if you're going to the gym; you may not feel like going or be lazy but once you get into it with low expectations you'll go above that and feel great.
A great way to make your blogs more enjoyable is to add personality into your writing, engage with questions that your reader can think about and then give your opinion on them. Add your psyche onto the page, explain the reasoning on a personal level without exposing yourself too much as you don't want to over-share or go on tangents which will make the reader stop. Well, blogging is basically going on tangents but articulate in a somewhat formal way with reasonable writing. Another big one is humour, if you sprinkle in lighthearted humour then you can add more enjoyment into reading and writing too; for example you can make jokes but try not to be too ironic as a lot of people will believe you.
Reason you don't want to fill your blog with a lot of irony to prove a point is because irony is very counterintuitive, if your point doesn't come across fully or convincingly to the audience then your irony will not work. In turn will make you look stupid and prove against your points and if your previous or future words or actions contradict your irony then it can make the reader just think of you as a fool. Use irony to a minimum, unless you want to make a joke blog which will probably be very misunderstood (trust me I tried it). A rant or venting too much without giving critical criticism can ruin your writing and even your grammar if you go on for too long and ultimately will make your writing suck. Make sure you don't go for more than at most 2 paragraphs on one small point as, if you can't expand well or branch off and stay stuck on repeating yourself or one thing it can be a bad rant.
Instead try constructive criticism, criticism is meant to help change and reevaluate a subject and do not use deconstructive criticism because it can destroy and harm your target by mocking without having solutions. Best way to do this is to also have positives as well as negatives so it's not just an attack at the thing you're talking about. Now this not a strict guide on how to blog it's just to help you and what to add to the blog, all of it you can add to a blog and it can be a certified coma approved blog, but blogging is about freedom and expression there's no one way to write
Thanks for Reading!
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Konatose
| Apr 28, 5:10 AM |
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