A Roar!

I've been awarded a Roar! by Mr Haddock of Marburg, an Englishman in Germany. Naturally I am extremely honoured. My poetry and short story writing has been rather lax recently and I'm happy people remember those posts. This blog was originally intended to be a reworking of the Bible, followed by the Koran, but due to complaints it eventually went from filthy sex manual to a collection of my poetry, stories and political observations.

Here are the details of the award: Those people I've given this award to are encouraged to post it on their own blogs; list three things they believe are necessary for good, powerful writing; and then pass the award on to the five blogs they want to honour, who in turn pass it on to five others, etc., etc. Let's send a roar through the blogsphere! The image at the top left can be copied and pasted onto other blogs. Also, a small size of the award for sidebars can be found over at the writing circle site.

My tips to good and powerful blog writing are:

• Try to keep copy & pasting down to a minimum. The online newspaper article or magazine humour is most likely riveting reading but only on the original site, not yours. Provide a link and write about it in your own words. When I see pages of quotes from other sources I usually move on.
• Spend time on all your blog posts. Correct spelling errors, grammatical mistakes and test its readability. Too many bloggers write a quick draft in order to get rid of the day's requirement post leaving it clear to readers that it has no emotion or devotion behind it. If you want a blog post to be linked to and your ranking to rise, then make each entry special, even if it's as simple as making the post look nice.
  
• Find a niche and write industriously on that particular theme. My niche is short stories about the people I see in public(flash literature) and poetry (both of which have been a little neglected recently). New niches will no doubt arrive. Find a writing subject, style or type that suits your personality and that you find interesting, then try to write at least four posts a week.

I award the Roar! award to:

Sicily Scene: The tales of a cultured Welsh lady in Sicily. Wonderfully interesting posts especially for food lovers.

Nourishing Obscurity: A British heat seeking missile living in Russia. A vast array of different but interesting subjects are paraded for the reader's interest. Proud to say 'Merry Christmas' too!

Shades of Grey: The architecturally inclined Yorkshireman. Being an architecturally inclined Lancastrian (by birth) I have no hard feelings towards a thoroughly interesting and well written blog from across The Pennines.

Like Mr Haddock, I will choose just 3.