1. A BURDZEYEVIEW ON BLOGGING
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings
because it has a song”
Maya Angelou

2. HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY...
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
 http://www.scottishrepublic.eu/
 http://derekbateman.co.uk/
 http://order-order.com/
 http://lastyearsgirl.pixlet.net/

3. .. THAT NO ONE ELSE IS SAYING
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly --
they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re
pierced”
 http://lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk/
 http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/
 http://www.oneurope.biz/oneurope_live_blog
 http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/

4. LESS IS ALWAYS MORE
“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write
'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be
just as it should be.”
 http://bigrab.wordpress.com/
 http://stephennoon.blogspot.co.uk/
 http://loveandgarbage.wordpress.com/

5. BUT MORE WILL MAKE YOU BETTER
“Good prose should be transparent, like a window
pane”
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it
with a club”
 http://iainmacwhirter.wordpress.com/
 http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/author/alex-massie/
 http://carons-musings.blogspot.co.uk/

6. IT AIN’T ALWAYS EASY
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a
typewriter and bleed”
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they
make as they go by.”
“You never have to change anything you got up in the
middle of the night to write”

7. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE VOICE
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it
logical; don't edit your own soul according to the
fashion. Rather, follow your most intense
obsessions mercilessly”
 http://imsobendyithurts.wordpress.com/
 http://theabsurdistshequeen.blogspot.co.uk/
 http://ianssmart.blogspot.co.uk/

8. A DARK ART?
 Craft
 Credibility
 Coherence
 Communication
 Contacts

9. “A SCRUPULOUS WRITER, IN EVERY SENTENCE THAT HE
WRITES, WILL ASK HIMSELF AT LEAST FOUR QUESTIONS,
THUS: 1. WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? 2. WHAT WORDS
WILL EXPRESS IT? 3. WHAT IMAGE OR IDIOM WILL MAKE
IT CLEARER? 4. IS THIS IMAGE FRESH ENOUGH TO HAVE
AN EFFECT?”
GEORGE ORWELL
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