How I Write Blogs

I do not normally know what I am about to blog. Most of the time I am just winging it. I start sometimes with a title, or just start typing and a title develops. I start writing random thoughts and ideas I have, and most of the time it flourish's into something pretty neat. It feels like I have to do a warm up before I really start typing. 

  I would start typing my day, or past current events related to me, or conversations I have had in the past. This is what I do if I have nothing on my mind at the moment. It helps me realize that yes I do have something and then my blog takes off. 

  Once I have established what I am writing about I will constantly edit and re-edit myself as I type. For grammar purposes, but also it helps me to find how to make sure what I am getting across sounds logical vs. "I like tree and I think there pretty cool"  I realize with this sentence for the most part does convey I really like trees, but I try to make it flow better or not repeat myself.  "I like tree's they're pretty cool" or "I think tree's are awesome" I would not say that there is a wrong one of the three, but one does sound better and more effective for me. I know I have left in many less then desirable sentences, but I am always learning how to convey my message out better. Better wording or sentence structure.

  Re-reading all the time also helps me to find if I have included thoughts and ideas that might not fit the theme of the blog. So I delete them and use them again for when I am doing that theme. Example: I like trees and a severed head of a sea slug can grow a whole new body" Now maybe these two things might be relate to the blog, but if the theme was lets get to know Randy then I would delete the slug part. This way I can stay on topic that pertains to my blog.

     I know I like to always play devils advocate. Which is not a bad thing to do, but I find writing a blog that way to be a whole lot more difficult. I try and stay to the point the best I can, but sometimes I still think that I have to show the other side. I would say always showing the other side put less emphasis on the point I could be driving home.  I would say in this very part of the blog I want to put " but looking at both sides can make great blogs too". I did put it in then, I deleted it, then I put it back in as the example. :) Because I Know both statement ring true, but my emphasis is on not looking at both side all the time to make the point. By showing both sides in these different ideas conflicting each other for me loses the importance of what the first part of the sentence was trying to get across. 

These are just some of the things I  go through when making blogs. They can either be simple or complicated. I know most likely even in this blog I have a lot of errors or things I missed when I edit, but that is why I always try to improve. Blogs just has to start somewhere and the easiest way to accomplish that is to just start typing and see what can evolve from it. 

Sifu Langner