Nancy Rants
About Blogging
About the title of my blog.... The other evening I was working on a domain name for "my new outside blog". I couldn't think of anything catchy or clever, so I enlisted the help of my friends on Facebook. There were several suggestions but the top two are Pavblog.com and Pavsloft.com. Thoughts?? Another friend suggested Nancy Rants which I thought was too negative for a domain name or even the title of the blog but is excellent for the title of some posts...so there ya go!
I'm going to preface my rant by saying that I know that I'm a relative newbie here so my opinion might not count for much. And I know that my writing style may not be stylish or you might even say, has no style at all but I am a reader. I read a lot for work and for pleasure. In my quest to rack up the points here on ActiveRain, I try to blog whenever the topic hits me. I'm much better, though, at commenting on posts and aim for 10 a day.
So, on to my rant.....if you're going to post, please, please, for the the love of god, use spellcheck. It's there for a reason. Spellcheck is not perfect so reread your post. Some of the errors are real words and spellcheck won't pick those up. Capitalize....unless you're e.e. cummings. Punctuate...unless you're James Joyce...and really, he should have punctuated too. I couldn't get through his book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Use ActiveRain. There is a Draft Review Class every Thursday
Whether your post is Public or Members Only, you're not projecting a professional image when you don't follow those few simple rules.
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