No Flowers
Published March 24, 2008 | 
I was reading an interview with an editor on one of the larger political blogs (can you believe a blog has an editor!???) and she had this to say about writing for blogs, “Write tight. Write clean. Make every word count. Don’t use big words when smaller ones will do (I almost said “suffice” there but stopped myself). Have something unusual to say about the usual.” In other words, “No Flowers”. I’m sure I have something else I want to post about today, but it’s still early Monday morning and I need coffee. . . .
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Have you tried this yet?
http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
LOL! I ranked elementary school even with Schrödinger’s cat!
Ha! Barrier Island came in at High School–ee ARE smarter than a fifth grader! LOL!
I always get elementary school. Goes well with my usual “G” rated blogging. I once plugged in my “Paddles & Planes” post, where I was totally geeking out over aspect ratios, lift coefficients & a lot of other fancy stuff & it got junior high school. Mwa mwa mwa mwaaaa…
But then I try to make my blog reasonably accessible to a wide range of readers – there are plenty of people out there who are speaking to the trained & educated paddler, I’m more just trying to entertain & draw people’s attention to the fact that we’ve got plenty of nature right here in NYC.
BTW, I found that on Proper Course, and one of the other sailing bloggers made us all laugh because he plugged in his 10 year old daughter’s blog & it got graduate school level. Why? Well, she writes poetry. No punctuation. Blog rater reads it as one ginormously intricate sentence & says “Whoa. Graduate school!”