White Space

If you are anything like my wife (a writer) or her mother (a retired publisher) I'm sure you have blogging issues.

Blogging breaks rules. 

It breaks all sorts of proper english rules.

Get used to it.

What was right in your high school composition class is wrong in blogging class.

What determines a paragraph break?

• To the blogger it's the number of words
• To the english lit professor its a break in idea 

Bloggers fight to capture and keep the readers attention.  To do so, we add pictures, we bold words, we highlight in color, and we create paragraph breaks where no paragraph break should be.  It's called the wall of words and we bloggers will have nothing to do with it!

  What would you rather read? 

• The words above? 
• or the words below?

Which one is more appealing to the eye?

(both have the exact number of words)

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Go ahead, Break the Rules!