{"id":203,"date":"2005-01-20T12:28:20","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/how-to-write-killer-blog-posts-and-more-compelling-comments\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:27:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:27:54","slug":"how-to-write-killer-blog-posts-and-more-compelling-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/how-to-write-killer-blog-posts-and-more-compelling-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsnextonline.com\/\">B.L. Ochman<\/a>, former moderator of i-pr, has a short read on blog writing (<a href=\"http:\/\/technoflak.blogspot.com\/\">TechnoFlak<\/a>)&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsnextblog.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/how_to_write_ki.asp\" title=\"B.L. Ochman's weblog - Internet strategy, marketing, public relations, politics with news and commentary: How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments\">B.L. Ochman&#8217;s weblog &#8211; How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>o <strong>Write less<\/strong><br \/>Omit all unnecessary words. The best advice I ever got about writing was from my first boss, the late &quot;press agent&quot; Leo Miller, who taught me a game to play with sentences. He&#8217;d keep taking out words until removing one more word destroyed the meaning of the sentence. For example: He&#8217;d take out words until removing another destroyed the sentence meaning.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.L. Ochman, former moderator of i-pr, has a short read on blog writing (TechnoFlak)&nbsp; B.L. Ochman&#8217;s weblog &#8211; How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments. o Write lessOmit all unnecessary words. The best advice I ever got about writing was from my first boss, the late &quot;press agent&quot; Leo Miller, who taught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogging","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}