(F7) Keeping the HARRY POTTER Love Alive

I was quite selfish with this feature. I FORCED poor Ava to comply and write me a Harry Potter post. Fortunately, she agreed before I pulled the Chinese torture implements. *phew*

You may have come across Ava’s name and links to her blog on here a couple of times. OKAY, a few times. But that’s only because I’m addicted to her writing. It’s so fresh and so… consistently good. I’m starting to believe this girl couldn’t get in a writing funk. I may have to prick and poke to determine if she’s a good candidate for my super-secret Writer’s Block Antidote Research program (W-BAR).

Blogging to Be Remembered

So I’ve already talked about hooking them readers with a good blurb here. Today I’ll talk about writing style. It’s related to my American Idol rant where I said that every good artist should possess three qualities: gift, style, and craft. In this order actually.

Briefly, we all have the gift of our discipline. Style is the individual voice that permeates your art. Craft is the set of skills you develop to realize those things. It’s hard for me to say which the most important is. All I know is: you need to have all three to be great.

Now then. I read a blog post the other day on Dan Cavallari’s blog, which started off by referring to a post where a girl had mentioned she hadn’t written a word in six months. But he also said he didn’t remember where he’d read this (at the time) and that got me thinking. How many blog posts do you read every day? How many do you comment on? How much do you like each of those? And most importantly, how many of them can you recall later?