On Waxing Eloquent

Robert Hruzek on Jan 12th 2007 at 7:01 am blogging

I received a phone call this morning from the wonderful Liz Strauss of Successful Blog and had a great time. Since November of 2006 she’s been attempting to call a blogger a day and I decided to take the plunge and join the ranks of B.A.D. bloggers (I always knew I had it in me). I’ll have more to say about our visit later, but she gave me some advice I truly appreciate (especially since I’m guilty! guilty! guilty! as charged).

After checking out a few posts, she immediately suggested two things: 1) make my posts shorter (ironic, considering next week’s six-word stories contest, don’t you think?), and 2) stick to one subject per post.

Well, other than during this last week when I’ve been ending my usual posts with a Let’s Be Brief contest announcement, I usually stick to one subject, so no big deal there. It will be no problem to start putting the contest stuff in a separate post just to keep things “rightly divided”, so to speak.

As for too-long posts – yeah, Liz, ya got me! A quick glance at posts from MZM’s first month or so definitely reveals a trend toward longer posts. It’s what I call waxing eloquent, and it’s an old English word that means laying it on thick and polishing it to a nice, shiny finish.

Sorry about that, folks! It’s quite unintentional, I assure you. I’ll *sniff*sniff* try to do better, I promise!

Many thanks to Liz for the great advice (and T.K., who also mentioned it a while back).

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# Bobon Dec 31st 1969 at 5:59 pm
You’re welcome! I really enjoyed our conversation, too. It’s not everyday one has a chance to visit with one of the “queen bees” of blogging! Now if I can just work on becoming an S.O.B….
# ME Strausson Dec 31st 1969 at 5:59 pm
Bob,
It was fun talking with yesterday. I really appreciated the chance to get to know you better. It’s not every day I get to talk about process piping and engineering stuff and blogging in one conversation that was fun!
Liz

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