Vocabula Review on Blogging

Vocabula Review is an on-line journal that features elegant prose, poetry, tips on writing, and rules of grammar. It's one of our favorite publications, and Eric Scheske counts it as one of his finer accomplishments to have published two articles in it.

When we saw that one of their contributors had written about blog writing, we anticipated pointed acrimony. We weren't disappointed. Excerpt:

Bloggers are to conversationalists what airheads are to real talkers. They believe that anything that comes into their heads ought to come out of their mouths. No, it's worse than that: these non-self-editing talkers fancy themselves writers. . . But with a few exceptions, bloggers, unlike careful journal writers, don't fill pages with interesting words: they fill screens with fog.

We like to think we're exempt from this criticism. Maybe that's why we call ourselves "A Different Kind of Blog." Then again, maybe we're delusional.

We also hasten to add that we've seen a lot of good writing on the blogs we frequent, much of it surpassing the tortured script of reporters who rush to beat deadlines. At times, there's something salubrious about writing with a deadline, but it frequently produces mush.