Think of your audience

OK here's the deal - I was tiring to understand how this blog thing works so people can view my blog and make comments,  or at least send a thumbs up. 


So I did a blog help search and found this page "Promoting Your Blog".  In it I see a whole list on ways to grab people to your site. One of the titles is "Write quality content and do it well".  It goes on to say "If your "style" is bad writing, worse grammar, no punctuation, and an ugly design, that might be okay for a niche crowd.  But the idea here is to achieve mass appeal, so fix yourself up a bit."


What! "do it well" "ugly design" "fix yourself up a bit!".  Holy typo! Could this be why no one comments on my blog?


Sometimes I can't even write a sentence, or worse, I don't have a strong command of the English language, let alone punctuation skills.  I'm forever grabbing my dictionary for the spelling of a word or yelling across the apartment to my spouse "Sweetie, how do you spell" (I can't trust spell check) "Sweetie, can you proofread this".  I'm amazed we're still together and that the neighbors haven't pounded on the door and thrown a thesaurus at me chanting, "The question before us is, where's his thesaurus!"


Since we live in this cyber age where corresponding with people is through emails, chat-rooms, networking sites, and blogging, I thought I better "fix myself up a bit" with this form of dyslexia I have and bought this book called Send - Why Peolpe Email So Badly and How to Do It Better, by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe.  I don't know if this book is giving me "style" but it's helping me with communicating better when corresponding with my theater company colleagues.  Let's hope this new fix - me -  up is more effective then the old.


Lesson number Three:  When casting your project, make sure you're clear about dates and times for rehearsals before you hire your actors.