I was bragging a bit about my night last night because I was able to sit and read a book in the quiet of my own home.  It is not normally I can do with 4 kids 7 and under trying to upset my routine in every way possible.  I usually only have time to gobble up the more than 2000 RSS feeds I read everyday, but for some reason I was able to finish those earlier than normal during the day and I found myself with some free time.  A luxury of the highest in my home.  The book I devoured in one evening was “The Road“, by Cormac McCarthy and published through Random House.  The book itself is not the most important part of this post, but the fact that I was able to actually read written words on a page was important.

In blogging we tend to write our posts quickly and in a conversational style that sometimes loses the reader as we sometimes speak to our own minds and the only person it makes sense to is us as the writer.  The reader is left with blank spot where your message was lost.  Conventional style writing, as in authors of fiction writing tend to be very descriptive with use of adjectives and other forms that place us in their minds and we absorb their pictures and the message it brings.  Reading that book last night brought me to an epiphany that I too had begun to fall into a style of wiring that may be too close to home and I may be losing readers.  Sometimes you have to reach out and rattle the chain of the reader and have them understand and see that picture or message in your own mind.  We can all be better bloggers and better at content production with just a little reading.  By the way, I really recommend the book.  It was a gift from my mother-in-law of all things.