Conversational Writing
I continue to “surf” various blogs, adding them to my feed reader and a few days later deciding whether or not to vote them off the island. Well, “Creating Passionate Users” has made it thru the first council vote and has survived. Kathy Sierra’s post about “writing style” is a good reason to keep reading … and a good reason to change my writing style !
If you’re using formal language in a lecture, learning book (or marketing message, for that matter), you’re worrying about how people perceive YOU. source: Creating Passionate Users: Your user’s brain wants a conversation!
To me the corollary is “are you worried about how you are perceived or how you are heard ? If it’s the latter, then you need to keep people listening and one sure fire way of terminating that behavior is by making it difficult to follow your train of thought.
… ignore the advice your high school writing teacher gave you–that you must never “write the way you talk.”
I’m so guilty of non-conversational writing you might as well send me to exile island now and wipe it off the map. I hope I can take some advice from Kathy’s post and make my blogs easier to read … Thanks Kathy !
