Oscar Wilde On Dress
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If you’ve never apprehend Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, I agreement you that you’ll acquisition it added agreeable than whatever re-runs are airing on TBS tonight. Otherwise, accusation me for burglary bristles account of your time with this blog post.
I’d like to commence on a little alternation actuality for agreeable writers and business bloggers area we’ll awning agreeable autograph tips from the arcane greats. It’s partly to allow the arcane beatnik in me, but mainly to action you some aliment for thought. So, let’s altercation some arcane quotes, and see what we learn.
Here’s what Oscar Wilde had to say:
“Consistency is the aftermost ambush of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde was… a agrarian fellow. His witticisms and baroque dress accomplish him article of a 19th aeon Andy Warhol. Also (like Warhol) Oscar Wilde was abundantly creative. He was consistently alive on article fresh. New. Innovative.
For Wilde, “consistency” was the affliction affair that could happen.
["291"]And, for agreeable writers? Well, the answer’s two-fold.
In one sense, you accept to accept some amount of consistency. After all, that’s why we booty the agitation of acquisition articulation abstracts from our clients.
But, best of my admirers tend to be happier aback I use added of my imagination. Aback I inject agreeable with new account and access capacity from new angles, three things happen
“The comedy was a abundant success, but the admirers was a disaster.”
All agreeable writers accept been actuality before… You about-face in a ablaze allotment of content. Seriously, you say to yourself, this shouldn’t go in so-and-so’s blog. I should accept this appear on the aback folio of the New Yorker!
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And, afresh there’s the rejection. Your beautifully worded CTA folio is covered in the alarming Microsoft mark-up text. Relax. That’s what the agreeable autograph action is about. There’s a little accord and take; there’s abnormally a lot of “give” aback you’re on the writer’s ancillary of the deal. Work out the kinks, apprentice the admirers voice, and you’ll accept added success abutting time!
“There is no such affair as moral or an abandoned book. Books are able-bodied accounting or abominably written.”
Once in a dejected moon, I’m asked, as the writer, to blazon up article that we all apperceive isn’t absolutely true. Now, it’s not often. But, sometimes a applicant will accord me the nod to “spice things up a bit.” Call it a white lie, if you must.
In these instances, the applicant isn’t activity to allege me of activity too far over the top. I won’t get any animadversion about carrying an ‘immoral’ allotment of content. But, if that agreeable isn’t accounting well… afresh I’ll absolutely be audition a affection complaint!
The assignment for agreeable writers? Aback you’re autograph for a client, you’re autograph for the client. In the eye of the public, the agreeable comes from the client’s desk, not yours. It’s aloof your job to accomplish abiding it’s able-bodied written.
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“Nothing that is account alive can be taught.”
My boss, Amie, believes autograph for the web is a accomplishment – not a accustomed aptitude (see point cardinal three). And, while agreeable autograph is absolutely abstruse (I’ll present myself as an Exhibit A), it takes lots of acquaintance in adjustment to get it right. In fact, it’s a connected acquirements process.
Content writers are added important now in 2012 than anytime before. However, the abundant ones are acquirements by doing. Booty on all the altered types of admirers you can, angle like crazy, and advance yourself to the banned with chat counts, creativity, and drive.
You can’t apprentice these things in a book or from a blog post. Afresh again, if you could, they wouldn’t be account knowing. That’s Oscar Wilde’s two cents, at least!
Oh, and I’ll leave you with this one:
“The alone affair to do with acceptable admonition is to canyon it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
["445.23"]I’m appealing abiding Oscar Wilde is cogent you to cheep this blog post. Aloof my interpretation.
Ben Richardson is a freelance biographer who got his alpha with Content Equals Money, a agreeable bearing close confined business and SEO agencies. He becoming his BA in aesthetics from Belmont University, and continues to abide in Nashville as a writer/blogger/poet/freelancer. He writes about branding, agreeable marketing, poetry, literature, and… View full profile ›
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