Some Good Blogging Advise

I got some GREAT blogging advise as a comment to one of my blogs. Since some might not dig down into those comments, I would like to bring them out into the open here.

Thanx, Evangeline, for your wisdom. I know I will be thinking about this list when I blog and comment!

Evangeline said... I have discovered that I must:

- Stop and read my posts, and consider whether they're ambiguously worded. Sometimes I know exactly what I mean, but that's no guarantee that another person will.

- Learn humility.

- Consider that I might have misunderstood another person's post (see first point), due to misreading, ambiguous wording, preconceptions, etc... and if I might have, ask them before I blast them.

- Learn more humility (really doesn't come easily to me).

- Show love when responding to people, whether they have disagreed, attacked, or offended. Sometimes that means shutting up and never saying another darn thing on the topic.

- Rely on God's opinion of me, not other people's... so that negative comments don't rip my self-esteem to shreds.

- Humbly (there's that humility thing again! argh!) consider others' criticisms of me... just in case they've actually got a point, and I need to apologize. Or maybe just grow spiritually in that area.

- Apologize for wrongs I've done, even if they were unintentional, even if someone else started it, even if I was 'in the right', even if someone else hurt me more. I still need to apologize for my part. This might take the form of apologizing for continuing an argument when I should have realized that someone was upset and needing comfort, not logic.

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PS: If I might add another item to the list:

- Learn humility (again)! ;)