from Marya Jan - 23 tips for making blogs conversational

Great post from Marya Jan from her writinghappiness blog giving us  23-top-tips-to-make-your-blog-posts-more-conversational. Blog writing can be a bore to our reader if it we don't make like we are having a conversation. If it gets lecture-like, your reader will make an early exit.
If my blog is going to be longish, what I do is I tell them to get a cup of tea or coffee and their favorite pastry and  get comfortable.

Lots of good tips here. I'll just write a few of them. Check out the rest

1. The most important word in blogging is “you”

Address you audience. Imagine you are sitting across the table from a really close friend, and write your post for them. 

3. Use contractions

6. Start your sentences with a conjunction

But that is not grammatically correct, you say. Well, this is one of those rules.

11. Avoid being formal

Instead of saying however, moreover, or furthermore, say but, so, or then. We are aiming for conversational here. Get a dialogue going.

Check out the rest. Make  reading fun and interesting and not