Marilyn here. I can’t legitmately say the “redheaded sister” anymore because I’ve decided to let my hair grow out and see what color(s) it actually is these days. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it in its natural state. It might be so scary that I go running for the L’Oreal double-time. 
And what does that have to do with the blog title? Nothing, zip, nada. It’s just that at the RWI meeting Saturday, one of the members did a brief workshop on blogging and talked about catchy post titles. I can’t do catchy. I occasionally manage clever, but mostly I’m pretty blah and to the point. I can’t even claim credit for this title; I saw it in an article years ago, something about how to get a guy’s attention: show up naked and bring beer. (Do I get credit for remembering it??)
Do titles make you read a blog you otherwise might skip? Or do you stick with your usual roster of blog-hopping, reading regardless what the title is?Just how important is that brief little string of words to the reader in you?
If you follow a lot of blogs, titles are a good way of weeding out the dreck. Long blogs with long paragraphs stop me dead. When I write my serial blog stories, I work very hard to break the story up so I end on a hook and I don’t have too many solid paragraphs.
The long paragraphs are really catching my attention on the Kindle. When a paragraph runs two screens or more, I find my eyes crossing and rolling up in my head.
You do a great job on your serials, though I admit I like to wait until they’re done, then go back and read them all at once. Kinda defeats the purpose of a serial, doesn’t it?
I’m with you on Lynn’s. Did you do her writing exercise this week? It was fun.
I love titles that catch my attention, BUT I don’t always — or even often — read them. Even if I wonder later what they were about.
Hairwise, so far I’ve identified some brown and several shades of gray. I think the only bottled color left is on top and a bit on each side. It does grow fast, thank goodness. Made it easier to bear when I accidentally turned it iridescent green!!!
LOL on your example. I wish I could do short, sharp and witty. But like you pointed out Saturday, we’re novelists! Short isn’t often in our repertoire!
If I let you read my grocery list, would you go fill it for me?
I love funny, too. Have you read the Hyperbole chick’s blog on her grandfather’s birthday cake? I could so relate!
Thanks! Your hair has so much less gray than mine . . . but then you didn’t raise Brandon. I blame him for every one, lol.