The Bloggers Rule Of 24

I have read about the bloggers rule of 24 in two places now, ProBlogger and CopyBlogger. At first I thought this was a method of moderating yourself from flaming or ranting at someone, but having dome some more reading it is a way of improving your writing. In simple terms, the theory goes, once you have your final draft for a post wait 24 hours before you re-read it and publish it.

The idea behind this is that you, as a person change from day-to-day, your emotions, state of mind, stress level, perspective and many external influences on you change. As such, if you want to write higher quality posts, work as you do now, construct and write your post, proof read and edit it until you have something that you would publish, but before hitting that publish button, wait for 24 hours, then re-read your work, make any amendments you see fit, and then publish.

I will be trying this technique out on as many of my blog posts as I can. This will mainly be on other blogging projects that I am just starting, as these are more focused niche blogs rather than this general one, but I will also use it here. I hope that by giving each post a 24 hour breathing space I will be able to improve the quality of the output.

It will not always be relevant, especially if a blog post is related to a current event, or product offer, but there are many posts that I have published that I wish I had just waited and re-read with fresh eyes. Of course we all hope access to that edit button, but, it would be better to get it right first time round.

This post was first written at 11:33pm on the 27th June 20011

And published at 12:38pm on the 28th June 2011

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