An Eradication of Crickets and a Return to Real Estate Writing

Vancouver Clark County Real Estate and Home Blog back on track.

The only thing we’ve heard around this blog the past several months have been the crickets.  That’s not good.  But it’s not like I’ve been Around the World in 80 Days or anything.  It’s just I’ve been really, really busy.  Honest.  Both in my real estate activities as well as the design and launch of some new blog and social media marketing activities (lots more to come on that subject later, stay tuned).

But I’ve decided to write here again.  Coming back to the blog, some things will change.  It’s going to be more diverse.  If nothing else to keep my attention.   Sure, we’ll still have all the goodies from my real estate reporting and analysis.  But I’ll tend to go off on a tangent here and there.  Some zigs when I might’ve zagged before, that sort of thing.  You never know.  One thing that’s not likely to change though is my, um, lack of any adherence to writing rules.  I’ve always said that my blog activities have made many an English teacher grimace.

As I prepped for getting back to writing, I recently read this post in my Google reader.  Surprise of surprises, I guess there are some rules out there:

* Dangling Participles – happen when you write a sentence and a clause in the sentence is related to one that it wasn’t intended for.

* Homonyms – are words that are pronounced the same, spelled differently, and have different meanings.

* Split Infinitives – occur when an adverb is placed between the bare infinitive of a verb (ie. to boldly go.

* Transitive Verbs – a verb that requires a subject and an object.,

* Prepositions – link nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence.

* Relative Pronouns – Relative pronouns are that, who, whom, whose, which, where, when, and why. They are used to join clauses to make a complex sentence.

* Spelling – spellcheck, anyone? [this one is a pet peeve of mine]

via 50 Writing Errors that Continue to Haunt Bloggers.

Hmmm.  I wonder if there is a reward for breaking every rule?  Or if I get some special recognition for being able to blog without even knowing these rules existed?

Regardless, rules or not, attempting to get back on track with my blog starts today yesterday.

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