I’ve seen it on more than one discussion forum and heard it mentioned in coffee shops I frequent. People, especially freelance writers or journalists are quick to condemn bloggers. the battle cry is that “bloggers are not writers!”
Please, people, get real.
I am a blogger. Today I wrote, spell checked, grammar checked and published over 3,000 words. Those words are not rushing off to an editor, they are not sitting in a slush pile somewhere. Those words have already been seen, and comments have been made on them.
Perhaps there are writing purists that believe that bloggers are less talented, or that we, for some reason, do not live up to their standards. but I wholeheartedly and with great vigor refute the claim that we are not writers. many of us are quite prolific. some write consistently more in one day than the greatest of novelists.
We write. It’s our identity. Please step off of your soapbox now, an I shall step off mine.
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I would agree with you, however, there are a very large number of bloggers out there that are writing very poorly, and not making any effort to improve their skills.
They are basically making many of us look bad.
The good bloggers are not doing enough to help the bloggers in need of help, and they are not showing them that there are bigger rewards for writing better.
The good writers need to set the example and show that there is a better career path. Too many people are settling for paid to blog crack. I am not against sponsored money from advertisers, but too many bloggers write extremely poor sponsored articles that have little relevance to their blogs.
I pay bloggers to blog myself, through sponsors and ghost writing work and corporate blogging contracts. But the entire industry is being hammered by non-fluent writers, poor writers, and spammers. Even worse are the people that have potential but don’t use it!