Plane talk on blogging and writing techniques: Part I

Over at Epiblogger the guys Rhett and Lee have been writing a series of blog entries on how to get the most out of writing posts by trying different styles such as using a narrative or taking a first person view. This is a great way to liven up posts and not only makes it fun for the writer as well as a challenge, but hopefully will be appealing to the readership too. In my last two interlinking posts I used a dialogue between myself and a fictional client in the first instance and with Dr. Pete in the second. Now with this article I am writing it on an easy jet to Turin. Writing on a plane is a first for me and a rather strange experience, especially when you’re at the very back of the plane, yes that’s right, right next to the toilets. Lovely. Everyone seems to need to go one after another so every few minutes I can hear the flush of extraordinarily super suction force clearing the toilet bowl. That’s quite enough toilet talk— I just wanted to set the scene of why it is such a different experience to the comfort, solitude and peace of my regular blogging environment.

So what is the point of this article? Well mainly just to try out a touch of blogging outside of the comfort zone, try new techniques, inspire you, my readers to try different writing styles for your own musings and with any luck produce an interesting article in it’s own right. The idea that popped into my head when I began this was to try and produce a post which takes on the feel of being on an aeroplane, perhaps using the run-down of safety procedures that we receive on flights from the cabin crew/flight attendants. Alternatively maybe the captain’s tannoy announcement. So far you and I both know this hasn’t happened!

I felt it worthy to set the scene beforehand. This surprisingly now has developed into a two-part article. In the next there will be none of this faffing; straight into the style. And it will be written on my return journey so I can detail another snapshot of the cabin crew and captain doing what they do best. Until then, Ciao! In the meantime I am off to slide down some snow covered mountains with on a laminated board that my feet are strapped bound to.

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