Comments on: The Concept of a Content Template http://www.hypermodernwriting.com/2009/07/21/the-concept-of-a-content-template/ Writing for Electronic Consumption Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:22:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Thursday http://www.hypermodernwriting.com/2009/07/21/the-concept-of-a-content-template/comment-page-1/#comment-267 Thursday Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:36:21 +0000 http://www.hypermodernwriting.com/2009/07/21/the-concept-of-a-content-template/#comment-267 @Paxnow, While I appreciate your concerns, I'd argue that a lot of people out there either don't know how to write well or don't have time to do so. The fact that you're familiar with inverted pyramid style already puts you way ahead of the game. Many small business owners putting together a blog to promote their company need at least a model to follow in order to figure out how to write useful posts. I don't think that fill-in-the-blank templates are a good idea, as I said, but the inverted pyramid is a very basic template, when you think about it. @Paxnow, While I appreciate your concerns, I’d argue that a lot of people out there either don’t know how to write well or don’t have time to do so.

The fact that you’re familiar with inverted pyramid style already puts you way ahead of the game. Many small business owners putting together a blog to promote their company need at least a model to follow in order to figure out how to write useful posts.

I don’t think that fill-in-the-blank templates are a good idea, as I said, but the inverted pyramid is a very basic template, when you think about it.

]]> By: PaxNow http://www.hypermodernwriting.com/2009/07/21/the-concept-of-a-content-template/comment-page-1/#comment-266 PaxNow Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:58:49 +0000 http://www.hypermodernwriting.com/2009/07/21/the-concept-of-a-content-template/#comment-266 IF you can write you really don't need or want to use a template. Print journalists wrote the "inverted pyramid" style and always gave you the who, what, where, when, why and how. Bloggers give you the 'here's what this means' style or the 'here's what I think' style and many other types of writing that totally defy "Style." Templates will only give you a 'paint by numbers' kind of writing that isn't very interesting to your readers. Templates may be great for jamming out 100 articles for the article directories when your looking for quantity but they are really quite difficult to read. Thanks. IF you can write you really don’t need or want to use a template. Print journalists wrote the “inverted pyramid” style and always gave you the who, what, where, when, why and how. Bloggers give you the ‘here’s what this means’ style or the ‘here’s what I think’ style and many other types of writing that totally defy “Style.”
Templates will only give you a ‘paint by numbers’ kind of writing that isn’t very interesting to your readers.
Templates may be great for jamming out 100 articles for the article directories when your looking for quantity but they are really quite difficult to read.
Thanks.

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