... courtesy of Garner's Usage Tip of the Day:
"Successful writing is saying that which others wish to say, but cannot; it is rarely saying that which has not been thought of before. How often you think, on reading a striking sentence: 'I have thought of that a thousand times!'" E.W. Howe, Ventures in Common Sense 123-24 (1919).
I find that successful blogs are written about controversial subjects. I know that when I registered my blog hits a while back when mine was more popular (before my hiatus), the really popular blog postings were novel and usually advocating a radical position.
Posted by: Aaron | August 17, 2006 at 02:42 PM