In Lightening’s Blogworld This Week
Over at Telling It Like It is, I read a great post called “Why Are Women So Strange and Men So Weird?” It’s really quite self explanatory in it’s title and while it naturally uses generalisations, there are some great points there worth reading.
I particularly liked this quote:
“Great communicators are people who change their approach based upon the person they are talking to”
Have you ever come across someone who has absolutely no IDEA that everyone in the world doesn’t think exactly the same way as them???? It’s a great skill being able to understand that we think and communicate in different ways and to be able to adapt accordingly. This goes for within the same sex as well as male-female communication issues.
I found the explanation between compartmental and global thinking very interesting reading and it made a lot of sense with what I have observed in my own relationships.
I have to admit though that my husband doesn’t quite fit into the “Men speak in short phrases with little or no detail” category. Some days I wish he would. 
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that he works alone? I have to bite my tongue to stop myself blurting out “will you please get to the point honey?”
I also found Darren Rowse’s “13 Questions to Ask Before Publishing a Post on Your Blog” quite a fascinating read. So fascinating in fact that I thought I might answer some of them.
1. What was the main point of this post? have I made it clearly?
I’m supposed to have a point to each post????? Ohhhhhhh…………..
2. What do I want readers of this post to do? have I led them to this action?
I want my readers to read my post. Which they are right now doing. Yipppeeeee…..I get a big tick for this one!!!! 
4. Have I written something unique?
The wisest King to have ever ruled wrote the following “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun”. (Ecclesiastes 1:9) Doesn’t that let me off the hook????
5. Has what I’ve written taken me closer or further away from my blog’s goals?
Goals???? My blog needs goals???? I know my life needs goals……
7. Are my spelling and grammar correct?
Ever looked “Lightening” up in the dictionary???
8. Could I have said it more succinctly?
What about “can I SAY succinctly?” Who thought up that word anyway???
9. Have I credited sources of quotes and inspiration?
These questions have been directly copied and pasted from Darren Rowse’s Problogger blog. All the idiotic answers however, are completely my OWN work!
13. How could I follow this post up with another that extends it?
Wait until Darren Rowse writes a post with a longer list of questions. 
So I guess by now it’s 100% clear why he’s a 6-figure blogger and I earnt $8.81 this month. In all seriousness, a great post in a long line of great posts. If you don’t already read his blog then you bl**dy well should (except I responded to his poll on swearing saying I NEVER swear on my blogs - well I was talking about my other one of course ). Problem is, the phrase doesn’t have quite the same ring to it if you leave that word out.
And this final one I really liked for it’s title: Content is King. Promotion is Queen. Being a wannabee Princess and all, well anything even remotely “royal” is going to get my attention.
I really found this comment quite intriguing:
In chess, THE most important piece is your King because if its taken, you lose the game but it isn’t the most powerful one .The queen is.
That reminds me of a saying my Great-Grandmother used to say (yes, she is now deceased….otherwise she’d be 120 or something!!!). Anyway, her favourite saying was “my husband might be the head of this house but I’m the neck which tells the head which way to turn”.
Yes, I know, I’m getting sidetracked….
The point being made is that content alone isn’t ENOUGH. Promotion is important too.
How appropriate for this, my first “official” post (the other “first” simply being a tour and all).
I shall now declare “Lightening’s Blogworld” officially launched. Now go forth and procreate promote on my behalf.
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This looks beaut Lightening and those links are full of great advice.
I will subscribe and fave you -
My husband does speak in short phases and not much detail … all power to you during the reign of this new blog.
I laughed out loud when I read this part “my husband might be the head of this house but I’m the neck which tells the head which way to turn”. hahaha
I’ve been meaning to come by and check out this new blog, and finally had a chance to. I’m now subscribed! 
It’s become a bit of a family joke really. She was a very prim and proper English woman so it surprised quite a lot of people when she came out and said it. Thanks for dropping by Lin and subscribing. Appreciate having you on board.
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I wish my hubby would speak with less detail too. I work and he stays home so when I get home I get a minute by minute account of his day. Aaarrgh!