Blogs! 8D <---that's a face btw lol

For a blog I like simplicity, but not too simple. If that makes any sense? What I mean by that is it should have something that attracts your attention, but not too much. A picture or a video here and there would help the blog, but changing the font and its size to something obnoxious annoys the hell out of me. I personally like variety when it comes to a blog post. I love it when the author ranges his length in a post. I get bored if the author just writes just long or short blog posts. One short, one long, one medium, it keeps me on my toes if he or she does that. For the writing, I like it when the author puts his opinion or experiences in the blog posts; I have a clear sense of the author’s writing style and voice. A little humor wouldn’t hurt either. That being said, I would recommend the class these blogs:  The Mumpsimus and Sentences-Wyatt Mason.

Wyatt Mason

The reason why I like Sentences-Wyatt Mason is that it’s simple. It has a nice ordinary structure to it. The author adds a picture here and there to make the post more appealing. He also varies his posts, sometimes it short, sometimes it’s long. I personally like his style of writing. He inputs his opinion and his style is rather classy (so is his blog lol).

I like The Mumpsimus because of his design. It’s not as classy as “Sentence-Wyatt Mason” but it’s appealing to the eye. The back ground is bright, the author incorporates pictures, and he varies the blog posts. I also like how he does a list quotes from books. I love his writing style. In his blog he is rather humorous. The author is very outspoken in one of the posts when he rips on Mark Doty (a poet). “Doty statement is idiotic. Irrational, witless, obtuse, hebetudinous, dull-pated, chuckleheaded, purblind, and dim. “

Maud Newton

                For people who like short and appealing blogs. I would recommend Maud Newton. This blog contains mostly small posts: short and to the point. The blog is also very appealing to the eye. It is bright, and the author incorporates pictures and videos to her post. The combination of the short length and the pictures makes it so that it is engaging to the reader. It does not bore them and it keeps them interested in the post.

                As for the other blogs…I didn’t really like them. The first one “Mark Athitikas’ American Fiction Notes” bored me. It was too simple. The author did not use pictures, quotes, or anything for that matter, to interest people. The posts were always long, without any pictures. Consequently, I was easily bored and my attention span was short. The same goes for “The Reading Experience”, “A Commonplace Blog” and “The Literary Saloon” both had long posts and didn’t have anything that attracted reader’s eyes. As for “The Millions” and “The Kenyon Review” I didn’t like it because it did not look like a blog. It looked like a news website where the readers have to choose which article to read. I for one prefer the look of the blog. As bad as it sounds, I didn't read most of these blogs. They were too bland or unoriginal for me.