Elevator Pitch

[innerbrat]

A few weeks ago I signed up for the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge, which started today; a few days behind schedule due to technical difficulties.

The purpose of this, obviously, is to try and make innerbrat a bit more of a serious blog. I still fully intend (no really) to get myself a Proper Blog at a domain (currently thinking of

Comments

[piecesofalice]

This is such a good idea. I have only just poked at the site, but it's certainly something I should consider doing, too, because it may get me to look at my LJ constructively and critically. Considering the amount of time I've had "off" from it, I feel I'm sort of all over the joint.

tl;dr, your elevator pitch had me at hello.

[innerbrat]

ICON

[nepheliad]

This may yet be Something To Consider Doing, only with my Dreamwidth instead since I'm actually, very reservedly, making it public.

Since I link my actual name to it and talk about my job, which involves patient care. I do not know how to handle this yet!

[silveronthetree]

I really like the elevator pitch, the deconstructing of the different ways of storytelling really reflects what you do here.

But one thing confused me. If you want to express the equal importance I put on fictional portrayals and the way the media spins everything . Why did you chose to use the word "occasionally in and, occasionally writers of official 'fiction'? It seemed to detract from the equality of fiction and media spins. However I can see that it reflects the fact that that official fiction is the one place where you expect stories and it works very well in the context of the pitch.

[innerbrat]

Oh, that's me being facetious! It's there for your last point; the oe place you expect it.

[matgb]

I would avoid a "the" at the beginning of a domain--it's functionally useless and tends to cause confusion.

Combine that with the definite no-no of having a page title starting "the" and it makes it problematic on two counts--storytellingape would work, although given the way some people misread domains, perhaps storytelling-ape might be safer? storytellin' gape would be some weird porn, but...

pan-narrans would probably be a bit too obscure, but perhaps a bit more memorable?

Also, there's no real need to reduce the text on your profile too much--I need tor edo my sidebar text (horrible typo in it) but that's where this sort of thing ought to be.

[innerbrat]

storytellingape and pan-narrans are being squatted on!

There's storytelling-ape of course.

I'm not looking to reduce the text on my profile, just make it more informative and easy to navigate.