Attention Bloggers

Posted by Merch Gwyar, Aug 27 2009, 05:16 AM in Other

I read about this in Runescape Reader. icey_dan1 is looking to gather information on the Runescape blogging community. That's us! Just thought I'd give you the head's up.

I started blogging because I could. Here at Sal's, you get the right to blog after posting so many times on the forum. I love writing and so this was just an excuse really.

My blog gives me somewhere to record my achievements and to vent when it all goes wrong. It's also a chronicle of my progress. I can go back two or three years and remember what it was like to not have the levels that I do now. Some things become so clear in hindsight too. Help that I received from a higher level and I was so pleased and honoured. Now I'm here at that same level and seeing it from the other point of view. It makes me smile.

My blog is also good for helping other people pass the same milestones. They can learn from my mistakes, certainly, but it's also somewhere to direct people. For example, I had someone in game ask me about Recruitment Drive. It's been years since I did that quest. I was struggling to even remember which quest it was. I did a search in my blog though and read all about it. Then I could advise them in-game. I always try to ensure that I write down all of my armour and equipment too, as I'm not going to remember what I took and packed two years later, when someone is asking me what to take with them.

The biggest tip that I could give is that, if you're writing a Runescape blog, then your readers are coming to read about Runescape. My entire life doesn't revolve around Merch Gwyar, but this blog might make it look like it does. I only write about Runescape related things here. While writing about gaining levels is good for your own record, it might not be all that interesting to other people. Try to think of something that happened that was interesting or funny or exhilarating en route to that level. A better blog might be, 'I was in Fally Bank and I overheard this player say to another one.... blah blah blah', then at the end of your story say, 'Oh and, by the way, I got 'x' level in fishing'. That sort of thing.

Above all though, a blog should be fun for you to write. Otherwise, there's no point in writing it.