Sunday, December 26, 2010

7 Reasons to Vote for My Blog: #4 - Writing Quality

As the voting round of Dance Advantage's Reader's Choice Top Dance Blogs 2010 approaches, I thought I'd do a post a day for a week giving you reasons to go ahead and VOTE FOR ME :)


Vote for Off Center
Reason #7: I'm Ancient
Reason #6: No Ads
Reason #5: Community
Reason #4: Writing Quality

So, maybe this is subjective but...outside of dance, my second career and passion is writing. I have a BA degree in Communication Arts (focus in journalism) and a Masters degree in Publishing. I've written about dance for Pointe Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, Movmnt Magazine, ExploreDance.com, and numerous other dance websites. I took a writing class with a NY Times dance critic, was the Features/Arts editor of my college paper, and interned at 4 magazines (including The New Yorker).

Even though blogging is meant to be casual and quick, quality should not be sacrificed. I am by no means perfect - most of the time I'm blogging in a hurry and forget to go back to edit - but I think I've got a little credible edge there...?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Oh, Taylor....did you mean "Quality shold NOT be sacrificed?"

Ouch! Fix post "7 Reasons to Vote for My Blog: #4."

re: "
Even though blogging is meant to be casual and quick, quality should be sacrificed. "

And I hope you continue improving on that foot.

Mike

Taylor said...

Eek! You're right! My (very stupid and ironic) bad! Fixed it - thank you!