Sage Advice of the Caterpillar

As the end of the year rolls to a close, it’s time to think about New Year’s resolutions. Mine will be to take the advice of the Caterpillar from The Adventures of Alice In Wonderland. In my blogs I will endeavor to I say what I mean and to mean what I say. Too often in our haste, we writers do neither. Smitten by our ideas, we forget that a joke backfires if our readers don’t understand the punch line.

Take blog titles, for example. Writing a blog is a labor of love, so why do we creators sometimes shoot ourselves in the foot with catchy titles that convey nothing of content? Below are some examples. I ran across them the other day at a site from Mizwrite.com. Can anyone guess what these blogs are about?

 Hyperbole and a Half

 Daddy Is Tired

 Does This Blog Make Us Look Fat?

 Where Am I Going … And Why Am I in this Handbasket?

 Julie, Julia and Julio

 Wander Woman

 The Typing Makes Me Sound Busy

 I Should Be Folding Laundry

 Happy Hour … Somewhere

 Muffintopless

 Drunk Writer Talk

 Back of the Napkin blog

 Ungirdled Passion

 I Could Cry but I Don’t Have Time

 I Do Things So You Don’t Have To

 Life Just Keeps Getting Weirder

 Don’t Put Lizards in Your Ears

(Courtesy of norlinreelhistory.blogspot.com)