“The Reluctant Writer” – Blog Review

You can rarely find a blog with such immense feeling and supernatural ability to be thoughful, I can’t remember the last time I came across such a wonderful blog. The Reluctant Writer wins my heart just by the standard of writing present in the blog. This twenty year old genius, Abhinav Maurya from Mumbai brings to life the best of his thoughts in his blog. The entries include delicate poetry and creative prose. I found his story ‘The Tale Of Two Cities‘ to be absolute mesmerising. His love for writing can be seen in each blog entry. The blog is very new with the first entry on 4th November 2007.

The navigation of the blog is very simple with blog archive list and about me sections on the right panel. The theme is plain white with scenic picture on the top of it. With absolute no ads whatsoever, the blog looks with the intent of making the visitors focus only on the blog entries. The entries are pretty regular and has 15 blog entries for this month. I give this masterpiece 4/5 for his writing and sole purpose of entertainment of the readers. I would offer a few suggestions to the author of the blog:

• be regular with your blog updates.
• register your blog with technorati.com and promote using orkut, yahoo groups, google groups.

Last words, with regular updates and such influential writing skills, this is one blog to watch out for.

I Am In For This – Blog Review

If you are looking for a blog to read pure thoughts of unaltered person, I would recommend I’m in. This blog is about random thoughts of a young boy from Trissur blogging from Delhi. Arunkumar seem to be a lot grown than his age. For his entry Evolution and ‘The Disguised Pill of Experience’!!!, I just loved his writing and the pencil drawings are absolute bliss. The blog entries have a philosophical touch and left me stranded alone in my thoughts. I guess there is more to this blog than can be seen. Although the blog doesn’t cover any specific topic, but the content is interesting and appealing, especially if you are philosophical in your thought process.

The blog is fairly simple to navigate and offers a clean well-organized design. The blog entries are left marginalised in a darker shade of grey in a white background. The blog archive, labels and links are in the left panel. The entries are not labelled accordingly. Labels like ‘move on’, ‘it all started’ doesn’t make much sense to the readers. The activity on this blog is not regular but seems to be improving over a past few days. I would go ahead and give 3.5/5 for this blog. I would offer a few suggestions to the author of the blog:

• a more appealing name to the blog.
• more accurate and relevant labels are required for the blog entries.
• the hit counter can be removed until a good number of hits are seen in the counter.
• the writing is interesting, and is what can get users back to the blog, so write regularly.

Last words, I am impressed by the thoughts of this young blogger.