{"id":203,"date":"2007-10-08T21:07:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/10\/dilemas\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T05:29:39","slug":"dilemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/10\/dilemas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilemas…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing is easy enough for me, and honesty in my writing is important, but sometimes it isn’t easy to write the complete truth.<\/p>\n

For example, when I write a review of something I will be honest – I’d never say it was great if I hated it. I’d always be polite and as constructive as possible rather than slamming it, but I will say if it isn’t up to scratch.<\/p>\n

But what about when the less-than-pleasing item is owned\/created by someone you want to impress? It gets tough because I want to be respected for honesty and feel the responsibility that if I review something it could influence other people’s use of money & time.<\/p>\n

In the past, I have managed this by pointing out all the positives of the item and only mentioning the weaknesses – and obviously not saying anything like ‘great read’ or ‘value for money’. Once I reviewed a book which I found to be fairly boring, but it’s got a lot to do with the fact I don’t like that genre much either. My review commented on how it used simple language and was true to its genre with a few unexpected twists. That way, someone liking the genre would read the book but others wouldn’t bother – win win for everyone!<\/p>\n

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Writing is easy enough for me, and honesty in my writing is important, but sometimes it isn’t easy to write the complete truth. For example, when I write a review of something I will be honest – I’d never say it was great if I hated it. I’d always be polite and as constructive as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[525,718,717,716,1721],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-honesty","tag-negatives","tag-positives","tag-truth","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t