Sure, I am undercutting my entire argument because I am writing my opinion about Super Bowl coverage in a post about recipes you can use for a Super Bowl party (two things that certainly have no effect on the outcome of the actual game), but I would like to think that in my own little corner of the sports blogging world, it is more about having fun and being an engaged fan in a way that plays to my strengths. If I wrote about all the dishes I had to do after each game, no one would ever read my site. By telling your readers the story is boring before you get to the meat of the topic, what chance do you have of anyone reading through to the end?
Anything — sports, sex, music, cooking, writing, flying a kite, rambling on and on – is immediately less interesting when you make it sound like a grind. Maybe as writers and readers, we wouldn’t be so bored if the stories weren’t already framed in such a negative light.
You know what are not negative? Olives! Beautiful, glorious olives!