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My Interview at WhoHub

August 21, 2010

Interview with: Laura Brown [thatgrrl] WRITING What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote? I don’t remember what I first read. The books that haunt me from childhood are ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ by Shirley Jackson and one about a ghost [...]

Blog Ethics: Writing a Disclosure

August 2, 2010

Do you need to write a disclosure for your blog? I’m not running a disclosure on my blog. I decided not to but changed my mind. I am only running one paid ad in my sidebar. I don’t have a personal connection to the company the ad is from or the agency who pays me [...]

If There is No Magic?

June 26, 2010

A question I read on Scribatious, a blog by Faith Van Horne: Is it fantasy if there is no magic? I hadn’t thought of this before. But, is magic what makes one story fantasy and another story science fiction? If so, where does the whole paranormal genre fall? Maybe the first thing to do is [...]

An Obit for Philip Gooderham

May 25, 2010

Philip Andrew Gooderham died on May 18th, this year. I don’t who he is or was. But I read his obituary in the newspaper. I don’t usually read them, my Mom has been an obit reader for years and if I am sitting near enough at the time she gives me the highlights and her [...]

Article Directories for Your Own Writing?

May 16, 2010

I’ve been working on my web directory, for links. Today I wandered into a WordPress plugin which lets you create an article directory. Not sure yet if it is part of your blog, a separate page, or a blog on it’s own. Perhaps it could be either way as both would make sense depending on [...]

A Post is Not a Blog!

May 9, 2010

I don’t like what seems to be a new trend, to call a blog post a blog in itself. Maybe it seems like a cute short form to some people. It is not. It is just incorrect, misleading and silly. If you refer to your last blog I assume you are talking about some other [...]

How to Write an Author Resource Box

April 10, 2010

An author resource box is a small section (usually) at the bottom of the article the author has written. It must be kept short and to the point. Too much content and it just won’t be read. An author bio or profile is longer, able to contain a lot more facts, self promotion and credentials. [...]

Using an Author Box to Reduce Sidebar Clutter

April 8, 2010

Today I came up with another idea to get rid of sidebar clutter, an author resource box. Usually, an author resource box is used in blogs written by multiple writers, or by authors who routinely write for article directories which syndicate their articles out to everyone and anyone. An author resource box is the only [...]

Should you Write for a Blog Network?

January 3, 2010

A blog network is a group of people writing together to cover a set of topics all as part of the same larger group. Some blog networks are writers with their own unique blogs, only connected through the network as a way of building a community, such as 9Rules. Another kind of network is more [...]

Skipping to a Quick Conclusion

December 27, 2009

People seldom read old content. So you need to think of each post you write as the only post in your blog. The others are background to show you’ve been here awhile, more like a credential than content. Without an archive you look like someone who just started. Yet, those posts could all be about [...]

Do You Have a Favourite Word?

December 4, 2009

Have you heard of Wordnik? It’s an online dictionary which I read about on WebWorkerDaily.I like the look of the site, it’s a clean, fresh design. Better yet, I tested it with some odd words and it passed, had them all listed. It did not give a perfectly clear description for each but it was [...]

Research Away Writer’s Block

December 1, 2009

From Gary Bencivenga’s Marketing Bullets: I learned that good copywriters get to know so much about the product and the prospect and his or her wants, fears, assumptions, and lingo that the copy soon wants to burst forth as if a dam is breaking. I learned that research is the infallible cure for writer’s block. [...]

The 1,000 Word Challenge

November 24, 2009

You may not be doing so well with NaNoWriMo, or NaBloPoMo or even IComWeLeave, but… you can do a thousand word post on your blog. It’s a one shot deal. Think of it as 5 groups of 200 words, or 4 groups of 250 words and it doesn’t really seem that bad at all, right? [...]

Blogging with Discipline

November 22, 2009

Blogging with discipline doesn’t mean you have to blog every day or that you can’t ever take a break. It means blogging regularly–whatever that means for you. It means sitting down and trying to develop a blog post idea instead of waiting until a perfectly-written post is already floating around in your brain. Blogging with [...]

Designing Your Own 125×125 Blog Ad

October 26, 2009

You need to create a small 125 x 125 pixels square ad for your blog if you want to use ad networks and link exchanges like CMF Ads, Adgitize, Project Wonderful, Technorati Engage, Yahoo Publisher Network (US only), Google Adsense, Blog Ads, Spottt and 125 Exchange. (Publisher Spot will give you reviews of ad networks [...]

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- Post photos of your favourite Second Hand Bookstore to this Flickr group. I'm in between second hand bookstores in town. But my favourite is still a half hour drive away in another town.
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- "There's an inner logic when somebody can't speak any more, they sing and when they're too filled with emotion they move onto dance."
  
  - Kelly Robinson, choreographer and stage director.
  
  I was watching some old movies last night. In between they talk about the movies, in particular the director. Mostly it was a lot of back patting. Then the topic of making musicals came up and I copied down this quote.
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