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What To Do in Your First Week With a New Blog

February 17, 2010

ProBlog­ger is offer­ing a week-long work­shop for new blog­gers. What To Do in Your First Week With a New Blog. First up is cre­at­ing content.

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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 like an […]

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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 […]

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Write Yourself into Horror

December 21, 2009

Get­ting off-seasonal with Eliza Dash­wood (Word Fer­ret), for a hor­ror writ­ing prompt. I admit, I also read a lot of the para­nor­mal chick lit stuff. Some may call it dark fan­tasy, para­nor­mal fic­tion, etc. I think para­nor­mal chick lit cov­ers it well for me. Some of my favourite para­nor­mal writ­ers are: Michelle Rowen, Kel­ley Armstrong, […]

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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 […]

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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.
Hav­ing something […]

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The Great Interview Experiment

November 25, 2009

Citi­zen of the Month is doing The Great Inter­view Exper­i­ment again.
Here’s how it is going to work. The first per­son who com­ments on this post, will get inter­viewed by me. I will read the person’s blog, then email him ten or so spe­cific ques­tions, hope­fully more about his life (what makes them tick) than their […]

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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?
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NoJoMo

November 23, 2009

It may be almost over, but did you know this is NoJoMo — Novem­ber Jour­nal­ing Month?

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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 […]

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Interview Yourself

October 19, 2009

Inter­view­ing is a nice skill to have. It’s more than just being social, able to keep a con­ver­sa­tion mov­ing. There is quite a bit of prepa­ra­tion involved before the social part even starts.
What ques­tions will you ask dur­ing the inter­view? Think about what you want to know your­self, that’s a good place to start. Then […]

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The Awful Silence of Blogging

October 18, 2009

Many years ago I started a newslet­ter for writ­ers online. I called it InkSplat­ters. It ran on the site that is now Yahoo Groups. (Does any­one remem­ber when it was Yahoo Clubs for awhile and some­thing else not even part of Yahoo before that?) The newslet­ter began as a spin off from a site my […]

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Authors’ Blogs

October 17, 2009

Author’s Blogs for writ­ers who blog and blog­gers who write. Join the group if you like.

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Blogger Talks

October 17, 2009

Blog­ger Talks — Inter­views with blog­gers, since 2006. I think I did see this site before but had for­got­ten all about it. Read the inter­views from the per­spec­tive of a blog­ger and some­one who might be writ­ing their own inter­views some day. What are the best ques­tions asked? How do they frame them well, or […]

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The Spirit of the Wind

October 15, 2009

I’m writ­ing with the wind today for Blog Action Day.
This year the theme is cli­mate change. When I think about the cli­mate I think about the wind and weather in gen­eral. The wind is part of every kind of weather. When it rains there is wind, not always gale force winds, some­thing  lit­tle wind to […]

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