If a Tree Falls on Your House, Stay Calm. It Will Grow Back

May 2, 2012
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What would we do without comment spammers telling us how great our blogs are…. Anyway, today I read a Twitter post in the spirit of “stay calm”. I lost track of the original so I can’t post it here. (It was a promotion for a book with a title about sharks). But, I thought of [...]

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Merry May Day

May 1, 2012
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Merry May Day. It never really feels like we can count on Spring sticking around until May 1st. Here in mid-northern Ontario we had snow last week. I’d be more surprised to see snow in May. This is my first post for the 31 days of the Word Count Blogathon.

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Stop Wasting Your Time… on Titles that Don’t Say Enough

April 30, 2012
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Are you losing potential readers because you don’t post enough information when you try to lure them into your posts? We read so many leading titles that have promise and then don’t deliver. As writers, we need to give people enough information that they can connect to something we have written about and want to [...]

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One Word Blog Day – Cardboard

April 29, 2012

Cardboard     One Word Blog Day

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What It Really Is Like to be a Work-at-Home Writer

April 29, 2012

I’m kind of frustrated. I had a GREAT idea for a post. It was all floating around in my head, all the bits coming together to create THE IDEA. Then the phone rang – something about a survey about the furnace for the home owner. I was annoyed. I got rid of them. I got [...]

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Ladies Learning Code

April 28, 2012
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We’re a women-run not-for-profit group working to empower everyone to feel comfortable learning beginner-friendly technical skills in a social, collaborative way. Ladies Learning Code started in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in June 2011 – with a tweet. It is through the hard work and dedication of many people (many, many more than are pictured here) that [...]

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14 Secrets for a Happy Artist’s Life

April 27, 2012

1. Find 3 good things every day, whether they are experiences, or objects, or both. Find a way to use them in art. 2. Make everything special. Embellish your life. 3. Look for Fairy God-mothers and Angels. Be ready for experiences that will delight and surprise you. 4. Play more often. 5. Look for the [...]

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Not the Standard in Goal Getting

April 26, 2012

On the HubPages Answer section someone asked how you keep/ reach goals you set, what helps you to get there. I thought about it a bit and then wrote: I don’t tell anyone else about my goal. That goes against popular opinion. But, once I tell someone I have to listen to their advice, their [...]

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Spread Yourself Out without Spreading Yourself Thin

April 25, 2012
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Spread yourself out without spreading yourself thin. This is my new motto. I think it can be done. Time management and planning. Thinking of ways to combine tasks like promoting on social media that does some of the work itself, but not in a way that makes it too automatic so that it lacks any [...]

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Women Who Think Like a Man

April 24, 2012
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Where did this one start? Some of these Twitter things are too funny. I don’t think this one started out with the intent to be funny, but it is. What would you post? Consider what we know about how men think. What men think. I’m glad we (woman that I am) don’t think like men. [...]

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I’ll Just Be Me

April 23, 2012
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It’s been awhile since I picked a Twitter profile as a best of for the month. I just haven’t come across a profile that especially made me laugh, think, or decide to follow someone based on just what he/ she had written in their Twitter profile. Today I found AnnaPuzzlemint. I like just being me. [...]

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One Word Blog Day – Rust

April 22, 2012

Rust   One Word Blog Day

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Stop Thinking About Success and Make It Happen

April 21, 2012

I give this piece of advice to everyone who reads this article: Stop thinking about success and make it happen. One of the hardest things about being a writer is realizing that not everyone is going to immediately love reading your work. It takes time. But if you truly love what you’re writing about, that [...]

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Add an Adult Content Warning to your Site

April 20, 2012
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I run one adult themed blog. It’s mainly for myself, a place to keep things that I wouldn’t post to other sites. Basically, it’s another niche site, but the content happens to be about sex and erotica. Today I moderated a spam comment which I feel is pretty gross. It gives a link to a [...]

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SketchCrawl: Drawing Marathons from Around the World

April 19, 2012
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The basic idea: to record nonstop everything I could around me with my pencil and watercolors. A drawn journal filled with details ranging from the all the coffee I drank to the different buses I took. After a whole day of drawing and walking around the city the name seemed quite fitting: “SketchCrawl” – a [...]

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Out Here on My Own

April 18, 2012
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Sung by Irene Cara for the movie, Fame. This song pops into my head different times when I’m not really thinking about anything. Sometimes I wonder Where I’ve been Who I am, do I fit in? Make-believing is hard alone Out here, on my own We’re always proving Who we are Always reaching For that [...]

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WordPress Plugins for Writers

April 17, 2012

I got the idea to make a post about WordPress plugins for writers. I use a few which help me and thought I’d share them. But, I found something interesting when I started looking around to see what other writers like to use. Almost every plugin written about as being “for writers” was for SEO [...]

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Mini Interview with A Slip of a Girl

April 16, 2012
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Writers who work at home like to be comfortable, yet pretty rather than sloppy.  So I decided to ask lingerie blogger, A Slip Of A Girl, “What would be nice, comfortable lingerie for working in front of the computer?” Laura, I think my blogging name and blog name, A Slip Of A Girl, rather gives [...]

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One Word Blog Day

April 15, 2012

Restful   For One Word Blog Day

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You Are Allowed

April 14, 2012
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FanGirling

April 13, 2012
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What does #fangirling mean to you? What would it take to knock your socks off? Or, who would it take? Urban Dictionary: Fangirling – v. 1. the reaction a fangirl has to any mention or sighting of the object of her “affection”. These reactions include shortness of breath, fainting, highpitched noises, shaking, fierce head shaking [...]

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