Note to Reader: Since this post was written, I have switched from Blogger to WordPress for my blog and website. Lessons From Bloopers If you’ve taken the steps in Starting Up A Blog, Part I and you’re willing to do a little experimenting, you are now ready to post your first blog. Before we begin, though, I suggest […]
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Manuscript Makeover
No matter how advanced you are as a writer, it never hurts to take one last look at your manuscript before sending it off to an agent or editor. And Manuscript Makeover, by Elizabeth Lyon, is just the book to help you do it. Lyon spent the last twenty years teaching writing and mentoring writers in classes, critique groups, […]
Setting Up A Blog, Part I
Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that setting up a blog was easy? Until I read Blogging for Dummies, I thought I needed to consult an expert to get me started or, at the very least, master complicated technological skills that I didn’t have the patience or inclination to learn. Guess it was a case of, “You never asked.” If the […]
Me Blog?
Have you ever considered starting a blog? I can already see you shaking your head. You probably think that blogging is for writers, politicians, political pundits, or egotistical people with nothing better to do. True. But here are fourteen reasons why you, too, might want to give it a try. You can use it as a networking tool. No matter what your business or occupation, […]
Indigo the Movie
Here’s a clip from “Indigo” the movie to give you a better idea of what I was talking about in two of my previous posts. Notice that Walsch stars as grandfather to an Indigo. Now imagine seven Indigos in one classroom with a greenhorn teacher. BETWEEN NOW AND FOREVER When Marjorie Veil takes on a class […]
Why Blog?
Jane Friedman’s April 26, 2010 post, Why Start a Website or Bog If You Have Nothing to Promote? jump-started my blog for today. According to Jane, “on-line media can divert your attention/focus from writing your work in progress and reading in your genre,” to which I say, “Of course. I haven’t touched my novel in days (although nothing can […]
