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What Will I Blog Today?
When I get up in the morning, I never ask myself “What will I blog today?” When blogging is more than a habit, when it becomes a lifestyle, you have two thoughts. I wonder what I will discover today....
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Open Your Mind
I’ve been collecting quotes from my travels for years. A favorite translates to: A closed door lets in no light. When the door to your mind is closed, locked up tight against new ideas and...
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Writers Block or Bloggers Block
There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write. - Terry Pratchett There is truth in that. If you are passionate enough about your subject matter,...
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Say It. It’s Your Platform.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it. Ernest Hemingway Don’t tell us what you want to tell us, tell us a story. Take us on a journey. This isn’t a high school speech. This isn’t even...
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The Perfect Post Length
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them. John Ruskin There is much debate on the...
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Copycatting is Not New
Most authors steal their works, or buy. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Plagiarism today is just as relevant as it was in the 1600s. I’m always startled by people who know they would be kicked out of...
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Ideas Run Dry
What do you do when the well runs dry? A blog must be fed. How often you feed it is up to you, but when the well of ideas runs dry, what next? If you are truly passionate about your blog subject...
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Mind Mapping
Mind Mapping is something I’ve done all my life but I didn’t have a word for it until a couple years ago. Mind mapping is the process of using visual graphics to chart ideas, brainstorms, concepts,...
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Dream Recording
Many people record their dreams. A blog is a place where you may share those dreams. Everyone dreams, but not all dreams are worth sharing. Make sure your About Page explains that these are your...
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Words Count
WordPress now features a Word Count at the bottom of the post editing form. It tells me how many words I’ve put into this post. Right now it reports there are 31. That’s not many words but I feel like...
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Time Lapse
A blog post can be a capsule in time, a story that stops time in its tracks, allowing the reader to explore that moment. In 2008, my husband and I photographed the moon eclipsing the sun. We were in...
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Bloggers are Historians
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. Karl Marx I find that bloggers are today’s journalists. Not in the sense of news reporters...
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The Fragrance of a Thought
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without...
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Craft verses Talent
It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway It’s the truth. You don’t have to let them know you learned how to write – and...
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See Beyond the Stars
As I wrote “Exploring the Alignment of the Planets in the Night Sky,” my mind kept going out beyond the stars I was seeing on my mobile apps and computer programs, seeing beyond Alpha Centauri to the...
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Blogging Requires Exposure
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway Writing is hard work. Blogging, I think, can often be harder as it is self-published, visible to the...
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Blogging is Work and Pleasure
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. Joseph Joubert While web writing and blogging is hard work, there is great joy....
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Everything Old is New Again
Walking through Costco, I spotted the display of DVD and Blue Ray movies and was startled. It’s 2013 and the movies on display, presumably the movies in demand right now, include Funny Girl from 1968,...
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Questioning the Questions
Blogging is more than just writing, sharing pictures, telling stories. It’s about the questions. Good bloggers ask or invite questions. Great bloggers question the questions. Apathy is everywhere. We...
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You’ve Been Right All Along
Is it the vision of your future or the past that keeps you blogging? I believe that we are right all the time, even when we are wrong. The wrongness of the moment was right for us at the time. Like...
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