Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Tips, Writing on Jun 19th, 2008
This is a duality that I struggle with a lot. Am I a writer? A blogger? Both? So today I’m taking a look at three ways that have helped me (and will hopefully help you) balance the act of writing fiction and blogging.
I write for this blog and I also write fiction. I’d like to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Creativity, Tips, Writing on Jun 18th, 2008
I mentioned last week that I tried reading Getting Things Done, the productivity book that is so popular, but didn’t have time to get through it. There was quite a bit of response around that post so I wanted to share what I took away from the 30 or so pages I did read. Those [...]
As part of my continual effort to do more and more writing-related stuff on this blog, I participated and was selected over at the Just Write Carnival. My post on Finding the Time to Write was selected, along with a few other posts from other people that are related to writing. Check them out if [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on Jun 9th, 2008
Day 11 of Building a Better Blog is here. Today’s tip is one that is close to my heart because I’m a big fan of baseball stats. So Analyzing my Blog’s Stats means digging into the numbers to try to discover new things about the site and ways to make it better.
I’m a big [...]
When I was in grad school getting my MA in Writing, a really cool professor of mine got a published writer (and professor from another school) to come to our workshop for a little Q&A. After reading and talking about all these amateur stories (for the most part), it was nice to have a real [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on May 28th, 2008
Time for Day 8 of my Building a Better Blog series. Today’s tip is a classic that you’ll see just about everywhere in the blogosphere—Comment on a blog you’ve never commented on before. I’m a big believer in this one because you let your writing do the talking and based on that alone people will [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on May 26th, 2008
Day 7 of my Building a Better Blog series just happens to fall at the perfect time: I’m getting married on Sunday and today’s tip is to Plan Ahead. Since I have family coming in this week and I’ll be gone from Thursday to Thursday of next week, I have to plan ahead if I [...]
Posted in Motivation, Writing on May 23rd, 2008
Last week I wrote a post about a formula I found that works for me whenever I want to “inspire” myself to write. Well, there was something I left out of the equation that merits being discussed: music.
A couple of things made me realize how stupid it was to not even mention music: one [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on May 21st, 2008
Day 6 of my quest to build a better blog rolls right along. For those of you new to the series, I’m just following ProBlogger’s Guide on a day-to-day basis. Day 5 was about performing an About Page audit.
We are all the way to Day 6 and I’m not sick of this series yet, so [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on May 19th, 2008
Ready for Day 5 of my quest to build a better blog? It’s simple, I’m just following ProBlogger’s Guide. Day 4 was all about Interlinking Archived Posts.
Today’s task is to perform an About Page Audit. This is a part of the page that I’ve always thought of reworking. “I’ll get to it eventually,” is as [...]
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