The Writer’s Coin

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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So I recently finished Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies (which was chosen by my readers) and I loved it. So I’m two for two with her after also loving The Namesake. So I was doing some reading about her and found a nice piece on Time about her.
They compare and contrast her with two other [...]

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Check out some great posts over at the Money Hacks Carnival, hosted by Save and Conquer. My post, Going to the Game is Expensive, was chosen for the Economy section of the carnival.
I’m also over at the Carnival of Twenty Something Finances hosted by The Locomono Website. My story for that one is about getting [...]

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