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Write for a Larger Audience
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Ezra Pound With today’s evolving languages, the tend to write within it may be appropriate. It...
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How to Blog Part 16: Create an Idea Inventory
We all have ideas, often good ones. We usually forget more ideas than we get. Save your ideas in a safe place. Create an idea inventory if you cannot act immediately upon your ideas. The simplest way...
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Advice on Blogging Can Come From How Not to Blog
In “How Not to Blog in a Blogathon Blog,” I explained how not to blog in a competition format, helping bloggers learn how to blog better. The information still holds true today, whether blogging or...
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If You Could Do It All Over Again, Would You Erase or Fix?
In May 2010 I admitted to the world that I needed to go back and erase my old posts. I want to send so many articles through the thrasher and separate the wheat from the chaff, I feel like a blog...
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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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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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The Act of Emptying the Mind
If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the...
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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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The Best Bloggers are the Best Editors
It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly. - C. J. Cherryh The best bloggers are often the best editors, not writers. The magic of writing well comes with the tinkering...
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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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The Hardest Part of Blogging
A student asked me what was the hardest part of blogging, and inspired an article series. As I look over almost 30 years of blogging, it boils down to these four things that are the hardest part of...
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Trust and Authenticity
When blogging became a word that led to an industry, the most common words thrown around to define and describe blogging were trust and authenticity. Where are those words today? Today, we live in a...
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