Unlimited Ideas
Aug 10If you’re a blogger, creating content weekly or even daily can be a challenge. If you’re writing articles for a living, then you’re probably facing similar problems. How do you find topics to write about? One of my favorite ways is the list post. Everyone has written them. Let’s take a recent one of mine for example. 50 Ways to Improve Your Health If you’re looking...
CornerScribe changing to Dofollow
Jun 25Do you know what do-follow means, in terms of your blog and comments you leave elsewhere? Usually, blogs default to no-follow in their comments. That is, links in comments are not treated as “real” links, meaning you get no credit for them in google. So, commenting isn’t going to do much for your google page rank because you’re not really creating links back to your...
Submissions, please
Apr 12I’m looking to fill out my Writing Resources page some more, and I’m looking for some submissions. My goal is to put together a really kick-butt listing of online writing resources, so submit your own best work or others’ work that you find really useful. Please leave a comment on this post with your link and a brief summary of what it covers. Don’t worry if there’s...
9 Good Writing Excuses
Mar 02writing, novel, freelancing, book, fiction, blog, grammar Dear Novel, Yes, I know I have 60,000 words of you written already. I have a scene outline. I even know your ending (and I still respect you). Yet I haven’t sat down with you in days, haven’t added a word to you or done even a little tweak here or there. Here is what I’ve been doing instead. You can see it’s all...
How are you using Twitter?
Feb 16writing, blogging, blog, fiction, novel, book, freelance Are you on Twitter? You can follow me here. I just crossed the 100 followers threshold, so I’m pretty excited about that. What is twitter? Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to post updates in 140 character blips. Think IM plus social networking, and you’ve more or less got it. With twitter, it’s...
Must Read New Blog
Feb 07Genreality is a new blog that I’ve really been enjoying lately because of its great information for new writers. It’s staffed by midlisters, including Lynn Viehl, author of Paperback Writer, which I’ve mentioned here before. Others are Alison Kent, Joseph Nassise, Carrie Vaughn, Sasha White and Jason Pinter. They discuss various topics of interest to new writers, particularly...