WritingThoughts

If you’re a blogger, writing a book may be easier than you think. I’m not necessarily talking about turning your blog into a book, although this post from lifehacker explains how that can work. What I’m talking about is the discipline of writing regularly. One of the biggest hurdles for would-be authors is actually getting […]

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It just might be your page’s load time. The other day I went to a blog that I read frequently and was disappointed to find that it took over three minutes for the page to paint on my screen. Yikes!!! If I had not REALLY wanted to read what that blogger had to say, I […]

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A few weeks ago I posted a survey to find out where my active members come from. A lot of things have happened here since then, including a site redesign. The question still remains, though, and I wanted to share the results with you today. For those of you just joining, I asked the readers […]

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Lately, I seem to have an obsession hobby with of checking Technorati. Even though I’ve been blogging for nearly nine months now, I’d never actually taken the time to look closely at the blogs in the Technorati popular list. Now that I have looked, all I can say is that it’s a good thing that […]

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Yesterday a commentator asked me about voice in writing. Her question was whether or not it was possible to write using two entirely different personalities. (My link to her here is a little thank-you for asking a question that inspired this post.) This post isn’t exactly an answer to her question, but rather a reflection […]

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Michael Haislip at Michael Haislip Helps You Make Money Online has conducted an interesting and kind of fun experiment. Michael asked eleven bloggers to take a Myers-Briggs Type personality test, then he observed their blogs to see how their personality played out through their blogging. While Michael admits that it’s an unscientific project, the results […]

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You’re not alone. A lot of bloggers aspire to make the kind of income found on this list from Paula Mooney. Some may think that blogging is a shortcut to riches. It’s not. Sure, someone will probably read this and leave me a comment about a blogger who was able to blog their way to […]

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As some of you know, I am a member of the Gack Ink blog network. Gack Ink is a bring your own blog network, which means that the blogger retains control and ownership of their blog. It also means that they do not get paid for blogging. A blog network is an affiliation of bloggers. […]

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… and all of you are my ingredients. This is my answer to Liz Strauss‘s group writing project: What is Your Blogging Metaphor? My metaphor for blogging is a cake recipe. It starts with this blog, WritingThoughts, which is like the flour that goes into a cake. But a cake made up of nothing but […]

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Last week I posted on the importance of leaving comments on blog posts. Over 32 bloggers responded by leaving comments on the post. I was really pleased that so many people “got the message.” The post was also linked to at least two times and I found three other posts (not necessarily inspired by my post) […]

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