Blogging is one of those occupations that are hard to do well unless you genuinely enjoy them. However, what happens when the activity you were once passionate about suddenly becomes a burden and a major anxiety trigger? Even though this is what nightmares are made of for most writers, it’s vital to remember there is … Read more
Every day, I get friend or connection requests on Facebook and LinkedIn. Today, I have 1,146 friends on Facebook and 2,651 connections on LinkedIn. Obviously, I can’t interact with even a small percentage, and when I add new friends/connections, I wonder if I’m just adding another name of someone I won’t ever communicate with. In … Read more
The last year and a half have been as crazy for me as for the rest of the world. A move from my home of 53 years to a retirement community combined with COVID lockdowns, medical issues, and going from a walker to a manual wheelchair to a scooter to a power wheelchair distracted me … Read more
The last few months have been chaotic. I know everyone’s life has been disrupted by the pandemic and the civil unrest. Add to that my move from my home of fifty-three years to a senior living community in lockdown, and I have been adjusting to a whole new way of life. I love my new … Read more
I started blogging on WordPress in 2006, when the platform was just three years old. In those early days, WordPress was for blogging—period. I installed WordPress on the website that I created and maintained in Dreamweaver, and for a long time it remained separate from the site itself. Now, of course, my entire website is … Read more
My apologies for the long delay in posting. I haven’t been feeling the best, and I’ve been working on a number of projects. I’ll share some of them in upcoming blog posts. Now that I’m feeling better and getting caught up on work, I will update my blog more often. Image: © Depositphotos.com/anyaberkut
Twelve years and 2,160 posts ago, I sat down to write my first blog post. In that post, I said I would writing about my current projects, sharing writing and editing tips, and covering electronic publishing. While I’ve done those things, I’ve added other subjects. The word cloud in the sidebar shows that the most-used … Read more
When starting a blog, you may think that you’re ready to start writing as soon as you have a topic or theme picked out. Writing regular, original posts is one of the most important aspects of running a blog, but there’s a little more to it than that. Little things that you might not think … Read more
In a perfect world, starting out as a blogger would involve you writing the perfect material for an already existing audience. Unfortunately, this is not the case; it takes hard work to start a blog: determining an audience, writing the type of material that interests you as well as engages and builds an audience, and … Read more
As an aspiring blogger, brainstorming can be a bit overwhelming. It can be difficult to rein in all the ideas you have in your head for that perfect post. On the other hand, you may have chosen to write about a topic, but don’t find yourself particularly interested in it. When getting together a blog … Read more