If my memory is correct, I started a website about 1999 when I published my first novel. The Wayback Machine first archived my site in early 2001. But for several years, updating the site anytime I wanted to announce anything new was a major endeavor. Through the years, I used programs from Publisher to Dreamweaver … Read more
Back in 2006, I got tired of having to update my website every time I wanted to add a tiny piece of news. I’d heard about blogs and thought it would be a good idea to add a blog to my site to make it easier to add news. I decided to add writing tips … Read more
Do you remember what you were doing ten years ago today? I certainly do because it was a very important date for me. I was struggling to write my very first blog post. It was all of 100 words and probably took me longer than most of the 1000+ word posts I’ve written since. I … Read more
The old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” surely holds true on social media. In the past couple of years, I have created more than 1700 images, mostly of Bible verses, and posted to social media. While Scripture doesn’t go viral, I always get more likes and shares for images than for plain … Read more
Nine years ago today, I whispered, “Hello, World!” in my first blog post. Like most milestones, in some ways it seems that I’ve been blogging forever, and in other ways it seems that I just wrote those first words. At first, I had few readers and no comments. Then for years, I had many readers … Read more
I have had comments on my blog since I started blogging almost nine years ago. Of course, I didn’t actually get my first comment until some time later, and boy, was that exciting! Although I’m not sure of the exact count, I’ve had somewhere around 25,000 comments through the years. However, comments are no more. … Read more
I wrote recently about my new favorite tool, Share As Image. Just a few days Share As Image added some great new features, making it ever more useful. Now you can select the size and shape of your image so the preview looks best on the various social media sites. You can also add as … Read more
Recently, I read a couple of different blog posts about tools to add text to images. Both posts listed several different apps, but I was disappointed when I checked out the websites. The apps were complicated to use or the choices of images were limited or … something wasn’t right. Although I wasn’t happy with … Read more
I know website owners struggle to get attention among millions of sites on the Internet. And I’m sure they are doing what they think is the best way to attract and keep visitors. However, for many people a red background with tiny font or a white background with pale text just isn’t readable if we have even minor … Read more
When I wrote my first post eight years and 1,578 posts ago, I didn’t have many plans for the blog. I had thought I would write about writing, editing, and publishing, and I have. There are 193 posts in the Writing and Publishing Advice category, as well as 274 posts combined in Books and Publishing … Read more