Driving Traffic to Your Blog With StumbleUpon
I’ve been a professional blogger for five years now, and I just love doing it. I get to write about topics that interest me the most and share information and opinions on these subjects with millions of readers around the world. Over the years I have found many different ways of driving traffic to my […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Personal Stories About Snorkeling
Welcome back from the weekend! Sheesh, just when I thought the excitement here in Boston was dying down post-Bruins euphoria, another major event occurs to throw me off kilter again. Whitey Bulger was found after a called-in tip, and he surrendered to police in California after 16 years on the run. This is stuff movies […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Non-Bruins Related Links
Welcome back from the weekend! Well. There has been a bit of hubbub here in The Hub. (Our offices are beautifully located in the Italian North End of Boston.) You see, we have been dealing with the aftermath of this whole thing. Parties, celebrations, parades—the whole shebang. And boy are we out of sorts and […]
How to Blog for Dyslexic Readers
After more than 20 years teaching high school students with reading and math difficulties, I thought I knew all the tricks for helping people with various reading problems, including dyslexia decipher printed text. Now that I have migrated completely to electronic media for my writing, I have been forced to reconsider how to present computerized […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: What do Dr. Seuss and Groupon Have in Common?
Welcome back from the (non-long) weekend! I have one important word for writers this week: Trampoline. Finally. Finally Fuel Your Writing has found a reason for me, as a writer and editor, to get that one beautiful piece of equipment dreams that I have been asking Santa for since I learned how to say the […]
Beyond the Blog: Innovative Ways to Introduce Quality Content
Experienced writers wants to do their best to create quality content, whether they are creating a blog or some other kind of web content. A blog needs to do more than just provide information; it needs to truly be a content asset and provide something both the potential reader and the customer can expand on […]
My Ultimate Guest Blog List
You’ve probably heard the question before: If you could invite any person to dinner, dead or alive, who would it be? Just think of all the questions you could ask, the information you could learn, and the discussions you would have! Guest blogging is not much different from this concept. Imagine having the ability to […]
Beastly Blogging Blunders
It’s quite a daunting challenge: Write a blog about dangerous blogger mistakes without committing any of those mistakes in the blog itself! At the risk of making some of the very mistakes I’m writing about, here is my list of beastly blogging blunders and how to avoid them: PROUD PEACOCK BLOGGING – This blog is all about […]
WriterAccess Weekly Round-up: Blockbuster Blogging
Welcome back from the weekend! Poor, rainy, chilly weather in Boston has got me aching for summer. With June closing in rapidly, the entertainment industry is also trying to hype up the summer with blockbuster movie trailers. Teens will flock to the latest Twilight installment, comic book fans to X-Men: First Class, and seemingly everyone […]
Winston Churchill’s Guide to “Never Give Up” Blogging
When it comes to creating and maintaining a successful blog, bloggers would do well to take a few cues from Winston Churchill. When he stood before the boys of his old school, Harrow, it has often been reported the sole line of his speech was, “Never give up.” The truth is, he said a good […]
6 Blogger Tips on Staying Motivated
Being a writer comes with all kinds of Hemingway-esque romantic notions of whiling away the hours in coffee shops or working in your pajamas at your own unconventional hours, sipping tea or maybe gin, doing your own thing perhaps even with the proverbial pencil stuck behind your ear. But what happens when you lose your umph? […]
Where Should I Host My Blog?
How to choose between blog platforms is a common question among bloggers. The funny thing is that no one really wants to say definitively which blog platform is the best. The simplest answer to this question is that it depends on what you want to do with it. Let’s have a look at three of […]