A picture tells a thousand words. Seriously. If you aren’t using photography on your blog, think again. Blog readers love photos! Photos break up longer posts, add substance to shorter posts, and draw readers through a post. And they’re fun! Don’t you want your blog to be fun?
How and when should you use photos on your blog? [Read more →]
So you’re staring at a blank screen. You’re stuck on your story and you’re not sure exactly where you’ve gone wrong. You’re stuck on an idea to blog about. Heck, you feel like you’re even stuck on what to put on the grocery list. Here are twelve ways to break your writer’s block.
1) Leaf through a magazine and rip out a picture that calls to you. It doesn’t have to look like your character–maybe it’s something they are looking at, or thinking about. Write a page about the picture. See if it jump starts you into your writing. The same can be done for ideas for your blog. Look through a magazine and see if a picture will give you an idea for your blog post.
2) Go outside and take a walk. A change of scene and a chance to let your mind wander might be just the thing to jiggle something loose that works for you.
3) Try some other creative outlet. Photography. Knit. Cook. Garden. [Read more →]
Submit now to Dandelion’s next Romance Writers Blog Carnival! Enter your favorite previously-published blog post to our second edition of the Romance Writers Blog Carnival here. Deadline is February 15th and the carnival will be posted February 18th. Don’t know what we’re talking about? Read our What is a Blog Carnival article to learn more about how we can help you boost traffic to your blog! It’s free, it’s easy, and it only takes a minute! You don’t have to write anything new–just send us the URL to a recent favorite post you have made on your blog, and we’ll link it here in our carnival and send new traffic your way!
Romance Writer Blog Carnival Categories:
*The Writing Life
*Overcoming Rejection
*Finding Inspiration
*Beating Writer’s Block
*Self-Motivation
*Craft of Writing
*First-Sale Stories
*Promotion and Marketing
*When Writing is Funny
See our carnival’s first edition here, and submit your post to the second edition today! Got a question? Drop a note in the comments and let us know!
Have you seen the commercial for DirectTV, where Jessica Simpson says “I don’t know what it is, but I want it…” Well, I used to feel a bit like that about Stumbleupon. StumbleUpon can seem like visiting a foreign country. Let’s see if we can begin to help you speak the language.
StumbleUpon is a social networking website. You set up specific topics that interest you, and StumbleUpon feeds you websites that match your interests. You can thumbs up or thumbs down sites as you view them. StumbleUpon figures out more and more what interests you and feeds you more sites that match your interests.
Go to StumbleUpon and set up an account.
Click Join and Download Now to download the toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer. [Read more →]
That is the question.
As more and more people enter the blogforce (yes, I’m coining a new word! — blogforce, noun, group of people engaged in blogging activity, similar to workforce), guest blogging invitations abound. Should you take up those invitations? How do you decide what is worth your time, and what isn’t? Should you invite guest bloggers to write posts for your own blog? And what unspoken (till now!) guest blogging etiquette points play into the process?
Here are my guest blogging pro’s, cons, and tips: [Read more →]
