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Lesson Six:

Now that you’ve got a clear idea in your mind about the emotional impact you want your design to present, in sync with your original branding, let’s talk about the more technical aspects. Functionality.  You want a clean, clear design that is user-friendly.  No matter how attractive your design is, no matter how perfectly it reflects your author branding, if it’s not user-friendly, visitors will be frustrated–and go away.  We don’t want that!

Points to keep in mind: [Read more →]

Tags: How to Blog, Series Articles, The Writer's Blog Workshop by Suzanne McMinn
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The Writer’s Blog Workshop Series Lessons: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7

Lesson Five:

How do you choose a functional, practical, and beautiful design for your blog? What points should you consider when designing a blog? I’m going to divide the discussion about design into three parts–the emotional impact of design, the technical aspects of design, and the down-and-dirty on getting a design installed.  This lesson covers the emotional element. 

Let’s go back to the professional purpose for a creative artist’s blog–marketing. What does your blog design say about you as an artist?  [Read more →]

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Lesson Four:

In this lesson, we’ll take a second look at developing blog content, this time from a brainstorming perspective.  Consistent content creation is the biggest obstacle facing new bloggers. On days when the creative juices just won’t fly, use these brainstorming tips to remind you how to fire up your creative idea-maker and face the blank screen with confidence. Start out with a few basic premises: [Read more →]

Tags: Creativity, How to Blog, Series Articles, The Writer's Blog Workshop by Suzanne McMinn
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Lesson Three:

How do you develop regular, entertaining, informative, and purposeful content for your blog? Content is one of the toughest issues for many blog writers, and concern about creating regular quality content is one of the most frequently mentioned fears preventing some people from even starting a blog. Some days, writing your blog entries will come naturally, almost effortlessly. Other days, you’ll experience blogger’s block. Don’t be scared. It doesn’t mean you’ve run out of things to say. It just means you’re having an off day. Happens to everyone. The wrong answer to this problem is to not blog at all. (Derailing your posting schedule is a sure path to losing your blog traffic.) So how do you beat blogger’s block and post on those difficult days? [Read more →]

Tags: Creativity, How to Blog, Series Articles, The Writer's Blog Workshop by Suzanne McMinn
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The Writer’s Blog Workshop Series Lessons: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7

Lesson Two:

Blogs are like books–tastes are subjective and individual. For example, romance novels aren’t for everyone. In fact, every romance novel isn’t for every romance reader. Some romance readers love paranormals, others don’t like them at all. Same for westerns or medievals or romantic suspense or erotic romances. One type of book, or even one author, doesn’t please everyone. You don’t write to please everyone–you write to please a certain readership who enjoys the type of books you enjoy writing. Writing books you enjoy writing is one of the keys to writing success. Your own enthusiasm about your stories is what reaches out to readers through the pages of your books. If you loathe paranormals and force yourself to write one, it’s not likely to be your best work and not likely to end up appealing to readers of that subgenre. Your lack of enthusiasm will show. In the same way, no blog is to everyone’s taste. There are certain things that are a turn-off to most people– [Read more →]

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