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The Writer’s Blog Workshop Series Lessons: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7

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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Beautiful writing and stunning photography are the hallmarks of the I Live On A Farm/Scrumptious Living blog of J.L. “firefly” Fleckenstein. A visit is like falling down a rabbit hole into a cozy fairyland you never want to leave. With her warm and welcoming prose, she invites her visitors into her upstate western New York world as if you are a friend, and with her vivid descriptions, creates the feeling that you are there. The site is like a crackling fire, a soft pillow, a book you can’t put down. You want to stay…and stay.

“This is one of those days when we really should sit and have a cup o’ tea or coffee together … or perhaps, a hot cocoa?” she suggests in a recent post. [Read more →]

Tags: Creativity, How to Blog, Spotlight by Suzanne McMinn
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Series Introduction:

Want to bring more traffic to your website by adding a blog? Or not quite ready for a website but want to start building your name and attracting an audience with a blog alone? This series explains how to launch a blog if you’ve never had one—or take your current blog to an all-new level. Articles include blog basics such as platforms and design, pros and cons of solo blogging and group blogging, blogging ethics and etiquette, and the all-important question of writing and content. Also coming up in future articles: tips for marketing and promoting on your blog, creating traffic-building interest, developing your unique blogging style, time management for blogging, setting your blogging boundaries, and beating bloggers’ block. [Read more →]

Tags: How to Blog, Marketing, Series Articles, The Writer's Blog Workshop by Suzanne McMinn
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According to Wikipedia, a meme is defined as “a theoretical unit of cultural information, the building block of cultural evolution or diffusion that propagates from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution.”

In the context of blogging, a meme is most commonly a list of questions that has a viral impact, meaning one blogger posts the list, answers the questions, and other bloggers pick up on the list by posting and answering the questions on their own blogs, and so on.  As the list spreads, the questions not only replicate but mutate as some bloggers may choose to alter the questions.  [Read more →]

Tags: Creativity, How to Blog by Suzanne McMinn
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