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

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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“We are storytellers.  What a powerful gift that is!  We create wonderful, compelling books out of nothing but our own imaginations. With a little hard work and dedication we take a blank page and transform it into beautiful, inspiring stories that touch people’s hearts.  What’s even more amazing is that we do it when we’re stressed, when we’re tired, when we’re grieving, when we’re frightened.  We do it!  That’s the important thing.’ –RaeAnne Thayne

Prolific author RaeAnne Thayne expresses what we all experience–creating beautiful worlds in our imaginations doesn’t make us immune from chaotic, stressful, sometimes heartbreaking realities in our own lives.  And yet as writers, we are, if nothing else, optimistic souls.  We send our work out into the world in hopes it will lift someone’s spirits for a time, even when our own are sometimes heavy–because through that very process of lifting others, we lift ourselves.  “That is why I write,” Thayne says.  [Read more →]

Tags: Author Interviews, Creativity, Motivation by Suzanne McMinn
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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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