Starting a blog and Blogging

Well, specifically, your unknown reader is checking in. Does someone read your blog every week? They will notice when you haven’t posted last week. And they’ll want to know if you are okay. So… are you okay? People notice. People who read your blog, notice when you don’t post. People, whom you don’t even know

Ah, well, that truly is the question, isn’t it? Whether you struggle to write or whether you struggle to come up with things to write, the answer is both surprisingly easy and annoying and a bit cliché. But still very, very true. And that is: Writing begets writing. What that means is, the more you

I’m sure you’ve heard it before. You, as an aspiring (or current), writer have checked on the writing habits of your favorite writers. Sometimes they say, “I write best in the early morning” or “I write during my lunch break” or some other such variation. I want to say (but may be remembering wrong) that

I’ve known more than one aspiring author in my lifetime. Offhand, two of them are now published authors. I myself, have had two poems published, many a moon ago. If you are any type of writer, whether it’s writing a book, a script, a blog post, an email, a love letter, or anything else, whether

When I entered high school, I met Linda Highman, who would be my English teacher and drama director for the next four years… and my drama director for many years after. I’ve done several plays with her in college, and at a couple of different churches. They were a lot of fun and one of

There’s nothing like being a knowledgeable person about something, doing something that’s [almost] second nature, and then realizing that you made a colossal mistake. I did that. Today. I had a main hosting account under one domain, I changed it to another domain. Then I deleted the files from the now-old domain. The new domain

There’s something some people, such as myself, tend to overlook. It’s a simple thing really, but absolutely essential. But as long as everything is fine, you tend not to think about it at all. Until it isn’t fine. More of a housekeeping or maintenance thing really, but if you don’t do it, then it can

  When I write something, I sometimes stop and ask myself, “Should I make this an email, or should I turn it into a blog post?”  Though the question may seem trivial, sometimes it’s not.   A little history When I started back up after my long hiatus, I was determined to write an email

Yes, the real bane of my existence is WordPress Themes. You’d think it would be my security plugin that I have to CONSTANTLY deactivate so I can do something and then reactivate for the security. But NOOOOOOOO, that’s nothing compared to themes. First, if you have an old theme that you bought, and you try

Full Disclosure: This post is one of those “do as I say, not as I do” type deals. 🙂 Have you ever wondered what the best way to organize your blog and all the things that go with it (sometimes referred to as “digital property” or “digital real estate”? If you look at this blog,