Last week I said I was going to write something about promoting your blog, and the more I thought about it the more I realized it really needs to be a series of posts. And maybe I don’t know how to write them just yet. This is one of those …
Last year I started a series called Craft Your Blog, in which I hoped to share writing and blogging advice, tools and tips that get me through my busy days of writing dailyish for three different websites. Last February I wrote a post called “Blog Editing Tips, Part One,” in …
Now that the snow is mostly off the roads and the girl has been securely delivered to school (I feel like the moms in those back-to-school memes where the kids are sad and the mom is jumping for joy, except here we were both really excited to get back to …
When I made my first sale as a freelancer, I was super excited. I was working nights as an editor at a newspaper and had big dreams that someday maybe I’d be able to freelance full-time, actually get to see my husband occasionally, maybe even be at home with a …
I’ve been diligently not liking people’s Facebook statuses where they share x number of things about themselves because I didn’t want to have to do it myself. Then my friend Laurie gave me the “Liebster Award,” which is supposed to encourage blog readers to visit some other blogs but is …
I’ve always read things where people say how important having girlfriends is for adult women. I chose not to believe it for years because I never have had that. I had a couple of great girlfriends in high school who were in my wedding, and we’re still Facebook friends, but …
This month, if you didn’t know, is National Novel Writing Month. It’s the time of year when would-be novelists turn into actual novelists by churning out a story of at least 50,000 words between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. It is so much crazy good fun. I haven’t even attempted …
