We haven’t forgotten to announce the winner for the prize with Do You Own Your Web Site? entry. One commenter is on vacation and we’re waiting for him to let us know what computer he has. This entry’s prize is a full copy of First Class Flurry PC game from Chanon Sajjamanochai of Viquagames. Meryl’s First [...]
Add Spark to Your Writing with These 3 Simple Tweaks: I shy away from sentences where I use repeating words even though a comma separates them. This convinced me otherwise. So You Want to Become a Freelance Writer? Four part article with advice from the pros. [...]
This entry’s prize: Two copies of Big Kahuna Reef 2: one for Macs (!) and one for PCs. Comment by June 9 to be eligible). Leave a comment with at least 30 words (to ensure they provide value) by June 9 to get an entry. Our guest blogger today is a chick, and a very talented [...]
Today we have our first guest post in the blog birthday bash celebration to give Meryl almost a month off from blogging (well, someone has to post the entries and the prizes as I have no fingers). Yuwanda Black of Inkwell Editorial and Meryl have lightly crossed paths, but they finally connected when she interviewed [...]
Stay out of the Recession with Email Marketing A New Game! What happens when self-published books skip the editing process. [Link: Lori Cates] 70 Million Definitions of “Blog” and Counting: I love an intelligent discussion and this is one. Friday Word Fun: [...]
< p style=”float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 8pt; width: 160px”> The suspect: The confusing WSJ subscription page. Click to view larger. Wall Street Journal meant well when its staff created the email center page. I like that it has all the e-mail subscriptions on for managing. When a resource has multiple e-mail newsletters, listing all of [...]
I haven’t bothered much with Twitter (not linking on purpose — it’s very sick) lately because it’s in a deep funk. Today, you couldn’t page through conversations, see “Twitter exceeded” messages, or have the annoying bird greeting you with another “It’s down” message. Many of us have submitted suggestion after suggestion (and plenty of obvious ones [...]
Fifteen places you must put your keyword phrase and why [Link: Copywriting Maven] Powerful writing in 30 words or less e-book Why twitter matters Writer’s Digest Annual Best 101 Web Sites for Writers AngryJournalist: What not to do. [...]
Wow! Meryl is overwhelmed at the generosity of donated prizes and guest blog posts in celebration of this blog’s 8th birthday on June 1, 2008. Thank you for helping me (the blog) give her a little break. If only she would take a vacation OUTSIDE of Texas. That’s another battle. There’s still time to contribute a [...]
Small Business Administration Free Online Courses Language Is a Virus: Cures for writer’s block, poetry generator, character name generator, and many more cool tools for writers. 11 Irresistible Reasons to Write Everyday SOBCon08 recaps: Long list of entries related to SOBCon, event [...]