I have a congenital allergy to blog chains. But I’m loading up on as much pseudoephedrine as the pharmacist can legally sell me (no, I don’t run a meth lab) to participate in “Then Next Big Thing: My New Project” chain. I am to discuss my big writing project, then pass the task on to […]
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Creativity Tweets of the Week – November 17, 2012
November 17, 2012 
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Don’t worry, U.S. readers, you’ll still have time to get the turkey for Thursday even if you take the time to read the posts I’m linking to on creativity and writing in my latest Creativity Tweets of the Week. (For my many readers outside the U.S., do you celebrate holidays that seem to exist for […]
Read moreWhat are the Top 50 Blogs for Authors?
September 28, 2012 30 Comments
The Artist’s Road turns two years old next month, and I’ve received some pretty fishy emails during this run, such as people wanting to pay me to run their blog posts. I always decline; my readers aren’t for sale. Yesterday I was told I was named a Top 50 Blog for Authors. I was immediately […]
Read moreAllowing Your Blogging Voice to Evolve
September 10, 2012 28 Comments
The art and craft of blogging is on my mind as I prepare to teach my next six-week workshop, “Writing Compelling Blog Posts.” I’ll be teaching on Capitol Hill in D.C. this time, starting on Monday, September 24th. If you’re local, I’d love to have you in the class. If not, then I’d welcome your […]
Read moreVisit These Six Blogs. Now.
May 24, 2012 10 Comments
I have just concluded teaching a six-week class–”Writing Compelling Blog Posts” at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland–and thoroughly enjoyed learning more about blogging and writing myself, as we spent six Tuesday nights workshopping each other’s potential blog posts. We were a bit large for a workshop–eighteen strong, when everyone could make it–but we found […]
Read more5 Things to Remember While You Blog
April 13, 2012 32 Comments
So you’ve answered the “5 Questions to Ask Before You Blog” that I posed to you in the last post, and your blog is underway. Congratulations! Remember that your blog is a project of creative writing as much as your novel-in-progress or budding memoir. But there are important differences, and they are worth keeping in […]
Read more5 Questions to Ask Before You Blog
April 10, 2012 33 Comments
Today I’m giving you a sneak peek at some of the curriculum of “Writing Compelling Blog Posts,” a six-week workshop I’m leading at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, starting next Tuesday, April 17th. Unlike most classes on blogging, we won’t be discussing SEO optimization or social-media promotion. The course is, instead, a true writing […]
Read moreCreativity Tweets of the Week – 02/17/12
February 17, 2012 27 Comments
I’ve got blogging on the brain, most likely because I’m conducting two different blogging workshops in the next few weeks leading up to the class I’m conducting in April and May. So this week’s list of links on creativity and writing I tweeted this week includes a blogging category, because I was tweeting those as […]
Read moreWhen a Blog Post Goes Viral
July 19, 2011 47 Comments
I received a bit of a jolt yesterday morning when visiting my WordPress dashboard. The vertical blue bars showing daily page views were all but nonexistent. Then I realized it was because the scale had changed. The bar on the far right, showing that day’s views, was climbing right off of my screen. My latest […]
Read moreMy Fear of Facebook
May 4, 2011 25 Comments
A paralyzing inability to decline “friend” requests. Lots of professional colleagues able to view my personal posts. The resurfacing of an unstable individual who had stalked me in high school. These are the reasons I left Facebook three years ago. My background is in communications, and I occasionally use this blog to provide advice on […]
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