Archive for April, 2009
Need to boost your productivity with your writing? Here are some programs that can help you;
Rescuetime- This small programs runs in the background while you work, surf the net, or even waste time. You can personalize goals, and set programs and web sites into categories as well. This allows me to keep track of my [...]
I’m not sure the reason why but writing lately suddenly became an ordeal of Herculean proportions. I can’t say if the issue with plagiarism bothered me, or that I got sick with food poisoning, or I fell in this deep depression for nearly a week, but a vacation somewhere nice would be wonderful right about [...]
I found a number of scam comments appeared on this blog, making remarks that the person felt the blog entry he (or she) read elsewhere. My reaction sparked a bit of anger in me, not for the accusation as much as the fact that I’ve been plagerized myself and would never consider doing this to [...]
I was cruising through blogs the other day, trying to find more feeds to add to my Google reader, or add to my IGoogle writing start page. I began to wonder what exactly prompts me to click the RSS feed button? What qualities in a blog do I hope to find amid the words of [...]
This will sound terribly hypocritical, but how often a blog should be updated is regularly. Whether this is once a week or daily, you want to keep the blog entries rolling. The higher the number of readers, the more frequently you should update. The main reason I advise this stems from readers’ interest, and to [...]
I’m a procrastinator. They say the first step of an issue is acknowledging you have a problem. I guess I can check that off my list. What being a procrastinator means, however, is that I don’t get stuff done when I should. I don’t even realize this happens until I’m sitting considering my week and [...]
Marketing for writers can often prove difficult. There’s nothing really creative about it, nothing fun, and certainly nothing to do with the craft of writing…or does it?
If you do get published by one of the big publishing companies, they do much of the marketing for you. This doesn’t mean you should sit back and wait [...]
















