I just wanted to say thanks to all who have expressed your concerns for my arm and wrist problems. I also wanted to say the stretching exercises, more “ergonomically correct” work area, and a change in my normal sleeping habits have been making a difference in the last two days. The soreness in my arm and wrist is going away.
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My manly “machismo” probably is driving this statement: Worrying about how and where I sit while writing on my computer has always seemed silly to me. “Real men” (and “real women”) can pound those keyboards anywhere and scoff at such silliness as “ergonomically correct” workstations or whatever.
Read more on I’ve never paid much attention to ‘ergonomics,’ but I do now…
Copywriting, writing ad content for a website or an offline source, is something I’ve always wanted to be good at. I’ve always thought it looked easy. You take a product or service and write something about that product or service which would motivate people to buy. It sounds simple, doesn’t it?
Read more on All you copywriters out there: Try my short writing assignment…
If your primary writing interest is in blogging and running an Internet forum, just walk on past this post. Nothing for you to see here.
But if you’re interested in “non-blogging” and general offline/online writing, it’s important to identify whether this problem is your problem: Spending time online reading a lot of blogs and posting in forums can drain your energy and destroy time better spent writing.
What if I told you that you could write two or three paragraph “briefs” for a website that is one of the biggest “retail stores” on the Internet? This site offers everything from banjo picks to bicycle tire pumps to chrome accessories to — well, just about anything you can think of that people are looking to buy.
Here are three important tips for using the Internet to help you do research for any type of writing:
1. Internet search engines can find ANYTHING you may be writing about, but sometimes you have to work hard to find EXACTLY what you may be writing about.
Whether you’re building a website or adding posts and pages to a blog, there are two important tips you must keep in mind.
1. Your content must focus on words people are searching for in Google, Yahoo, MSN Live Search, and the other major search engines. That means you cannot ignore that old idea you’ve heard of, I’m sure — keywords.
Read more on Two important tips for making money writing for the Internet…
Not to be nagging about this, but what I’ve said before I’ll say again — if you want to be a successful writer there is no substitute for writing, writing frequently, writing daily, and writing as much as you can write.
Read more on Basic principle: The only ‘shortcut’ to writing success is to write more…
Whether you’re writing a real estate ad to plug office space Connecticut style, blogging about how to sell online, or writing the middle section of that novel you’ve been working on over the years, you must always consider your audience.
Read more on Blogging, writing to sell, writing to entertain — who’s your audience?…
I had a private response to my post of a few days ago, with one of our readers asked me how to get a blog into the Yahoo “modules” that you set up on a Yahoo home page. Getting into that system is relatively easy, and it can be a nice source of readership.
Read more on Here’s how to get your blog listed and active in Yahoo’s RSS system…
Welcome back — to myself.
I guess the busy-ness of the season, the alternating cold weather and torrential, tornadic downpours — it’s a conspiracy, I tell ya, a conspiracy to keep me offline.
Read more on Wow, where have I been for the last few days? Spring catching up with me, I guess…
Just a “heads up” if you blog with WordPress and are considering the upgrade to their newest version 2.5. I upgraded one of my blogs a few days ago.
They have totally messed up the dashboard for using widgets in the new 2.5. I mean wow have they messed it up.
Read more on If you blog with WordPress, be aware of widget woes if you upgrade to 2.5…
If nothing else, every writer out there needs to read Shakespeare at least occasionally for the rich link he provides to the past of our language and English culture. Just as everyone who really wants to be a writer in the English language also needs to read the King James Bible.
I got a “hot tip” on a possible part-time job that would add some needed cash flow to my Internet blogging adventures. A local non-profit is looking for someone for three days a week doing office work and some possible publications and proofreading work.
Read more on All dressed up in my ‘pretty clothes’ for job hunting today…
What are the standards you need to follow if you’re going to write parody or satire? I mean, assuming you want to stay out of legal trouble and avoid such annoyances as libel lawsuits.
Read more on Just discovered a helpful website about publishing and the law…
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