Blogging
My own personal experiences and thoughts on blogs and blogging.
Getting Famous on the Internet
Taking a college course in internet fame? This would be funny if they were not so serious. »
Status Update
January I started the new year with a burst of quality work, on both Justine and Terminal Singularity. However in February we moved house and that was a little bit of an interruption. To say the least. I kept working on both novels, but I keep changing my mind about which one I should... »
Another Form Of Writers Block
I just looked at the date on the files that I have for my new novel Terminal Singularity. The latest date is 11th Dec. It is now the 29th. That is 18 days without working on my novel. OK, you might say, given the dates involved(i.e. Christmas) I might be excused for not writing... »
How-To Spam Your Own Blog
The best laid plans of mice and men… Thursday, Friday and Saturday real life intervened in my plans for becoming mega rich by writing/blogging and I did not get any writing done. On Sunday when I did make time to write I worked on my novel and so I do not have any posts... »
Post Every Day
Every place that I look for advice on creating a successful blog gives the same piece of advice – post every day. Every source be it the Blog Mastermind Program, or another blog such as Ten Keyboards, or even an article in a traditional magazine repeats the same advice – post every day. It... »
Extreme Blogging
There is no such thing as bad publicity. Or so the old showbiz adage goes. And while many bloggers might not know it we bloggers are all in the entertainment business. Even though we write posts about technology, or Web 2.0, or fishing we are trying to entertain as well as inform our readers.... »
A Blog By Any Other Name
Over the years I have started and maintained several different web sites, and even some intranets for companies that I worked for. At first I hand coded HTML using a basic text editor, then I hand coded using a programmer’s editor called EditPlus. I tried to keep my sites simple. I didn’t use must... »
Is my blog yet another distraction?
Writers in general are famous for procrastination, we will seemingly do anything except knuckle down and actually write that Nobel prize winning novel. And now that I have started this blog in order to showcase, market and monetize my work I am beginning to think that I have simply added another distraction to allow... »
Ideal Job, Ideal World
For as long as I can remember, way back before even the world wide web, never mind the blogoshpear; I always thought that I would love to be a columnist for a newspaper. That it would be a great job to write one column a week and get paid some, if not lots, of... »