Blogging Insights–Planning or Pantzing ? TODAY’S QUESTION: Do you outline your posts (planning) or do you roll by the seat of your pants (pantzing) ? When I started this blog, I was ending a forty year career as a technical… Read More ›
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OPEN LIVE WRITER WHILE HANGING ON TO YOUR SANITY
I’m going to pass along this comment from Tish Farrell. First, however, a brief introduction on how to actually get “Open Live Writer.” INTRODUCTION: GETTING “OPEN LIVE WRITER” NOTE: While this does not work on the Mac, I understand with… Read More ›
IT’S NOT A BLOCK EDITOR – PART II
HUH? For reasons that are way beyond my knowledge, I can’t GET the block editor to work at all on my Mac. It simply will not come up. I have to fight to avoid it on my PC, but I… Read More ›
WHAT GREAT NEW STUFF DO WE GET FROM THE BLOCK EDITOR?
NOTE: I found a way to twitch the headers and crawl back to the “old” version. It is awkward, but at least it exists. So now I have a separate link for “posts” that has the option to use the… Read More ›
PICTURES IN THE BLOCK EDITOR
Yesterday Garry slipped into the block editor and wrote a whole piece. He didn’t make any special effort. He just wrote it. How humiliating for me! Of course, he doesn’t deal with the finer points — like design, editing, proofreading,… Read More ›
BETRAYED AND SEEKING NEW HOME
Like many others, I’ve found the “new” WordPress block editor to be clunky and awkward to use. It doesn’t matter where I use it. It’s equally difficult on my 15.6 inch PC laptop as it is on my 14-inch Mac…. Read More ›
THE BEST CAREER ADVICE
I was a music major for my first two years of college. I finished the major except for 1 credit of choir. I didn’t take that credit because by then, I knew I wasn’t a good enough pianist to play… Read More ›
RERUNNING AND REWRITING ONE’S OWN MATERIAL – Marilyn Armstrong
I’ve written more than 10,205 posts. I have rewritten several dozens of these and reblogged a few more. After rewriting, most of the posts are so altered I barely recognize them. A few others I rerun because I like them…. Read More ›
I’M STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT – Marilyn Armstrong
One of the many things I learned while working for a living was “never let them know how good you really are.” It sounds like a joke, but it isn’t. Moreover, I’ve always been more fond of family and friends… Read More ›
THE GIFT OF WORDS – Marilyn Armstrong
And thus shall I bestow upon you the gift of gab, the talent of words, the ability to write with clarity and precision. Congratulations. You are a writer. But — how do you know? Because you write. Could you be… Read More ›
THE NIGHTMARE JOBS OF YOUTH – Marilyn Armstrong
I complain about getting old, but occasionally, I remember being young wasn’t exactly perfect, either. Mostly, it was work. Men were one problem (especially the men AT work), but work itself and some of the monsters who ran the companies… Read More ›
SNOOPY AS A ROLE MODEL – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I read a unique article in the Washington Post by a writer talking about something from her childhood that inspired her to be a writer as an adult. Her name is Ann Patchett and her title names the motivating force… Read More ›
