Garry was watching an old movie, “A Letter to Three Wives.” He thought the whole concept of writing letters was kaput. No one writes letters anymore. We may dash off a note on a card, but a whole letter? “When,”… Read More ›
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WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Blogging Insights — New Format # 3 I have been writing a lot less than I was, but maybe more than I need to write. But to be fair, I am writing a lot less. The photographs take up most… Read More ›
BLOGGING: NOT ROCKET SCIENCE?
Blogging Insights — It ain’t rocket science? Okay, here’s my joke du jour: When is a blog not rocket science? How about never? Not funny? Oh well, I tried. I guess stand up comedy isn’t going to be my medium…. Read More ›
EDITING – YOU MEAN YOU DON’T?
Blogging Insights — Editing I don’t often participate in these Q & A things, but this one caught my eye, so… QUESTIONS: Do you edit your work before posting it? Apart from correcting typos and spellings , how much (if… Read More ›
THE PROBLEM WITH BLOGGING
As a group, we spend a lot of time pumping ourselves up about the how great blogging is and what we can (should) do to keep enjoying it. There are a lot of great things about blogging or none of… Read More ›
OVER AND OUT: FICTION – By RICH PASCHALL
A family story by Rich Paschall It was not like Billy’s dad to just walk into his room. At 17 years old he really expected his parents to knock first. He quickly closed out of his chat and turned around… Read More ›
WHEN IS IT TIME TO QUIT?
There has been a lot of chatter about how to rev yourself up to keep on blogging. This is a perfectly reasonable point of view for those who haven’t been blogging for a long time. Some of us have been… Read More ›
GREAT, GREATER, GREATEST REDUX – FROM THIS DAY IN 2019
Kind of reminds me of the old talkin’ blues — “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like!” I don’t know — or care — if the blogs I follow are great, greater or greatest. It’s… Read More ›
PLANNING? PANTZING?
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG, THAT IS THE QUESTION
Fandango’s Provocative Question #109 From Fandango comes this question with which I’ve been wrestling for some months and to which I really don’t have answers. Just more questions. “I don’t know about you, but I typically spend about four to seven… Read More ›
