There are two things at play here: irresponsibility and intensive muse connections. irresponsibility Once upon a time, I would have an inspired writing thought (oft times in the middle of the night) and even if…
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Picture courtesy of The Busy Brain Selling Apples? Talk to the oranges: Finding networks, clients and customers in unlikely places The craziest thing happened to me last week. I was on Twitter and met a…
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I am the little sister to two big brothers...who kind of tortured me (okay, in equal parts to how much I tortured them) while we were growing up. Teasing was their weapon of choice -…
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Have you ever written something on a blog about grape jelly only to come back an hour later, read your comments and realize you were wrong - that you actually wrote the post about peanut…
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A friend of mine just told me about this wildly useful exercise she did in couples therapy: They sat facing each other and closed their eyes (which signified 'me' time). Whenever each of them felt…
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I'm not sure if there is such a thing, but I've decided that today is make up a new word day. Honestly, as a writer, every day is make up a new word day. I…
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I was working with a client who I do marketing, blog and writing consulting for, and we were working on her blog writing strategy when she asked me, 'But what are the rules for blogging?'…
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As many of you know, I'm rather green. I live in a house with composting toilets, after all. I found this good bit of copy on a bottle of All Purpose Cleaner from an uber-green…
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As you all know, I enjoy me some online social networking. I like my Facebook, my Twitter, my LinkedIn in particular. But, lately, I'm noticing this clash of the generations (or sensibilities, perhaps?). Basically, people…
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Blogging is about the conversation, right? That said, there are certain 'big' blogs that I read where I can tell the writer is talking to thousands of people - I feel it, I feel like…
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