Posts Tagged ‘blog’
Naming your fictional characters
Author: WriterMary
How many novels have you read with characters whose names annoy you? Maybe they remind you of someone in your office or share the same name as your ex. Perhaps the name is bothersome because you’ve seen it in so many other stories. It can be confusing for a writer with a new story; you [...]
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Maintaining an active web blog
Author: WriterMary
Probably one of the hardest things, for many who try to maintain an active web blog, is keeping the content fresh. For me, it’s not that I don’t have current ideas and interesting things to say, but rather finding time to keep my own site updated. With the highly successful social networking sites and business [...]
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Challenge
Author: WriterMary
I accepted the challenge to record my life for the next year with one photo per day. Taking photos is easy. Choosing just one to represent my entire day is a little more difficult. I think I have resolved my issue by using my otherwise almost dormant photoblog to record every one of the next [...]
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