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Blogging Tips & Tricks: Create Content

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 31, 2010 in Internet Success, Writing Biz

If you’ve been in the marketing and promotion or blogging world longer than a nano second, you’ve heard the chant: “To build an audience, push content.” To your way of thinking, that’s one of those pieces of advice that’s simple, but not easy. In fact, you may be tired of hearing this from every Tom, [...]

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Become A Master Typist

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 30, 2010 in Internet Success, Technology, Writing Biz

Isn’t it funny how the most basic skill is so important in this technological world? I’m referring to typing or keyboarding. Once upon a time, this skill was possessed mostly by secretaries and typists. As recent as 25 years ago, I knew women in corporate positions who refused to admit that they knew how to [...]

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Grammar for Grownups: Parts of Speech

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 29, 2010 in Books, Movies, Music, TV, Self Publishing, Writing Biz

Chapter 1: Parts of Speech Let’s begin at the beginning, and that means with the foundation of our language: the words. There are thousands of words in any language. Classifying the words into a category based upon what the word does in language makes it easier to understand and learn a language. These categories are [...]

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How To Transfer Big Files

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 23, 2010 in Technology, Writing Biz

Welcome to Monday Magic where I try to point you toward some free or, at least, inexpensive, Technology Tricks. There are many times when you may be faced with the problem of sending a big file to someone. Here are a couple of sites for you to consider. Send This File If the thought of [...]

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Grammar For Grownups

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 22, 2010 in Books, Movies, Music, TV, Internet Success, Self Publishing, Writing Biz

Introduction My children and their peers are college graduates. They’re all intelligent, educated people yet I find myself, with my kids at least, correcting their speech occasionally. Sometimes they’ll have to write some important memo or letter at work, and they’ll run it by me first because I am the family editor. Many times I’ve [...]

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New Online Publisher That’s Free

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 18, 2010 in Books, Movies, Music, TV, Self Publishing, Technology, Writing Biz

ePubBud is different from most publishing websites that cater to those who want to self publish because the website doesn’t plan to make money. Wren’s Legacy Inspired by the birth of their son Wren on March 9, 2010, the founders of ePubBud decided that it would be great to make a children’s book about Wren’s [...]

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Drive Traffic With Technorati

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 11, 2010 in Internet Success, Technology, Writing Biz

In my continuing effort to help you with your Internet presence, here’s another way to drive traffic to your website which will, in the long run, increase your Google PageRank if the numbers rise and stay up. Technorati Technorati, a search engine for blogs, has the goal of helping bloggers succeed. They say they do [...]

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Chick Lit Writing Contest

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 7, 2010 in All Things Girly, Writing Biz

Let’s start today with news of a writing contest. Chick Lit Writers of the World, Chapter 204 announces their 2010 writing contest. This contest is open to unpublished and published writers. If you’re knew to the writing game, you may be surprised that a published author would enter manuscript competitions. There’s a good reason for [...]

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Writing For iPhone, Pad, PodTouch

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 4, 2010 in Pop Culture, Technology, Writing Biz

I’ve been researching software apps that help you ignore distractions and just write. I found a few that I’ll be posting about tomorrow on my other blog. A couple of them that I found applies to Mac and iPhone users who want to write. Since there are a lot of you phone fans who do [...]

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Good Habits Beget Good Habits

Posted by Joan Reeves on Aug 3, 2010 in Manly Pursuits, This Writer's Life, Writing Biz

Am I a writer who is a mother or a mother who writes? There’s a difference in the two I think. A writer who is a mother puts writing as a higher priority. There are some of us who are like that, and sometimes I envy those women. They’re the ones who can knock out [...]

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