All Entries in the "Writing" Category
A Few Things I Learned about Writing for the Web
From time to time I get the opportunity to help out a few newbies by reviewing an article or two and offering advice. I preface this by saying that I’m no expert when it comes to writing on the web. It’s just that I’ve been around the block a time or two so I get [...]
A Rather Humbling Experience
Words of warning…don’t take writing advice from me! The other day I came across the Newsroom 101 website. It’s a site that will put your grammatical and writing skills to the test. They have thousands of free exercises, tutorials and general helpful information for anyone looking to make a living as a writer, especially journalistic [...]
Welcome to the Buffet
On occasion I like to cook a lot. When I do cook a large quantity of food, I pull out the heating dishes, arrange the food buffet style and invite my guest to partake. In addition to the food I provide the necessary plates, spoons forks, dishes, napkins, cups and beverage. My guests are free [...]
Oh No She Didn’t!!!
Let me calm down for a minute before I complete this post…. Okay, I’m calm. Yesterday a young college student looking to earn money for a scholarship came to my house asking if we would sign up for a magazine subscription. The credit for the magazine would help her score points for her scholarship. Having [...]
It’s All About Passion!
This is a quick post, but I wanted to give a shout out to Will Leon. Will is a passionate Tennessee Titans fan. Quite a while ago Will created a blog with googobs of great information on the Titans and its players but he let it go dormant for a while. Will recently revived his [...]
To Do and To Done
With so many things to do, sometimes I get lost. I write a To Do list but end up doing a host of other things only to find that I haven’t touched a thing on my To Do list. Last week I performed an experiment. I created a To Do and a To Done list. [...]
Google Indexing Speed
Some time ago, I wrote a post about switching one of my Google-step-child-sites from a hand coded site to a Joomla site. I made the switch because I originally hand coded the site several years ago and things have changed since then (and I’ve learned a lot since then). Not to belabor the point (for [...]
Oh the Poor Naked Cat
I’m going to have to come up with another phrase instead of my usual “There’s more than one way of skinning a cat.” I’m sure PETA probably has me in their cross hairs by now. Anyway, I wrote this post because I read Robin’s comment on her Linked In group Freelance Writers Working for Content [...]
A Neat Little FireFox SEO Extension
I’d like to take credit and say that I discovered a neat little FireFox Extension, but in all honesty, I didn’t discover it. I found out about this tool because I subscribe to the “WordPress How to Spotter” newsletter. Alex is a WordPress Plugin Guru, and he happened to write about this Firefox Extension. The [...]
Lessons Learned as an Online Freelance Writer
There are tons of self-help books, ebooks and blogs on how to become a successful freelance writer. I’ve read a few of them and I guess I’ll never make it big as a freelance writer. Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s because I no longer feel the need to prove myself, or maybe it’s because [...]

