Day 1/5: Inspirations for writing your daily blog
Inspiration For Writing Your Daily Blog
So you need some inspiration for writing. Who doesn’t?
Well, I have just the thing! This A-Z technique I am about to teach you can carry you through every month since there are 5 blogging days a week (22 to 23 days a month on average) –and 26 letters in the English alphabet. That gives you three or four letters that you can opt out of using, such as Q, X, Y and maybe Z.
Step 1 – Open up a new document in MS Word or whatever word processing software tool you use and make an A-to-Z list.
Save it as, for example, “December2009_AZList.”
Using the premise that you are writing a blog about health, fill in a topic or subject that you know about that starts with the letter “A”. Continue down the list of letters writing one or two words next to each letter. Here’s a partial list to show you how easy this could be: Read more
12/12/09 – A crash course in social media network marketing and more
Just a quick heads up since the event is two days away. I am loving what I am learning from Scott Magers who is one of the founders of both PitchIn.com and iDuplicate.com –both of which will be launching in Q1 of 2010. Well…all this slightly cynical girl from Silicon Valley, with a background in traditional marketing, can say is “wow, wow, wow!!!”
Believe me, their credibility is quite high. I’ve personally met half of the people presenting and am looking forward to hearing from the others. These people have proved their success on the web ($600M in online sales in 7 years).
It’s really been an extremely relevant, highly informative and practical undertaking for today’s market. Personally, I am using their info to power blog on 2 sites and plan to add two more for my art work and another for travel and food stuff. My webstats are climbing dramatically on this recently launched site and I haven’t even told anyone about this –just as a test in obscurity and using their success formula. My weekly stats show that I have surpassed my previous month, and it can only get better once I get through my really long checklist of things I need to do to build my subscriber base. I can’t wait! This has been the “shot in the arm” I have been hoping for in my career. I’ll confess, things were getting a bit dull.
If you don’t have a clue about which way to turn in today’s online marketspace, or need to optimize your web presence, or want to start from scratch with today’s hottest know how, this special one day Internet money-making training in Irvine on 12/12/09 will put you in power mode. This is an excellent crash course in social media marketing (using a website with blog+Facebook+Twitter+dozens more social sites+Search Engine Optimization help+how to use affiliate marketers to help you sell your biz: products and services) for today’s business professional. Reinvent yourself!
Please feel free to forward this to people you think might be interested in improving their business presence on the web or learning how to get a website up the right way for todays market.
Feel free to ask me any questions you might have in the comment section.
Hope to see you there!
A Short Guide to Finding A Creative Writing Idea
People would be astonished at the way my brain works. It’s even beyond describing as “an untypical woman’s brain”. I suspect I use all four quadrants equally; now add in biofeedback, intuition and memory and it truly starts getting interesting. I also have a gift for picking up details when looking at life, which might explain my abilities as a realism painter. Add in a small touch of A.D.D. and perhaps a tad too many unconventional thoughts and what you get is an overwhelming list of ideas and possibilities for exploring, tasting and sampling life. If ever there was a person with too many ideas and not enough time, it’s me.
I’m never stuck for an idea so let me share with you how to get one. Ready? Look to your right, what do you see? Okay, so it’s a white wall. Gee, that sounds boring, only it isn’t. It’s a possible essay on walking through walls and the bones that were once found in a monastery’s walls in south India during renovations; a new entrance to your computer space with a secret latch and wine storage unit; or, a blank canvas waiting for a beautiful and colorful image to appear. Look down to your left. What? It’s just the carpet? Oh, my! It’s a jungle in there if only you put a magnifying glass on it. Write about it for a 5 year old as if you were sitting around a campfire and wanted to scare the heck out of them. Go look out a window…it’s the opening of a short story just describing what it feels like to be inside looking out. And we haven’t even taken a walk outside. Read more
Dear Santa, I want a typewriter for Christmas. Thanks! Love, Annie
I was 6 years old when I got my first typewriter. It was small, red and plastic. I discovered it in our home’s entryway at 3AM Christmas morning and began typing away. I didn’t even put paper in the machine I was so excited Santa had given me my very wish! It was the best Christmas ever! –until I woke my mom up and she came downstairs and yanked me back upstairs and put me back in bed with a kindly threat or two. My mom is Irish and good at making threats that sound dire but have too much love and heart in them to mean much when delivered in a whisper to my ear on Christmas morning. She knew her child was too full of Christmas joy and the prospect of future writing projects.
Present Day, 2009:
Dear Santa, I want a laptop for Christmas. Thanks! Love, Annie
Long gone is my darling little-kid typewriter that captured in black ribbon ink my limericks, jokes, short stories and letters to my brother’s telling them to give me my stuff back. Nowadays, I have different “tools of the trade” for writing. I use a text editor like MS Word for all my efforts before publishing so that I have basic writing tools available such as a spell checker, thesaurus, grammar editorand more. I have a super fast machine that myhusband built for me from scratch for all myfilm, music, photo and graphic editing needs but it isnot road warrior material. I need a laptop since the world has become a mobile place and I am a global writer. Read more
Expressions of Gratitude
Happy Thanksgiving. This is my favorite holiday of the year for one simple reason: its purpose is to express heartfelt gratitude. Whomever placed the word “happy” in front of it did the right thing as gratitude comes from a place in the heart where one feels a certain pleasure of being blessed. I’d call that happiness.
Happy Thanksgivings With Love From Arabella
Heartfelt gratitude is effortless to express. It spreads across the heart region and pours emotion into every fiber of one’s being flooding the eyes and smile with the pleasure of being blessed. The real trick is turning those wonderful feelings into words that one can express to another either orally or in writing. It’s easy enough to feel gratitude, but writing it so that it sounds heartfelt and not clumsy or over the top is a gift. Read more
