Tag Archives: Blogging
Real-Time Reports from On the Road: Day One
Yesterday we traveled from our home in the Bay Area to Sun River in central Oregon, and here is my real-time (okay, so I’m a day late) report on our doings: Highlights: In Dorris, California (pop. 886, on Highway 97), … Continue reading
Filed under Adventures in Writing, The Dangerous Quest
Priceless Writing Tips for Free: Capture the Thought in that Moment
Here’s a proven, 100-percent guaranteed method on how to get stuck in quicksand as a writer: Say you will do it later. You have an idea but you’re busy with something else so you tell yourself you’ll get to it … Continue reading
Priceless Writing Tips for Free: Observe Hemingway’s Dictum
Hemingway’s dictum for better writing was simple: Run it through the typewriter one more time. We no longer have typewriters but the advice is still sound. Almost without fail a second draft is better than a first: shorter, smoother and … Continue reading
When You Write, Don’t Fight Your First Thought
Trying to write something and you’re stuck? Whether you’re knee-deep in an e-mail, blog, memo, report, article or longer, here’s how to get unstuck: Follow your first thought. If you trust your first thought, and follow it, it will lead … Continue reading
Illustrate Your Blog
By Kevin Nelson Leaf through any magazine or newspaper, and you will see photographs and illustrations accompanying most of the articles. Scan through most blog posts on virtually any website, and you will see words, words, words-often without any art … Continue reading
How to Write a Better Blog
By Kevin Nelson Writing a blog? Here’s a tip on how to write a better one: Show the value of what you’re doing, not to yourself but to other people. Let me demonstrate by showing how I screwed up a … Continue reading
Interesting World, I’ll Say!
After reading my recent post how Japanese novelist-turned-agent Yukari Watanabe Scott is using blogging and other new media to sell Operation Bullpen to Japanese publishers, magazine editor Kimberly Cole writes, “I enjoyed your recent post, ‘Bullpen Going Japanese?’ My daughter … Continue reading
Filed under Adventures in Writing, Books, Operation Bullpen
Stating My Brief
Let the trumpets blare: This is my first blog on my brand new deluxe author’s website. Tra la la! Never having blogged before, I am naturally reading lots of stuff online and getting to know the work of fellow travelers … Continue reading
