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If someone asked you to keep schtum, it would mean that they didn’t want you to say anything as it might get you into trouble. According to Phrases.org.uk schtum possibly comes from the German word stumm meaning silent. Oxforddictionaries.com state that the German word stumm is of Yiddish origin (1950s). They also explain that schtum (or shtum) can be an adjective … Continue reading
There are many tools out there that you can use to find out how popular a certain word or phrase is. Your goal when thinking about keywords or keyword phrases is to make sure they relate to the products and services on your site. Here are a few tips to help you: Try and think of what your … Continue reading
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) may sounds scary and technical and but if you learn the basics, you can attempt to get the google ranking that you desire. If you want people to read your blogs or visit your website, you have to know what it is that they will be looking for. There are three keys to ensuring that … Continue reading
If SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is the process of getting your content or site to rank well, then social media is the vehicle that can help you share your work and get people linking to it. Examples of social media sites are Twitter, Facebook, Digg, YouTube and Stumble Upon, but there are many more. Some people employ an … Continue reading
Both autobiographies and memoirs are forms of non-fiction writing. An autobiography is a story of a person’s life from when they were born up to a point in time. It includes where they grew up, what they liked doing, what they did for work, who their family were and so on – it doesn’t usually leave much out. Putting all this … Continue reading
Over five thousand years ago, writing and recording information was very different to how it is today. According to the website Mesopotamia.co.uk, the people of Mesopotamia developed a form of writing in order to communicate with each other about things such as taxes and crops. Pictograms were the first recorded method of writing and these were in the … Continue reading
One of my writing spaces is on the train to and from work. It’s the bridge between home and work life and my favourite ‘me’ time. Writing helps me switch off between the two fast pace areas of my life. The thirty minute journey each way whizzes past as quick as the Kent countryside and … Continue reading
I posted a question on the WordPress Forum today but as I haven’t had a response yet, I thought I would throw the question to a wider audience. The situation is that I used to be able to copy a post that I had already published, thus saving me time each day. At the moment I … Continue reading
Although I’ve been tweeting in Twitter for nearly a year now, I’ve never really got the whole hashtag (#) thing, so I’ve decided to search for answers on hashtags in the Twitter Help function. According to Twitter: You can use hashtags (‘#’ symbol) to categorise your tweets, but the symbol needs to be used before a key word e.g. #writing or #punctuation. This … Continue reading
Should you feel guilty about not writing if you don’t feel well? The answer is no; however, my challenge is ‘to learn something new about writing every day for a year and blog about it to share with others, every day for a year’, so here I am. I was laying in a quiet, dark … Continue reading
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