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I want to share with you a great post from Skelliewag.org called A complete guide to finding and using incredible flickr images. The author Skellie (who no longer updates the site but has great archived content on there) writes how “images included with most posts magnetize the eye to the page and create an atmosphere for the rest of the piece”. That … Continue reading
A couple of months ago, I blogged about using images in my posts, but stopped using them after a few days as it felt too big a job to either find an image or take a photo myself. I thought about it again this week when my brother Robert quite rightly pointed out that my blogs would be more appealing with an image. Now, Robert … Continue reading
Yesterday I stumbled upon the word kaizen whilst listening to a motivational audio programme by Tony Robbins called Lessons in Mastery. He explained that kaizen is a continuous improvement process used by the Japanese, which we can also apply to our daily lives. It made me want to learn more as I was sure I could apply this to … Continue reading
Daily improvements can really make a difference to your life. As a writer you may do this by committing yourself to do something daily in order to move closer towards your writing goals. This can put pressure on you to come up with an article, blog or other writing piece when either inspiration doesn’t strike, or on the days when you are … Continue reading
An amazing post called The Dos and Don’ts for Busy Parents Who Blog appeared in my inbox this morning, and the timing couldn’t have been better as it not only captured exactly how I was feeling yesterday, but sums up how other parents feel when trying to multi-task with writing and other chores. It’s written by … Continue reading
Just before I trotted off to the library this lunchtime, I casually mentioned to a friend (and fellow writer) that I didn’t have a clue what the subject of my blog was going to be today. We started talking about how many days were left on my writing challenge and what I was going to do … Continue reading
When a work colleague asked me if I had blogged about the difference between third person closed and third person unlimited (omniscient), I wasn’t really sure what he was talking about. My first reaction was to look up the word omniscient itself which I now know means “all knowing”. This inspired me to write Note 251 The prefix omni and related words a couple of days … Continue reading
According to Oxford Dictionaries.com, prefixes and suffixes are not words in their own right but a group of letters added to the beginning and end of other words to form new ones. Prefixes such as omni- and un- can be placed at the beginning of bus and cover to make omnibus and uncover, whereas suffixes such as -able and -ise can be placed at the end … Continue reading
I came across the word omniscient today which is not a word I’ve seen before, but once I started my research I realised that there are many words that begin with omni. So, I’ll begin with that definition. Omni- (the combining form of the Latin word omnis) means ‘all’ or ‘every’ according to Wikipedia and is used to form compound words such … Continue reading
Although I have the material to put into an ebook, I’ve never actually looked into how I would create one. There are so many people out there selling ebooks via their websites, or offering them as free downloads in exchange for subscribing. There is also a lot of information online on how easy it is to create an ebook – … Continue reading
My Writing Notebook 