A ‘Best Of’ To Start The New Year

Well it's not my first post of the year but I wanted to get this out in January 2021. What follows is a list of links to some of my more popular posts of the last couple of years (I was MIA May '19 - Sept'20) along with a brief description of what you can …

GDPR And Brexit For Authors #1

Brexit comes into being for real (finally) at the end of this year, putting an exclamation point on an already bad year. For those that don't know about Brexit (although I don't know how you've missed it - it's been in the news for the last 225 years), Brexit is when the UK decided to …

The Classic Editing Experience is Moving, Not Leaving — The WordPress.com Blog

With the introduction of the Block editor, the WordPress.com Classic Editor was set for retirement at the beginning of June. We pushed that back a bit to make time for more changes that ease the transition to the Block editor — and now it’s time! The WordPress editor empowers you to create pages and posts […]The …

Productivity Hacks for Busy People

The next-gen hacks that follow have been developed over many years of research, and a lot of trial and error. This information is strictly exclusive to this blog's readers, and under NO CIRCUMSTANCES, should they be shared with anyone, living or dead. Now we’ve got that out of the way, let’s press on. As a …

Lessons Learned after One Year of The Art of Blogging – [Reblog] The Art of Blogging

I have spent some not so insignificant time these past few months thinking about blogging, what it's all about, and how to get better at it. I came across Christian Mihai and his site 'The art of Blogging,' and discover that there ia literally a bajillion (that's a word) things to learn. I the post …

Why The Headlines You Choose for Your Blog Posts Matter [Reblog] – Christian Mihai

SEO (search engine optimisation) is something I've looked at in the past and intend to go back and look at again. When I get the chance, I will go back over a lot of my old posts and correct a lot of SEO mistakes I made at the time. One of the things I will …

Diary of an Author With Multiple Sclerosis – April 2019

April over. So what's happened last month? As usual, writing updates first: Writing I started in on the editing of my WIP, Paklife. Its sat untouched for a couple of weeks, so now I'm coming back with fresh eyes and starting a rewrite. I started off by reading and adding / taking away bits from …

How Often Should You Blog? — The Art of Blogging

Something that has troubled me on and off for a while. Over on The Art Of Blogging. There is a lot here to take in, and some of it flies in the face of a lot of what I see... For those of you who don’t have the time to read through this blog post: …

Blog Posts. How Long is Too Long? Help!

I'm in a bit of a quandary. I've started in on a series of posts about email lists for beginners. This was originally a post I had written over two years ago, and back then it was as all-encompassing as I could make it, and it came it at around 3000 words. I originally wanted …

[Blogging Mindset] Consistency is Key — The Art of Blogging

Originally posted over on artofblogging.net . Consistency is an issue i've struggled with over the last few months. I've seen bigger increases in engagement last month since I settled on a regular schedule. An excellent argument for consistency is made here: What if your favorite TV show suddenly started misbehaving like this: they release one …