December 2011
1 post
Writing Practice - a necessary process if you want...
I’ve got a friend who never practices his writing skills. He thinks that someday he’ll write a novel in a hot flash. Somehow the light will go on, he’ll be fully inspired, and the writing will just happen.
I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen….
Writing is a way of life. If you love to write, you’ll practice writing daily, or almost every day....
October 2011
1 post
Lemonade Diet and Going Vegan
My chances for getting health insurance are slim, so I’m taking charge of my own health by doing the master cleanse lemonade diet. I’m currently on day ten of a fast that will last until my tongue turns pink, 30 days, or I cave - whatever comes first.
I’m not at all hungry today. Lemonade is a terrific appetite suppressant and I’m feeling just fine energetically and...
August 2011
10 posts
Fighting CPS for Grandparents
Nobody needs to agree with me. Even if I face opposition, I will protest the evils of child protective services as long as I need to. However, a lot of people do agree - most of them, because they’ve had children taken from their families by this over-active, family-destroying government agency. It isn’t only young parents who are feeling the pain. Many grandparents are traumatized...
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Do you have a favorite classic book?
There are a lot of classic books I’ve loved reading. I will have to admit, one of my favorites is Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I consider it one of the must read classics of great literature - and it amazes me that I waited so long to read it.
You see, my mom had a copy the entire time I was growing up. I remember seeing that thick blue book on the shelf hundreds of times but I...
Dear Mad'm Day →
Dear Mad’m - a book about a woman who decided on her 80th birthday to go live on a remote mining claim in a cabin alone with her dog. By Stella Walthall Patterson. That was written back in the 1940s and the book was published in 1956. It became a popular book club selection and was loved by many readers across the USA.
Dear Mad’m (Stella) lived only 8 miles from Happy Camp,...
June 2011
4 posts
Business Ethics in the Writing Community
After trying for several years to prepare novels for traditional publishing houses, I’m gradually being swayed into the self-publishing market. I’m particularly interested in Amazon’s Kindle and Createspace POD publishing. I like the Kindle option because there are many ways for people to read novels, even if they don’t own a Kindle! For example, you could do what I do, and...
Foster children sue CPS and win $7.3 million
In Washington state three foster children sued CPS and won 7.3 million dollars. Apparently the three girls were placed with a man who had a criminal history. For ten years they tried to tell CPS social workers that they were being abused physically, sexually, mentally, emotionally … everything! But the social workers ignored their pleas from 1996 to 2006. Finally in 2006 the fosterer (I...
Now is the Time for Change
I just found this incredibly beautiful video… if you like children and want to be inspired. This is from the World Change Foundation.
The world is always changing, but in this era we’re waking up to the potential of massive global transformation through the power of spirit working in the hearts of those who truly want to build a better world for the children, and their children, ad...
Conference for Global Transformation
Imagine meeting with hundreds or even thousands of people who care about global transformation! There will be a conference in the San Francisco Bay Area in May of 2012… and there’s a ning site set up to explain the entire thing: The Conference for Global Transformation. I happened to notice that a few of the presentation slideshows and handouts are already available online: Keynote...
November 2010
3 posts
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Content Writers - Networking
Until recently it was hard for content writers to find networking opportunities other than on site-specific forums like Squidoo’s SquidU forum, but now there’s a new option - the Content Writers Forum hosted on a phpBB system where writers from a variety of sites can gather to chat.
So far I’ve seen writers from Ezine Articles, Helium, Fortitude, Squidoo, HubPages, Triond,...
October 2010
2 posts
“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere...”
– Lawrence J. Peter
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Horse Blogs →
I recently started a horse-lover’s niche at squidoo.com and as part of my campaign to write about horses, I made this page with links to blogs by people who love and care about horses.
The horse niche started when I began making a determined effort to promote my page on Horse Movies starting on October 10. I’ve made great progress - and am rather excited about it.
August 2010
3 posts
1 tag
“It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.”
– Jacques Barzun
Blogging - the best social media resource for web...
After all my experience with social media during the last few years, what I believe is best for promotion is a blog. Yes, I’m back to blogging as the answer to my promotional problems. I have two blog lists - which I cleverly titled the primary list and the secondary list. Pretty simple.
My primary list contains blogs that are actually making me money, and a few other blogs that get pretty...
July 2010
1 post
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Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform – the... →
Newspapers taking their operations online - the end of print news predicted.
June 2010
3 posts
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Internet Kill Switch Shut Down Harmful to Content... →
If you care about internet income you will be especially concerned about this current USA legislation giving the president the power to shut down the internet.
Website Content Writing Tips →
Lots of helpful information on how to write for the web.
How I Moved to a Cabin in the Mountains -... →
How I left the San Francisco Bay Area to move to a cabin in the Klamath-Siskiyou mountains. This is posted at a new content writing site, Fortitude Magazine.
April 2010
1 post
Parental Alienation Awareness Day April 25th →
Please remember those whose children have been alienated from them…
March 2010
8 posts
BIGFOOT'S bLOG: Interview with AL HODGSON, Bigfoot... →
The start page for Steven Streufert's interview with Al Hodgson.
Anne R. Allen's Blog: Don't Shoot Yourself in the... →
Great article, great advice. Kill the prologue. If agents and publishers don't like them, why bother having one?
The BEST Way to Generate Lots of Comments on a... →
MediaShift . Self-Publishing, Author Services Open... →
Back to Work at Advocating Independence for... →
Reclaiming my site for further exploits in the world of advocating for independent homeschooling.
TinEye - The Reverse Image Search Engine →
Find out if anyone is using your photos on the web, unlawfully.
Picnik - online photo editing →
Twitter Chats For Writers | Inkygirl: Daily... →
If you write and you twitter you'll love these twitter chats for writers!
December 2009
3 posts
From Blog to Book Deal: How Six Authors Did It →
The Case of the 4,000 Twitter Followers Who Don’t... →
A vital issue to understand. More followers doesn’t create more customers… or blog hits, or anything. I’ve started DELETING and BLOCKING anyone I’ve accidentally followed who is following more than 1000 people… because if they’re following that many people they’re probably not paying any attention at all to their home page, and definitely they don’t...
Our Echo →
A memoir-writing site that came to my attention today through a writer at Squidoo. I signed up… haven’t decided what to write there yet. They take a variety of types of writing including fiction. There doesn’t seem to be any pay involved… it looks like a friendly community, however!
November 2009
6 posts
Social Oomph! For Twitter...
I like the Social Oomph site (formerly Tweet Later) and have posted to all my Twitter accounts from that app. It does several awesome things. First, you can pre-schedule Twitter postings. I ran a series on one of my accounts to promote one of my blogs by promoting other people’s blogs and sites (on that topic) as “site of the day”. I was able to schedule two months worth of daily...
Top Ten Photo-Sharing Sites for Twitter Users →
TwitPic was the top choice, so I had to try it out.
Smashing Magazine →
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of...”
– Aristotle
July 2009
4 posts
Tweet Later →
I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of Tweet Later lately. It is exactly what I needed to manage the six Twitter accounts I have.
My interests are so varied, I decided to divide them up. My main Twitter account is Linda Jo Martin, which I reserve for tweeting about writing and my content writing, which I mainly do at Squidoo.Com. My other sites are niches… nothing commercial and no...
Freelancing with WordPress: Using WordPress as a... →
The search for a plugin that will transform WordPress into a project management system that’s better than BaseCamp. Intriguing!
Flutterby: Refining the focus of this blog
I just looked out my window and saw a swallowtail butterfly enjoying one of my nasturtiums, a scrub jay pecking at a fallen plum, and a little white butterfly examining the lemon balm. I’m so glad all these flutterbys are having a good time in my garden!
Today I’ve been thinking about refining the focus of this blog to make it more useful to me. I’m going to start my own...
“Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel...”
– Dr. Joseph Murphy