WritingThoughts

I’m taking the next week off from blogging to spend time with friends and family. I’ll be around here periodically during the week, but not posting or answering comments on a regular basis. This blog will resume its regular posting schedule on Wednesday, January 2nd. In the meantime, here are some posts that you might […]

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It just might be your page’s load time. The other day I went to a blog that I read frequently and was disappointed to find that it took over three minutes for the page to paint on my screen. Yikes!!! If I had not REALLY wanted to read what that blogger had to say, I […]

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Okay, it’s not quite July, but with the kids out of school until January 1st my holiday work schedule feels an awful lot like the one I had during the summer months. In fact, I’m back to my summer schedule of timing my writing projects around my kid’s activities. It’s a good thing that I […]

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I scored a 93%, how did you do? (I’ll have to look at the one I missed and see what I did wrong. I took it in a hurry.) I Scored a 93%!

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I’m really excited about this week’s blog “of note,” Punctuality Rules. It’s one of several blogs run by a very busy blogger named Deb. (Another one of her blogs that you all might be familiar with is Booking Through Thursday. Punctuality Rules! is about grammar and words, but Deb makes it exciting. Whether you want […]

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According to the statistics program provided by my web hosting company, most of the visitors at WritingThoughts are on this site for less than thirty seconds. That means thirty seconds is all the time that I have to get my message across. How can I do this? How can I capture my reader’s attention in […]

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When you work at home dealing with time off can be difficult because, unlike at a corporate job, you’re not paid for your vacations. Christmas Day and New Year’s Day are typically days when people don’t work. Ideally, you should save for vacations and holidays all year long – but sometimes it doesn’t it work […]

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I found this nifty website grader over at Chris’s blog. Here’s my results: (Edited to remove link since it no longer works.) I think this is pretty good, considering that studies show that must adults read at a seventh to ninth grade level. (That means that most people should be able to read and understand […]

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This is the second edition of Web Content Thursdays. Today’s tip is about StumbleUpon, which is a great social media with over four million users. I have to confess, when I first started using StumbleUpon, I didn’t fully understand it. I saw it as simply a way to scroll through blogs and “vote” on blog […]

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This post is a little bit off-topic, but what good is a blog if you can’t use it to make a difference? After all, it’s WAHM Wednesday and Christmas is right around the corner. A WritingThoughts reader, Kate of BabyLune, asked me to blog about my favorite charity. It’s part of her new group writing […]

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