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Day 27: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Five Retro Blog Posts to check out on this Blog
By the end of this blogging challenge, I will have written 30 blog posts in a little over a month. It ’s not been easy but it’s been worth it. For today’s blog post, I want to highlight some of the posts that have gone before. One thing I have noticed in checking over my…
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Day 25: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – 3 Quotes for Writers
There are some really great quotes from writers and here are 3 of my favourites. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway Great quote that hints at the toughness of writing. 2. The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value…
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Day 24: 30 Day Blog Writing Challenge – am I Mobile-Friendly?
Just a short blog today as the challenge was to check whether my blog would cope with being accessed through a mobile device. I was writing a series of articles for a web developer a few years ago, and this was one of the articles I had to research and write. The overwhelming consensus of…
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Day 23: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – 7 More Crazy Business Ideas
When I was digging through my archives, I found my first blog post on Crazy Business Ideas. I thought it would be great to update this article and check out some more crazy business ideas. Who would have thought that some of these ideas would make you money. Rent the Chicken This business is for…
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Day 22: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Third Week Review
Week 3 and I’m still here. I’m really glad that I took this challenge. Finding time to blog every day has not been easy, but I have managed to do it. Hopefully from here I can finish this challenge. This week, I have: continued to edit my story, looking at setting, plot, conflict and resolution,…
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Day 21: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Infographics
This blog has been challenged to make some infographics so I decided to have a go. The infographics package that was recommended was not suitable for me as I don’t have Java, so I have taken a look round to see what other possibilities there are. I found Daniel Soper who offers a small infographics…
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Day 20: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Story Plot, Conflict & Resolution
On Day 11 and Day 12, I posted a short story for the purpose of showing you how I edit a story. Here I finish my discussion of the story and will be talking about the plot, the conflict in the story and the resolution. Plot The plot is probably one of the most important…
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Day 19: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Short Story Setting
My blog posts on Day 11 and Day 12 were two halves of a short story, written quickly to use as an example for editing. Here, I would like to discuss setting. The setting of a story discusses where the story takes place. In The House on the Hill, the action all takes place around…
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Day 18: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Rewrite my ‘About’ Page
This is just a brief post so that I don’t have a day missing. My revised ‘About’ page can now be read by clicking on the ‘About’ tab at the top of the page. I had rewritten it fairly recently so it hasn’t had too drastic a change. Some different formatting choices have taken place…