Life after blogs

Your life without a computer: what does it look like? Oh no!!!  No computer, no blog!!!  No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Someone please wake me up from this nightmare existence! I desperately need a keyboard to purge my soul of all the words struggling to find their way out.  My mouth simply can't comprehend the foreign language brought forth …

A career in Political Writing?

Go to your Stats page and check your top 3-5 posts. Why do you think they’ve been successful? Find the connection between them, and write about it. Here are my Top 5 posts since I started blogging: Eugene Tere'blance, Julius Malema and everyone inbetween About On being hugged by a black guy An Open Letter …

My Life, My Book

From a famous writer or celebrity, to a WordPress.com blogger or someone close to you — who would you like to be your biographer? The poor man would have to return from the grave to accomplish this, or perhaps in the afterlife we can sit down and work out the smaller details, but I want …

50 Shades of writer’s block

I'm emotional, irritated and annoyed. In the span of 4 days I've read all three of the 50 Shades and I am utterly shocked at the effect it had on me.  I started reading with a preconceived idea and had, as a matter of fact, already made up my mind about what I wanted to write …

Keep out or don’t – this is my space

Who is the one person you hope isn’t reading your blog? Why? This here site is my playroom so when you choose to enter, you do so entirely by choice. Until a while ago I thought that The Ex was not reading my blog.  Not that I mind, but I just didn't think he would …

Turning the tables

Are you as comfortable in front of a camera as behind one? Being written about, as well as writing? I'm definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, a behind the scenes kind of girl.  I lost the ability to be photogenic somewhere around my 13th birthday and I simply don't make for good pictures.  On …

A rolling stone

If you could live a nomadic life, would you? Where would you go? How would you decide? What would life be like without a “home base”? I have always had a wandering soul and I'm pretty sure that I was born 20 years too late.  Hippie-ness is definitely in my blood.  Even though I love …

Great or Greatest?

What makes a blog great? What makes you follow a blog or “like” a post? There are so many great blogs out there and I discover a new one to follow almost daily. The WordPress Freshly Pressed portal is usually where I would be trawling around for new and interesting posts. Further, as a rule, …

Writing Tips – When to start a new paragraph

Here are some useful tips I found on Writers Write's Facebook page this morning.  It is also available on Pinterest.     Have a happy, productive writing Friday!

Never!!!

Tell us about a thing you’ll never write about. Writing about something you will never write about sort of defeats the point, doesn't it? I had to think about this one.  What is there that I will not write about? Will I never write about what makes me happy?  No, for sharing my happiness may …