Author Archive for Jaren

Feb | 15 | 2008

WHEN Writing and AFTER Writing

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Now that we've discussed about writing from my previous post Just write it! anything that comes into mind, now here are the do's and don't when writing and after writing. Avoid These WHEN Writing - Spell check: Ignore the red-underlined words. - Dictionary / Thesaurus: Resist yourself from always looking for a “better” word. - Sentence Structure: Never mind if it doesn’t really make sense or if it’s run-on. - Google / other search engines: Don’t stop with the goal of “adding more stuff” to what you are writing. You’ll end up digressing and eventually, procrastinating. - Looking back: Write until all else is ...

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Feb | 14 | 2008

Just Write It!

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Submissions, Tips, Writing When stumped, and having restrictive flow in your brain here's what you need to do... Just Write, then Edit later, whatever ideas come into mind just write it and save it as draft you can go back to it anytime. Sometimes, it’s so difficult to finish a blog post of 150 to 200 words, with good content and satisfying overall quality. Personally, this problem comes from my being obsessive-compulsive in writing. It is when I am writing with so much eagerness and ideas, I suddenly stop and break my momentum. And no, it wasn’t because of some emergency but because I ...

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Feb | 14 | 2008

How to Avoid Procrastination

Posted by Jaren as Opinion, Tips, Writing Procrastination is a common problem of all people, in particular, bloggers. Sometimes, we get lost in our research and end up surfing the net for things that are totally unrelated to what we’re supposed to write about. Other times, we just put off writing altogether. Now here is the question that baffles my mind. How do we beat procrastination? This might be a little on the cliché side but discipline is key. Yes, You've heard it from me. The main key -- Discipline yourself. Most of us whine that we can’t work unless it’s late and everyone’s asleep and we have ...

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Dec | 31 | 2007

Start the Blogging Year 2008 with Bang

Posted by Jaren as Opinion, Tips The Start of 2008 the new blogging year, "out with the old in with the new", now is the time to start with change and new and fun ways in our blogging conquest to rule the blogging world. Will you stay on the same path or try new positive change that can help you on your blogging success. “What are my blogging goals?” New Year, New Look Blogs still have to look good even if you have no content posted. So even if you don't have anything to offer (posts) yet. Go in style and achieve a new and innovative look for ...

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Dec | 31 | 2007

Year’s End: Time For Blog Cleaning

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorials News, Opinion 2007 is coming to an end and right now 2008 is coming Happy new year to all of us. Now maybe a right time to do some cleaning up and do some trimming down and de-cluttering of your blog. Here are tips to help get started. What we can do is Repackaging Old but Popular Posts as I've posted on the article I've written What to do With Old Posts so instead of letting it sit on your archives why not highlight for another dose of blog stardom. Also We can find and maybe "bury" our very old ...

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Dec | 28 | 2007

Blogging is Like Planting Seeds

Posted by Jaren as Opinion, Writing In reference to my Previous Posts titled Blogging is like I compared blogging to playing the game, Sid Meier's Civilization and now this time I would like compare blogging to planting a seed. As with planting seeds we start with a seed in our case we start with a small blog. We all know seed to planted in the ground and has to let it roots grow and reach deep so that it would be able to survive and live. Blogs needs our time, effort, patience by writing great articles, thinking of great topics, putting the right theme. Blogs ...

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Dec | 28 | 2007

Stress-Free Blogging

Posted by Jaren as Opinion, Tips Managing Your Time A very important part on your blogging is setting a reasonable schedule and good time management for posting, commenting on other blogs, moderating and responding to the comments left on your blog, reading feeds, checking your stats, and lots more. Setting up a schedule and sticking to it will keep you from being stressed out. And as for time management also you can schedule to do certain tasks/posts on a certain day Writing more Articles And Developing more ideas A very useful tip for bloggers like us is having a cache of ideas that you can tap in whenever ...

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Dec | 27 | 2007

Check Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports on your WordPress Blog

Posted by Jaren as Plugins, Software and Widgets, Tips I'm addicted to checking my Google Analytics Stats and My Feedburner Reports and I mean really addicted I check it whenever I have free time just to see If I made any difference. I know It's time consuming but with this Plugin you can actually do it with ease. I want a quicker way to check so I searched for a plugin that would help me satisfy my addiction to viewing my stats and reports. Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports plugin for WordPress is brought to us by TantanNoodles.com This plugin allows you to easily view your Google Analytics ...

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Dec | 27 | 2007

Start the Year With a Simple Blog Design

Posted by Jaren as Design and Themes, Opinion, Tips It's the start of the new year and maybe it's time for a change in your blog theme. In my opinion, starting this year of blogging with a new theme, can definitely work wonders to your blog. Now is the time to do away with the clutter and start simplifying your blog. By removing some of your ads, doing away with some of the badges, plugins you have. The more simple your blog looks like the better. When I look a blogs that have too much clutter (full of widgets, graphics, buttons, ads) I immediately get turned off even if ...

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Dec | 26 | 2007

Blogging And Writing

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorials News, Opinion Blogging and Writing are two things that work well together. But there's a question that pops in my mind. Do we really have to write good to be able to blog good? The answer is a no but being able to write good is a plus factor in blogging, all of us, knows how to write, but it also helps if we have a large vocabulary in our grasp it's all in the interpretation of our thoughts into written word in our blog. It's how good our storytelling skills are because blogs are stories, articles. And also our perseverance and the time ...

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