What’s Your Strange Blogging Habit?

Each person has his own peculiar habit (or habits, if you wish) and I suppose blogging is not exempt from this. Take for example J. Angelo’s recent feature over at The Blog Herald. He mentioned the late Max Soliven’s habit of writing his work on his typewriter despite the ease and convenience that computers offer. […]

Some Commonly Confused Words

Good blogging is good writing. I have said that many times and stand by it. If you remember, I posted something on the difference between entitled and titled. To refresh your memory, entitled means to give someone the right to something while titled means having the title of (such as books, movies, and other works). […]

Do You Have Pillar Articles?

What are pillar articles, you may ask. When I first heard about them years ago, I thought to myself, “they are probably really important things” and indeed, they are. Darren Rowse at ProBlogger explains it neatly: A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer […]

Do You Write Too Slowly? (Part 3)

Here is the last installment for this mini-series. In the last two posts, we talked about making an outline and then just letting all the words flow without editing first. What else can you do to help you speed up your writing? Time yourself This is particularly useful for those people who work under pressure. […]

Gain That Edge For Your Blog

There are thousands upon hundred thousands of blogs on the Internet today. How can you be sure that your blog will be noticed by readers out there? Actually, this fact can go both ways. On the one hand, from the reader’s point of view, it might be like the proverbial needle in the haystack – […]

How Do You Start Your Posts?

The headline or title is the most important part of a blog post. At least that is what some people say. However, as important as the headline or title of a post is, you cannot discount the other parts and one other very important part is your opening line (or lines for that matter). How […]