Archive for June, 2007
Releasing the Yoke
I have always been a person who strives to understand human nature and myself. When I was in high school my goal was to be a psychologist, in fact. That’s how fascinating people and their motivations are to me, figuring out what makes them tick. But alas, life intruded and I never got to follow [...]
Web Design
I scouted out the pay to blog services that I hadn’t heard of before that were listed in the previous post and discovered that not only does DeWitt have this service, but they offer SEO help and web design.
My blog was approved quickly by them and I look forward to seeing what kind of opportunities [...]
Definitive List of Paid to Blog Services
This post from Dosh Dosh offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date list, complete with screenshots, of the current paid to blog services available. There were three new ones that I didn’t know about. Maki, who, by the way is a man and all this time I thought was a woman, I guess because of those cute [...]
For Promotional Printing
I posted an article from Grow Your Writing Business yesterday that offered tips on promotion for writers. I stated in that post that the climate of the publishing industry has changed and now the author is responsible for much of their own book promotion.
If you are an author in this predicament, let me tell you [...]
Join the Gack Ink Network
I am a proud member of the Gack Ink Network. Being a member of this elite group has really helped increase my traffic, but just as importantly I have made some good friends with some great blogs.If you want to be a part of the Gack Network too, here is your chance. The below information [...]
Breath
I decided this morning that I wanted to share with you the piece I wrote that was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2005. It is called BREATH.
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She didn’t realize she’d been holding her breath for 50 years.
Born into sorrow, she had lived her life as a vulture for love. As she grew older her [...]
Online Promotion Tips for Writers
I just have to turn you on to this highly informative blog post by Yvonne Russell at Grow Your Writing Business. It is filled with tips from both Yvonne and other writers/bloggers about ways to promote yourself online. If you know anything about the modern day climate of writing, then you know that online self [...]
Page Rank, Back Links and Blogging
I have been doing research on page rank and back links for some time now and I wanted to share with you what I have learned. For those of you who are new to blogging and don’t know what back links are, or the importance of them when it comes to Google page rank, (heck, [...]
Sandcastle E-Cards
There is a site called Virtual Sand Castle that lets you build a sandcastle of your own creation and turn it into an e-card to send to your family and/or friends for free! What you see below is a screen shot of the castle I built. I sent the e-card to my daughter in law. [...]
Change of Direction
I am sorry to inform you that I will no longer be posting daily job listings here at Freelancing Journey. It was brought to my attention that the leads I was posting were under copyright protection and should not have been copied and pasted, as I was doing. I did not know that I was [...]