Blogging Basics 101: Getting Started and Keeping Going

Byriehlifegrace March 7, 2008March 7, 2008

Go to either the Women Writing the West blog or the Independent Authors Guild Blog to read my take on blogging basics.

It’s easy to get started, but it takes passion to stay going. Mission drives your blog to stay the course.

This post on these two blogs for two writing organizations I belong to are adapted from an ezinearticle that has just gone live.

Portrait of a Riehlife

In the post you’ll find answers to these blogging questions:

1) Blogging experience: How long have you been blogging?

2) Starting a blog: Was it difficult to get started?

3) Amount of technical knowledge needed: Do you have to be a real computer whiz to blog?

4) Blogging frequency: Do you blog every day?

5) Focus: Do you have a particular subject in your blog?

6) Audience: Do you have a target “audience” when you blog?

7) Benefits: What is your favorite thing about blogging?

8 Random Facts Meme–Blog Tag Update

Byriehlifegrace July 26, 2007July 27, 2007

Susan Gallacher-Turner posted her 8 Random Facts for the Meme Tag on Wednesday, July 25th. She calls it “Playing Tag for Grown-Ups.” I like that. Susan’s blog is Susan’s Art and Words. She has wonderful photos of her colorful and fanciful sculptures. Billy Jones, the Blogging Poet just posted his 8 random facts and explains…

“Autonomy with Connection”–in relationship

Byriehlifegrace August 13, 2007August 13, 2007

I experience and seek this contrast of autonomy with connection in my relationships. At the heart of my decision to have a place to live apart from my father’s is this need to have a space and life of my own with its own momentum and direction. When I’m at my father’s, I’m in Daddy’s…

Virginia Quarterly Review online publishes Alan Brody’s story and commentary “Revisiting Afghanistan: A Conversation with Najibullah”

Byriehlifegrace January 4, 2008January 5, 2008

Alan Brody worked for twenty-two years with the UN Children’s Fund, most recently as UNICEF Representative in Swaziland (1999–2006), and before that with assignments in China, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Nigeria. He is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Iowa, and served for over seven years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana…

Stone Soup

“Teaching the Poor,” by Doug Johnson

Byriehlifegrace March 28, 2010

Dedicated educator Doug Johnson inspires us with these thoughts. –JGR __________________________ The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference, and the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.— Elie Wiesel Teaching the poor, like any other human…

Pigheaded Pills and Other Personality Patent Medicine (Conversation Starter)

Byriehlifegrace November 20, 2007December 15, 2007

If you could choose some aspect of your personality to improve…and all it took was taking a pill, what would you choose? Choose something fun. Pig-headedness, say? Tell us the trait you’d like pills developed for to make you just a little bit nicer to be around. Just don’t make me agree with you. At…

Erwin A. Thompson tells Folk Stories from the Soil Conservation Program

Byriehlifegrace April 7, 2007April 24, 2007

As part of reading the river, Pop told me two dryly humorous folk stories from the 1932 US Soil Conservation Program.–JGR ______________________ “The brown color of the Mississippi is tied-in to an issue of land conservation, too. As more and more of the land is cleared for housing and farming, more soil is eroded away…

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