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April 2009

Do you have a family member in the US military serving overseas? Are you interested in winning a free laptop with a Webcam? Do you have great writing skills? Writing a 400 word essay can give you the opportunity to win a laptop for you to communicate with your loved one overseas.
All [...]

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Finding Inspiration from Your Own Writing

by Julie McElroy on April 24, 2009

Finding inspiration does not always happen when you want it to or need it to. As a matter of fact, many times it happens when you don’t want it to. When it is not convenient for it to happen. When your laptop is not right in front of you with that blinking cursor staring at [...]

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Attracting Readers to Your Blog

by Julie McElroy on April 21, 2009

Attracting little traffic to your blog can be disappointing and frustrating. Drawing in readers to your blog and getting them to become regular readers can be quite the challenge, especially for a new blogger. Even if the blog does not earn money, most bloggers want traffic and enjoy sharing their writing. With the millions [...]

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Is Twitter Becoming a Popularity Contest?

by Julie McElroy on April 19, 2009

This is off topic of my usual posts of inspiration. I am going out on a limb here, but, it is something that I feel needs to be talked about since Twitter is the new craze with all the celebrities getting accounts.
In the last few months, I have seen Twitter transform from a community where [...]

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The Power and Influence of Media Exposure

by Julie McElroy on April 17, 2009

Try to imagine this. In a world before cable television, reality shows, Twitter, and YouTube would an unemployed, middle-aged woman who lives alone from a small town in Scotland ever get noticed for her stunning and remarkable singing voice?
I would say a big NO! It took her 47 years to get noticed in any sort [...]

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Writing Prompts to Unleash Creativity

by Julie McElroy on April 12, 2009

From time to time, writers get stumped and can not fixate on that creative spot in the mind where ideas exist. That place where thoughts and words flow easily when the writer is in the ‘zone’.
This is true for all writers – bloggers, fiction, free-lance, songwriter – anyone that requires the creative part of [...]

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