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I’m a community junkie. I’m willing to bet you are too. Most bloggers want, desire, even need the interaction of their blog community. I get it that most bloggers write because they want to express themselves through painting a picture with the written word. I get this. I also get the fact that we do not [...]
What is a blog? We’ve talked about it before and given you tips from our experiences, but sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what everyone thinks. In my opinion (and the opinion of many I know), a blog is much more than simply the ideas from its primary author. A blog is made up of [...]
Have you ever stumbled upon a blog post that just felt weird? The flow was kind of all over the place, willy nilly, a little here, a little there with very little form. Kind of like a Picasso piece of art. My thought is that although the lack of form worked well for a Picasso [...]
Do you here the wind whistling through your blog. What’s up with those tumbleweeds? A little dusty around the edges eh? It sucks when you work so hard to setup and build your blog and then no one shows up for the party. You write and share, but only a trickle of readers flow in. [...]
Did you ever have an in-person meet-up with someone you’d first met on Twitter? And then they got tired and they took a little nap—under the table? Yeah, sounds like a bad bar tale, doesn’t it? But it happened to me. About 2 years ago, I met an amazing dog on Twitter. I became an [...]
I confess. I am a random creative, about as right-brained as you can get. In high school, I aced the verbal section of the SAT’s. But man, I hated the math and science questions. You know, the ones like: Tom is taller than Max. Max is shorter than James. James is shorter than Don. What [...]
I love it when I pull up an email that says, “jeremy@curtainsRus.com has unsubscribed from CatsEyeWriter Blog.” It kind of makes me smile. I wasn’t always this way. I used to obsess over every single unsubscribe. Why would anyone ever stop reading my blog? How dare they? After all, I’m fascinating. I educate, engage and [...]
Have you ever noticed that making someone laugh brings them closer to you? That you feel more connected to that person? Humor is one of the best ways to connect emotionally with our readers. We laugh with each other and all of a sudden we have a bond. It’s like laughter becomes a bridge between [...]
My 15 Minutes of Not Existing: Do Your Blog’s Readers Feel Invisible?
Andy Warhol said that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame in their lifetime. It might be true of invisibility, too. I know. I was invisible for 15 minutes. Never happened before that, hasn’t happened since. All I can say is that it was a surreal experience. Several years ago my husband Bob and I walked [...]