Luca Brasi, Blogger

Luca Brasi, Blogger

“Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter… daughter’s wedding… on the day of your daughter’s wedding. And I hope their first child be a masculine child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty.” -Luca Brasi One of my favorite things about watching movies is learning the behind the scenes [...]

Your Blog Post Is a Story: So What’s the Point?

Acquiring wisdom

Writing my memoir is teaching me a lot about story. Because the best ones read like novels, I’m structuring it with plot, colorful characters and scenes that build to the climax where the main character will have to choose between two overwhelming but conflicting needs. So, throughout the book, we get to watch her squirm [...]

Your Blogging Superpower

Superpower

My friends and I play the game “Would You Rather…” quite a bit. It’s a game that’s only limited by your imagination, creativity and sometimes your calmness during offensive topics. No matter how many different times we play it and no matter how many different questions are asked, one that always makes the rounds is [...]

What You Can Learn About Blogging From Going Paleo

Paleolithic Blogger

For about a month now I’ve made the lifestyle and diet change known as “Going Paleo.” It goes by many names: The Caveman Diet, The Paleo Diet, Way Too Hard Diet, and so on. I won’t go into detail about what my experience has been since the change except to say that I’ve gotten the results I [...]

We Get It…Unless We Don’t: Content Clarity Counts

Vague

This post originally appeared on JoeyStrawn.com, but when writing it I knew it had implications for the For Bloggers, By Bloggers audience as well. So, I have adjusted the content and reposted an updated version here specifically for you guys. Enjoy! This is a story about miscommunication. It’s also a story about the importance of [...]

The Wizarding World of Harry Blogger

Potter Pals

Sometimes it seems like magic how writers and podcasters come up with new topics and angles to write about. It appears magical because there definitely is a extraordinary quality to people who can pump out quality content week after week without seemingly taking a break. I wanted to bring a little of that magic here [...]

Setting Up Your Blogging Paradise

Welcome to your writing paradise

Let’s take a journey to where your ideas come from. Let’s run through fields of caramelized clover and dance with Pepperidge Farm Puppies until we get to the valley of blogging paradise where you can sit in peace and write opus after manifesto and every one wins the Nobel Prize for Awesomeness. Yeah, so unfortunately [...]

Give Your Children Away

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Conception. Something beautiful happened and after a time of growth will be introduced to the world. You’ll work harder and longer than you ever have before, but will be strangely more fulfilled. You become attached. You’ve watched them grow and for the first part of their existence, their survival has relied completely upon you and your [...]

How To Totally Screw Up Your About Page

Guy in mirror

It’s easy to write blog post after blog post about your chosen field of interest (Well, not easy, but just go with me here). You could sit down at your keyboard and probably crank out a post about gardening/car repair/marketing tactics/(Your Interest) pretty damn easily. You might not even have given a second thought to [...]