What’s the first thing we all do these days if we have a problem with something? We’ll Google it! …Or take to our Social Media channels and ask the hive mind what they think. The Purpose Of Business Strip away everything, get right down to the fundamentals of business […]
Very few of us go around deliberately upsetting others. It’s natural to not want to oppose someone. I was at an event recently and got chatting to a fellow small business owner. He said something that could have been taken the wrong way, then backtracked by saying, “You’re not supposed […]
There’s a mantra in fiction writing, ‘Show don’t tell’. Reader’s Need Context Don’t tell us the character is crying, show us their heartbreak, describe the anguish in their expression. It’s much more powerful and compelling. The same goes for your blog writing. Blogging is not about writing an academic […]
(Quick Read Blogs – a 5-minute read) My first blog was a vanity project. Something I did to hold myself accountable on my journey towards becoming a published author. But it did more than that, it allowed me to make connections. Making Connections Some days, it can feel like you’re […]
My love affair with blogging started in 2013 when I was in process of publishing my first book – The Bronze Box. Every day I did one thing towards publishing and marketing my first book, then every week I would blog my seven actions. As someone who has been writing […]
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad” I do enjoy a pub quiz. It was a regular event when we had a lodger living with us. Pitting our knowledge against fellow drinkers in a local pub, my hairless-husband was […]
A letter drifted through my letterbox from Bristol City Council. Now, I’d consider myself to be a reasonably literate and educated person. I’m no brain of Britain, but as a word weaver, it takes a lot for me to struggle to interpret a piece of writing. However, this particular letter […]
I have an early school memory – I must have been 5 or 6 – of the teacher blowing my mind with a simple technique to draw a tree. Overnight, the trees in my pictures went from a blob with a stick coming out of the bottom to something much […]
Can You Ever be Too Helpful? I wrestle with this idea a lot in my business. Which is why H is for Helpful in my A to Z of Blogging. On the one hand, my 3 golden rules of blogging are: Give Give Give On the other, I had frank […]
G is for Google on my A to Z of Blogging The Googlebot is a hungry beast. It scuttles around the internet 3.7 million times a minute – it’s one speedy critter! It voraciously searches for content – the food of the web – and brings it back to its […]
