Humans need stories. From childhood, we’re always more drawn to information that comes through a story rather than just facts. Apparently, when we hear a story, our brain lights up – the neural activity increases five fold! Today I’m sharing story and story telling quotes that re-affirm our need for and love of stories. Story…
Create An Editorial Calendar For Your Blog
While some of us write blog posts on the fly, tackling topics as they come to us, many more professional bloggers have a editorial calendar for their blogs. If you have a niche blog, a food blog, for example, it’s fairly easy to plan your content out well in advance. But for those of us…
What Sounds Do You Write To?
It’s been raining incessantly. I’m love to write as I listen to the rain filtering through the trees outside my window. I love the sound of rain – it helps me be more creative. Which makes me ask: what sounds do you write to? What sounds do you write to? Have you noticed that we…
How to Attract Sponsors to your Blog
Not only can you promote amazing products or sit back and offer a little blurb about the sponsor of a new blog post with fresh content creation, but you can learn how to make these sponsors come to you and beg to send you money! Today I’m going to share a few tips to help…
Get your baby to fall in love with reading
In the first post of the series we spoke about why it is important to get our babies introduced to books as early as possible, in the womb itself in fact. Here’s some more ideas on how you can get your baby fall in love with reading. That obviously means that you as a parent…
Sharing Your Depth
When I first started writing and sharing on my blog, someone remarked in a surprised tone, “I didn’t know you were so deep!” I was even more surprised by her remark and more than a little upset. I thought she knew me well. It’s only some years later, that I realized that my writing used…