Blog: Mel's Muse

Blogging, Writing For Pleasure, & Nurturing Your Talent

Among the issues I identified in the e-mail I received from my online friend, Lucy Cripps, were the following:

Niche blogging: where are you writing from? Reading and responding to other blogs. Writing for pleasure, with your own angle on the topic. Writing what comes naturally to your personality

In my penultimate post in this series...

Posted at 15:46pm on 29th April 2010

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Can God Do Jury Duty?

Dear Mel,

I hope you don’t mind me writing but I’m on Jury Duty next month and I’m feeling quite nervous about it. A friend in my church said she’d heard that you were on a big case a few years ago and that you might be able to advise me.

I’m worried I might...

Posted at 10:21am on 26th April 2010

Niche Blogging? All I Want To Know Is What To Write About!

In this instalment of my mini series on article writing and blogging, I’m going to look at an issue that plagues many of us. How do you decide what to write?

Perhaps you blog daily? Or possibly only once or twice a week? But what is it that gives you the conviction to know...

Posted at 17:13pm on 23rd April 2010

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Internet Radio Show Voice America - 3rd May 2010

BREAKING NEWS:

As the author of the novel A Painful Post Mortem, I will be speaking to Dr Gloria Horsley about my personal experiences of grief and loss. Looking at the way in which divorce, my daughter's teenage drug abuse, and bereavement have all taken their toll, I'll be demonstrating how victory in adversity...

Posted at 22:21pm on 22nd April 2010

Taking A Focused Strategy When Optimising Your Blog Brand & Content

In this mini series on article writing and blogging, I have been using some queries put to me by an online friend, Lucy Cripps, as the basis of the information I’ve shared. In the first, I gave four tips on blog brand, purpose, keywords, and titles. The idea is that:

brand establishes the identity of...

Posted at 10:39am on 19th April 2010

Using Long Tail Keywords When Optimising Your Title In Article Writing & Blogging

In my last post on article writing and blogging – the first in this mini-series - I used (with permission) the correspondence that had taken place between me and my guest blogger, Lucy Cripps. As an ex-teacher, Lucy had kindly agreed to write a guest blog for me about her experience with peer education training,...

Posted at 01:00am on 9th April 2010

Four Tips On Article Writing & Blogging & One New Blogger

There are a number of basic skills in article writing and blogging, and rather than merely write another feature on each of them, it occurs to me that it may be helpful to readers to follow the process that I recently worked through in correspondence with an online friend. Let me explain.

BLOG BRAND

Having learned,...

Posted at 11:36am on 8th April 2010

The Foolishness Of God: A Mad Sad Plan?

An advertisement for a new book, Bad Laws by The Daily Telegraph’s assistant editor, Philip Johnston, has just caught my eye. The book is subtitled An explosive analysis of Britain’s petty rules, health and safety lunacies and madcap laws, beneath which is the following statement: For 13 years, a war has been waged on...

Posted at 14:49pm on 5th April 2010

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Teen Drug Abuse: Peer Education Training Challenges Misconceptions

INTRODUCTION TO GUEST BLOG BY LUCY CRIPPS

My novel, A Painful Post Mortem, has been selling now for sometime, and has raised a substantial sum of money for the two charities I chose to support with the proceeds. This month, in addition to the print edition, I decided to make it available as an e-book....

Posted at 12:07pm on 30th March 2010

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Negative Personality Traits: How Do You Confront Them?

Many of you have taken the free Personality Test here, on my website, so I hope you will understand when I tell you that I woke up this morning feeling somewhat at the mercy of my Type. Actually, what I thought, was that I must be turning into my father! He would tell you...

Posted at 20:45pm on 27th March 2010

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