Top 100 Writing Blogs for Authors and Bloggers

Full original post by Anuj Agarwal, find it here:  http://blog.feedspot.com/2016/01/08/top-100-writing-blogs/ I came across this list today through the #14 blog on this list, Writers Write, which I follow on Facebook.  I’m reposting it — reblogging it, I guess, a new thing for me — here for anyone interested, and keeping it as a resource for myself…

Dragon Elixer, art by Todd Schweitzer

Been a lazy Saturday, so here – enjoy a picture I saved back in 2009 called Dragon Elixer, submitted by Todd1000 for a contest on Worth1000.com, a neat site to browse when you’re bored. Todd’s description: A very tricky potion. Get it right and the drinker temporarily gains super human strength, courage and near invulnerability….get it wrong and…

Experimenting leads to an idea…

Today’s Blogging 101 Day 5 email challenge was all about experimenting with new themes and layouts for your blog, “even if you’re happy with the one your first chose.”  Well, the theme I use, called the Expound Theme, is certainly not the first one I chose — I spent hours trying out dozens of layouts, colors,…

Blogging 101: Day Two

“Take control of your title and tagline,” the assignment for today says.  Funny enough, I actually changed the tagline slightly just yesterday, while I was watching my number of page visits and views climb through the roof.  My “Why Writing Dragons” post was by far my most viewed of all (two weeks) time, so thank…

Why Writing Dragons?

Hello!  And thank you for visiting my site.  My name is Jamie Lyn Weigt — pronounced “White,” like the color — and I’m a writer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  I’ve written articles, short stories, and longer fiction, but this blog is dedicated to the fantasy YA novel trilogy I’m currently working on. I’m calling the first book in…

Blogging 101: First Assignment

So today is the day I start the WordPress “Blogging 101” class on how to become successful at this whole blogging thing.  I’m looking forward to learning new tricks and techniques to beef up this blog, and I’m going to do each assignment post as a writing exercise as the course suggests. Today they’re all…