As many of our online friends have been aware, Debbie has not been well since the middle of 2010, and eventually after months of waiting, in the first week of January she managed to get an MRI. Three days later the phone rang, and I went with her to the hospital, where we found that not only did she have a Brain Tumor, it was a large one.
Writing
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We all love a challenge, and I decided to sign up for The A to Z Blogging Challenge, which requires you to publish an article for every day in April except for the 4 Sundays, with each article being related to the appropriate letter of the alphabet. Since today is the 1st of April, and the first letter of the Alphabet is A, guess what!
I’m not sure why I didn’t do this before, but I just added Google Friend Connect to Off The Record. If you would like to become a friend of our blog, please Join using the Google Friend Connect option at the bottom of the rightmost sidebar.
If you enjoy reading things that I have written, whether it’s my lenses on Squidoo, my regular articles on Yahoo Contributor Network, or my jokes and humor on The Laughline, it’s likely that you might not have come across all of these main places where you can find my content.
Many of us writers need a kick up the rear in order to find a reason to publish articles on our blogs more frequently, and this week I signed up for The Blogging From A To Z April Challenge, which if I complete the task should result in 26 new articles being published throughout the month of April, one for each letter of the alphabet.
As a writer, I hope that each article that I publish will not only be well accepted by fans of my work, but also head off into the ether and get recognition in the wider world. As we all know, however, that doesn’t always happen. January 2011 has been one of those months where I have tried to write what I feel are interesting articles, and they were ones that I enjoyed writing as well.
It’s hard to believe that the first post was published on our blog on New Years Eve 2008, which is almost 2 years ago.
Imagine a sailing ship leaving England on her first voyage in the early 1900’s, during what was to become the last true days of sail. On her voyage to Australia, the cargo catches fire more than once, and the crew spent over a month trying to put the fires out, while all the time at sea in the Atlantic. It’s a fateful voyage, as on her return voyage the ship hits a reef on a small island in The Pacific and sinks. The ship and it’s voyage have virtually passed into history, and there is virtually no information about it on the internet.
Associated Content has made a great new change this week and improved the layout and content of everybody’s profile page. As well as having a larger photo, which makes it easier to see what the writer looks like, the layout is far more pleasing on the eye, and also has a Featured Content section at the top, which allows authors to highlight their top articles.
A good friend of mine and fellow writer Karen Sanders has issued a Writing Challenge, where every week she will give out a list of 10 words, and you have to write a short story that includes all of those words, in their exact form. This is not only great fun, it also helps to overcome writers block, and you never know what stories the submitters are going to come up with.