Shaun Crowly from A List Apart put together an interesting article about writing headlines that points to one of my biggest personal pet peeves: headlines that sound like advertising copy.
The same things that catch the readers’ eyes and encourage people to read an article are what I find annoying. If this article is correct, […]

Just a quick note for you Firefox users out there… In case you haven’t heard, there’s a great little in-browser weblog editor called ScribeFire that’s free for the taking. ScribeFire actually started out as a Firefox extension from the good folks at Performancing but was later spun off and re-branded. You really have to try […]

I have a friend who is starting a niche personal finance blog. He’s very interested in the subject, and knowledgeable, and I think he could make it an interesting site.
When the idea first came to him a few months ago, he approached me. “How do I make this a successful blog?” he asked.
“Post lots […]

Amy at The Writer’s Group declares, “Enough!” She gives a few anecdotes of writers who have achieved some measure of success, but for whom this is not enough.
Lately I’ve fallen victim to creeping expectations. Others’ expectations, yes, but more than that, my own expectations. I let past success intimidate me so that I’m afraid […]

It was late last year that I realized I could potentially make a living writing for the web. It was today that I knew that this was true. I make a modest (but decent) income at the box factory. But for the last week, my web income has equaled my income from my real job. […]

I like to write. I enjoy keeping my web sites, and Get Rich Slowly is foremost among these. To maintain so many sites requires a certain level of discipline. Over the past few months I’ve observed a set of behaviors — in myself and in others — behaviors that are counterproductive to blogging. These include:

Checking […]

This is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, sort of… but as a participant and observer as the blogosphere expanded exponentially over the last few years (and the general explosion of blogging since 1999), these things bug me. I don’t mean to offend anyone. They say rules are made to be broken, and I’ve broken […]