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Becoming Community Creatures

Posted by on July 21, 2010 at 4:22 pm

Think­ing of “becom­ing com­mu­nity crea­tures” brings back mem­o­ries of the Y2K “panic”.  Peo­ple started get­ting together in small groups or large within their com­mu­ni­ties and dis­cussed dis­as­ter prepa­ra­tions. There is one type of per­son that stood out in my com­mu­nity. At the time, my com­mu­nity was very small, only 1000 peo­ple, but it was part […]

The Third Ear

Posted by on July 7, 2010 at 5:56 pm

What if the ear was our pri­mary sen­sory organ? What if it is? What if we, as humans, were not bun­dles of elec­tri­cal impulses but, instead, vibra­tional beings? She stood in the kitchen, hear­ing the espresso machine’s hiss, the buzz of a fran­tic fly try­ing to escape out the closed win­dow, the tick­ing of the […]

FlashLite

Posted by on June 30, 2010 at 2:24 am

Great Flash Fic­tion From Sin­gleWriter Blogs

Why Writers Blog

Posted by on May 30, 2010 at 2:04 pm

What makes blog­ging so spe­cial for a writer? One of the tricks of the trade for a writer is to write every day. High school cre­ative writ­ing teach­ers insist their stu­dents do this. Why? Because it gets the words flow­ing. With no visions of Shake­spearean per­fec­tion danc­ing through their heads, their stu­dents sim­ply put pen […]

What ‘About’ You?

Posted by on May 29, 2010 at 4:08 pm

The impor­tance of your “About” page Here you are, ready to write one more “About me” pro­file piece for yet another sin­gles web­site. How would you like to get it right this time, maybe do it rad­i­cally dif­fer­ently and actu­ally get some results? It’s been said that a rela­tion­ship isn’t about mak­ing you happy, it’s […]

Getting Read!

Posted by on May 28, 2010 at 12:48 pm

Sin­gleWriter mem­bers may find these three tips easy to use and ben­e­fi­cial to receiv­ing lots of vis­i­tors to their blogs. If you use these three search engine opti­miza­tion (SEO) strate­gies, the search engines will find and index your blogs. 1. Orig­i­nal, high qual­ity con­tent: Qual­ity of con­tent won’t be a prob­lem for SW writ­ers, but you […]