It had been thirteen years since I had attended a writers conference. Back in 2000, blogging was pretty much unheard of. But at the writers conference I attended in 2013, every author I met was fascinated by the fact that I was a blogger. Social media was in large part a mystery to them, but…
When I attended my first blogging conference, every other blogger I met wanted to write a book. They spoke of the blog series they were turning into eBooks, but the dreams they whispered of had phrases like “publisher” and “book contract”. And many of the speakers at the conference were indeed writing books that had…
I did something a little scary on my blog last month: I changed my permalink structure. That means my post links that used to look like: https://gretchenlouise.com/2013/04/ugly-permalinks/ now look like: https://gretchenlouise.com/pretty-permalinks/ See the difference? Yes, I like it, too. Why was it scary, you ask? Because suddenly all the numbers on the share buttons below each post…
My Facebook friends list could be divided loosely into three groups: my relatives, my local friends (here and where I grew up), and my blogging friends. The people I’ve met through my blogs have become some of my very closest friends. First it was the community that developed through what is now Kindred Grace, and…
If you were to corner me at a blogging conference like Allume and ask about the ins and outs of running a contributor blog like what is now Kindred Grace, I could talk as long as you could listen. I’d probably suggest we settle down with a cup of tea over in the (in)courage lounge,…
“Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should…
I found myself part of a contributor blog back before anyone really knew what blogs were, let alone contributor blogs! In the beginning, everyone had publishing permission and you never knew whether two posts would go up in a day or none in a week. The team at Kindred Grace (formerly Young Ladies Christian Fellowship)…
Creating pinnable graphics, composing the perfect Tweets to promote our posts, and then sharing them at the optimum times on Facebook take time . . . It’s easy to get so bogged down in blogging that we lose the joy in writing. If you don’t have time to find the perfect image, don’t worry—spend your…
I don’t know about you, but left to itself, my blog sidebar quickly resembles my kitchen counter: it becomes a catch-all. Every button, link, and feed I don’t know where to put ends up there. And before you know it, the sidebar is so cluttered you can’t see anything! I like clean and simple sidebars…
My cousin Lindy asked me for some blogging tips in anticipation of trying to keep all of us up-to-date on her time overseas as a nanny. So here are a few tips for Lindy—and for the rest of you who are just blogging for the fun of it, blogging to keep Grandma in the loop….
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