How To Easily Edit Your WordPress Theme Design With The Firebug Firefox Addon Written by Robyn-Dale Samuda in As bloggers, we aim to provide unique user experiences for all our visitors online through the use of the best blog designs and templates we can find. Although there are thousands of free and premium themes available, there comes a time when we want something specifically suited to our taste as well as our readers’ without hiring a developer. The ability to customize your own blog theme is an invaluable skill and will save you lots of time and money in the long-run; and through the use of a tool like the Firebug Firefox Add-on, making simple and advanced customizations are easier than ever. Firebug’s Features Firebug provides the most common features for almost every customization you can think of. Tweak and position HTML elements with CSS and the Layout panels.Find specific elements on a webpage with ease and precision.Monitor the performance of each file to identify slow loadersVisualize CSS MetricsPlus a host of additional features Additional Resource
A Writer’s Guide to Fiction–Types of Fiction, Word Count and Page Count I’ve seen the question come up many times: What’s the difference between a novel, novella and a novelette? The answer in its simplest form is length. However, perhaps the best way to answer this is to break down the types of fiction writing and discuss how publishers look at the importance of appropriate lengths of works. Keep in mind, these are mostly rule-of-thumb guidelines to follow—there are always exceptions. For instance, despite being a Young Adult novel the manuscript of Twilight was some 150K words. The publisher cut it down to 118K words. Here’s a guide to some very basic novel questions, such as the types of fiction, generally accepted word count per genre and how to estimate the page count of your manuscript. TYPES Of FICTION Flash Fiction–Generally 300-1,000 words Flash fiction is extremely brief. Short Story—1,001-7,499 words Intended as a story that can be read in one sitting. Novelette–7,500-20,000 words Novella–20,000-50,000 words Novel–50,000-110,000 words Like this:
The Ultimate Guide to Launching a WordPress-Powered Blog - TentBlogger Spiderman is awesome! He’s one of my favorite comic book characters. I have been literally dying to start this series and now that I’ve finished the first two series (Getting Started with Blog Advertising and Make Money Blogging) I’m ready to tackle number 3, which is going to most likely be upwards of about 30 or so posts. Essentially I’m going to write the guide that I wish I had years ago when I first starting blogging (and developing) in the WordPress platform. I’ll walk you through everything that I do to get a new blog started from the ground up with every single plugin I use, every strategy, every settings, and every 3rd party system that I feel is absolutely required to make a new blog hit the ground running. No stone will be left unturned: I will essentially give you my unique formula for creating a new blog from Day 1. This blog post will serve as the landing page for all of the posts in the series like I’ve done before. Like this: Like Loading... Related
19 Websites and Magazines That Want to Publish Your Personal Essays They’re all over your Facebook feed, and for good reason. Personal essays by popular authors and novices alike are relatable, engrossing reads. Sometimes, their heart-wrenching reflections stay with you for days. For reporters or academics, it can be hard to step back from research rituals and write from personal experience. But a personal essay can endear you to an audience, bring attention to an issue, or simply provide comfort to a reader who’s “been there.” “Writing nonfiction is not about telling your story,” says Ashley C. But don’t worry if your life doesn’t seem exciting or heart-wrenching enough to expound upon; think of it as writing through yourself, instead of about yourself. Where to submit your personal essays Once you’ve penned your essay, which publications should you contact? “Submit to the places you love that publish work like yours,” Ford advises, but don’t get caught up in the size of the publication. 1. 2. 3. This publication is aimed at women over 30. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
FREELANCE WRITING . COM : Helping Freelance Writers to Succeed since 1997 Book Cover Design Checklist (18 Things to Know Before Ordering a Book Cover Design) - Rocking Book Covers Ready to order a cover for your new book? Not sure what to prepare for it? The following book cover design checklist will provide a summary of things to consider before ordering a design (and may help to pick the right book cover designer).. This should make it easier for authors to get a great book cover design! Checklist: 1. These don’t have to be the final versions as they can be changed later. 2. This is one of the most important considerations. 3. If you require ebook and print versions, you need to know the page size and count for each. 4. Will it be Createspace? 5. Similarly to genre, the mood is very important and has to convey the right impression. 6. Before working with any designer, you should know your risk tolerance. 7. Look at designers’ portfolios and decide what style you want. 8. Not all designers illustrate and not all illustrators do photoshopped covers. 9. Designers exist for most budgets and book cover design prices range a lot. 10. 11. These can be from any genre.
Freelance Writer's World 7 Steps to Becoming a Freelance Writer by Mark Nichol You love to write, and perhaps you’ve even had some of your work published, but you just can’t seem to get your career as a freelance writer of nonfiction off the ground. Here are some flight lessons: 1. Focus Nonfiction is an enormous universe. 2. What are your favorite Web sites or magazines or books? 3. Create a short directory of publications or publishers to target. 4. Collect some of your best writing — published or otherwise — that represents you well and matches the type of content those publications are looking for. 5. Go to your publisher directory, look up the URL for publication Web sites, and search for submission guidelines. 6. Come up with proposals for a few articles or essays you’d like to write, match them to various publications, and send them in. 7. Repeat step 6. You may get an acceptance or an assignment on your first try.
Complete Guide to Blogging Welcome to the BloggingTips.com Complete Guide to Blogging, a 100% free course on everything you could possibly need to know about blogging and setting up your first WordPress driven web site. This guide is currently broken up in nine different chapters and a new sub-chapter goes live every day on the blog. If you click on a sub chapter below that is not working, it probably wasn’t published yet. Please check back often as we update daily. Chapter 1: Chapter 2: Chapter 3: Chapter 4: Chapter 5: Chapter 6: Write for Your Readers, Not for Search EnginesBuilding a Social Networking PresenceCreating a Facebook Fan Page & Twitter AccountCreate a Mailing List for Your BlogLink Building and Search Engine TrafficHow to Quickly Get Your Blog Indexed in Google Chapter 7: Google Adsense for BlogsEnter the World of Affiliate MarketingCreating Your Own Product Chapter 8: Outsource Your Blog WritingHiring a Virtual AssistantBuilding a Team Around Your BlogAutomate Your Blogging Tasks and Posts Chapter 9:
Best Free Content Curation Tools 2012 Content Curation has been on the upside lately, and while there are some who don’t think that it is an ethical form of “content creation”, there are those that think completely the opposite. Whichever side you choose to be, you should know that if you do decide to “curate content”, to always give credit to its original source and never copy an entire article even if you are linking back to its original author. That does not have anything to do with curation and may even be considered as stealing content. While I am at it, creating a list of useless links is also not regarded as curating content. Which side are you on? Do you favor “content curation” as an interesting approach of content creation/marketing, or are you totally against it? Curating content done properly, IMO has its positives. Be the best curator of meaningful contentFind the best information that others have written and posted online—the best articles, charts, tables, infographics, videos, or pictures. That’s it!
Writing & Blogging Prompts, Story Topic Generators, Photo Inspiration Writing : Creative Writing & Blogging Prompts Topic Starters, Picture Prompts, and Thought-Provoking Questions for You to Answer "The best learning comes in the doing, and writing from prompts engenders doing."— Judy Reeves Many writers and bloggers seek out articles, prompts, and story starters to get their creative juices flowing. We've also listed recommended resources outside of our domain featuring more free writing prompts, story starters, daily writing exercises, visual art prompts, and writing topic generators. Writing & Photo Prompts, Tools, & Generators on Creativity Portal "Novels, short stories, flash fictions, memoirs, personal narrative and creative nonfiction, even poetry — all have found publication from their start as writing prompts." — Judy Reeves Take Ten for Writers Exercises Get creative with these exercises from Bonnie Neubauer's Take Ten for Writers! Brickstorming Your Legacy Brick What would you write on your legacy brick in 3 lines with 14 characters each?