Here is what I'm working with, so far. http://www.hercorner.com/index2.shtml There are a few things missing. You can see the before and after by looking at the old page which is up at http://www.hercorner.com/

The new template will make navigation and the overall look of the site so much better. But, things are slow at HerPlanet now. The owner of the network is having a baby and it's a bit of a risky pregancy. So everything has slowed down. It's a shame cause websites really need to keep building momentum if they are to grow and survive. I really think HerPlanet could be one of the best community/ networks out there but it's tough to get all the wheels spinning fast enough and well enough at the same time

Anyway, that's what I've been doing tonight. I also wrote the latest WordCraft newsletter at BackWash. I wish we could write several of them ahead. At times I just feel in the right mood to blab away forever. Other times I have to kick start myself. Of course, it depends on the topic too.

I thought I would write about writing erotica for the Adult BackWash column I write. That will be a challenge. I don't consider myself an expert at all. But, I'm not completely inexperienced. So, that will have to do. Plus, I'll read what is out there by those who are also experienced. Experienced writing erotica... get your mind out of the gutter!

I wish Live Journal was more like a blog. It's so nice to have HTML formatting for your links. I guess here you have to manually type in all your HTML. I'm not quite that geek orientated. I'll just type in the URL instead. After all, this is supposed to be fun, relaxing and goofing off time. I get paid when I work.

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agingyoungrebel

For what it's worth, I like the new look of HerCorner: it's very clear and nicely sober. Also, I think you're doing fine with your adult columns, I always enjoy them (and NO, I didn't have my mind in the gutter, not THIS time, anyway).

You can have HTML-formatting and such on LiveJournal. Just download one of the clients on the download page. Myself, for my entries, I use Semagic, from the Windows downloads.

Zen has tried most of the clients, so he might be able to give you more extensive info.

I've been missing my blog, being able to post all my raggedy thoughts and links. So here I am.

Now, of course, I have nothing to post really. But, as an introduction...

I'm a freelance writer. I write columns for BackWash, online. If you're dying of curiousity, or just addicted to URLs (I am) you can visit BackWash here: http://www.backwash.com/

I have a site for writers: http://www.hercorner.com/

That's a start. If you know me you can list yourself as a Friend. If that's how it works here. I'm still fumbling and wandering around.

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agingyoungrebel

Of course I added you as a friend! You are a friend, after all...

First of all, I'm going to change the name of this newsletter. My personal Pagan-ness is that of Witch and Wiccan. So, as they say, write what you know. That doesn't mean this will become a guide to spells for turning people into frogs, etc. Of course not, I don't even dignify that with an answer. I hope to find ideas and links that will interest people with a range broader than Witchery. I think we should have enough range to keep up with any new ideas, agreeing with them doesn't matter. You don't have to agree with everything you read you just have to keep reading and forming opinions as you go.

Anyway, that's the news for the newsletter. I've been an irregular publisher lately. A lot of things are happening at once for me. But, if you miss me you can always let me know on the Pagan messageboards at BackWash. If you have a site to promote submit the link to BackWash or just email it to me. (My email should be back up soon, I was hoping this week but no sign of life yet).

That's about it for now. Kind of short, no revolutionary ideas or anything of huge interest this time. Take care,

Laura

Have you got the correct linkage?

I'm reading The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood. Among the things worth noting is using your linkage on a website. It's not enough to display links to other sites. What you need to do is click on your own links. That way the webmasters will see you and know you are linking to them. Otherwise they won't know you have links to them unless they stumble across you eventually.

So, if you have a blog and have links down your sidebar or in the blog itself, click them. Go to the sites and get yourself noticed. You'll show up as a referrer site in their web stats.

Not a long newsletter tonight. I'm behind and just didn't want anyone thinking I stopped sending the newsletter all together. Send me a note sometime. Does the newsletter help you, encourage you to keep writing? Let me know what works and what's just filling up space.

Originally posted to Adult BackWash: Monday June 23, 2003

Sex blogs are getting popular, or at least with people who have an interest in reading or writing about sex. This is sort of a sex blog. Not entirely since, for one thing, I'm not having any to write about. For another thing I don't update as often as the blog purists would say is necessary. Anyway, I still don't see myself being a sex blogger. It would be strange to write about my body parts and what I did with them for mass public consumption. It sounds almost pornographic!

For me, wallflower that I am, this is more than enough. It's not easy pulling out some idea worthy of Adult BackWash once a week. Who really feels that absorbed with sex? Not me.

I do think someone who would write a sex blog and keep it updated must have quite a huge preoccupation with sex and sex stuff. Maybe you think it would be easy to write a sex blog cause you think about sex all the time. But, try it.

Anyway, it's interesting to see who writes them. I like to read about the people behind the blogs. What led them to writing a sex blog, what do they get out of it and mostly, what keeps them going.

At least it is a step up from being a phone sex 'actress', at least as I see it. Sex bloggers can set their own hours, be less available physically and emotionally to their customers/ readers. That is an important difference. Pretty much the main reason I can't see myself becoming a phone sex person even though the money would be pretty great if not highly tempting. But, I don't want to have to listen to some guy jerking off and then hanging up on me when he's done. I want to be an important part of the whole process not just some handy tool.

So, the diva in me rises again. No wonder the part of sex blogging that most appeals to me is the fame. Maybe not the fame I always saw for myself when I was growing up, but fame none the less.

Anyway, if I ever do get a sex life again, I'll slip in a few details, a few interesting tidbits, just enough to whet your whistle and keep you wondering if I really did any of that or am I just another wallflower making it all up as I go along. You'll never really know will you. Hopefully I will.