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Three Great Ideas for Writers

Lovely, luscious readers, tonight I have three, count them, three great, sensational, momentus ideas for you! Can you tell I'm kind of enthusiastic tonight? !! Too much coffee I fear. But it was GOOD coffee!

Anyway, idea number one. Next time you need to write a short bio for yourself pick up a magazine. Have you ever read the bios they print for the contributing writers. Well, you don't know what you've been missing. Of course, not all of them are as magnificent as your own will be. But, they give you a great vantage point to start your own. You can even collect the best of the best contributers bios in a file and use them to keep yours even better by comparison.

OK, now you're revved up for idea number two. Who can blame you. I'm so revved up a this point I may never need to sleep at all tonight. Wouldn't that be nice. Think of all I could get DONE.

You will be thanking me for sharing these words of wisdom with you for many moons to come. Basically, use the space/ line for 'subject' in your emails. Use it, use it wisely, cautiously and smartly. Don't be a knob and type in 'hi'. What do you think happens to any email which looks like spam? Right! It gets the quick flush. Your email will not be read if you leave an ambiguous subject line or, worse, if you completely forget to add one at all. Don't be an email loser, make good use of the subject line and warn others to do the same. That way people won't be asking you why you never read their email. Unless of course, they only send those forwarded joke emails that you never actually do read. Who can blame you?!! For yourself you will now heed this grand advice and never again darken your email subject line with useless, unclear drivel. Instead, go forth and type in clear, concise and clever subject lines to alert your readers just who you are and why they should not randomly delete your very important email as spam.

Thirdly, well, the third idea is not so important and useful to anyone but me really. I have become pretty slack with HerCorner, my site for writers with the HerPlanet network. You may not have noticed, especially if you never knew about HerCorner. Anyway, HerPlanet is being sold to a bigger company and things will be percolating there. We may even get paid for the sites we run through the network. So, if you are a freelance type writer and want to make a site about your favourite hobby, fetish, art form, craftiness, etc. Consider HerPlanet and send an email to Dottie if you want to find out about the network. Visit http://www.herplanet.com for all the necessary contact information and to have a look around the network, of course.

So that's it for tonight. I suggest you all drink coffee and stay up with me. We can write about the moon, scribble odes to the moon or plan your great contribution to the Scribble Fest currently going on at BackWash. Did you read my own fictional story? It was fun to write but I think I messed it up a bit by going back over it and changing some things which I had written in the first burst of inspiration. Sometimes those brilliant bursts of greatness should not be messed with.

Take care and have great burst of brilliance yourself. Write on.