Blogging + NaNoWriMo = Less Blogging

Nov 03

I am a man a few words.  Some of you may argue this point but I am sticking to it.  I don’t like to say something that I haven’t thought through which usually means that I am quiet about something but then, once I am done processing, it all comes out at once.  So I guess you could say that I am a man of few spoken words but many thoughts.  I think...

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The Wonderful World of Twitter

Jul 15

The Wonderful World of Twitter

I just wanted to give a quick plug to the (not so new, but new to me) service, Twitter.  I have had an account there for a while (brian_casey if you want to follow me) but I haven’t really used it much until recently. Before I was just using it to broadcast that I had a new blog post, but if you know anything about Twitter, it doesn’t really work well...

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Why I Blog

Jul 02

When I started this blog in early 2005 I had no idea that I would still be here writing.  Even though I have gone through times that I did not write much this blog has become very important to me.  Last night I was talking with my wife and parents about blogging and my mom mentioned that one of the bloggers she reads wrote a post about why they blog.  After...

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Posting Goals

Mar 05

I don’t know if you noticed last month or not, but February was my most posted in month ever.  I had set a goal for my self of posting five times a week (a total of twenty posts) and I did it.  I hope that the content didn’t suffer too much due to trying to churn out a post a day.  As I reviewed this goal I realized that it had a flaw in it.  I...

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6 Scources of Blogging Inspiration

Feb 26

Ideas are the key to blogging.  Without ideas there are no posts and there is no blog.  So in order to have a successful blog you must come up with many ideas to write about.  Each blogger must decide what a successful blog means to them.  Success might be a achieving a personal goal, having fun, or creating a blog that many people read.  No matter what...

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