Barely Caught
Donald broke into a run.
“Hey! Stop!†he shouted as he gave up.
“Blast!†he yelled.
He stood watching his departing car.
He looked around.
The beach was deserted.
He wrapped the towel firmly around his waist.
“Serves me right,†he grumbled, “for leaving the keys in the car. Last time I go skinny dipping.â€
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Copyright 2006 Trevor W. Hampel
A long white arrow
Ponderously flying up
River in slow motion.
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Copyright 2006 Trevor W. Hampel
I love creating new stories, articles, poems and blog entries. What I don’t enjoy is proofreading them afterwards. I find it tedious. I sometimes even find it a tad boring. I know how the story ends. Or I want to get on with the next project.
Over the last six months I have written a total of over 500 articles on my three blogs. In that time I have learned of the importance of proofreading. When you write so much you must spend to time and effort on getting your writing as near to correct as you can given the time restraints. This has taught me the importance of rapid proofreading. I know I still miss things, small typos, missed words and so on. But I am getting better. With fewer mistakes. It takes effort – but it is still a little tedious.
Anne, on her blog The Golden Pencil has written a post about “How to Proofread Your Own Writing.” She has given some very good strategies on this topic.
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Sometimes I struggle to keep up with writing regularly on my three blogs, attending to my non-blogging writing, reading my emails, doing research on the internet and remembering to have a life. Oh – and do the gardening too.
It was in that context that I identified with Tammy on her Jewelry and Beading post called “Become a Blogging Maniac“. She describes her demanding writing schedule, writing four blogs, magazine articles, writing books, working part-time.
Tammy explains some helpful hints in her article on the following topics:
She makes some very valuable points.
Neil Patel over at his Pronet Advertising blog has posted an interesting article called 5 Ways to Building a Better Blog.
Neil highlights the importance of writing quality content on your blog. He also emphasises the need to look after readers of you blog.
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