National Young Writers Award

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Budding young writers get their pens at the ready as this year’s National Young Writers’ Award is set to return – bigger than ever before. The competition, which is now in its fifth year, will be judged by best-selling author, Cressida Cowell, writer of the world famous How To Train Your Dragon series, which inspired [...]

Common Sense Writing for Blogs

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  When I visit websites I am considering using I find that a simple error in the written content can be extremely off putting. One mistake in a blog post I can overlook, after all we are all victim to the missed typo from time to time. The problem kicks in for me when there [...]

6 tips to encourage your blog visitors to stay

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We all love like the feeling when we see our blog has visitors, it makes it all worth while at times, but we need to encourage visitors to stay with us. There is nothing more disheartening than flogging your guts out over writing a post that you publish and nothing. So when those visitors do come calling, we [...]

Top 6 tips to prevent writers block

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      Do you ever sit down to write a blog post to find ten minutes later your still sat there staring at that black white screen? What do you do? Give up blogging for the day?

A personal letter of thanks

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A personal letter of thanks I received. This is for you Emma, a kind of personal message from me to you. As you may remember I misc three weeks ago at ten weeks. I posted on your wall leading up to the scan and all the ladies were so kind and helpful. Afterwards when I made it known about the outcome and [...]

What you must do to make your blog a success

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I have been blogging for about 5 months now, 4 months actively as I took a month out when I got married and moved home. I have learned so many things over the last few months, but the one that stands out is how hard blogging really is.