Welcome to the March 2, 2009 edition of writing success blog carnival. I’m constantly amazed by the number of submissions we receive and am glad to present another list of incredible blog posts this month. Sadly, we did receive a number of completely irrelevant/spam submissions this month and I did have to remove them, but I’m glad to present some old and new contributors. Thanks again for another great month!
Viraj Sawant presents Skills to develop for successful online business posted at New-web-business.com, saying, “Skills to develop for successful online business”
JHSEsq presents Your Online Writing Life: Protect Your Reputation — and Future (Part One) | Colloquium posted at Colloquium, saying, “A six-part series discussing the ways in which bloggers need to be cautious online in order to assure that they do not engage in behavior that can have long-lasting negative impacts on their real lives and careers.”
Burak Bilgin presents Write Your Personal History posted at Distiller’s Corner, saying, “As humans, we forget things, and events repeat themselves. Remembering and drawing conclusions from your history will help you being more prepared for your future. It will make your life more meaningful and valuable.”
JHSEsq presents Connected Lives posted at Colloquium, saying, “A six-part series exploring the way in which the quality of writers’ lives has changed in relationship to and as a result of technology. Are we better writers now than we were before we had so much technology available to us?”
Amanda CMJ presents Want to Blog Like a Pro? Hang with Em posted at Yield To Pedestrian: All the Cool, All the Time, saying, “Thanks for the chance to participate!”
Janice Campbell of the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors presents The Future of Fiction- Alan Cheuse and Joshua Kendall posted at NAIWE NewsWire, saying, “Do you want to know what’s in the future of fiction? Enjoy notes from a discussion about “The Future of Fiction” hosted by the James River Writers, NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse and Viking/Penguin editor offer words of wisdom to writers.”
DebbieDragon presents Win a House in Hawaii Essay Contest posted at Empowering Mom.
Peter Jones presents Bauu Institute and Press: The Nine Biggest Reasons Most First-Time Writers Fail to Become Published Authors posted at Bauu Institute and Press.
Tisha Tolar presents Work at Home Discipline: Find Some posted at Empowering Mom.
DebbieDragon presents Things to Think About When Setting Your Prices posted at Freelance Sprout.
Tiffany Colter presents Craft posted at Writing Career Coach, saying, “Find out how to turn weaknesses in your craft into strengths!”
Thursday Bram presents Print Writers Scared of Social Media? posted at Hyper Modern Writing, saying, “Social media is becoming a major part of writing, but not all writers are ready for it.”
Tiffany Colter presents Making money when the magazines aren’t buying posted at Writing Career Coach, saying, “How do you make money writing when magazines aren’t buying? This blog will tell you how.”
Thursday Bram presents Google Alerts: A Writer’s Shortcut posted at thursdaybram.com.
Donald Latumahina presents A Simple Tip for Finding Good Ideas posted at Life Optimizer.
Thursday Bram presents Writing Skills: Where does HTML fall? posted at Hyper Modern Writing, saying, “More and more freelance writers are getting ahead by knowing a little more about HTML.”
Thursday Bram presents Interview: Darrell Laurant posted at thursdaybram.com.
Charles Chua C K presents Article Writing - 7 Areas to Take Note posted at All About Living with Life.
Thursday Bram presents Teenage Freelancers: I?m In Favor posted at thursdaybram.com.
OrnaRoss presents F-R-E-E-Writing posted at Orna Ross, saying, “FREE Writing and its benefits”
Burak Bilgin presents 7 Tips to Beat Writer’s Block posted at Distiller’s Corner, saying, “Tips to write a decent stream of texts that are worth the attention of your readers”
Jim DeSantis presents The Complete Article Marketing Home Study Course! posted at Gifts From Jim DeSantis, saying, “Here is a detailed Article Marketing Course all in one Free eBook.
This takes you from start-to-finish and gives you the things you
absolutely must know about making money through article writing,
even if you hate writing or don’t know an adjective from a verb.
Plus, you get a ton of free Resources to jump start article marketing
for profit.”
Steph White presents Writing Articles Quickly and Effortlessly… posted at The Smart Marketer’s Article Writing Success Guide, saying, “Laser-targeted, quality traffic is the lifeblood of any website or blog. There are many free techniques to drive visitors your way, but none more successful, than writing articles and submitting them to article directories and ezines. You may be thinking ‘I can’t write’, ‘my grammar is terrible’ or maybe English isn’t even your first language…
I’m about to reveal how anyone can quickly and effortlessly learn the art of writing articles, and by allowing them to be republished, watch your traffic explode!”
Viraj Sawant presents How to do an Email interview posted at New-web-business.com, saying, “How to conduct and feature an email Interview and provide value to your blog readers.”
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Facebook Face Off? posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.
George L Smyth presents One Minute How-To - How To Avoid Defaming Anyone In Your Writing posted at George L Smyth, saying, “Joy Butler explains how you can protect yourself from defamation lawsuits that may result through your writing.”
Kathryn presents Hundreds Of Resources for Writers posted at Real Words, saying, “Review of a website that has loads of resources for writers.”
debt kid presents How to Greatly Improve Your Blog posted at DebtKid.
DebbieDragon presents Freelance Writers Starting Out Without a Portfolio posted at Freelance Sprout.
Raily Arena presents Make Money Online with Blogging posted at Make Money Easy Online.
Thursday Bram presents 5 Things Every Writer Needs On Her Website posted at thursdaybram.com.
Thursday Bram presents Automate Job Listings: It’s All About RSS posted at thursdaybram.com.
Traci Hayner Vanover presents Developing Your Squid Strategy: Niche Marketing on Squidoo posted at Squidoo Flipping - Design Squidoo Lenses - Increase Traffic & Reputation with Squidoo, saying, “Squidoo offers writers a unique platform to showcase their knowledge within a specific niche, promote their main website or blog, promote their book or ebook, etc. It is a great free tool that all writers should consider using.”
Cathy Stucker presents Writer’s Block - Is it Real? posted at Cathy Stucker, saying, “Professional writers and bloggers can not afford writer’s block. Here is what you can do to break through writer’s block and start writing.”
That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of writing success blog carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
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