brushstrokesandshutterclicks said: I really like your new-look website Alex. It’s clear, and honest and friendly. Much like yourself. You should invite other people to contribute towards your “About me” page! 🙂 Thank you! That means a lot, especially come from you. 🙂 I have tried to make the site easily Read more…
Expect to see a few changes around here over the last few months of this year. I had thought of leaving this until next year, but I want to make the site quicker to load and easier to navigate as I start to add material to some new sections. In Read more…
I have fallen into bad ways. Oddly bad ways. Lately I’ve been blogging away merrily, knocking out drafts and edits aplenty but, for some weird reason, I have not actually managed to post them here. Instead they languish in “Unpublished Blog Pieces” in the Scrivener project I use to craft Read more…
Find your niche, they say, then make it yours! (They often say this with an exclamation point!)!! (Deliberate over-punctuation there, sorry.) What’s your Unique Selling Point (USP)? (And, yes, I did put ‘an’ before USP in the title — I thought it worked better than ‘a’.)
This is, actually, very good advice for the blogger — and, in some ways, for the writer in general. It is important to know where to sit, how to connect with “your people”, or “your tribe” (see Alastair Humphreys’s advice for travel bloggers here, for some very good points and discussion).
However, I have a problem with this. I have no idea what my niche is…
I want to blog about all those things that make me, me. I want to talk about things I love and love what I talk about — otherwise, what’s the point? (more…)
As you may have gathered, the last post is a cross-post from my blog/website. No idea why the top picture appears twice here – I’ll look into this. I do intend to put other things here on tumblr, as well as posting the content I share elsewhere, and that will Read more…
I will expand on this note in the future, but for now this should suffice. Some years ago I made a decision to step back from social media. The reasons behind this will be one of the things I’ll talk about later. Yet even this statement is problematic, although I Read more…