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Google Searches that Brought Me Readers – Mean Poems to say to Enemies

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One of the informative and sometimes hilarious aspects of writing on WordPress is that you get to see how people stumbled on your blog. I get a lot of search-engine hits from people (no clue who they are) looking for tips on how to get their toddlers to eat well – apparently my veggie post is racking up some hits. I also get quite a few on learning to write, although I’m sad to see that not all of them are looking for what I have said. Too bad I couldn’t… Read more Google Searches that Brought Me Readers – Mean Poems to say to Enemies →

How We Learn How To Write

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Even though my own education was self-directed and patchy, I do have very pretty ideas about how people learn to write.  I am presently taking a distance writing class and I had a course or two at college. What I find is that those kinds of sources have a limited but very important function. Their limitation is that they will give you fairly generalized instruction, but the benefit is that someone is going to see what you write and point out exactly where you deviate from that instruction. (Hopefully you gain the ability to… Read more How We Learn How To Write →