One of my top goals when I returned from my vacation was to crack open this book and take a shot at building my first WordPress theme. I tried to follow the author’s step-by-step instructions but got totally confused and frustrated. This section is not for the complete WordPress novice, especially if they don’t know [...] Read more »
Is Your Blog Worth Blooking?
Karen wrote a great post, entitled Delving into the Past of a Blogger which has stuck with me since I read it last month. I have to admit that I haven’t revisited my old posts. I’m not sure why, either. But Karen’s post got me thinking about this enough to look at my Dashboard. This [...] Read more »
God’s Last Twilight: My First Blook
I came up with this story when I was trying to understand the character of Bud Nettleton and the ghosts of Prosperity. Bud is the town outcast who holds the secrets of Prosperity’s past. His mother, Myra, had an obsession with the minister of the town during that time. Her diaries and scrapbooks chronicle her [...] Read more »
Two New Must-Have WordPress Books
Lorelle VanFossen has written a concise how-to book, covering every aspect of WordPress and how you can use it to create and build an outstanding blog. I read a third of this book before I began jumping to the sections that I needed to learn about or brush up on. Some tips I found useful [...] Read more »
Writing, Editing, and Site Hiccups
Last weekend, I found myself immersed in editing, rewriting and writing. I edited almost two chapters for Prosperity. The writing “groove” followed me into the week, onto other projects, such as the Lulu blog. I’ll be posting on that site once or twice a week. I had planned to post another article last night, when [...] Read more »
Horror Theme
I was looking for a new theme for The Writers Buzz when I happened to stumble upon this one. At first glance, I thought I was looking at a bunch of flames. Then I took a closer look and saw the skull and then the people in the background and inside the flames. Every time [...] Read more »
The Dark Room
I’ve added a new link category as well as a very interesting blog on the subject of horror writing and writers. Guy Adams, the author of The Dark Room, is a published author and Senior Editor of Humdrumming Publishers. For those of you who are interested in this genre (thinking of you, Ben and Fred), [...] Read more »
WordPress 2.1 has Launched
Aaron Brazell has written a great post called 10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.1, which explains the bells and whistles of the latest release of WordPress. I think everyone should read this article, along with Lorelle’s Fear Not WordPress 2.1 and WordPress Plugins before they upgrade. I’m glad to see that they’ve made [...] Read more »
WordPress Contact Form with Spam Protection
Over the past several weeks, my “contact me “form has been attacked by spammers. As I was writing yesterday, my email notifier kept bonging at me whenever these bots would send me their crap. I finally got sick of it and looked on the WordPress Plugin site, where I found the plugin below. It requires [...] Read more »
I’ve Been Interviewed
This is an excerpt of an interview of me, given by Laura Spencer, who writes for Associated Content. I’ve given interviews of other writers for The Buzz in the past, but this was the first time I’ve ever been interviewed. Deborah Woehr’s popular blog, The Writers Buzz, highlights the work of new authors by posting [...] Read more »