It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers cannot spend all their time writing. Sometimes, they must market the writing they produce. For many writers, this is an uncomfortable task. They prefer writing to marketing. And there are many people who tell them that their most important task is to […]
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My 1000th Blog Post and Canadian Thanksgiving
I predicted in January of this year, on the tenth anniversary of this blog, that I would hit my 1000th post later in 2022. Well, here I am—WordPress tells me that this post is the thousandth. We are two days past the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday—the older cousin of the U.S. […]
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Tenth Anniversary of My Blog
I have hit the tenth anniversary of this blog. My first post was on January 17, 2012, on a WordPress.com blog I called Story & History: One writer’s journey through life and time. Five years later, in February 2017, I migrated to this site, TheresaHuppAuthor.com. I now use a WordPress.org […]
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Goals for 2021, Weekly Posts, and Hoping for a Better Year Ahead
Despite the awfulness of 2020, I got a lot accomplished. I wrote most of a novel, edited it, published it, and drafted another novel during NaNoWriMo. As the year ends, I’m about a quarter of the way through my first edit of this new work-in-progress—which will be my seventh novel. […]
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My First Post in Gutenberg
For those of you not familiar with WordPress, you probably don’t understand the title of this post. In late 2018, WordPress switched from its traditional (Classic Editor) interface to a new block-based interface that they named “Gutenberg.” But website owners and bloggers who didn’t want to make the switch could […]
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What Do I Have After Eight Years of Blogging?
I recently discovered that WordPress could show me how many words total I have written on this blog. From January 2012 when I began blogging through 2019, I posted 502,077 words. That’s five good-sized novels. Before I published my first novel, I was told at writing conferences to build an […]
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My 750th Post and an Update on Early Guest Bloggers
I was surprised to get a notice from WordPress.com recently congratulating me on my 9th anniversary on the site. I guess I did register with them back in 2010, though the first blog I kept was anonymous, and has since been taken off public view. I started my current blog […]
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Oversharing on Social Media: Where Do You Land?
I have family and friends who span the spectrum in their usage of social media. Some people post several times a day, while others refuse even to have a Facebook or Instagram or Twitter account. They might deign to have a LinkedIn account, but only because their professional contacts demand […]
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The Fun Part of Writing: Meeting Readers . . . So Come Say Hello
One issue every writer must address is how much time to spend marketing as opposed to writing. At first, of course, it is most important to produce a high-quality book and get it published. Once a writer has published a book, however, marketing begins to take more time. Some of […]
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I’m Back!
The reason I took most of July off from blogging is that I’ve been traveling a lot in the last couple of months. First a trip to the Los Angeles area in June, and then a cruise on the Baltic Sea during the first half of July. I couldn’t write […]
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