Blogs Versus Journals and Diaries - How to Choose What Is Best For You

Keeping a blog or journal may seem ambiguous to some, but each has a very unique purpose and design. Learn which one will better benefit your goals in writing about your life.

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
Mark Twain

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  • If you run your own blog, then there are certain things you should avoid. This list of five things bloggers shouldn't do will help you avoid some sticky situations.
  • Writing children's books is one of the best careers there is, but a lot of aspiring writers don't know how to get started. First off you want to learn to write appropriately for your chosen audience and make it appealing to publishers. There are many publishing tips that can help unpublished writers greatly improve their chances of publishing children's books.
  • Book editing services know how to proofread and prepare your documents so that it meets you and your publisher's specific requirements. Packages for editing books do not include altering word choices and restructuring sentences. Book editors track the changes they make on your documents especially language usage and sentence structure corrections to make sure you agree with the changes and assure you the tone and voice remain the same.
  • One hears about Horatio Alger stories in school, but I don't know of anyone who has actually read one. Going into a stint of reading in American literature from 1870 to 1920, especially focused on realism and naturalism, I decided to also include a couple of pieces of popular literature from the period as well in order to get a feel for how realism compares.Ragged Dick is the name of the book's hero. He's a shoeshine boy (a boot-black, as the novel calls such). At the start, he's an honest chap who likes a good joke and who spends all of his earnings on shows and drinks each night. At some...
  • A Mountain of CrumbsBy Elena Gorokhova Simon & Schuster320 pp.; $34The title of Elena Gorokhova's new memoir about growing up in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and '70s, comes from a game her grandmother invented to hide the fact that she had almost no food to put on the table. She'd break up a slice of black bread and a cube of sugar on a plate and say to the crying child: "Look at how much you've got. A whole mountain of crumbs." Gorokhova's book is a slight -- not quite a whole meal -- but endearing collection of well-sculpted memories about the...

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Fast fact about writing

Writing was developed independently in Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, and among the Maya in Central America. There are some areas where the question as to whether writing was adopted or independently developed is in doubt, as at Easter Island.