What’s your biggest accomplishment with your blog that makes you feel very proud? Simonne from AllTipsAndTricks is hosting a group writing project where she asks this very question: “What is your best blogging achievement?”
For some bloggers the answer may lay in the amount of money they managed to earn with their blog, or the number […]
There are a few off topic questions that I’d like to talk about today.
How personal one can or should get on non-personal blogs?
Should an off topic post be integrated with the blog’s theme and made relevant?
Should there be an apology for the lack of time or energy to write?
What do you personally think of Off […]
I’ve always been a big fan of science fiction stories. For several years during and after high school I was primarily reading only sci-fi books. My favourite authors were the ones who masterly blended science fiction with psychology, the ones whose writings carried not only prophetic but also subliminal messages.
Kurt Vonnegut is one of […]
What happens to us when we get inspired? Why do we seek inspiration? Should we better leave it up to the muse to find us, or should we open our eyes wide and ears sharp not to miss a glimpse of inspiration that surrounds us in most unusual or ordinary places?
Is it true that it’s […]
When a long time ago I read a story by Saki, I wondered whether the author had Persian roots. As it turned out, Saki is a pseudoname of the nineteenth century British writer Hector Hugh Munro. But I was right about the origins of his pen name that Munro adopted from one of the characters […]
Nowadays you don’t have to be a graphic designer to have a need in manipulating images. Whether you have a website, or a blog to upload images to you, at least, need a quick way to resize the images to fit your site’s layout. But not everyone can afford or know how to work with […]
If you are like me, you like time traveling. I often wish Time Machine did actually exist. I would’ve transferred myself to Arles in 1888, shook Van Gogh’s hand and bought his painting Sunflowers, then I would’ve paid him another visit in 1889 at the hospital in Saint Rémy de Provence and bought his “Starry […]
After featuring last week one of the stories by O.Henry, who was called “the American answer to Guy de Maupassant” it’s only natural to showcase a story by the famous French short story writer and novelist, whose work influenced many other writers, like Anton Chekhov, W. Somerset Maugham. One of Maupassant’s horror stories, The […]
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