Happy Holidays to all my readers!!!!!

I am going to start Probloggers "31 Days to Build a Better Blog" program today. So even though this is a fairly new blog expect to see changed happening in the next month. But not to worry, the changes will be good, and make you blog life easier.

I was going to start a new blog today and just use it to chronicle my progress using this system, but the blog network I joined is not easy to navigate and it is difficult to modify the blog itself. So I have emailed the person running the network and am waiting to hear back from him before I start posting links to it. So in the next week I will add a new link list to the right sidebar so you can follow more closely the changes I am going to be making here.

Evening Reading List

I was going to work on this mythic mystery scene review, but instead I got sucked into reading blog post and writing articles all evening. Now as the night descends on the Ozarks I will give you some links to things I have been reading and a few words on them...

• Writing to a quota: This article is on the amazing LA Writers Store. Most of thier seminars, and books are geared towards screenwriting since this is THE screenwriting store in Hollywood. This article covers a very important issue for all of us. Writing under pressure. If you have ever done any online content writing, or any sort of writing on a deadline then you are familiar with the feeling of panic and presssure that comes with that type of writing life. Well this article has a few good ideas about this "problem" and perhaps for some of is a solution.
  
• Blog Money: This blog post comes to us from Copyblogger and is a very good analysis of how to make money with a blog. It offered a real look at this format of writing and how in effects our income. This is a good article for people who want to make money with their blog. It pointed out a few good things I had not thought of. But I will let you read the article and find them out for yourself.
  
• Problogger Workbook: I am thinking about going through this workbook. I think I have a copy of it somewhere. I going to look in a few minutes and if not I will buy a copy ASAP. If I decide to do this program than you will hopefully see this blog transform. I think I will out this workbook on my Xmas reading list.

Well now you see what I have been up to this evening. I am going to watch a hour of My Name is Earl and look for that workbook on my computer. I will post back here later with the review hopefully.

Mid-evening Rant

Mid-evening rant-- I am watching reruns of House and now Lie To me... both great shows that everyone should watch.

I was cruising around the web looking for other great blogs and found (or should I say re-discovered) two that I had forgotten about Problogger and Copyblogger. I used to read both of them in the past six months, but had put them out of my mind for some reason. now with this new blog and trying to make it as a copywriter or better yet copyblogger than I should read both of them religiously.

Going to spend some time tonight and in the next few days reading the past month of blog posts on both of these blogs.

Problogger also has a great blogger job board that I need to keep an eye on. I applied to one of the jobs, it was a compnay needing a travel blogger. Seeing how I spent almost a year backpacking around the country I know I can pull that off. So I think also in the next few days I will be posting an overview of my 6 months of travel last year.

I am going to go check on this pizza in the oven and get back to the TV and reading blog post. I will post again here later on this evening. Still have to make the review post about Mystery Scene.