There ought to be a law...Since I joined WA back in January 2017, the "loss of interest" breaks I've taken seem to always be more frequent and lengthy than the stretches of time I spend making progress here at WA and on my websites. There oughta be a law that says when an aspiring writer gets into a mental funk, the Good Attitude fairies will get together with the Muses to fix the afflicted writer's broken mind plumbing so he can get his lazy ass back to work!This latest break has lasted since

Whoa! Look at all the cobwebs on my WA page!Wow. When I take a break from something, I REALLY take a break! Just look at the orders of magnitude that my rank has plummeted.I've effectively vanished from WA for the last three months or so. No excuses. I simply lost interest. There are likely multiple icky psychological reasons as to WHY I lost interest, but there you have it.Now, I've come full circle (again). Yes, this has happened multiple times over the last several years.The environment at m

I've noticed that many of my fellow WA denizens have a somewhat tense relationship with informal writing, or writing in a conversational tone. I'm here to tell you to relax. Kick your shoes off and have a chat with your reader as if you're catching up over coffee.More quickly establish a rapport with the readerPeople tend to warm up to a writer who communicates with a conversational writing style than they will to a stiff and formal approach. As counterintuitive as it seems, a more relaxed deli

I suppose I shouldn't obsess so much about how much money I'm saving by going yearly. I should just be happy that by removing that monthly payment stress, I can redirect that surplus emotional energy to my websites. But damn! That's over 200 bones I can use for something else that's equally important... like beer! :-)Okay, now that I've overcome the resistance and did it, it's time to get to work on those beers. ... I mean websites!