Tag: blogging

  • At least two weird analogies about drafting and early revision

    I’m currently writing a series of essays for The ADHD Homestead. They’ve provided a case in point for why I stopped numbering these series in advance. I may have thought I knew how many posts this would turn out to be, but Post #1 has already become three posts. So that’s how that’s going. The…

  • My editing process: blog post opening

    I occasionally share tidbits of my writing process with my Patreon crew, but today’s share felt like a blog post. So here we are! I’m going to show a little window into my blogging process. Many of my posts here are casual and off-the-cuff. Not so with my ADHD Homestead blog. Every ADHD Homestead post…

  • My newly ad-free online platform, almost five months in

    [click_to_tweet tweet=”You can get ad revenue from a viral blog post, but that money means nothing tomorrow. It doesn’t predict who will return to your site, sign up for your email list, or buy your next book. All it tells you is you wrote one good headline. #authorplatform” quote=”You can get ad revenue from a…

  • Why do people like me? And other questions to guide my writing platform

    Psst: this post contains affiliate links because I mention a few books. Clicking on them will help support my writing but as you’ll see, I’m not exactly trying to sell anything here 😉 As I start the new year with several writing successes under my belt, I’ve been turning a question over in my mind:…

  • Business Diaries #3: Taking The ADHD Homestead Ad-Free

    At the beginning of 2019 I mentioned wanting to take The ADHD Homestead ad-free. Since then I’ve done a lot of thinking about how ads fit into my business, both financially and philosophically. And I’ve concluded that they don’t. It’s easy for bloggers to think we should or even have to include ads. We don’t.…