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My Writing Life–A Blog Tour About Writing

May 2, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 18 Comments

We gave our son, who is a rock climber, a Go Pro for his 27th birthday. If you are not familiar…it is a small movie camera that one can strap to their head, dashboard, bike–whatever–and it, the Go Pro, will then film what’s happening in the moment. But when my husband, Jimmy, mentioned to our […]

Filed Under: Blog Lessons Tagged With: Blog Hop, The Writing Process, Writers

The Blog: Perspective Day 12

Feb 12, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal Leave a Comment

As if it were yesterday, I remember launching my first website. It went “live” and then everything that was wrong with the copy became obvious. Glaring typos. Run-on sentences. Tense errors. Oh my. My brother John was visiting. We sat side by side in front of my computer and smoothed out all of the grammatical […]

Filed Under: Blog Lessons Tagged With: blogging lessons, Women, Writing

Missing the Mark: Unraveling a Convoluted Blog Post

Nov 22, 2013 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 16 Comments

Have you ever sent a message that was completely misconstrued? Well I have. It happened yesterday. After  I re-read my words this morning three things occurred to me: 1. There are three, if not four, blogs inside of one. 2. I was emotionally charged 3. I shouldn’t have hit publish. What’s done is done. Or […]

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