by Barrie Davenport | Mar 9, 2011 | Tips, Become a Top Blogger
By definition, writers are passionate creatures. Your days are spent huddled over a keyboard, tap tap tapping out portions of your soul and nuggets of your imagination. If you don’t truly love writing, it is darn near impossible to be a good writer. As writers,...
by Barrie Davenport | Jun 21, 2010 | Become a Top Blogger
A guest post by Barrie Davenport of Live Bold and Bloom Next to Chris Guillebeau’s photo in the “about” section of his blog, The Art of Non-Conformity, is the unabashedly bold statement– “Challenging authority since 1978.” We...
by Barrie Davenport | Jun 14, 2010 | Become a Top Blogger
A guest post by Barrie Davenport. When I first stumbled upon Leo Babauta’s blog, Zen Habits, and saw that he had over 150,000 subscribers (he has many more now), I thought he must be a celebrity or some well-known somebody who has done something really big. I...
by Barrie Davenport | May 22, 2010 | Become a Top Blogger, Fiction, Tips
As a writer, you have likely experienced various levels of intensity and pleasure in the process of working on your craft. There’s writing when you are just slopping words on paper. And there’s writing that is slow and laborious and painfully tedious. But...
by Barrie Davenport | Apr 9, 2010 | Become a Top Blogger, Tips
Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne Why do you write? If you are a writer, it’s an important question...