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a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

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November 15, 2007

Top 5 Traffic Building Tips for Personal Bloggers

This is a guest-post by Skellie. She shares more practical blogging tips at Skelliewag.org. You will find more about Skellie at the end of this post. Personal bloggers often face a tall hurdle when looking for advice about building a better blog. Many of the tips and tricks advocated by those who blog about blogging… Continue reading

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March 30, 2006

Market Yourself!

If you were like I was, the first time I published a post to my blog, I kept looking at it over and over again. I beamed with pride at my first post, but later I started thinking that maybe I was the only one reading it – over and over again. Wasn’t the point… Continue reading

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

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Top 5 Traffic Building Tips for Personal Bloggers

Market Yourself!