As a professional writer, writing on a wide variety of topics, I posted this article and list of the my favorite articles that I wrote in 2005 on my other website, Lorelle on WordPress, and I thought I’d share it here. But before I do, I wanted to say that of the writing I’ve done on this site this year, I’m most proud of the Know Before You Go series under the Planning for the Road category. Here are some highlights from the Know Before You Go series:
- Know Before You Go
- Know Before You Go: VAT Refunds
- Know Before You Go: Where Am I? Using GPS
- Space Tech Tips for Travelers
- Know Before You Go: Travel Rumors
- Know Before You Go: Translate Web Pages
- Know Before You Go: Keep Current – Power on the Road
- Know Before You Go: Research and Planning
- Know Before You Go: Links
- Know Before You Go: Weather Information and Resources
- Know Before You Go: Travelers Tracking Terrorist Alerts
- Know Before You Go: Tornado and Severe Weather Information
- Know Before You Go: Is It Safe?
- Know Before You Go: Staying in Touch While Traveling
- Know Before You Go: Health Shots, Travelers Medical and Travel Insurance
- City Blogs for Travelers
- Travelers Benefit from the Race for Aerial Maps
- Know Before You Go: Paperwork
- Enter the Modern Honey Bucket
- New Airport Security Portal
- Know Before You Go: Storage Online
- Know Before You Go: WIFI in Flight Under Attack by FBI
- Know Before You Go: House Sitters and House Traders
- Know Before You Go: What Do You Want to Know Before You Go?
- Know Before You Go: Packing One Bag
- Know Before You Go: Guides and Information for Frequent Flyers
- Know Before You Go: Airline Seat Maps
- Know Before You Go: Talking Online
- Unusual Gadgets for the Eccentric Traveler
- What You Need to Know About Bird Flu
- Worldwide Electricity Guide and Adapter Recommendations
- Finding Wireless Internet Connections
I know it’s blatant bragging, but I have never gotten blase about reading an article I wrote and finding it not only good but awesome. How can I explain this better?
See, I really don’t think that what I write is very important or even very interesting, though people tell me that it is all the time. And I get paid to write. Yes, I’m a paid writer. Still, I think my writing is mediocre. I just do what I do and live my passion to write on a daily basis. I live to write. I can write about anything, anytime and just about anywhere. But I don’t think my writing is that good.
Then I stumble across something I’ve written and read it as if it was the first time. I read it as if I didn’t write it. I think, “Wow, this is really great!” Then I remember that I wrote it and I’m impressed with myself. Actually, I’m not so impressed with myself as I am shocked that I actually created a good piece of writing that has some value. I giggle and then laugh, and tell my husband, who nods and just understands this strange thing I do to myself. Within a few hours, I’m paranoid and fretful that my writing sucks again, and my life returns to its normal insecurity.
Does this ever happen to you? I hope I’m not alone in this strange ritual of self-gloat and self-deprecation.
Anyway, while I’m in a moment of gloating, here is a list of some of the articles I’ve written recently on this blog that I’m especially proud of..that is at least until tomorrow. ;-)
- Can You Visualize the Web?
- What Are Keywords?
- Website Development – Keywords Help You Write Your Blog
- Website Development – Listing The Keywords Inside
- The Power of the Link
- How Search Engines See, Search, and Visit Your Website
- How People Search the Web and How They Can Find Your Blog
- 10 Things You Need to Know Before You Blog
- Blog Maintenance – Check For 404 Page Not Found Errors
- Website Development – What Needs to Be Done and How Much Does It Cost
- Site Optimization – Checking Loose Links
- Site Optimization: Optimizing Bandwidth and Cleaning Out the Code Closet
- Judging Blogs by their Post Content Styles
- Local Blogging Tour Guides – Cornfield Mazes, Cabins, Flying, Satellite Photos, and Landmarks
- Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Replaced by Sex, Drugs, and Mortgage Rates
- Instantly Translate Your Blog
- 30 Things You Can Do to Change the World in 30 Seconds
- What to do with your free wordpress.com blog
- Guinness World Book of Records and Other Blog Score Cards
- Comments on Comments
- Learning About Blogging and How to Blog
- Family Holiday Time – Would You Fix My Computer?
- Conquering Site Validation Errors
- Linkability – Link Popularity
- What is Comment Spam?
- How to Impress with WordPress
- Secret Out – How Google Ranks Websites
- Google Page Ranks, Google News, Google Gossip, Google Blues
- Blogging About Disabilities
- Designing A WordPress Theme From Scratch
- Designing A WordPress Theme – Building a Sandbox
- A Guide to the WordPress Codex, The Online Manual for WordPress Users
- Who The Hell Are You?
- Search and Replace in WordPress MySQL Database
- A Day in the Life of a Paranoid Website Administrator
- The Problems with Tags and Tagging
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Let’s just keep this our little secret, but I think I’m starting to develop an admiration for you! Going through this site is like stumbling through an eccentric granduncle’s attic–you just don’t imagine you’d find the things that you do.
PS. As for self-gloat and self-deprecation, I get that all the time. I sometimes get all narcissistic about particular passages I’d written months ago, then remind myself that just because I can write circles around most people doesn’t mean I’m anything compared to ‘actual’ writers :(
Well, circles around most people I know personally, at least.
Firas, don’t tell me you have a crush on me! You know that I lust for you. hee hee. At least I’m one of your biggest fans. Thanks for the sweet words, and don’t worry. I’ll be back in action in your neighborhood soon.
Hello Lorelle,
Sitting here with my cup of coffee at 9:15AM reading through your site. My wife and myslef just bought a camper, and now that the kids are grown (Kimmy last child to leave the nest last month) makes us FREE at last Thank God Almighty We Are Free at last.
My wife Stacey and i are looking too hit the open road next month for a cross country trip. I have never been to LA so off we go.
Hope to post some of our adventures at a latter date. But now back to my coffee and thanks for the great site.
Glen
You are welcome. Good luck.
it’s a good thing to know that you’re writings and other works are being published it’s inspiring and very educational. hope i can make one too. learning with you is fun.
i am trying to write something that i can be proud of someday…i know trying is not enough i must give my best in order to achieve my goal.
thanks for a great site.
Wonderful post however I was wanting to know if you could write a litte more on this
topic? I’d be very grateful if you could elaborate a little bit more.
Kudos!