What did you blog about today?

My little blog is going a little nuts right now. I'm going to be doing a series of blogs on Named Person as the government seems determined to continue with the disaster of a scheme. I've been involved with it for a number of years, written complaint letters for myself and others and doing a variety of anonymous interviews. This was long before most people were even aware of it (despite it being in operation in several local authorities) We're hoping this will give opponents an outlet that is not the Daily Mail:
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS UNDER THREAT IN SCOTLAND

We need the Christian Institute and I'm very grateful to them for what they've done in providing the finances for the court case but I get frustrated with their angle as it focuses on the rights of the family to privacy rather than the erosion of children's rights. There are areas in England where similar schemes and the data gathering aspects are also being trialled. The Isle of Man has already tried one and it was a disaster.
 
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Juliana said:
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Anya, you've been so busy! I have absolute admiration for your multiple blogging arenas. I can barely keep up with one! :ROFLMAO:
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To be fair I'm cheating a bit. Mayhem's already been written so just needs a quick edit and Best Possible Taste is a sit-com series so I just turn the script into prose.

However the Named Person posts seem to be gaining legs and there are a lot of them to be written. So much for my third blog being a bit of lighthearted silliness. I'm a bit nervous because I'm branching into what could be serious journalism and I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm braced for a backlash. The SNP and council chiefs are going to look a bit silly if they accuse me of homophobia given the rest of the blog though ;)
 
Beta-reading or editing notes can be really good, or surprising [I made a couple of changes to Kingdom Asunder which really sharpened up those parts. Can be interesting having a beta-reader who has a different style or usually reads other genres]. Hope Heart Blade sells bucketloads. Your cover artist looks very talented :)
 
AnyaKimlin said:
To be fair I'm cheating a bit. Mayhem's already been written so just needs a quick edit and Best Possible Taste is a sit-com series so I just turn the script into prose.

However the Named Person posts seem to be gaining legs and there are a lot of them to be written. So much for my third blog being a bit of lighthearted silliness. I'm a bit nervous because I'm branching into what could be serious journalism and I don't really know what I'm doing. I'm braced for a backlash. The SNP and council chiefs are going to look a bit silly if they accuse me of homophobia given the rest of the blog though ;)
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If its any consolation I'm not sure most serious journalists know what they're doing either :p
 
Trouble I find, is my blog is my opinion on things and suddenly I have a problem finding something to write about, either I am not that opinionated or maybe I just can't bring myself to air my views in public.
 
Vladd67 said:
Trouble I find, is my blog is my opinion on things and suddenly I have a problem finding something to write about, either I am not that opinionated or maybe I just can't bring myself to air my views in public.
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Find a theme and stick to it, maybe? or an area that you like to talk about.

Anyhow, I continued my how-to blogs today and talked about editing. Which I should really go off and do:

JoZebwrites: The dreaded edit
 
Vladd67 said:
suddenly I have a problem finding something to write about
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Excellent suggestion from Jo. Another one: start small. Originally, I didn't want to 'blog'. I didn't think I had anything to say, and I felt a little stupid about the whole thing. So instead of a blog, I started a micro-blog on Tumblr. My blog entries were tiny – sometimes just a photo and a brief comment. But then, one day, I actually had something to say. The next time round, it was something longer. I transferred my tumblr posts to a wordpress site and suddenly I was doing this thing called blogging. :D

So you can start with very small entries – they don't have to be long things at all. The posts will grow as you get into the swing of things. :)

Jo Zebedee said:
I continued my how-to blogs today and talked about editing.
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Nice timing! Good to see I'm not the only one sweating hard over edits. :D
 
Double blog day

Here's one with me ruminating about the importance of the basics - I probably need a better list of what makes the basics though.

And for anyone remotely interested, a slightly late look at the provisional England Rugby squad for next season - well, part 1. I should do part 2 today, or I might just decide nobody cares about the backs anyway.

And now I've run out of excuses to not do editing. Oh wait, there's still washing my hair...
 
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