New to WordPress? Blogging 101 starts on January 5.

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If you’re new to blogging, a new session of our introductory blogging course starts on Monday, January 5 — and all bloggers are welcome, whether you blog on WordPress.com, a self-hosted WordPress blog, or somewhere else entirely. What is Blogging 101? Four weeks of daily bite-size blogging assignments that take you…

Recommended Reading: Clark’s 50 Writing Tools

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The quick list comes from Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark. Self-editing is a skill that any writer can benefit from, though sometimes as writers, we don’t know what we don’t know. In other words, we struggle with precisely what to focus on to improve our writing. In times…

Plant Killers. They’re real.

If you’re a plant killer your going to want to read this.   Okay so you’ve killed every plant you’ve ever tried to grow.   If you haven’t killed it yet, it probably looks like it’s dead or wishes it was or better yet wishes someone would come rescue it.  From you.    You actually feel guilty when you plant…