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Scribes Blog Carnival

by JM

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Welcome to the December 3, 2007 edition of scribes. We have a lot of entries this round, and I would like to thank all the contributors. If you stop at any of these sites, remember to mention where you found the link.

Dan-O presents Here is a Quick Way to Make Your Own Social Network Like Myspace, Facebook and Bebo posted at Danogo.com - Discover. Inspiring . Media, saying, “How to create a your own private social community online to promote your book or blog, without using myspace.”

Rebecca Wallace-Segall presents Lessons from the Newest Generation of Writers (& Thinkers) posted at a community of young writers in new york city.

Fiction

200motels presents The Yankee Army posted at 200motels.net, saying, “Extreme Satire”

How-To

Scott H presents >The Art of BS: How to Succeed on Papers and Essays posted at College and Finance, saying, “How to improve writing for essays and papers in college. Some helpful tips for students.”

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents How To Kick Writers? Block posted at Rebecca Dean.

Tiffany Colter presents Reaching more people with your blog posted at Writing Career Coach

Natalie presents 3 ways to brainstorm ideas for lyrics posted at Quaxle, saying, “A short article outlining three creative ideas to come up with a story when you are stuck. This was written with lyrics in mind, as my blog is about songwriting, but it can be applied to any kind of writing.”

Non-Fiction

Robinson Go presents The Pneumothorax Surgery Adventure posted at The Robinson Go Blog, saying, “A 3000+ word Account of my Cardiothoracic Surgery”

Jon Swift presents Pseudonym-Americans Fight Back posted at Jon Swift, saying, “Many great writers have been Pseudonym-Americans or pseudonymous people from all the nations of the world.”

blue skelton presents The Stray Cat Strut posted at Blue Skelton Publications, saying, “Hollywood, CA - Well, I was almost arrested again today. It just goes to say that can’t get away with everything in LA. You can do a lot of weird crap but you can’t walk into Target dressed like Sylvester from Looney Tunes. Fortunately for this stray cat, Target declined to press charges…story continues.”

Jon Swift presents Journalism 101 posted at Jon Swift, saying, “I think it would be helpful if bloggers knew the 20 basic “Rules of Journalism” so that they won’t pester Joe Klein and other professional journalists too much about journalistic ethics in the future.”

Other

Robinson Go presents Don?t Have A Blog? Start One Now! posted at Advice, saying, “I greatly improved my writing skills through blogging, improve yours as well.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of scribes using the carnival submission form.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.


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