The Writer's Pulse

WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms you’re likely to find. It’s free, it’s easy-to-use, it’s incredibly customizable. Still, we don’t all have the time or the motivation to design our own themes for WordPress, so we rely on the skills of others.

Here are my top three websites where you can download free, quality WordPress Themes. Read the rest of this entry »

Letters written by JD Salinger have been released to the public following his death, revealing that the author had indeed continued writing “long after he stopped publishing in 1965.”

Kill Chuck?

So, apparently there’s a small group of fans out there who are unhappy with the current storyline of Chuck. They’re suggesting, as “fans” of the show, that we boycott the series until the writers give them the story they want.

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David Coursey over at PC World has written a compelling argument explaining why higher e-book prices may ultimately lead to a better future of digital literature for publishers and consumers alike.

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Pillar posts have become quite the cliche out there in the blogosphere, and they’re very easy to pick out: they’ll be relatively long, informative, and more often then not they’ll consist of numbered lists of useful tips or resources. Most of the time, a pillar post will extensively cover a solitary topic, explaining, in detail, how to go about doing something in particular.

But let’s face it: their main purpose is to drive traffic to your blog. Am I right? Read the rest of this entry »