Marsha Ingrao – Always Write – Page 25 – Having fun blogging with friends

Personal Stories

Klutz of the Year Award: The Art of Falling Without Breaking Anything

I have awarded myself the Klutz of the Year Award. […]

Hobbies

How to Write a Synopsis for Your Next Big Project: A Synopsis

A fallen ego maniac, I had the idea that because I […]

Education

How to Write Essays to a Prompt for Tests, Work, or School

Sample Prompt: Explain a complicated process that you can do […]

Hobbies

Practicing Descriptive Writing Here – Brain Fog? – No, Real Fog!

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great […]

Hobbies

Writing Description: What Are Your Tips?

Write posts on Word. Save posts often. Will I never learn? I deleted a picture from my blog post, and the entire post disappeared. Vince sells real estate. Yesterday I […]

Hobbies

Why It’s a Good Reason to Delete “Shitty Drafts” and a Short List of Tips to Improve Them

The naughty words are from Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions […]

Hobbies

Notes on Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life – funniest book ever. I can hardly get through this. I’m 17% done. I have written something since I was old enough […]

Hobbies

Getting More Traffic: How Effective Are Scheduled Topics or Columns for a Blog?

This question stemmed from a conversation I had with Leanne […]

Hobbies

A List: Authors’ Most Helpful “How To” Books About Writing

Yesterday Christine Royse Niles from my home state of Indiana […]

Hobbies

Three Easy Tips To Spice Up Dialogue Elementary Students Can Learn

What we don’t teach students – and I did not […]

Hobbies

Easy Changes to Spice Up Dialogue that You Can’t Teach Elementary Students

After retiring from over twenty years in education, I discovered […]

Blogging

Four Tips To Achieve WordPress Staying Power

This post is a response to my annual report from WP. My stats lagged behind last year’s. I took long breaks between posts in 2014 while I served as CCSS president […]

Hobbies

Three Easy Steps to Start Blogging for the New Year

Happy New Year!!! Are you celebrating yet or all done? […]

Hobbies

Tips to Make the Difference Between “I’d Better Stop (Criticizing) Here and “I Want to Read More”

It is pretty scary to put your work out for the […]

Personal Stories

Happy Holidays and A Parade of Thanks

Here it is Christmas Eve, and I’ve hardly mentioned Christmas this year or wished you all Happy Holidays. I hope you all have wonderful plans with friends and family for […]

Education

Images of America: Four Simple Steps to Edit a Pictorial History

Editing a picture book with 50 -70 word captions for […]

Photo Challenges

WP Photo Challenge: Yellow

Yellow seems to creep into every picture even when I don’t focus on it. I looked for a folder that might show a lot of yellow where one might not […]

Hobbies

Images of America: Three Tips for Researching and Writing Historical Captions

You’ve seen pictures of the brain lighting up when ideas […]

Hobbies

Images of America: Woodlake; Gathering and Organizing Images

My 600th post! Arcadia Publishing has specific requirements for the […]

Photo Challenges

Twinkle

The six million dollar photo that sold recently captured the perfect twinkle of light and processed it beautifully. These are my $1.00 twinkles taken with my iPhone last year at […]

Hobbies

Images of America: Woodlake; Steps to Finding the Vision That Drove the Book

Just like good sex, writing, even bad writing, starts in […]

Hobbies

Images of America: Woodlake, Step One

There I was, minding my own WordPress and Blogger blogs, trying to Twitter, connecting to LinkedIn, finding friends on Facebook, and deleting hundreds of emails that I signed up to get. […]

Hobbies

Cee’s Odd Ball Challenge

For being such a 100% gorgeous day, Saturday, November 29th turned oddball early on. First of all I called my friend’s dad, Clarence. I know his name is Leonard. I only […]

Hobbies

Black and White Challenge: Glass

I live much of my life behind glass. My 2006 Prius has over 215,000 miles, my husband’s 2004 truck has nearly 200,000 miles, and his “new” car, a 2010 Prius […]

Travel

Doncha Wish You Lived In California NOW?

The cloudless sky, leaves turning bright yellow and red, clean cool air that didn’t blow your hair off; it couldn’t have been a better day for photography. I wanted a […]

Photo Challenges

Angular: the Daily Post Photo Challenge

I examined 12 posts before I wrote this. I don’t usually do that, but I needed inspiration. I smiled at this favorite . You have to look past the obvious angle to see […]

Hobbies

Word Press Photo Challenge: Achievement – Zoom Zoom

I achieved something today. I overcame an annoyance that, for many […]

Blogging

An Odd San Francisco Hotel Room

It is odd to make a spur of the moment decision to go to San Francisco for the night on the way home from Redding instead of Sacramento, but I […]

Travel

Travel Theme: Belonging – Colonial Williamsburg or Not?

Life is defined by belonging: our family, town, organizations, belongings, even […]

Hobbies

I Write Histories

How does that sound for a marketing line? I am 99% finished with my first published book, Images of America: Woodlake. I hate to SOUND so proud, but I AM proud. […]

Travel

Oh My, What Have You Done?

Nothing is not the right answer. Blogging is not it either. I wish it were. Do you get roped into things? Do you sometimes feel like you’ve been branded as […]

Hobbies

Long Time Users Learn More About Using Facebook

History gals can learn new tricks! Out of necessity, I […]

Photo Challenges

WP Photo Challenge: Refracted Light

The underground gardens in Fresno gives shows off refracting to the maximum. This hand dug castle took years to create, and served it owner as a garden as well as […]

Personal Stories

Travel Theme: Broken – Rattlesnake Hunting No More!

We didn’t travel far to experience the fastest breaking the […]

Travel

Hawaii with Elane

I just got home after two wonderful weeks in Hawaii. Vince and I stayed the first week and listened to the timeshare “blah blah,” and took quite a few side […]

Photo Challenges

WP Photo Challenge: Nighttime

Nighttime in St. Louis last November sparkled with Christmas lights. We were on the snow route, but someone forgot the snow. They didn’t forget the cold. Cheryl and I both […]

Education

Nurse, Soldier, Spy – Perfect Picture Book Friday

Originally posted on Jilanne Hoffmann:
Returning from my long absence with a brief splash of a review for: I just read…

Hobbies

Weekly Travel Themes: Noise

Vince and I come to Avila Beach in Central California to escape the quiet tranquility of our country home in the hot Central Valley. At the Friday night street fair […]

Photo Challenges

WordPress Photo Challenge: Adventure

You probably heard your grandparents say, “Every day just waking up is an adventure.” It’s true. Each day is what we make it, and adventure arrives in ordinary packages. So […]

Photo Challenges

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue

Puppy Girl dialogued very clearly with Vince. He worked on the computer, when clearly he could have chosen to pet her tummy. So she grabs his hand and pulls. It’s […]

Photo Challenges

WP Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture in Edna Valley

Vince and I discovered tons of textures in this gem […]

Travel

Every Day You Learn Something – Sometimes It’s New

“In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned […]

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