Catching Up

These past three months have been some of the swiftest in my life that I can remember. I experienced so much change and rapid pace in my life as my husband and I traveled from California to Washington DC on our peace mediation mission.

Stranded here when our vehicle broke down the day that we arrived, November 12, 2008, has really given us/me a new perspective on life. I am reminded how much I am not in control of my destiny, rather I only respond to some invisible call of the spirit that somehow guides each of us on our journey.

Almost six weeks later, we are still in Alexandria, Virginia, taking new stock in our plans and refocusing to set intentions for the new year. The main thing on my mind is to do the best that I can do to live as a peaceful, kind, giving person and do all that I am spiritually and physically able to help bring peace in this world,even if only in some small way.

The other goals that I have are to settle old debts, catch up on internet work to include all my blogs. Stay tuned this week as I strive to bring this blog up to date. I have a lot of news to share and a lot of articles to write. Updates will take me a solid month of dedicated blogging. It is an exciting time and I hope you will return to join me on the continued quest for becoming a successful peace ambassador and freelance writer.

My husband and I will be unveiling our plans for a Middle East Peace Mission on these blogs in the very near future. Join us and pray for the wars to end.

Peace be with you.
The Midnight Writer

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Posted in: Alexandria,Middle East Peace,New Year,Washington DC

Social Site Update

Today I upgraded my Twitter account for the sake of communicating with other members from freelance writing and blogging communities.

Read the actual post titled "Midnight on Twitter" on The Midnight Writer's domain blog by clicking here. Quality Gal inspired me to upgrade my Twitter account since they posted the links to all their Twitter members who are also freelance writers for Quality Gal. I recently joined their ranks as a ghost writer, but am awaiting approval and feedback from the Editor.

My posts have not been frequent as I had hoped to provide, so I will strive for improvement daily. Again, the more I learn about this freelance blogging, freelance writing and affiliate marketing business, the more I realize that it takes great time management and planning to be able to keep up to the tasks required. A work at home freelance writing job is a career that needs constant developing and management in the beginning.

Today's Posts

1. Midnight on Twitter - An article about Social Sites and getting around to updating my profiles on multiple social networking sites. This is an introduction to my profile on Twitter, so join me there.

2. Social Site Update - just the every day update I set the intention to make whenever I post on any site. This article is actually a place and a method to help focus attention and to share about the mulitple sites to which I belong.

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Posted in: articles,blogging,features,social sites,themidnightwriter,twitter,update

Projects on My Agenda

It is raining again in Alexandria, Virginia. These are the type of weather days that keep me inside reading a favorite book, or catching up on writing or some project. Today was much the same. Though I did not accomplish much in blogging, I worked in other areas of equal or greater importance.

Here is an update of projects on my agenda.

*Add links and widgets into blogs and blog sidebars.
Bebo
Moli
Twitter
Social Spark
Entrecard
Red Bubble
Helium
Mahalo
Live Journal

*Write posts about programs to which I belong in the area of freelance writing and blogging.
Social Spark
Pay Per Post
Blogsvertise
Bloggerwave
Quality Gal
Article Marketer






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Posted in: Alexandria,blog posts,blogging,Projects,rain,themidnightwriter,Virginia,weather

Keep Up the Pace

Striving to keep up with my own goals for the benefit of my own self-discipline, which will ultimately benefit my readers, I will post here five days a week. At least, that is my intention.

The blog posts for today are:

1. Focus For Today- This was an article on Blog Day Planner. Keeping with my intention for these two blogs, the one you are reading,and the Blog Day Planner, I am striving to write five times a week on these blogs.

You may have noticed an Entrecard on this site. I just finished loading it today. I spent a few minutes dropping to bring viewers here, but my most important task in the next month is to bring in quality content for this blog as well as traffic to read the content.

This entire process will be successful only if you come back to read this blog.

Please post your suggestions in the comment section or email themidnightwriter1@gmail.com

Visit my other sites to drop your Entrecards at The Midnight Writers Journal, Blog Day Planner, The Midnight Writer.

My first objective here is to build my personal backlinks, to help you build backlinks to your site through reciprocal linking and to fully research this process in blogging. Tomorrow, I will begin an outline listing the topics to be covered. Suggestions are very welcome.

Remember to leave your link when leaving a comment.

The Midnight Writer

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Posted in: backlinks,blog posts,focus,pace,themidnightwriter

Excited About Entrecard

Entrecard is a program that allows bloggers to drop their "card" on one another. The entrecard specific to your site and designed by "you" using imagery and text of your choice, is loaded into the Entrecard dashboard, then onto the blog for which you created it.

Thousands of bloggers surf Entrecard through their dashboard, and "drop" on your widget. Don't worry, Entrecard software takes care of all the technical details. All you do is surf and drop.

The concept behind Entrecard is to facilitate a social network on one site whereby bloggers can visit one another's sites, drop on each other's widget to let the person know you came by - sort of a drop by howdy- this helps to increase your blog views and it helps to inspire networking and communication among bloggers.

I absolutely love Entrecard and I am sure you will, too. If you have not already tried it, cruise on over and sign up today. Load your card on your blog and start surfing and dropping. Be sure to come back here to visit me in a couple days. My Entrecard will be fully active by then on this site.

Meanwhile, visit my other blogs that have Entrecard and drop a howdy there, please. I encourage comments on my blogs as well and will gladly reciprocate. Leave a link to your blog when you visit. I welcome it. Further, I will write a blog review if you make a request on one of my blogs. Or email me at themidnightwriter1@gmail.com.

My Entrecard Active Sites

The Midnight Writer's Journal
The Midnight Writer
Blog Day Planner

There are just a few rules to keep in mind. Entrecard requires that you have a blog before registering at their site. Blogs must have a minimum of five entries. The Entrecard widget must be loaded on the blog that is registered on your dashboard account.

Have fun surfing and dropping. See you in Entrecard land!
One more fun bonus that a lot of bloggers ad to make it more fun is listing their top ten Entrecard droppers on one of their blogs with a link back to the dropper. This gives you back links and brings new people over to your site to hang out now and then.

The Midnight Writer

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Still Dusting

One thing is for sure, I am not sluggish from too much turkey or pie on Thanksgiving! First of all, I am a vegetarian. Secondly, I skipped Thanksgiving dinner because we had plans to visit our family in Pennsylvania. Being broken down in Alexandria, Virginia changed all our plans. Cephas and I ate dinner at Subway on Thanksgiving and relaxed in our van at Wal Mart. It was a good day for us, considering the events of the past two weeks.

As for cobwebs on this blog, I still have the duster in hand to keep it free of cobwebs.

The recent lists of my new blog posts are as follows:

1. Creating a Blog of Distinction - this article appears on one of my new blogs titled Virtual Fantazia. Wander over there for a visit to check it out and give me your suggestions, please. When you leave a comment, remember my policy of leaving a link to one of your blogs, websites, articles or profile. And remember to reciprocate with a link back to one of my blogs.

2. Increase Blog Performance - Blog Day Planner is a focus blog for projects to help me learn how to get tasks completed and perform follow up. It is also a teaching tool to help others in their freelance blogging experience.

3. Raining Today - An update about life in Alexandria in our quest to re-establish a new life in this metropolitan area.

Before today is over, I may post other blog updates. Check back later.

The above blogs will be ready for Entrecard in a few days, so watch for the Entrecard widget to appear soon and visit often.

The Midnight Writer

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Dusting off The Cobwebs

In October 2008, I had this brilliant idea to start a series of niche blogs and to specialize each area of my blogging experience. Instead of all my blogs being about general broad topics, it was my idea to fine tune each blog to become a specialized forum of creative expressive and writing showcases.

The cobwebs grew thicker with each passing day.

Procrastination sent the idea plummeting

into the dark, dusty closet of my stacks of ideas.

Today, I am cleaning house and dusting off the cobwebs.

Let's see where this project leads now.

It's almost Christmas time so I have to get ready for the Holiday rush. If I can get my blogs in order then perhaps I can bring some order to life itself. Let's experiment with the idea and cherish the thought of a somewhat orderly world. First, to post the news about my blogs.

Recent Posts:

1. Experimenting With Themes - on a new niche blog titled Freelance Sea, I uploaded a new theme from The Cutest Blog on the Block using a widget technique. Try it. It was a lot of fun and so easy a kindergarten child could do it.

2. Highlights of Events - after too long a time of not posting on this blog, I wrote a very long feature article regarding the legal /political/spiritual quest to preserve our rights and freedoms of assembly under the First Amendment of the Constitution. This post also covers other areas of interest regarding peace and healing gatherings and the Mountain Spirit Tribe Medicine Wheel Gatherings.

3. Being Alive in These Times - another blog started last month that had little progress. Since Cephas and I are broken down in Alexandria, Virginia, we became essentially homeless. This is a cause that I have immersed my mind into to better understand our society. Observing the people on the streets of this city will give me many interesting blog topics.

4. The Midnight Hour 1- introduction article.

Watch for articles about the following topics for all my blogs.

Theme or Style Changes

New Links

Plans

Link Building Assessment

Contests

Reviews

Features

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Posted in: blog panel,cobwebs,ideas,procrastination

Blog Disclosure Policy

This policy is valid from 20 November 2008

For questions about this blog, contact The MidnightWriter at themidnightwriter1@gmail.com.

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers' own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

The owner(s) of this blog would like to disclose the following existing relationships. These are companies, organizations or individuals that may have a significant impact on the content of this blog. We serve on the following corporate or non profit boards: Angels of The Light Interfaith Ministry. We blog about people to whom we are related. The most interesting such people are: Our children and grand children..


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Blog Home Page

This is the place to store links and updates to all my blogs as well as to talk about new programs, special articles and all news regarding my blogs.

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Posted in: blogging,blogs,news,share,special articles,the midnight writer