Stolen content

When you find out that someone is stealing your content you get quite surprised and then angry. If you are just an ordinarily blogger like me you think, hey, who's ever going to want to steal my posts?

Well someone can actually.
Your post might be a good post and someone wants to make it off like it's theirs. Or you can get robot attacked. That's what happened to one of my blogs. A Spam robot is stealing my posts. And not only mine but several other bloggers. It seems like little can be done because these people are so smart. They make sure that it will get difficult for you to track them down.

Like this one, server in Brazil, host in Russia, IP in the US. You can see it just smells bad all over the place. Well you get my point.

I am still looking into what can be done about this and will continue my investigation and any tips on this I will share.

Oh yes!

Oh yes!
Now this blog has been ¨re-wamped¨ and finally feels inspiring to write in! I love the new look, simple but yet colorful! Just like writing can be.

I hope you like it too.

The link lists will expand as time passes by, I want to make sure all the links are correct and in the right place.

If you are a fellow writer, I'd love to have your link in my sidebar. Just tell me.

How cheap is cheap?

When it comes to setting a price on your time and skills it's something that is not easily done.
When I started writing I was happy if I made a few $$, now I know more about how to value my work.

First of all I'd like to say that everything depends on where in the world you live.
I live in Brazil where $5 means almost R$10. If you get R$10 an hour you can say you are pretty well off. My husband gets something like R$15/day! ( If I calculated right, anyway he doesn't get much)

So if I can make R$10 from writing a review or story or something then that means that I earn more for a few minutes work than he does all day.

If you live in the U.S, then $5 might not seem like a great deal. Once again it depends on where in the U.S you live.

But even my prices are expensive if you compare to the people in India.

One thing I have learned is that you have to not sell yourself too cheap.
So what that I live in Brazil, is my work less worth than someone in the U.S?
If I am a good writer, then what does that have to do with where I live?

Today I will not write for just a $ here or there, I value my time and my work more.
It´s not easy, every writer knows that, but being too cheap can also harm you.
Every time someone asks me how much they should charge, and I am far from an expert, then I always say to stay in the middle but not go too cheap.

How cheap is cheap?

Keep up your inspiration

Something happened before I ever had a chance to start writing this post it got published. So I figure the title most be totally wrong in the link. just FYI. :)

Yesterday I was on the bus and I started thinking, I wrote two great articles in my mind. Or at least I figured out how I would write them. I couldn´t wait to get off the bus and into my house so that I could write them.

And then something happened and I just lost the inspiration to write.

So I wonder; how do you keep your inspiration when you lose it?

Well if you have a good memory you can always rely on remebering it for another day. If you don't , like me, then you write it down on a piece of paper.

Well I have a lousy memory but I am relying on it to remember these articles and write them on another day when I feel inspired.

I have still to think about this, how to keep the inspiration...

Qumana

It´s 00,00 and I am still up. All because I had to test the new Qumana editor on my new xp computer.

And so far it seems to be working fine. Hopefully it does everything I want it to.

I tried Performancing before and it didn't work at all. Now that I know it works I will go to bed and continue this discovery tomorrow.

I don´t know how to add labels though... it will be nice to see where this goes...

Tags: Qumana, blog editor

A new test

I have tried posting to this blog without success with Qumana. Now I´m trying again. It would really ease my life it it works. :)

.Tags: qumana

Writing to music?

I like to work and listen to music at the same time but usually it only distracts me. So if I have to turn it off if I have somthing important to write.

The same thing with the dog. I have two dogs, well at the moment I have 7, 5 puppies. If they start barking I can't concentrate either.
It also depends what kind of music it is I'm listening to. if I lsiten to some up bet music then I get energetic and want to write more but then again, it won't work if it's soemthing improtant.

I've tried so many tiem to listen to music at the same time but it just won't work.
Sad... is that what they say not multi-skilled. i am multi-skilled acvtually, ust not in this matter :)

Can you write to music?

Not Funny

2 of my blogs, Making A Happy Life and Mama's Coffee Corner have been blocked!

Apparently they think I am a spam blogger.

Seriously, this really annoys me, I am a serious blogger. I live, earn, by blogging!
This is not happening was my first thought.
Well it will take 2 business days for blogger to sort it out apparently and if they don't get back to me by Monday then I don't know what I will do.

*Not happy and I expect a serious apologise!*

In the near future

In the near future I will add more links here , I have loads of writing links that can be useful for freelancers and myself for that matter.

There are so many freelance writing blogs out there and this is yet another one. But it will not only be about freelance writing. It will be about all blogging things and others things that can be nice to know.
Writing is just a way of communicating.
Reading is another, quiet communication.

And I am a very communicative person, with 8 blogs on the go.
:)