Sharon Hurley Hall

I’ve been busy for the last couple of weeks, publishing lots of posts on the blogs where I contribute. Here are some of the recent ones on PiggyBankPie:

• Getting Into Iminta
• Making Your Content Work Harder
• How To Save Your Blog From Extinction

I’ve also been working hard on TechGerm:

• Written A Knol Yet?
• Lifestreaming With Swurl
• Evernote review

Or should that be: writing for a books site? One of my latest gigs is writing for Webooks. It’s an ebook publishing site that is expanding to include articles related to the books’ content. I’ve written four articles for them so far, and two have been published. They are Moving Your Article From Mag To Web and Proofreading Tips For Writers. Hope you enjoy them. Bookmark my profile page so you’ll know when the next ones appear.

This is not so much a new writing gig, as a successor to an old one. I used to write for Garden and Hearth, which eventually became part of Life123.  Hence, a new site and new articles, covering not only writing, but parenting and health issues. Here’s a list of what I’ve posted on that site so far:

Freelance Writing

• Five Freelance Writing Lessons
• How to Set Writing Goals
• Create a Home Office for Writing
• How to Write with One Hand
• Essential Writing Tools for Freelancers
• Freelancers: Build Web-Writing Skills
• Three Quick Ways to Create Freelance Writing Clips
• A Writers’ Guide to Copyright Law
• Freelance Writing Markets
• A Guide to Ghostwriting
• Promoting Your Freelance Writing

Home and Garden

• Quick Guide to Stain Removal
• Save Money with Natural Cleaning Products from the Pantry
• How To Organize Schedules For Cleaning
• How To Buy A Used Car From A Private Party

Pregnancy and Parenting

• Understanding Pregnancy Ultrasounds
• Preventing Stretch Marks
• Coping with Postpartum Depression
• A Guide To Fertility Treatments
• Creating A  Birth Plan
• A Guide To Your Fertility Cycle
• Facts About Open Adoption
• Finding A Nanny
• Understanding Closed Adoption

Health and Safety

• A Parents’ Guide to Teenage Obesity
• Staying Healthy Over 50
• What Are ADD and ADHD
• Eating Well Over 50
• How We Age
• Back to School Safety Tips for Parents
• Vacation and Travel Safety for Kids
• Water Safety for Kids
• Issues With Teens And Social Networking
• Air Travel Tips For Flying With Children

I’ll be updating the links as the articles go live.

Time for another roundup of my posts on Daily Writing Tips this year:

April

• A Writer’s Bookshelf
• A Slip Of The Lip
• Reduplicatives – Double Delight
• Calling All Book Lovers
• Andro- The Prefix That’s All Man

May

• Womanly Words – Gyn
• Reduplicatives And Their Meanings
• Super Words
• Blowing The Gaff
• Verb Words
• Arabic Loanwords In English

June

• The Best Way To Start Out In Freelance Writing
• Travel Writing Resources
• Homograph Examples
• Dissatisfied, Unsatisfied

July

• Rebut, Refute, Deny
• Converse Terms
• The KISS Guide To Writing Keyword Rich Articles
• Cut To The Chase