Squidoo's Friends Coffee Shop!
Hi! I was Kalafina on squidoo and am Kalafina on HubPages. Literally drinking a coffee and Bailey's here to warm up since it's definitely winter weather here today. Can't complain though. A few inches beats a foot of snow any day.
I've been doing physical therapy and a whole other chronically ill treatment plan stuff. Just ended my blog hiatus today with an update of good news
Also. Just started with a new freelance job.
Glad to have you on here!Hello
Happy to hear from squidoo friends.
Best wishes to all- Crisantonioposted 9 years ago
0 Hi Sheila, having my morning coffee and saw this. Good to reconnect with you once more. I was nancycarol on Squidoo.
It's so nice to see Squidoo faces here. After that ridiculous "unfeatured" forum post, I'm feeling like this is a very unfriendly place. I have some questions but I'm afraid to ask any of them after all that. I am going to take a chance and ask one here though in the little coffee shop
... my writing for an audience isn't great but neither is my web smarts so do you think it be better to start with taking a writing course or some type of internet course? Or just keep writing and reading and hope it gets better over time?Read, read, and read I believe it makes us all better writers
I read everything from medical journals to my niece's storybooks to freshen up my writing style, except poetry I just end up thinking in rhymes or daydreaming when I try. Keep writing too. The more we write, the better we get. It's like practice to make perfect. Starting a daily journal helps with practicing time. I would look into writing help books (the library is always free) and sites before putting down money for a course. If you still feel the need, research and know just what you want in the course (grammar? Script writing? Creative?) Bedore taking the plunge
Thanks for the replies. They helped a lot. I have a lot of thinking to do. I love being online but I'm still having a hard time getting over this unfeaturing unfairness. Maybe I just need to start working on new hubs and leave my old ones to do whatever they're going to do on their own and not worry about editing them anymore. Maybe I'll start a new one and work on it slowly as I read read read about how to do this right. I don't know yet but thanks so much for taking the time to reply
- Crisantonioposted 9 years ago0
Hello all. I too am an ex-squid, where I wrote under the same name. I opted to delete my work and close my squidoo account immediately before the transfer. I stopped writing there after discovering hp (and I've been here for nearly three years) because I enjoyed the hp challenge, and my time was limited. I knew my lenses would need considerable work to make them suit the hp format and decided not to bother.
@ Louise (and others who share her frustration), there are lots of hubs written about how to write for hp. I wrote one about 18 months ago when quite a few writers on the forums were frustrated because they couldn't get their early efforts published. Comments left on it indicate it was helpful - including a couple from ex-squids three months ago.
It is called "How to get your Hub past 'Pending' to be featured" and I've moved it up into the Spotlight section on my profile page so you can easily find it. Hopefully it will help address your confusion.
Having read 'A walk in the park', Louise, I think that's a great place to start your editing. See if you can apply what I said in my hub to that one as your first project ... and let me know if you have any questions.
@ Sara, I took a quick look at your decorative laundry hamper piece. I honestly don't know where you could successfully move that to - but I do think you could turn that topic into an earner here at HP if you are willing to try changing it to something rather different.
Instead of listing products with sales links, you could talk about the actual products (in separate capsules with relevant headings) and get people interested in the concepts. If you talk about different hamper designs and make the 'idea' attractive enough, people will click on your 'just one' Amazon link and explore the various options.
I know for a fact this works, because I've had sales of products I've just mentioned in passing - so readers are obviously clicking on a completely different amazon product to make their way to the different product they want to learn about.
You could copy and paste your 'original' text from each amazon capsule into a separate 'Text' capsule - and then expand it a little to make a helpful piece of information. Delete the amazon capsule. Look for a photo that's just a photo - either one you've taken or one you source from an appropriate site (like the free site I mention in my hub mentioned earlier) to use in a 'Photo' capsule. Leave just one or two amazon links spread out within the hub - use the ones you've had the most sales from in the past - and hey, presto ... you've got an evergreen hub that should remain published and could potentially attract quite a lot of traffic. (Of course, you'd change the title of it to something more appropriate.)
Okay. Enough from me. Just thought I'd try and encourage you to take advantage of hp's potential while you're here.
See you round.
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