RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and basically means that instead of you having to visit your favourite blogs every day to see if anything new has been written you’re notified when the blog is updated. It’s a great time saver, but it also saves you from missing posts and keeps you up-to-date.

Well, it’s a sad fact that my weekend goal-setting time was spent fixing the blog.

If you’re looking for some inspiring reading this weekend, check out my Book of the Month – John Locke’s ‘How I sold 1 million ebooks in 5 months’. It was this book, along with a couple of others, that convinced me I was capable and that it was worth the effort, to progress in to Ebooks.

Like many other writers, I’ve been paying close but nervous attention to the advancement of technology, ebooks and social media over the years. Nervous, not because I don’t think it will become the norm, or because I think it brings with it numerous advantages, but because I know it will require me to live in a world where I am actively involved in technology.

First off I wanted to thank everybody who entered our Inaugural ‘First Line’ Short Story Competition. I was suitably impressed with the response, enough so that I will hold another, but more of that later.

n every day life almost all of what we know and assume is absorbed through what we see, hear, taste, touch and smell. The challenge though is that we all have a primary sense, a few that are average and one sense that definitely lags behind.

Since you are here on this blog, I’m going to make the assumption that you enjoy writing. For the sake of this post I’m also going to assume that you don’t write full-time for a living (however, if you do I would still be interested in your view on this topic).

It’s been a productive day here in the Writing to Inspire office. The morning started with the posting of my 1000th ‘first line’ writing prompt. I feel like I should

Thought I’d turn the tables today; rather than ask you a question this Friday I thought I would offer to answers your questions.

However, the question I’d like to pose this week is – What are the real benefits of blogs, from the perspective of those who read them?