CuteWriting

This blog was born on the March 12th of 2008. Today, we are celebrating the first birthday of the blog. So far, CuteWriting has gone through several landmarks. Within the first few months, it was regarded to be one of the best writing-related blogs out there. Now, CW also deals with several different topics and answers reader questions. The diversification was necessary as we found out that most of the readers of this blog originally wanted posts on Blogging tips and search engine optimization. Creative writing can only make a tiny part of the blog now. Initial work on creating quality content has proved successful as CW got several hundreds of incoming links to various posts and testimonials and positive reviews from several websites. Now, the blog ranks high in search engines for many of its posts. We are vowed to publish only useful entries for our readers (don't take care of the sponsored entries, which are separately labeled and are maintained only for monetization). ...

There have been quite a bit of interaction and reading of some posts on this blog. Here is a list of posts that have attracted the greatest attention to date. Maybe you will find this interesting for a refresher, or for the interest of commenting for getting maximum exposure for your links. We have carefully excluded posts which are not relevant for long term, but secured surges of traffic due to newsworthiness. 1. Unethical Business Practices by Associated Content 2. Short Story Magazines and Websites: A Comprehensive List 3. Press Release Sites: The Best and the Worst 4. Constant Content: The Best Field for Technical Writing 5. En Dash, Em Dash, and Hiphen 6. Grammar Tip: Suffixes Which Form Noun From Adjectives or Verbs 7. Grammar Tip: I Vs. Me, Who Vs. Whom, and Starting a Sentence With So 8. Using Similes and Metaphors Correctly 9. Professional Blogging Part II: Lifestyle of a Professional Blogger 10. 20 Beautiful Professional Blogger Templates You May Want to Use If ...

By now, all my honest readers have seen that there have been no updates since the nineteenth; here is what happened. It was quite a normal day, the nineteenth of this month. I rather felt that nothing was wrong until I discovered a horrible thing when I started my computer. I had lost all of my software and important blogging data! I use four partitions on my system to store software and data. They are differentiated for the Operating System, all of the software, some entertainment stuff, and an emergency backup/crash drive. For the time being, let me tell you the sad state of the crash drive; it was full with some downloads, movies, and some of the software setup files. All these partitions are on two hard drives—The OS and entertainment stuff partition on the first, and software and crash drive on the second. The software partition on the second drive had failed overnight, taking with it all of what it contained. There were quite a few bad sectors, which caused it not be reco...

Preparing a Novel Manuscript (Typescript) to Submit to Editors or Literary Agents How to Create a Mobile Edition of Your Website/Blog? Grammar Tip: I Vs. Me, Who Vs. Whom, and Starting a Sentence With So Search Engine On Page Optimization Guide: Major Factors in On-page Website Optimization That Can Decide Your Site’s Ranking on Search Results SEO Tools: Basic Website SEO Analyzer Tool to Analyze Meta Tags, PageRank, Page Size, and More NaNoWriMo Afoot: Some Tips to Win This Novel Writing Game Punctuation Tip: The Question Mark? Deepavali (Diwali), the Festival of Lights: India’s National Festival Is Today! How to Remove Duplicate Content From Your Blogger Blog Posts to Avoid SERP Penalty Vocaboly: Vocabulary Building Software Application for All Learning Levels Enable Individual Meta Descriptions to Different Blogger Blog Posts Google Translation Widget for Blogs & W3C Validation Rules Grammar Tip: Than Vs. Then India’s Chandrayaan-1: The First Indian Moon Mission Bu...

This has been a recent report by TechCrunch that happened to appeal my attention. Britney Spears has not only started her website with blog, BritneySpears.com , but also signed up on Twitter [ See why Twitter is important ]. It’s pretty fascinating to see quite a lot of non-techie celebrities, film stars, pop stars, writers, etc., moving to the Internet, embracing this wonderful new medium of communication. Here are quite a few: Tom Cruise: tomcruise.com Amitabh Bachchan: Blogs.Bigadda.com/ab Aamir Khan: Aamirkhan.com Though not many of the Hollywoodders started their own sites or blogs, it seems Bollywood stars are hard at it. I heard that several of Bollywooders have their own blogs. Also, celebrity blogs tend to get astounding amount of traffic within pretty short span of time; thanks to their mass appeal! It’s good to see that they don’t need to monetize their sites. Special Notification Can you believe a power failure that lasts six hours? That’s what happened here, ...

Dear readers, today you are reading the 200th post in CuteWriting , the creative writing help blog. I thank all those who supported me, who linked to my posts, who commented on this blog, who dugg the posts I submitted to various social media communities, and who befriended me on various social networks and social media groups. Readers, without your participation and grace, I wouldn’t have reached this level. Until recently, I had other people to submit my posts to various social media systems, and manage my social networks. But now on, I am taking up the task upon myself. I have found that most of my social media profiles are studded with only posts from CuteWriting. I haven’t unearthed and submitted the best posts from my readers, other bloggers. I will do so in the coming days. Also, due to pure promotional activities on this blog, I almost forgot to read the blogs of several of my readers. I want to do that now and link out to those posts that have good content. Submit your U...

What Is the Difference Between Hardcover and Paperback? How to Build Your Successful Freelance Writing Career and Quit Your Day Job? How to Make Your Blog Posts Look More Professional? Google’s Latest Updates & Cuil Competition Creative Writing: Crafting Characters With Emotional Appeal in Mind Google Tries to Make the World a Better Place by Giving Away Ten Million Dollars! How Should a Creative Writer’s Workplace Be? Sergey Brin’s Blog: Too.blogspot.com How to Compose Professional Emails: Some Guidelines Complete Google Adsense Policy Guidelines Not to Get Your Account Blocked Cross Metaphors and Similes: Useful Figures of Speech Copywriting: How to Persuade the Most Intolerant Customer Expandable Post Summaries on Blogger Using JavaScript How to Add a Contact Form to Your Blog? Expandable Post Summaries on Blogger Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker Eight Things All RSS Publishers Should Remember Six Tips to Write Terrifying Horror Fiction Detective and Suspense Fi...

Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time, so many people, of all walks of life, could use so much help, in both little ways and big. In the midst of this, new studies are reinforcing the simple wisdom that beyond a certain very basic level of material wealth, the only thing that increases individual happiness over time is helping other people. Google So says Google, announcing their new venture to help make the world a better place. Ten to the power of a hundred, Googol, and now Google, has launched the website: Project10tothe100.com , celebrating its tenth year. Through this site, you can submit to Google your ideas to change the word to a better place. Five of the final ideas selected will get each a couple of million dollars, which will be used to fund the idea. What is Project 10 to the 100th? It’s the new Google venture. They want you to send in your ...

Professional Long Sentences: Some Guidelines Writer’s Block: Don’t Know Your Today’s Topic? Why I Love Woopra, the Revolutionary Web Analytics Tool! Google Dance and Future of Keyword Research Drug Addiction, Treatment, and Rehabilitation A Note on Realism by Robert Louis Stevenson Point of View Thoughts in Fiction Grammar of Parallel Constructions The Valley of Spiders by H G Wells Learn From Others' Mistakes: What Non-Best-Selling Writers Can Teach You EntreCard Myth: How to Choose the Correct Blog to Advertise? Commenting on Blogs: Are You Making Your Mark or Marring It? Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving An Interview With Problogger, Darren Rowse CuteWriting Usage Help, Policy, and Disclaimer Purchase Professional WordPress Themes: Revolution Themes [Sponsored] The Art of Sentence Diagramming The Purloined Letter from Edgar Allan Poe Passive Voice in Creative Writing Writers' Health: Health Problems, Ergonomics, and Health Tips How to Write Concise Sen...

Yesterday night, Ms Judith posted this comment on my blog post on using colons correctly in writing : "Colon cleanse, the importance of liver detoxification, and the need for multi-vitamins, plus much more. There are choices on the products and a seasonalcolon cleanse and liver cleanse is necessary. We do not get the nutrients we need in our food anymore." Ms Judith placed a link to her site on colon cleanser as well . Today, another person, who calls himself (or herself) ‘Slang Words’ commented on my post on popular idioms and usages : “Well thanks for this wonderful to learn more slangs I want to recommend a good collection of Slang Dictionaries presents you with a vast array of slang words and expressions, ranging from older and internationally recognized slangs to modern day coinages, colloquialisms, vulgarities and many other substandard usages of the English language.” He also placed a link back to his slang words site, with that anchor text, ruthlessly . I reje...

Dear readers, welcome to CuteWriting. This is a creative writing blog, which guides you to write better and get published online or in the print media . Though the main topic is creative writing, CuteWriting also offers helpful posts on a wide range of topics including blogging, freelancing, publishing, SEO (search engine optimization), marketing and advertising tips, affiliate tips, etc. This post is the usage help and guidelines document of the blog. Before you use any of the resources in the blog, or comment, please make sure you read this document to full. This document will enjoy occasional reedit. About CuteWriting My name is Lenin Nair. From the early age itself, I had a great penchant for writing, and that made me go into freelance writing field after graduation in Information Technology. On March 12, I started this blog to help writers write better and earn more money. This is a highly read blog allover the world now, with a huge audience from the United States. Later, I t...

Guide to Complying With W3C Validation in Blogger Microblogging From Within Your Blog Some Confusable Situations in Grammar: Avoid These Errors Writing Tips: Lists Help in Creative Writing A Tiny List of Most Confusable Words Google PageRank Update Five Ways to Promote Your Book Through Facebook Google Knol: The First Impressions Google Knol Finally Out for Wikipedia? Punctuation Tip: Using Semicolons Correctly Ten Tips to Write Killer Dialogs Complete Guide to Typing on QWERTY Keyboards Popular Idioms and Usages Part XYZ How to Freelance for a Newspaper Popular Idioms and Usages Part W Importance of a Sitemap: How to Submit a Sitemap for Blogger Blogs? Story of the Theme Redesign and Blogger W3C Validation Popular Idioms and Usages Part UV The Language and Style of Blogging Popular Idioms and Usages Part T Major Advantages of Guest Posting in Blog Marketing and SEO On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature Popular Idioms and Usages Part S Literary Agenc...

Recently, with the advent of Twitter, Jaiku (whom Google acquired ), Plurk, etc., microblogging is a sensation . A microblog is way of updating your readers on what's current about you ; usually these updates are 150-character long. Everyone starts their day's schedule with Twitter opened and occasionally post a sentence as to what they are doing presently, updating their followers. Twitter continues to explode in popularity, and even many big social networks are gawking at the Twitter secret. Here we will check out a simpler way of microblogging-that through your own blog . Advantages of Microblogging The greatest advantage of microblog is that your readers can be current about you . Microblog entries are simple one-sentence long and can well express what you are doing now or share any article that you find interesting with your readers. Check out my Twitter profile here . I assure you, I am not a useful twitterer, at least for now. You can promote your own site or blog with ...

This is a blog notification post. I have made changes to the blog’s design. Here is how… W3C Valid Template I have brought back the WP Premium theme, which I had put up to commemorate the hundredth post on the first of this month. But there are a lot of changes to it now. Just go ahead and try to validate my blog in W3C Validator . You will find there are almost 45 errors in toto on the home page, in place of nearly 600 errors when I had put up the template last time. It seems that there is no such thing as W3C valid Blogger Template . I was at work testing this template and removing as many errors as possible from it . Now, the retained 45 are due to Blogger’s internal rendering software , which doesn’t automatically correct issues like unencoded ampersand (‘&’ not being displayed as ‘&’ which is the standard XHTML recommendation for it). With these errors retained, there is no point in using the Strict dtd for the template. It was a really entertaining experience to fix t...

Dear readers, in CuteWriting it’s celebration time . The post you are reading is the hundredth one here . As a feast for you all, here is the completely revamped, professional WordPress-ish template . Now the blog will load a lot faster and work more efficiently. The Template First, let me thank Mr. R Bhavesh , for this elegant design, originally crafted for WordPress. The team at eBlogTemplates has modified the theme to be used as a Blogspot template . Thanks to them for the great work. Despite a beautiful professional design, surprisingly, the template is available completely free. I downloaded it yesterday, and made all the necessary tweaks for the best performance (Later did the W3C validation tweaks) . The Design The template is simple and elegan t, the best choice for those cluttered, unreadable, slow-loading, ads-rich blogs. The major reason why I love this design is its clean, professional appearance . It reminds me of such beautiful websites as A List Apart , PublicLiteratur...

Popular Idioms and Usages Part P The Skylight Room by O Henry Guide to Getting Published: Typescript Formatting How to Perfect Your Writing Style Contributions Invited to CuteWriting Popular Idioms and Usages Part O Guide to Getting Published: Preparing Your Novel’s Query Letter A Literary Classic for You Plural Forms: Rules and Style Guidelines New Additions to Blog! Punctuation Tip: Brackets, Braces, and Parentheses Guide to Getting Published: Literary Agent FAQ Popular Idioms and Usages Part N Guide to Getting Published: Are You There Yet? Mozilla Firefox Express Review Punctuation Tip: The Ellipsis Question Tags Popular Idioms and Usages Part M CuteWriting Copyright Policy Special Post: Movie Review of Dashavatharam (Dasavatharam) Special Post: How to Add Favicons to Blogger Blogs? Some Creative Writing Thoughts: Style, Diligence, Boldness, and Research Free Copyright Protection: How to Protect Your Electronic Works (Blogs, Documents, etc.) A Sherlock Holmes...

[Dear readers, I have decided to invite user submissions to CuteWriting. We are nearing the hundredth post in this blog, and it’s a special occasion for us all. We have also hit the subscriber count above a hundred. Please read further below, to know about contributing to CuteWriting. ] CuteWriting is already a popular blog in the blogosphere, and perhaps the only Blogspot blog that well addresses creative writing and related topics . It is always best to post as guest to another blog, for brand building and promoting your own blog , if you have one. Here, I am giving each of you the opportunity to contribute to CuteWriting. The Benefits of This Program Links to your site or blog : From your post in CuteWriting, you can get a maximum of three links to the relevant pages in your site or blog. These links can be made highly targeted if you link to the most relevant pages in your blog, and will be very beneficial in terms of SEO. The links will be given in this way: you can place two l...