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How good are you at keeping motivated to write regularly on your blog over the summer?

When working from home, distractions can be a problem anytime of the year, but trying to maintain a self-imposed publishing schedule over the summer can be particularly challenging. After all, there is all that gorgeous sunshine that needs to be enjoyed, and the garden that needs to be wandered through and admired while searching for all those weeds that need to be pulled: oh, and lets not forget the beach, and the ice cream shop, and……… OK, so maybe I tend to allow myself a few too many distractions

If you are like me, maybe this will help.

I happened to stumble across and interesting free blog challenge while I was wandering through the Internet this morning (yes, another distraction ).

The Ultimate Blog Challenge, located online at http://ultimateblogchallenge.com/ is gearing up to begin on August 1st and seems set to offer a variety of interesting forms of support and motivation aimed at helping blog writers maintain their writing momentum through the rest of summer.

One of the really great things about this challenge is that August 1st is only a few days away so I won’t have (too much) time to get distracted before it begins.

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See you at the Challenge

As I sit here in Southern Ontario, sweltering under a prolonged heat wave, I can’t help but think about moving to another country. One where the climate is a little more moderate – not so hot and humid in the summer and not so cold in the winter. Any suggestions??

Actually, I have gone through one major move to another country – and return home again. In 1989 I moved to New Zealand with my husband and two kids, fully expecting to live there for the rest of my life. Nine years after we touched down in Wellington, we returned to Canada. During that nine years, almost everyone that we met who had moved to New Zealand from another country had returned home.

Although we thought we knew what we were doing, there were obviously a lot of things we just hadn’t prepared ourselves for – and we weren’t the only ones.

If you are thinking about making a major move to another country and aren’t sure whether you are prepared or not, check out my article 10 Things To Consider Before Moving To A  New Country. It poses a number of questions that you might just want to try to answer before you start packing.

The great thing about being a nomad is that you do have the freedom to move about from country to country. Have you tried moving to a new country? Have you stayed or returned home?

TTFN

Anne

Friday May 14th 2010 is a day that every writer and every potential writer, should mark in their calendar as a special day. Friday May 14th 2010 is Writer’s Worth Day.

Three years ago, professional writer Lori Widmer began Writer’s Worth Day out of frustration at how little respect (and how little pay!) professional writers are receiving. If writers don’t value themselves appropriately, why should any one else? So this is a day – one day out of the year – when writers and those they deal with can reflect on the true value of a professional writer’s words!

If you are interested in finding out more about Writer’s Worth Day then follow the widget below to Lori Widmer’s blog (http://loriwidmer.blogspot.com) where you will find some interesting info on what it takes to be a writer – oh, yeah, and some great pieces on how to value your worth.

May 14th 2010. A day to appreciate your value as a writer.

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