Friday, January 2, 2015

31 Days of Better Blogging: Day 2 - Spring Cleaning!



Today's goal is to clean up your blog and rid your sidebars of old, out of date nonsense, plugins that don't work, links that have gone on strike, etc. I'm fairly confident that I will succeed at this goal today because my blog is still new-ish which means I do not have much junk to clean out since I haven't had an opportunity to electronically hoard blogging stuff, yet. 

I failed at yesterday's goal, unfortunately. I think I managed to comment on 3 blogs. But I had extenuating circumstances that kept me from reading anymore blogs yesterday. 


And yes, Alabama football was an extenuating circumstance. Even if they played like crap and lost to Ohio State. (Who played a phenomenal game!) Congrats to you, Ohio State! 


Anyway, now that I'm done crying about football....let's get back to cleaning! I'm pretty sure my GoodReads widget is going to disappear from my sidebar. It's never up to date with what I'm actually currently reading and at this point I'm not sure if that's my fault or GoodReads fault (although I'm willing to bet it's mine) and I don't like it reminding me that I have a terrible memory for updating my Currently Reading list. And I thought about making that a regular blog post. Maybe. Eventually. Geez, I'm a terrible blogger.... 



Also, probably going to move around or just delete my NaNoWriMo winner badge all together. I don't feel like much of a winner when it comes to NaNo and my finished project and seeing it just makes me a little bit depressed. Woe is me... 




But seriously....
What will you be cleaning out today? 








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I had the same problem with my Goodreads currently reading list, I thought surely it wasnt me...hehe. However (it was) so I went to Goodreads and I had it to only show my newest currently reading so it only showed 1 book instead of 2. So you can go tweak your widget and that will fix it!
1 reply · active 534 weeks ago
Thank you so much for the tip! You are awesome!!
Aw, I totally know how you feel when it comes to NaNo - I was so excited when I won, but the more time has passed the more motivation I lose and the more doubts about my book creep in. I have had lots of encouragement from people, though - authors who've told me this is totally normal, so don't give up yet!

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
1 reply · active 534 weeks ago
Some days I'm really positive about it and some days I ask myself what I was on for the entire month that I wrote that story. LOL I've heard from other authors that it's perfectly normal so I'm learning to live with it. I guess that's why some authors are so....eccentric. They've all been driven crazy from writing :)

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