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Hashtag Blindness Part 2

My brothers and sisters of the Twitterverse, we've made some strides, but I'm afraid the disease is spreading faster than we can contain it. Hashtag Blindness is a violent and fast-moving disease that may be infecting not only your followers, but your followers' followers as well!



Worse, the symptoms are sometimes subtle and hard to detect. In my ongoing research to cure this hideous malady, I've uncovered some additional signs that one or more of your followers may be infected.

The Symptoms Gr...

Wicked Words - A Guest Post by Mel Massey

Mel Massey, author of Earth's Magick , (published by Solstice Publishing just this week!) had a difficult journey from idea to published manuscript, and she suffered from many of the same fears and failures we all do.

Mel was kind enough to accept my invitation to write a guest article for A Writer's Journey, and what a wonderful story and lesson she's shared with us. Enough of me...I'll let Mel tell her story in her own words.




Wicked Words…I write about witches and magick.  My debut novel,...

Twitter Changes Auto-Follow Policy

Earlier this year (2013), Twitter changed their auto-follow policy. Those of you who've read my series on Using Twitter Effectively know that "auto follow" was a major tool in building a writer's platform.

By way of reminder, "auto follow" was an option in many 3rd party tools that allowed you to automatically follow back anyone who followed you. This saved organizations and popular accounts countless hours of having to manually follow everyone.

I spent the last few months trying to w...