volcanic ash message to earth

The volcanic ash emissions in iceland sends one clear message to earth.
That is: nature cannot be controlled nor anticipated entirely.
Prophets of doom and people feeling anxious about the recent natural disasters must realise that the scientists and knowledge is still limited.

Learning by Doing

Just trying to get a basic understanding about how this whole blogging thing works!

ME : Why I chose blogging as an career option

Hi to all.. Myself Priya . Am an Graduate student and dont know much about Blogging. but I have heard that blogwriting is having many benefits with no investments at all .. the only thing that it requires is dedication and ideas. I have heard alot about blogwriting and personally i do have intrest in taking blogwriting as an career option as i have lot of spare time n an intrest in writing but i didnt knew where to start from . then i came to know know about this site named www.blogwritingcourse.com . They taught me the basics of blogwriting. Am still learning with the help of this site .. thanks to blogwritingcourse.com

Intimidating

Now I know how it feels to be a new born anything and I'm treading out into a very scary place! BLOGGING !! Lions, tigers and bears, OH MY! What made me think I even wanted to do this, but I do; and I'm going to learn no matter how long it takes me. Now that I'm typing though, I feel a little more relaxed and excited to get started. I'm going to need a lot of help, so I think I'll just get on back to my blogging course, but I'll be back !!

New To The Game

I have never blogged before but I am here to learn how to do it.

Flat Stanley on the Loose...

Hi All,

Newbie Blogger, Flat Stanley here, with virtually no experience with blogs. I have tried creating a blog in the past but always gave up as I didn't know what the heck I was doing. So here I am taking a free class (how I love a freebie) and making my first ever blog post and loving it. Can't wait to click the preview button and see all my words looking dandy in this new blog interface. Thanks for the lesson!!

My New Travel Blog

Hi, I have never blogged before, so this will be a new and probably difficult habit for me to pick up. I hope that, with as much time as I spend traveling that I will be able to keep up with friends and family a little easier. tomorrow I leave for Texas again. Mom and I will get out as much as possible as this is really the purpose of my visits.

And away we go....

Hello blog world. I have always been a big fan of the television show, "Sex And The City". When the show was on HBO I never missed an episode. My favorite part was always when Carrie, our leading lady, sat in front of her computer and began writing her newest article about what it was like being single in New York. We would see those letter flash across the screen posing a new question which lead to the theme of the episode.

Recently I relocated from a small college town in the midwest to Los Angeles and plopped myself right in the heart of West Hollywood. Being in the middle of the action of what people call "boys town" I began to question what makes this community and its inhabitants tick. What are people thinking about while they hang out in the lively bars on Santa Monica? Are they just having fun or is there a deeper meaning to all this activity?

Then I thought that this would make a great theme for a blog. So here I am to learn the fine art of blogging. While I have had a little experience with photo blogs in the past, I was never really satisfied with the content. When I take the time to sit down and write I enjoy the thoughts and discussions which I create. But doing it is a battle with so many other things tugging at me. That's why I decided to take this course with the hopes that the process of learning more about this craft will help me define my own thoughts and give me some discipline to maintain and share some great content. Keep your fingers crossed. I have some good discussion ideas and thoughts to share. I hope that it pans out and maybe you will join me as a reader on the journey.

From Hobbit to Hobby

Reading!

Ah, from the time I picked up Tip, Tip and Mitten, then Dick and Jane - I have enjoyed reading. Boy, did I just date myself saying that! Reading has always been a struggle as I am dyslexic but anything can be overcome with enough desire.

Reading, to me, has always been more than a simple escape. It is my way of talking to the authors of the ages.

http://www.bookslut.com/blog/

The Creation of a new Monster

I am a writer - my name is Mary Godwin - don't worry, that is just my nom de plume. I even made it to IMDB last year with my first credit! I hope to follow with many MANY more from here - that wasn't even getting my toes wet in the ocean of Hollywood. That is why I'm here. I want to blog about the experience of writing a screenplay and selling it.

I'll begin by telling you how I came to choose the name Mary Godwin for my pen name. Do you know who wrote Frankenstein? A young woman, only 18 years old, named Mary Shelley. She was married to the poet Percy Shelley. Before she married Percy, her name was Mary Wolstonecraft. Her mother was also named Mary Wolstonecraft - her mother was also a published author. Mary, the mother, was a feminist who didn't take the name of her husband when she married because she felt it "perpetuated the patriarchal oppression of women in society" to do so.

Mary Wolstonecraft (the mother) died just 10 days after the birth of her daughter. The father, William Godwin, raised the daughter with her mother's name instead of giving her his last name.

Had Mary Wolstonecraft, the mother, taken the name of her husband, Mary Godwin would have been a published author. Had the daughter been given the name of the father instead of the mother's name, Mary Godwin would have once again been a published author. I'm here to see that Mary Godwin is a published author - finally. But, as with all my stories, there is a twist ... this twist I'm afraid you'll have to wait to discover as soon as I know just how much information I should put about myself out there in the blogosphere.