by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Hi everyone! I’m over at the Writer’s in the Storm blog today, with a guest post aimed at mystery writers–“Troubleshooting Your Mystery.” I’ll share some common problems mystery writers face and offer some potential solutions.
Hope you’ll drop by if you have a chance. Writers in the Storm , if you haven’t visited there, is a helpful blog, focusing on the writing craft…their archives are fun to delve into!
Update–I’m trying a new plug-in for comments. When I turned on comment moderation yesterday afternoon, I promptly received 50 spam comments to moderate. By this morning, it was in the hundreds. Hoping that a third-party site will improve our commenting experience here, but we’ll see!
Yet another update–Never mind. Somehow, Blogger managed to eat the commenting widget. I’ve never seen a widget just disappear!
Plan B–migrate to WordPress in late-summer so that I can use G.A.S.P. to rid myself of spammers. Sigh. In the meantime, we’re back to Blogger’s limited options for commenting.
You definitely want WordPress. Dedicate about 3 days to making it work and you’ll never look back. Best of luck!
Peace, Seeley
I am not spam. I have in the past eaten Spam though. Not right now, though. Right now, I’m linking over.
Helen–You are *not* spam…yay!
I don’t think I’ve actually eaten Spam. If I did, it was by accident. :)
Seeley–Sounds like a plan to me! WordPress hosts my website, so at least I’m somewhat familiar (not hugely familiar, but somewhat). Migration just needs to go smoothly so the RSS feeds don’t get messed up. Bleh.
I’ve often thought some comment were spam when they were not. Likewise, because I use a name that doesn’t have a name, some people have branded ME as spam. That’s why I have to write my name here too.
Maria RR
Maria–Oh, I wouldn’t brand you as spam! Especially on a reading or writing-related blog. What I’m seeing are comments that are half a page long of complete nonsense words and mention a string of pharmaceuticals in them. :)