By Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson
We didn’t really know what to expect when we started blogging. We certainly had no idea that the best part of blogging—truly, the very best—would be discovering the vast audience of sympathetic readers out there, many of whom have wonderful blogs of their own that we now love and follow.
And we are very gratified to find that they like our blog in turn! We’re grateful and honored by the many awards that our readers have bestowed on us. Over the last eight months or so, since our last acknowledgment of awards, those awards include…
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the Versatile Blogger Award from
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the Beautiful Blogger Award from
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the One Lovely Blog Award from
- fun fit 5k plus
- Healthcare Updates
- The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
- The Panama Adventure
- The Palladian Traveler
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the Very Inspiring Blogger Award from
- The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
- Living and Lovin
- A Day In the Life of Jennay
- Picture Perfect Memories for Life
- Travel. Garden. Eat.
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the Reader Appreciation Award from
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the Liebster Blog Award from
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the Super Sweet Blogging Award from
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the Blog on Fire Award from
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the No Strings Attached Gratitude Award from
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the R.E.A.L.I.T.Y. Blog Award from
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the Shine On Award from
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the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award from
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the Inspiring Blog Award from
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the Sunshine Award from
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the Adventurous Blogger Award from
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the Blog of the Year 2012 Award from
- Anotherdayinparadise
- Anotherdayinparadise
- The Palladian Traveler
- Nizy’s Life Compendium
- a hectic life
- Alastair’s Blog
- beebeesworld
- Living and Lovin
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These are all wonderful blogs that we read regularly, and we urge all our other readers to check them out!
These awards each have their own rules to follow and various questions to answer. We did that in our earlier awards posts (here, here, and here). But to do it again now for 16 different awards is beyond our strength, and most likely beyond our readers’ patience. ;-)
So we’ll simply go on to what we take to be the most valuable part of all this award-giving—to nominate for these awards, in turn, the blogs that we are most inspired by, both to acknowledge our enjoyment of them and to point them out for our other readers.
And there are many of them—just as well, since there are many awards to distribute! (And, no doubt, we’ll still find that we’ve inadvertently omitted some favorite, but infrequently published blog—apologies!)
Here’s our list, in alphabetical order ;-)
- 23thorns
- Alice through the Macro Lens
- Allyson Mellone
- Anotherdayinparadise
- Artifacts and fictions
- ArtBea
- At Home in the Hebrides
- A Word in Your Ear
- A year in the Life
- Backpackology
- bluebrightly
- captureford
- Cee’s Photography
- Chicquero
- Choose My Way
- Compass & Camera
- composerinthegarden
- Cornwall—A Photographic Journey
- Creativity Aroused
- Edith Levy Photography
- ElJaygee
- Fenland Photos
- Flickr Comments
- forest forward (Mazzarella Photo)
- Four Deer Oak
- Garden Walk, Garden Talk
- garyschollmeier
- grishmanphotography
- Healthcare Updates
- Hellboy2503’s Foto-Blog
- hovercraftdoggy
- Ian Spagnolo Photography
- ilargia64
- Jeff Sinon Photography
- John Todaro Imagecurrent
- Land-Sea-Sky—Lathail
- Life in the Bogs
- Lightscapes Nature Photography Blog
- Lucid Gypsy
- Lust & Rum
- lyndamichele
- Mike Hardisty Photography
- Milners Blog
- Mirth and Motivation
- MJF Images
- MJ Springett
- Morgan Wiltshire Photography
- mothergrogan
- Nature on the Edge
- Old Woman on a Bicycle
- Out walking the dog
- patriciaddrury
- Petra’s 365 photographs
- Photo avant-garde
- Photo Nature Blog
- Portraits of Wildflowers
- Postcards from Colorado
- retireediary
- Richard Sugden Photography
- Richert Images
- Rodposse.
- Ron Mayhew Photography
- Ruth E Hendricks Photography
- Sébastien Ouvry Photographies
- Shimmering Grains
- studiolightblue
- The Eco and the Id
- The eternal solitude of the restless Mind
- The Palladian Traveler
- The Quotidian Hudson
- The Serenity Space
- The (Urban-Wildlife) Interface
- The Urge to Wander
- The Wanderlust Gene
- The World according to Dina
- Travel Photography by Dmitrii Lezine
- Vastly Curious
- veronika hjorths bilder
- West Coast Kayaker
- Where’s my backpack?
- Words
- Writing Between the Lines
- yi-ching lin photography
- Yoolies Journeys
- Zeebra Designs & Destinations
We know that some of you on this list may not be inclined to accept awards—we’ve still included you to thank you for inspiring and delighting us! But if you are so inclined, pick out any of the awards that we have at our disposal—or two, or three…!—and add it to your collection!
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
That’s quite the collection :-)
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Thanks! We really appreciate the recognition.
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Congratulations on an impressive collection of well-deserved awards! Thank you for the mention. Best wishes for another wonderful year of paddling up the river of life! I look forward to another great year of stellar photos from you.
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Thank you, and we will do our best to oblige!
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Well done!(And thanks, of course, for the pingback!) ;-)
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You are most welcome, and thanks!
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this post took a LOT of work! congratulations, and you handled your fame well! z
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Vlad gets most of the credit, he did the organizing. And thanks!
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Well deserved, I love this blog.
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Thank you! Your comment just keeps making me smile….
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Wow! So many awards! Congratulations! :-)
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Thanks!
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Congrats on your well-deserved recognitions. As I look at your list of award nominees, I am always amazed at all the blogs out there just waiting to be explored and discovered — always enjoy exploring these lists! Thank you ~ Kat
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You are most welcome, Kat! And yes, that’s really the best part of blogging, as we said–discovering all the other bloggers out there! (And these awards do help to do that.)
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Congrats! You deserve all the awards. I wish you another wonderful year of blogging! Good luck, good health, all the best!
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Thank you so much, and all the best to you too!!
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Oh, you two deserve every award in the book – congratulations on this hefty array of good will! I am constantly referring friends to your blog; all awards are well deserved. And thank you for the mention and link; I am honored.
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Thank you, and we love your blog, too!
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Congratulations to you both on all your well-deserved awards. :) Thanks so much for the mention and nomination. I do have most of these, but I do rather fancy the “no strings attached” Gratitude Award. :)
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Go for it, Adinparadise! And thanks!
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Congratulations Johna and Vladimir! If any blog deserves awards, its definitely Wind Against Current. Your enthusiasm, dedication and fantastic content is an inspiration for many of us.
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And vice versa… love your paddling stories!
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Congratulations!
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Thanks!
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Congrats on all of your awards-well deserved!! I’ve enjoyed being a loyal follower and can’t wait to see what you bring in this New Year!! =)
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Thanks! Not that it’s pressure or anything… :-) :-) We’ll do our best to continue to earn your loyalty!
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Well done. Congrats!
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Thank you!
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Congratulations Vlad and Johna – your blog deserves every one of those awards and more that will keep coming. Thanks for the pingback and for the introduction to so many other inspiring bloggers. Keep those beautiful pictures and posts coming in 2013!
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Thanks, and we’ll do our best!
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You have one of the most interesting and well composed blogs here! You both deserve these awards- congratulations ( And you must both have really strong arms!!)
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Backs and core muscles, actually… and thank you!
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Sore means good health and strength for tomorrow.
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Well done I am glad to have you on my list too
Eunice
Though I do not like the new READER hard to find you all :(
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Thank you so much, Eunice!
Don’t have a lot of experience with the Reader, don’t use it much…
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:)
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My you really have the awards to show! Congrats and keep the photos coming.
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Thank you too for placing GWGT in amongst that fine list of nominees.
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Primus inter pares!
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Thank you so much—we’ll keep them coming! :-)
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Congratulations on all those awards, what a treasure. and a huge thanks too! :)
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Thank you for your constant support! :-)
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What a list! Well done.
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Thank you!!
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Congratulations on the numerous award nominations and thanks very much for the recognition!
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Thank you so much, Kerry! Your blog and photos have provided constant inspiration… :-)
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Congratulations!
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Thanks! This “blogging” thing of which you speak has legs, apparently :-) :-)
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Thank you guys for including TWLG among your nominees! Congratulations to you, and thanks also for the introduction to so many new blogs – what a lot of reading I have to do. :)
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Discovering new blogs—that’s a big part of what it’s about! And with the number of bloggers on WordPress, you will never run out ;-)
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well deserving for your very beautiful blog :) thankyou so much for the pingback :)
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You are most welcome, Jenn—we love your blog!
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Thankyou :) what i love best is sharing and seeing the wonderful experiences others have :) i get to travel daily on here :)
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CONGRATULATIONS! Great collection of well deserved awards.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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Thanks so much, Francine!! :-)
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Congratulations! An amazing array of awards. Thank you so much for the mention! :-)
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You are most welcome—you have the best photos, and we look forward to your posts every day… :-)
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Congratulations!!!!! Your place is full of adventure, and adventure is important in life,,,You deserve it!
And Thanks a lot for the mention!!!
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Adventure is what it’s all about! :-)
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Congrats – well deserved. And thank you – I confess I wouldn’t know technically how to pick an award and add it to my collection (actually it would be the first). But it’s the thought that counts!
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Absolutely no need to pick an award! But if you did want to do so, just pick the one you want—ultimately, they are all not that different from each other ;-) —and follow the rules. Which of course we didn’t follow, or even post—to see what they are, you might have to go to the blog that gave us that award. Then follow the rules or not, do with them what you will, your choice… :-)
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Congratulations – Yours is indeed a meritorious blog – both words and pictures and I’ve really enjoyed voyaging along with you in canoe around your part of the world. Thank you for the mention, for your support of my posts and for the nomination. Am minful of the honour, without taking the award
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Much more and even better to come in 2013, we hope—on our blog and yours! :-)
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congratulations..and thank you very much for the nomination .. you guys are one of our longest followers! :)
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We love your blog and look forward to your posts each and every day—don’t know how you manage to come up with the wonderful and surprising photos you do!
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Vladimir,
Thanks for mentioning us, you are a great follower!
Lots of love from Brazil..
Cheers! :)
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You are most welcome—we love your style! :-)
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Thank you so much for including me on your list! I am truly honored to be in such great company :)
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You are most welcome—it’s well deserved!
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Thanks for the mention, and keep up the great work here!
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Thanks, John! And you too!
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thank you, again, for being so generous! xo, y
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You are most welcome! :-)
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Thank you, thank you, thank you…Really appreciate the mention!
If I weren’t so technically challenged…haven’t figured out much more than simply posting on my blog at this point…thank you for your kindness though…greatly appreciated!
SLB
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It’s the posts on your blog that we like, a lot… :-)
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Your blog is certainly deserving of accolades! Thank you for including me in your list of inspiration-worthy blogs.
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You are very welcome!! :-)
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Congratulations on all your well-deserved awards!! I’m very honored for the mention and nomination especially coming from a blogger, photographer and writer whose body of work I truly admire..I look forward to more amazing photos from you!!
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Thank you so much for saying so :-) We discovered your blog quite recently, but it’s quickly come to be one of our favorites…
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In gratitude for your understanding…I am honored to be acknowledged on your blog list of nominations. I look forward to following you both in 2013 and I appreciate your taking time to click likes and write comments on my blog. All the best to you and congratulations on your extensive award collection. Wowee. Ruth in Pittsburgh
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Thanks, Ruth! All the best to you in 2013, and looking forward to more lovely photos on your blog! :-)
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Wow…congratulations on all your awards. Well deserved I may add and thank you so much for nominating me. I’m really honoured.
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The honor is all ours… :-)
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let me say like Naomi (above):
“Congratulations on an impressive collection of well-deserved awards! Thank you for the mention. Best wishes for another year of paddling up the river of life!”
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Thanks so much!!
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wow..that’s impresive!!well done!!one question..are we nominated for all these awards??thanks and have a nice day!!
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Take your pick! As many as you want—limited only by your modesty ;-)
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haha..:) Thanks again!
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Congratulations again on your abundance of awards and thank you for including my blog… I am deeply honored and accept the gifts! :-)
Merci
Eliz
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Thanks and you are most welcome!
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You deserve all those awards. Your blog is inspirational. Thanks for the nomination. I’ll read up on what I have to do. :)
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You are most welcome, Suzanne! And enjoy the process…. it’s (more than) half the fun!
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An impressive list of well deserved awards. Congratulations, and may 2013 be just a fruitful for you!
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Thanks, and you also, Jeff!
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Congratulations and Thank you!
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Congratulations and you’re welcome! :-) Keep up the great work!
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Congrats! I’m a new blogger and I hope to get an award too someday!
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That will happen for sure, TheGirl! Most likely many…keep up the great work!
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Wow! So many (well deserved) awards. Congrats and thanks for the mention. :D I would be grateful of any advice you have to improve my writing and one-year-old blog.
All the best in 2013!
– Catherine
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Congratulations to you, too, Catherine–you made it to the one-year mark! My advice: Write about (or photograph) what you’re truly passionate about.
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Many thanks for the congratulations and great advice!
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You’re welcome–after I wrote that I thought, “Jeez, that sounds trite, EVERYBODY says that. ”
I don’t mean it to be trite, but rather intensely practical… what I was getting at is that sometimes (often) you find yourself deciding between two different posts: one that you promised to write, or just want to done just to do one, or otherwise isn’t “singing” to you… and another one that grabs you by the throat.
In that case…. do the second one! The other one will always be there for a slow day when you’re uninspired….but if you constantly tell your spirit and passion to wait for a more convenient time, it will eventually just give up and leave.
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Johna I like your advice to Catherine — write when you are moved and inspired to do so. And on a day of zero inspiration write because you promised yourself you would. It reminds me of writers block. When faced with a blank sheet of paper — write something even if it starts “I really don’t feel like writing today!”
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That’s actually a good, or least versatile, first sentence. It could lead to a memoir, or a self-help book… leaving your options open!
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No worries, Johna! You are so kind to follow up with me. Thanks again for your help! : )
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Congratulations on your stockpile of awards :-) I am honoured to be in your list of nominees, thank you.
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Thanks! Discovering blogs like yours is what makes the WordPress experience worthwhile!
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