How to Create a Blog and Connect with SweetCircles

How to Create a Blog and Connect with Friends in SweetCircles, a Social Weblog Platform

Author: Karlee Drew

A weblog is a kind of blog or website or component within a website whereby people may post periodical entries which are then viewable by visitors to the site, structured from the most recent to the oldest entries.

Social Networking builds online communities of people with shared interests. A Social Weblog site offers a regular comments or online journal by individuals and communities.

The previous one is inclined to be a focus for large numbers of individuals however is short of classy methods of annotations due to poor journalizing tools; the last one provides sophisticated commentary, however naturally be deficient in the ability to network large statistics of people due to a lack of aggregation tools.

If there is a combined version of these two technological directions could prove to be exceedingly valuable. SweetCircles is a new innovative combination of Social Weblog and Social Networking which is intended for Friend Connect i.e., Friends Networking.

Follow the below Steps to Create Blog in this Friends

1. Go to this free hosted SweetCircles.com site to Create Blog.


2. Enter your preferred Blog Name in the Text Box in the Top right corner.


3. Then Click the "Get Your Blog Free" under the Textbox.


4. Enter a username, locality, preferred blog name and active email account address


5. And click Register Me Button.


6. Please check your email for your login information.


7. You will receive an Auto Generated Password in your mail.


8. You could possibly change your password later on by clicking the "Edit My Profile" Link in Left Navigation Links.


9. After that you will receive a "Your Registration was Successful" message.


10. Enter a blog title. This will be English on the main banner of your blog home page (and all other pages). This should be selected carefully to reflect your main theme.


11. Multiple Users can contribute in your Blog, by entering the email ids, by clicking the "Manage Users" Link.


12. Start creating new posts, write gossips, participate in Forum, customize your profile, bookmark your favorite URLs/links, post comments on other blogs, customize design, try free online games to play and so on.

Once you have completed steps and explored all the features in SweetCircles, Create Blog, start Social Blogging, Connect with Friends, Fun, Thoughts, and Make New Friends and form a Network for Friends as well even there could be Free Online Games To Play with your friends.

There are many more ways you can customize your blog with plug-ins, feeds, blog rolls, and you will be getting connected with like-minded friends, but these effortless steps are all you have to follow so as to create blog and friends networking.

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About the Author

Karlee Drew

karlee.drew@yahoo.com

6 Questions: Answers from the Author

The following questions were sent to me by fans. Feel free to add questions to the bottom of this post and I will be happy to reply.

Question: Who is your favorite author and is your writing style similar to theirs?


Morris Pike: My favorite author, this is such a difficult question for me, and is my writing style similar to theirs? Well I have quite a few authors I try to emulate. Ernest Hemmingway and John Steinbeck are the two authors that I study desperately trying to decipher their simplicity. I certainly wish my writing resembled theirs, but I'm a realist and just hope that I can write a few sentences every once and then that are progressing toward these these masters of the pen. Among 18th century authors I have to say that I thoroughly enjoy reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and find him such a fascination. I admit that the chapter "The Tunnel of Life and Death," is a tribute to the end of Poe's "Cask of Amontillado." I first was exposed to Poe in sixth grade and his tales have haunted me ever since. I am fond of Kurt Vonnegut. His quirky writing style is easy to read and I enjoy the hours afterwards I spend thinking about what just happened in the story. Cat's Cradle is one of my favorites. Ray Bradbury is by far my favorite author. I think the first story I ever read by Bradbury as a kid was Fahrenheit 451, and it grabbed me. I think Fahrenheit 451 was the first book where I said to myself this is crazy but a real possibility. Go back and read Fahrenheit 451, you'll be shocked by what Bradbury predicted way back in 1950. Fahrenheit 451 had such a powerful message about learning, reading in general, and following the crowd no matter what. Doing what others do for the sake of what's popular leads to certain disaster. These are my favorite writers, Bradbury is #1, I have some others I didn't mention like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Harper Lee; I think my writing style is bits and pieces of all of them.

Question: What is your favorite part of a book?


Morris Pike: I would say my favorite part of the book is the denouement, or that part of the story after the climax where all the loose ends are tied up. My favorite ending to a book is in Return of the King by JRR Tolkien. When Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin ride back into Hobbiton after surviving the ring's quest and destroying Sauron to only find that they've got to fight once more was great. I love to see characters begin weak and then return to their homes strong and kick butt, which is what they do when the find Hobbiton taken over by Sharkey. Sad to say this part is not in the movie version and that makes it all the better!

Question: When naming your characters, do you give any thought to the actual meaning?


Morris Pike: Absolutely, all characters in my stories have names that mean something. The Battle for Borobudur has a lot of names that match or represent characters in Homer's Odyssey. Athena and O. Decius are obvious, but some of the names like Bimo Bambang for example, is a combination of two names which mean "brave knight." I like to plant little easter eggs in just about all of my character names hoping it might be fun for someone to figure out what they mean.


Question: Who is your target audience?


Morris Pike: I write for all boys and girls in grades 4-8, but many adults have read my stories and enjoy them. Sometimes this demographic is called Middle Grades or Young Adult. I prefer Middle Grade Readers. As a former teacher I make a consorted effort to keep chapters short and reading level low. I am a big believer in word count. Basically my theory is that total words successfully read is more important than the difficulty of the text. I hope to write books that give children the opportunity to be engrossed in the story while at the same time exposing them to a high word count. I think JK Rowling did a fantastic job of this and so have some of her predecessors.


Question: What are the major themes of your work?


Morris Pike: I am a firm believer in redemption and forgiveness. In all of my stories there are characters who no matter how bad, and how cruel they lived their lives there is always a chance to turn things around. I'm not sure why these characters appeal to me so much. I guess it is the underdog in them that I root to win out over their evil tendencies. Another major theme I embed in my stories is honest loyalty. There are plenty of characters and people in real life who are loyal to others, gang members come to mind, but their intents are not always just. Theirs is a selfish form of loyalty, whereas characters like Jobari Tubbs are committed to their friends even in the darkest times.




Question: What do you think people search for in a book?


Morris Pike: I think everyone looks for an emotional escape when they search for a good book. Readers need to be able to equate the characters' lives and struggles to their own. Once this happens and a writer can move the reader emotionally, the story is a success. The writer accomplishes his or her goal and the reader finds enjoyment. Reading is supposed to be fun. It's sad that so many people, kids especially, hate to read. It's just too powerful of a thinking exercise.

Michael Crichton Father of More Than the Techno Thriller

This is a blog for writers of books for students in the middle grades, but I'd like to focus for moment on the cross-over appeal Michael Crichton had with younger children.

I've read, as you to may have, many of Crichton's books, Andromeda Strain, Congo, the T-Rex collection Jurassic Park and book two The Lost World, Timeline, Sphere and my personal favorite of the them all, Eaters of the Dead. As an educator and as a parent there is a great deal in Crichton's books for adults, adults only if you get my drift. Yet many of his tales have strong appeal to children between the ages of 9-12.

The appeal does not lie in the fact that these stories were simply made into action thrillers. Many of which marketed directly to kids thanks to Mr. Spielberg himself. No, the appeal lies in Crichton's ability to morph the real and unreal into an action packed tale.

Crichton's cinematic style of writing certainly translates well into film and the sheer fantastic nature of how he could tap the fringe of modern science-fact and turn it into science techno-fiction amazes all readers regardless of their age. Crichton may go down in history as the father of the adult "Techno Thriller," but I believe there is much that can be learned by writers for middle grade readers.

Unfortunately Crichton's work would need to be significantly abridged for it to be appropriate for middle grade readers. Take Eaters of the Dead for example, the Beowulf epic retold. Many of the names have been changed, but Crichton's fictional addition of Ibn Fadlan a real-life chronicler mentioned in 7th grade social studies textbooks adds a lot more energy, mystery, and tangible realism to the Beowulf tale. The story certainly has its share of gore and inappropriate adult activity, but minus these parts, the story would unquestionably be rated as a plus over the original Beowulf epic which tends to really turn students off. Crichton's ability to make the implausible seem plausible with modern realism is his greatest asset. Turning the Grendel monster into the Wendol, a pack of blood thirsty neanderthals is a perfect example of this.

So what lessons can be learned from Crichton. First consider the cinematic approach to his writing style. Others have adopted it and have begun to translate their works to the big screen as well Rowling, Gaiman, Riordan, and Pullman to name a few. Like Edgar Allan Poe before him using realism to explain the unexplainable is key. There's not a whole lot of difference between extracting dinosaur DNA from an mosquito stuck in amber and the Plague of the Red Death showing up at your party and killing you, well maybe they're a little different, but both plausible explanations.

So if we want to appeal to our audience we need to take a page from Michael Crichton' s playbook and be unafraid of sending 21st century NASA space shuttles through black holes, and virulent plagues that threaten to wipe out small country cities, and giant squids brought to life with alien technology. These fantastic concepts excite middle grade readers, and it is our responsibility to see to it these wonderful imaginative elements are part of our writing. The adult stuff, let's leave it for the adults, but our readership will reward us with their time, passion and loyalty. What do you think?

I recommend Robert Nye's Beowulf a New Telling if you are looking for an outstanding Beowulf version for middle grade readers.

The Uphill Climb Begins!

I would like to officially welcome you to my blog, and invite you to take the first step with me on this tremendous mountain I am about to trek. As you may or may not know my name is Morris Pike and I write literature for the middle grade to young adult age range. Our Mount Everest will be the collection of 1 million fans in five years. My website at morrispike.com is nearly complete and I hope you find yourself in the characters I have created.

Morris Pike