by Sam Dounis | May 11, 2017 | Blogging, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Uncategorized, Writing
When you work on your own, it’s easy to get yourself tied up in knots when it comes to blogging. You start off with ‘what should I blog about today?’, and via ‘that’s a rubbish idea’, ‘who’s going to want to read...
by Sam Dounis | Apr 6, 2017 | About Sam, Blogging, Cartoons, Stories, Thoughts and Musings
One of my most popular blog posts is about a conversation I overheard. It involved a group of men in suits, discussing their colleague, who had the audacity to wear yellow shoes to work. I love this particular post because it’s about an ever-so-slightly absurd...
by Sam Dounis | Feb 7, 2017 | Blogging, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Writing
It’s normal to sit down to write a blog and not know what you’re going to write about. It happens all the time to professional writers. Here’s what Aaron Sorkin had to say about his time writing the West Wing: “You have to write next...
by Sam Dounis | Feb 6, 2017 | About Sam, Blogging, Stories, Writing
Last week the husband appeared in my study, brandishing an article that one of his colleagues had given him. It was from a trusted source, and it declared that one of the things he should be doing, is blogging. Never mind that his wife has been telling him that for...
by Sam Dounis | Jan 16, 2017 | About Sam, Blogging, Stories, Thoughts and Musings, Writing
I’m always looking for ways to improve my writing, so there are a plethora of ‘how to’ writing books, containing tips, tricks, techniques, and the wisdom of published authors gracing my bookshelves. Something that most writers agree on, is that...
by Sam Dounis | Dec 20, 2016 | Blogging, Writing
The term ‘Content Marketing’ has become a bit of a buzz-phrase in recent times, but what exactly is meant by the word ‘content’?? For me it’s anything you publish that helps people to choose you over the other people who do what you do....
