Hi Everyone
On October 25th I was Nominated for the Liebster Award by Wendy from searchingforthehappiness.wordpress.com, thank you so much Wendy, you have an awesome blog and I love following it.
I have recently been away in London and wanted to take time to think about who to nominate before I went ahead and did so.
For this award I have received 11 questions to answer. Hope you find out a little more about me and if you have any questions, please fee free to ask away.
1. What has been the most rewarding part of blogging for you?
- Writing a guest blog post for a HR company and it got a mention in The New York Times
- Writing a blog post – Any opportunity to write and I am ecstatic
- Communicating with some amazing people
- Having Author and Writing Coach Rochelle Melander, guest blog on my blog
- Having competitions for people to win a copy of Write-A-Thon
- A blog post from my other blog, http://www.beatredundancyblues.wordpress.com being featured as a headline on Platform 3 online newspaper from Switzerland
2. What have friends and family said about you having a blog?
My mum can’t even text, bless her, let alone go on the internet but she is pleased when I win an award. My dad picks over grammar, punctuation and spelling and tells me if there is something wrong, bless him. My friends are happy that my blog is successful and are very encouraging.
3. Has your blog helped you professionally or is your blog just for fun?
My blog has certainly helped me professionally. It has boosted my status as a professional writer and I have other writers following my blog that I feel so honoured by.
4. How long have you been blogging?
I started this blog in November 2010.
5. What state or country do you live in?
I live in Exeter, in Devon, in the UK.
6. What is your favorite hobby?
Writing of course, I adore it from head to toe and back again.
7. What is your favorite type of food?
I like Thai food, if I can get the place serving it to cater for my allergies. East St Thai restaurant in London is good at doing this for me. I also like Chinese food and the same thing applies.
8. Do you have a pet? If so, what type?
I have four extremely beautiful guineapigs who live indoors with me. Snuggles, Peaches, Daisy and Cinnamon.
9. What is your favorite book?
- Childrens’ – I like the Gruffalo and all Mr Men and Little Miss books
- Writing – How to Write a How To book
- Business – How to Start and Run Your Own Internet Business
10. What is your favorite movie?
I like the dance movie “You’ve Got Served”, Dirty Dancing and Grease.
11. What is your favorite thing to do when you have free time?
- Write
- Go to the cinema
- Spend time cuddling my guineapigs
- See family and friends
It’s now my turn to nominate 11 blogs to win the Liebster Award:
- What first inspired you to start writing a blog?
- What is the biggest challenge you have ever had to face when writing your blog?
- If you travelled through time, what time would you want to arrive at and why?
- Do you prefer to eat chocolate or sweets (or neither)?
- Do you prefer to read or to write?
- What is your favourite genre of writing and why?
- What is your favourite non-fiction topic to read about and why?
- If you could buy one book that would help you to solve a problem in your life, what would it be and why?
- Do you prefer to write at night or during the day?
- If you could be any character out of any book, who would you be and why?
- Do you prefer to read a printed book or an e-Book?
Congratulations to all the nominees, I can’t wait to see your answers and which 11 blogs you have chosen to nominate.
I like the snow on your blog. That reminds me to put some on mine. Thanks for liking my blog.
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Glad you like the snow, I see you have now added it to yours, love it! I have nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger award on my http://beatredundancyblues.wordpress.com blog because you have a great blog.
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And again, via your blog, a great big thank you from me too Sandra! Vienna was great, thanks. It inspired my latest blog post, but maybe not in the way one would expect. Anyway thanks again for your kind nomination and I will get back to you asap. Have a lovely weekend, Louise
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Let’s try that again. 🙂 Now, here is the link to my answers! And thank you once again!
http://diedreblake.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/liebster-award-last-of-the-mohicans-and-lord-of-the-rings/
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Thanks for taking the time to answer the award questions. Great to learn more about you.
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Thank you so very much once again! Here is a link to my answers! 🙂
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Great to read your answers. What type of therapy do you do?
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You are very welcome and very worthy.
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Thanks again for the nomination Sandra. You can find my answers and nominees at:
http://inspire1life.com/2012/11/23/liebster-award/
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Your answers are great and I have left a comment on your blog. Thanks for inspiring others with your words.
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First, I want to say thank you for nominating my blog, for this award.
1. My inspiration for starting my blog, was to talk about issues, that need to be addressed. That is why I call it the truth blog. But I do a variation of different topics to keep it fresh. Most every topic I talk about is my idea, unless stated in that piece, I am writing for that day.
2. Sometimes I have writers block, and that can be the worst thing to have. I have no idea what to write about, But what I do is, if I see something that inspires me, then I talk about it on my blog. I also came up with an idea, well actually someone gave me an idea, to do videos on my blog. I have a lot of people who are inspired by my blog and I am blessed to have all these people who love my blog. Thank you everyone.
3. If I was to travel through time, I would love to go back to where everything was good. You may have to work hard, but at least back then we don’t have to deal with what we are dealing with today. I know that may sound crazy.
4. I prefer Chocolate sometimes, and sweets sometimes. It depends on my mood.
5. I love to read, but I also started writing a book to, along with my blog. I also have 3 poems published in books, which are sold on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
6. I always wanted to do children’s books or non fiction/ fiction books.
7. I love Nora Roberts Books, she is great. Her books also play on TV on Lifetime movie network to.
8. I would buy a book, that would help me make myself a better person. Because I didn’t have someone to teach things when I was younger, so there are things I could learn to make myself better.
9. I prefer to write at night, because usually there is less noise at night.
10. If you ever heard about the this lady Tracy Frank, who opened a 360 acre farm to animals, I would love to be like her. But I would also do it for children to. So, I would love to protect the children, animals and the environment. That is my goal someday.
11. I love to read printed books, because I love pictures, but e-books are good because I have e-books from J.R.R Tolkien and more and when I listen to them, you actually feel like you are in the story.
I hope this isn’t to long for everyone
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Thank you so much for taking the time out to answer my questions. It’s fantastic to hear about you and how caring you are. I don’t think you answers are too long at all. I love animals and think that is a superb idea. Protecting children is wonderful too, as is the environment. I know what you mean about go back to when everything was good, I do a day job and the pay is not great for meeting todays’ living costs, never mind about anything else.
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Yes I know, I agree with you. I am still looking for a job.
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I don’t know if you are aware that I have another blog to help people who are redundant to get back into work but the information applies to all job seekers too. It’s at http://www.beatredundancyblues.wordpress.com I hope you find some of it helpful?
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Oh no I didn’t thank you very much
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Thanks for following my redundancy blog.
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Your welcome, I have not had a chance to check it till now though,
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Sandra, thank you for the nomination. I really appreciate it. 🙂
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You are most welcome. To inspire people is truly a gift, keep up the great work.
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Congratulations and thank you very much on passing on the love, it’s also nice to know more about you!
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You are very welcome. A well deserved nominee.
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Thank you for the nomination! I’m enjoying your blog as well 🙂 I’m really enjoying exploring the blogging community – this helps! Peace!
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Glad you are loving the bloggersphere and I look forward to reading more of your posts.
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Congratulations! You do deserve this! Thank you for the nomination, very much, I am appreciative and again I thank you for thinking of me! 🙂
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Thanks Penny. You absolutely deserve it too, you always put so much effort into your blog posts.
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Thank you. Some things are more important than others and I think right now on this planet it is a good time to share this. I do appreciate you and your words and what you give to me and others with your posts! 🙂
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Lovely. Thanks so much.
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A pleasure. I hope your weekend is going well for you!
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Congratulations and great choices 😀
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Thanks Alastair. You have an awesome blog too.
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You’re welcome, and thanks Sandra
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