Tuesday Writing Essentials: Finding the good stuff

There were a couple of articles yesterday that fit beautifully into my goals for WE Tuesdays - i.e. spotlighting people's best work on Gather

Sue * started a discussion about What Makes A Gather Article Successful? Who Do You Read?  The article and comments are well worth reading - both for recommendations to a lot of excellent writers on Gather, and also for ideas about how to build your own readership.

Ivy's article Recommending Excellent Gather Writing also provides a lot of links to excellent works on Gather - and asks for your recommendations as well.

Aside from the ~minor~ little detail that they both posted on Monday rather than on Tuesday, both articles are well worth your time - and I am sure that they will continue to be revisted for quite some time, so your input to them will be welcomed.

 You might also be interested in joining the group Recommending Other Gather Writers. Owned by Ron Hall, the group is about reading other Gather authors, and then putting together a post that brings that author's work to the attention of che community.

As always on Tuesdays, I invite you to tell us about your best work on Gather - especially right now with the 3x promotion, there is a fair amount of not people's best work .... if you've posted something that has been lost in the sheer volume of new posts ... or if you have an older best work you would like to spotlight, please let us know about it in the comments below.

And if you'd like to recommend other writers' best work, feel free to do that as well :)

And just a reminder - if you would like to get an email reminding you to stop by Writing Essentials Tuesdays, please do join Tuesday WE Opt In. Past columns featuring previous spotlighted recommendations are featured in the group, as well.... so if you have some spare time, stop by for some great reading recommendations.

Here's you weekly primer re: creating a link :) As always, if you aren't able, post anyway and we'll do the link for you ... but just in case today's the day you're going to master it:

To Make Your Own Links

It really isn't hard. Here's how I do it:

I go to the article I want to make a link to in another window (or tab, depending on the browser), and do that copying thing.

Then I type <a href="">whatever I want the link to say </a>

Then go back and put your cursor between the quotation marks ("") and right-click and paste.

So - if I want to make a link to Jill Pazereckas' Neurology Lessons...I go there and click in the address bar of the article, then right-click, Copy  (or I can use CTRL+C)

So  http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977366069 is now in my clipboard

(or, as my friend Lorr used to tell me, in my mouse)

<a href="http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977366069"> Neurology Lessons</a>

becomes: Neurology Lessons