Tuesday Writing Essentials - Spotlight

So .... 3x points week is over. And there were an awful lot of articles published during it....so many that some of the good stuff might well have been overlooked. Was any of it yours?

Here's your chance to give it another go - let us know about your best article.... it doesn't have to be a recent one ... if your best is one of your older works, that's okay too.

Here are some of the suggestions that were offered last week:

• My recommendation was  Jill Pazereckas' Neurology Lessons.  And also, there is a lot of great content highlighted in Sue's What Makes A Gather Article Successful? Who Do You Read? and Ivy's Recommending Excellent Gather Writing
• Pat Bertram told us about an interesting chat about fiction that took place in Questions to Ponder
• Jenn K sent us to one of her favourite works, Why There Are Holidays
• amy s. posted Revere Beach, Oh what a Blast!

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Here's your 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 Umar Solo Mascogo's Anonymous Islands...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=281474977375025  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=281474977375025"> Anonymous Islands</a>

becomes: Anonymous Islands