After having ceased personal blogging for several months I am about to resume all three of my blogs. There will be once weekly posts on my writing blog (Real Words) and my San Francisco blog (San Francisco is Sexy). There will also be fresh new regular posts here on Diary of a Smart Chick. I’ve set some new rules for myself about the new posts here on this site. Those rules include:

• I will post at least three times per week. I was posting here multiple times per day but that is just a bit too much. Ideally I’d like to post her five times per week but I’m committing to at least three.
• I will only link to the articles I’ve written that most interested me. One of the purposes of this blog is to share information about the other topics I write about on various blogs. However in the past I was linking to almost every article I wrote around the web. Instead I’m just going to be highlighting the topics that were truly interesting to me and elaborating on them here on this blog.
• I’ll be posting on smart stuff that captures my interest. One of the points of this blog is that I am a smart chick who likes a diverse range of different random smart stuff. I’ll be linking to more of that stuff and sharing my opinion on it.
• I’ll be resuming some regular posts but I’m not sure which ones yet. I had been doing a question of the week, a book of the day and a photo of the day. I’ll be resuming some of those things but probably less often and I haven’t made a final decision on the schedule for doing that yet. It’s something that you’ll see incorporated into the blog over the next month or so.
• Photos on all posts will be taken by me or attributed to the photographer via a link. I had been using a lot of my own photos on the blog but I was also using random images from Flickr and Google Images. I’ll be primarily using my own photos on the blog posts now or else I’ll include a photo that I like but will link you back to its source so you can learn more about it if you’d like to.

Tags: blog update, diary of a smart chick, restarting blog, resuming blog

It’s a new month. I think that’s a good time to think about what’s going to be happening around here on the blog and I thought that’s something that you might want to know as readers as well. Here’s what you can expect from Diary of a Smart Chick this month:

• Photo of the Day. I haven’t gotten much feedback about whether or not the Photo of the Day is a good feature of this site. However, I’m enjoying the fact that it gives me a reason to take more photos so I’ll continue on with it through September. Your thoughts are welcome.
• Book Reviews and Author Interviews. Last month I started doing a “book of the day” as well but that didn’t really work out so well. Although I do read an average of 5-7 books per week I was finding it too difficult to really keep up with reviewing them all daily. However, I do want to feature more book reviews on the site. There will be approximately one review per week this month and that will include at least one interview with the author of a book.
• One giveaway. I did a giveaway last month that worked out really well so I’ll be trying to do at least one more this month.
• Question of the Week. This will be a new feature on Diary of a Smart Chick. It will be a simple question that I’ll pose to my readers for you to answer and debate in the comments section. This will be going live every Tuesday morning starting next week. Let me know what you think of it!
• Links to my Work Around the Web. Part of what I do here on Diary of a Smart Chick is to link to the work that I’m doing around the web in order to share it with others and to create an online portfolio. When you see links on the site that’s often where they’re directing you to so if you’re interested in my writing then you may want to follow those links.

What else would you like to see on Diary of a Smart Chick?

Tags: Blog, blog update, question of the week

People who read this blog regularly know that I tend to update it multiple times daily. Therefore it seems really quiet around here when I go a day or two without posting. I just thought that I’d give a brief update to let you know what’s been going on.

I’m sad to say that I’ve been dealing with some health issues. The good news is that none of them are serious and I’m starting to get them under control. However, appointments to deal with the issues have taken up a lot of my time lately. As a result I’ve fallen a bit behind on my work. I’m catching on on everything for my clients first and then I’ll be back here and active on the blog.

Expect one or two posts to trickle in over the next couple of days and then things should be back to normal. Thanks for your patience!

Tags: blog update, illness