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  1. The Blog Centre

    Thanks for adding our question. The effort and late nights/early morning commitments show.
    Wishing you all the best for your future in blogging –

  2. Ah brilliant, thanks for answering my question – that makes a lot of sense to just start writing and see what happens! Not sure I would be joining your dinner party though- sounds intimidating!
    Love your mistakes list too – the code one sounds particularly scary, I would have been panicking. Thanks for including my twitter handle. Ellen

    • Thanks for submitting it 🙂 The just write and see what happens thing works for me! The party might be a bit worrisome lol! I did panic, like really panicked, but I try to look at it as everything’s fixable – that could be a mistake in itself!

  3. This has been such an interesting read. I’ve been tinkering a little with HTML from time to time and tend to just copy & paste from tutorials as i don’t understand it enough myself…..I think I would have gone into a cold sweat had I messed the code so much 😉 Thank you for including my dinner party question, quite an eclectic bunch with JK Rowling & Hitler!
    Angela x

  4. “[B]logging and fiction writing are two very different things. On my blog, I’m me. I talk as I do in real life (minus the swearing!). Fiction writing needs many different voices, few of them my own.” Very important to remember that when you blog. I post occasional fiction pieces, but usually, as you said, I’m me when blogging.

  5. blabbermama

    Your dinner party guests are interesting I bet the conversions you would have would make for twisted tales 2! Nice insight into your blogging life #bloggerclubuk

  6. Cheryl @ ReimerandRuby

    This is such a brilliant idea… It’s great to know more information about you and your blogging life, very interesting and yet so inspirational. #BloggerClubUK

  7. It’s great to hear your blogging story. What you have achieved in just over a year is fantastic but then if you are up until 4am you are clearly committed! And you wrote a book! Incredible. #BloggerClubUK

  8. Well, nosey old me loves bloggers answering questions so I really enjoyed this post, Debbie.

    I’d be too scared to attend you dinner party!!

    Oh, I do hope I avoid any major mistakes on my blog. I’ve had some issues and near misses…Like realising 4 months in that my blog wasn’t being backed up and realising I didn’t have any security in place to protect my blog.
    Thanks for sharing.
    #BloggerClubUK

  9. DiscomBUBulated

    Really interesting read, thank you! The clangers make me feel a LOT better too. 😀 #BloggerClubUK

  10. I love this feature – great to read some of the questions as I would have asked them too. It’s so encouraging to hear that you’ve grown through social media and SEO. I also love your dinner party, I agree with meeting Hitler…I am most intrigued by his mind and also have been. Thanks for hosting #BloggerClubUK

  11. This is a great idea and brill that I am reading this right now. I’m extremely new to blogging-my 3rd week in fact! Some of the things you mentioned in this post I have no idea about and others I have only just learnt about…its been a very steep learning curve. I’ve been wondering how it’s possible to fit everything in as I’ve been up till gone 1am on far too many nights but it’s kinda nice to know that many others probably are too! Looking forward to the next set of answers! 😊👍 #BloggerClubUK

    • Thank you 🙂 It really is a steep learning curve, but it’s a rewarding one too. Whenever you learn a new thing and your blog benefits, it’s such a good feeling. There are plenty of us sat blogging away into the night!

  12. Harriet Miller

    I really need to learn more about coding. I too work full time, and am a single mum so find it hard to find the time but never feel like blogging is a chore, more like a mind dump onto the screen. #BloggerClubUK

  13. i like the idea of everyone posting their blog posts at the same time 12 is quite late for us isn’t it. Of course 1am is out of the question (apart form us diehards!). Sorry you lost those posts – if you know Alice (the Fairy Blogmother) she is always good for a shout out if you get in a pickle and she knows just about everything about code and is writing a series of books on blogging and its technical aspects in plain English as we speak. Jo x

  14. Great post and your dinner party sounds amazing! I always feel stumped when I face that question, it’s just impossible to choose but I think J K Rowling may well be in my top five also! #BloggerClubUK

  15. I must say, I would totally have Jeffrey Dahmer as a dinner party guest as well, I have a thing about serial killers, I love reading the books on them and watching documentaries. I think that would be a great dinner party for sure. Congratulations on publishing your book, that’s an amazing achievement to say the least. #BloggerClubUK

    Jordanne

  16. I have this weird thing about wanting to know murderers motives. I think all people have a motive for what they do so why are murderers any different!! Really good to get to know you a bit more #bloggerclubuk

  17. I love things like this, I’m a bit nosy and it’s a great way to get to know the person behind the blog. #bloggerclubuk

  18. Trista, Domesticated Momster

    Love this idea Debbie! I love getting to know other bloggers and your questions are so interesting! Thanks for hostessing #bloggerclubuk

  19. Lizzie firstooth

    Ah! I’ve had the same problems with wordpress daylight savings I woke up ready to join a linky and was like ‘where’s my post?!’ and I can imagine a lot of swearing when you adapted your css. Interesting dinner guest choices too. I admire your reasons

  20. Silly Mummy

    These questions and answers were fascinating. From my past work I have met, talked to, read reports on, and represented very many killers, of very different types and motivations. It is interesting, though it gets to you after a while. Serial killers are very distinct from others in their motivations and their thinking, but I think are also the ones that will always be hardest to understand, and I’m not sure anyone ever fully does. I find child killers very interesting. Not people who kill children, children who kill. Our reaction as a society to those children is also interesting.

    I also always found the Nazis interesting, though (perhaps strangely) there are leading Nazis who I think were more interesting & more inexplicable than Hitler, who I’d perhaps have been more interested in. Probably wouldn’t want to have dinner with any of them though!

    Freud & JK Rowling I agree on! #BloggerClubUK

    • Thank you 🙂 I imagine it would definitely get to you, but it must have been fascinating getting to talk to them and find out their motivations, although I agree that maybe we’ll never fully understand it. I find children who kill interesting too – how does a child so young even think to do something like that, and societies reaction is fascinating too. We are quick to lay blame with the parents, films, TV etc, but never with society itself.
      I think the Hitler thing is a fascination with how he was magnetic enough to get so many people behind him, so probably it would be best to talk to some of his followers and find out what they saw in him.
      It would be a bizarre dinner, that’s for sure!

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