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Hello, my site is mostly pictures but I am trying to write more this year, Just a day in the life. Feedback welcome.
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Happy New Year guys!!
I have been trying my hand at Hindi poetry for the last two months. Would love it if you guys checked it once. नए साल की हार्दिक शुभमानायें सभी को। बड़ी ही ख़ुशी होगी अगर अहमदुल्लाह की शायरी पढ़ने का कष्ट करें यहां की आवाम। धन्यवाद।
https://rhassanahmadaullah.wordpress.com
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Hi, I have a blog that I really started just for fun, written in the prospective of a dog. If you feel like reading it and giving me any feedback that would be great or if you just want to read it for a chuckle that’s good too. whenparkspeaks.wordpress.com
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Love the angle you have taken. Great blog xx
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Thanks it has been fun to write.
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Absolutely agree
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A humorous concept combined with great writing. 😀
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What a fun blog! A few more photos or images might break up the text a bit, but the content is great. Following!
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Hello friends, and Happy New Year! I have a question for anyone who might know about plugins. I signed up for PopUp Domination, and I want to get Yoast for my blog, but with the new WordPress update, I am unable to install my own plugins. Does anyone have any advice/run into this problem before?
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Hi, my understanding is that using WordPress.com, we can’t use plugins. If one uses WordPress.org and self-hosts, you can use plugins. But I’m still learning, so I may be incorrect about this!
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That’s what I’ve heard as well, but I have a lot of reservations about moving over to a .org site.
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Me as well. I tried out a wordpress.org self-hosting process a couple of years ago, and I found that having the built-ins through wordpress.com and also the speed (when posting, etc.) was much better on wordpress.com. Plus, there is the built-in community through the wordpress reader. Good luck!
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Thank you! I wish I had taken advantage of the plugins when we were still able to edit them in wordpress.com!
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yes, “live and learn”!
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I’d like to invite everyone to stop by and check out a photography piece from a few months ago, “Autumn 2016.” The photograph was taken during a hike, and captured the atmosphere of the season. If you like the photograph, please click the “like” button on the post page. Comments and feedback are always welcome, and please leave them in the comments section of the post page as well. If you like what you see, feel free to browse around, and follow along so you don’t miss anything as I post several times a week. Thanks in advance.
Drew
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Hey everybody,
I’ve just started a blog about writing fiction and I have two posts so far. I’d love if you would check out my post about developing characters and give me some feedback: https://plottingblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/developing-characters/
Please leave comments on my site.
Thanks so much!
Allison White
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Hey, I also write fiction and stuff.
Just read your post and found it really interesting. Keep on the good work❤happy blogging.
https://storiesfrommydiary.wordpress.com/
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Hello everybody! I have a blog I just started, and I would love some constructive feedback. passthepick.wordpress.com it is for God, for the people, and for the love of music. I hope y’all get curious and come check it out! 🙂 thanks for reading
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Thanks for your post “The New Year.” It was simple, sweet, and encouraging. https://gracelead.co
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Oh thank you!! I really appreciate your kind words.
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Hey all,
I just wanted to stop by and see if I could attract anyone to be a guest poster on my blog. I am doing a series called Sunday stories and would love to hear from anyone. Its a series where I am going to get fellow bloggers out there to share their life quotes, affirmations, songs, poems and pictures, whatever it is that make them who there are. In an essence – their stories. More appropriately, their reasons of being – their ikigai.
I just want to connect with the world to find out how they found there ikigai with the hope to help me find mine. I want to know what makes them them to leap out of bed, the words that they choose to live by, the greatest advice they have been given…. All of it. There is a world of experience inside each of us and I want to explore it. I want to know people. I want to know the moments that defined their life.
And if your thinking I don’t have a story, email me. Let’s talk and see where it goes. If anything, you get to meet someone new (that’s me) and I get to know you.
I have some Sunday stories already on my blog and they have kindly wrote about their experiences of doing a Sunday story with me. Have a look and I hope to hear from you soon.
I am also here to help with advice 🙂
Happy new year
Ivy xx
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Your invitation intrigues me. Why don’t you read a thing or two on my blog and decide whether or not you want me to write a guest post for you. I hope this works: http://travelight94.wordpress.com/
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Thanks for your reply… I’ll head over there and see what I think.
I guarantee I will love it already
Ivy xx
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This is a really cool idea, I might be interested!
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Excellent – thank you for reading. I’ll email you soon xx
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I’m responding to your email today! 🙂 So in love with this idea!
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Aww that’s great – excited to see it xx
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Really great idea. I would love to participate!
I’ve been writing a lot of poems on my blog recently:
https://sonderwriter.wordpress.com/
Let me know if you’d like me as a guest writer 🙂
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Awesome, thanks for replying. I’ll have a look xx
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Hey Ivy! 🙂 This sounds so cool. I may have some stories to share sometime 😉
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Hey,
Well then I am super excited to hear them xx
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Hello and happy 2017 everyone! It’s that lovely time of week again that makes me somewhat excited for a new Monday. I’d love to hear from some fresh faces, so let’s get down to it.
Feel free to check out my completed 30-Day Writing Challenge:
https://hailangeliccreation.wordpress.com/challenges/
Also, being the new year, I want to give readers and new faces an opportunity to have a say in the content they see, so I opened up a new post where you can drop in a prompt:
https://hailangeliccreation.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/box-of-prompts-interactive-opportunity/
Have fun, leave some feedback, and drop in a prompt!
Happy New Year!
-Author S
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https://ruby4inspiration.com/2016/12/29/the-chronicles-of-nailtopia-week-2/
Cosmetology School Drama at it’s best!
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https://ruby4inspiration.com/2016/12/30/does-2017-spark-inside-of-you/
Does 2017 spark inside of you?
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Love the inspiration found in your post. Commented on your site!
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Thank you.
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Happy new year! I recently wrote a really long post. There was a lot on wanted to say! I just want your opinions on if the post is too long? And how I could improve on this in future posts? I did considering breaking it up into separate posts. But wasn’t sure it would flow. Thanks in advance.
https://wheelescapades.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/girls-holiday-centre-parcs-elveden-forest/
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Hey guys! I’d love it if you checked out my blog. Just click on the link and read any of my posts. Any feedback and comments will be greatly appreciated. And do leave a link to your own blogs so I can check them out, as well.
https://wordsandwhispersblog.wordpress.com/
Thanks a bunch!
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Hello there! I went through several of your posts and loved them! I like that they are quite short and intense!
Seeing what you write, I think you might like some of my posts also. Here’s the link to my blog 🙂 : https://sachanievsky.wordpress.com
Thanks for checking it out if you do! And no matter what, I hope you have a wonderful year 2017!
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Hey. Thank you so much for he feedback! I’ll be sure to check out your blog. 😬
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Checked out your writings! I like them a lot. And the format of your blog is great, really draws the reader in.
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Thank you so much. 😀
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Happy New Year to the WordPress community!! 😀 A New Year post hoping to shed some light on 2016. Please let me know if I can comment on your posts and give feedback in return for your comments and feedback on any part of my blog or posts. Look forward to hearing from you all 🙂
An Obituary to 2016: https://finalends.wordpress.com/2016/12/31/an-obituary-to-2016/
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Just visited your site and it was too good! Read a few of your posts. Great work.
https://storiesfrommydiary.wordpress.com/
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Thank-you so much! I’m in Copenhagen at the minute but when I’m back I’ll definitely have a read of your blog also! ☺️
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Hello there! Just read your post and loved it. I really appreciated that you balanced the bad and the good and it made me want to read more of your posts. If you’d like to check out mine as well, here’s a link:https://sachanievsky.wordpress.com
I hope you enjoy it if you read and no matter what, I wish you a happy new year!!
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Thank-you so much! I will definitely check out your blog and comment in the next few days! I’m in Copenhagen at the moment so when I get decent signal I will definitely have a read!! Thank you so much for your comments they are much appreciated! Happy New Year
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Hi! Feel free to check out my blog. My most recent post I recommend – it’s about how fast time flies by. A post about New Years resolutions is in the works – stay tuned. Happy New Year!
http://www.thoughtsandpiecesblog.wordpress.com
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When Time Spread Its Wings has a good message for all of us. Your way of expressing it is creative. https://gracelead.co
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Such an awesome post, and so true – our blog tries to inspire the same thing: slowing down and enjoying the moment, because that’s where the memories are made. Thanks for sharing!
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Hi everyone, I recently came back to blogging with a post on my wins and fails of 2016 and what I learned from them. I would really appreciate some constructive criticism. Happy New Year and I hope you have a lovely rest of the day!
Basant She
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Basant, you’re back??? I’m so happy!!!
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Hey, guys, I’m a 17-year-old blogger who does lifestyle blogs and other posts. If you’re interested in checking it out ^-^ I also have some artworks so feel free to take a look ~
http://zyrakuma.wordpress.com
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You have a cute layout and I love the colors that you used on your blog.. I felt like a teen when I was checking and reading your posts.. Keep it up.. 🙂
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Hello and happy new year! I feel inspired right now, and think that I would love to be active on this pool every week. Read, and also share. Or often, at least. 🙂 Here’s the last one I wrote… it’s been some time… But until then! The sea calls~
Maria I.
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Good evening creative souls, and fellow bloggers,
To those of you who are interested in creative writing, there is a relatively new blog called Mug’s Tale,https://mugstale.wordpress.com that offers weekly writing workshops.
Anyone can send their texts and they are then submitted to the editors of the blog proofread if necessary and published on the blog with a link to your personal blog if you have one.
Have a look and tell me what you think of it.
Thank you so much for your feedback!
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Hey, thanks for this info! 🙂 A little swamped right now, but I would love to try submitting to that when I have a little more time in my hands 🙂
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That would be great! I would love to read you!
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Check us out we do tons of reviews on Nerd culture http://www.nerdent.net/
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Hi everyone!! Welcome to 2017. I started this year off with my first book review. Check it out at musingsandmusic014.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/righting-the-wrongs-of-a-wayward-justice-system-book-review/
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Apologies, here is the corrected link: https://www.musingsandmusic014.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/righting-the-wrongs-of-a-wayward-justice-system-book-review/
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Hello everyone and Happy New Year!
I would love to share my latest post…looking forward to new beginning 🙂
Feedback would be much appreciated 🙂
Peace!
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Hi! I am a med student trying my hand at poetry and short stories on my blog https://bloodranstale.wordpress.com
I’d be really glad if you checked it out. Any feedback and constructive criticism will be highly appreciated 🙂
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Your writings are SO GOOD. I’ve left a bunch of comments in your blog haha. And plan to read more of your pieces.
I’m actually a pre-med right now (in college, planning to go to medical school afterwards), and also love writing poetry and short stories. 🙂
If you’re interested, feel free to check out my blog, and leave some feedback + constructive criticism:
https://sonderwriter.wordpress.com/
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Thank you soon much for the feedback! I read some of your poetry and man the way you weave imagery with words is beautiful. Keep up the good work 🙂
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Thank you so much! I really appreciate your kind words 🙂
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Hello all , I write fiction , from short stories , to tiny tales , from poems to musings , everything!✌ I share my views ,and uss this platform to voice my opinions on various Random but important topics.
I invite you to visit my blog , and I welcome all the advices , criticism, suggestions , prompts , feedback is highly appreciated ❤
https://storiesfrommydiary.wordpress.com/
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Love the page! Just started mine.. Check out my first post please?
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Hello Guys!! Happy New Year!! Feel free to check my blog, particularly the post I made on Starting the Year Right!! Cheers to everyone and keep your blogs coming!!
Here’s the link by the way: https://mariaingrid.net/2016/12/31/welcome-2017-start-the-new-year-right/
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Hello! I recently posted my goals for 2017 and it would be wonderful if you guys could check it out! 😀
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Best of luck for 2017
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Thanks. You too!
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Love the page! Just started mine.. Check out my first post please?
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Thanks! I checked out your page. It’s nicely formatted, and I could tell you thought deeply for your post. Very interesting. Just one thing: you might want to either add something to the text widget in your sidebar, or get rid of it.
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Thanks, appreciate it!
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No problem.
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Feel free to follow back
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Sure
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Hello all, I’d love some feedback on any of my recent posts, http://www.wifeofandtravels.wordpress.com. Thank you 😊
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hello dear bloggers. check out my blog for tips on entrepreneurship. We make the entrepreneurial spirit in you arise
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Love the page! Just started mine.. Check out my first post please?
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okay.. would do.. do you mind following me and i would follow back so we would see our latet posts
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Can not access your account for some reason..
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just click on my name. it would open my blog or visit http://www.probaron.wordpress.com
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I found your blog very interesting ❤ a blog on movies and stuff is a good idea✌😍
Keep on the good work. Happy blogging.
https://storiesfrommydiary.wordpress.com/
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