How Do You Prepare Your Blog?

Putting together a blog takes time and fore thought. Whether you are writing details to a recipe, or the parts of a story, or letting your readers know of a good book you discovered. There are things you can do to make sure you capture all the pieces. Some people may keep journals; others may keep some sort of notes in folders. Everything depends on how you work. If you are struggling with putting together your own blog this may document may be of some help to you.

I call this document a Blog Preparation Form.  Here is how to use it:
Subject Line: This is where you place the title of your blog
Date: This is the date you intend to publish your blog
Publish Date: The actual Publish Date
Main Topic: This is what the subject of the blog will be about
Sub Topic: This is for any secondary subjects you may include that you want to include that may or may not have anything to do with the main topic. You may have more than one.
Image 1, 2, 3: Images - You may have more than 3 images but in general I just included 3 on this form.
Story: Here is where you may want to write down what story you wish to include in your blog, little or big. Something about how you ended up included this particular topic in your blog. How it is special to you. Maybe why you wanted to share. A way to make a connection to your readers.
Layout: It helps to draw out how you wish to layout your blog if you are doing a step by step process. Sometimes this can help you give you more of an idea of how to handle your images.
Ideas for Your Next Blog: I put this on this form because often when you are working on a blog you can come up with ideas for your next blog while you are working on your latest you.

I hope you find this information helpful. Here is the link to the document.

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Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story at the Ivoryton Playhouse

This image is courtesy of the Ivoryton Playhouse on Facebook.

Tonight is opening night for the play Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story at the Ivoryton Playhouse.  If you love such oldies as  Peggy Sue, That'll be the Day, Rave On, Chantilly Lace and Johnny B Goode you will be dancing in the aisles when you leave this show.  It traces the last three years of Buddy Holly's life up until his last concert. The play is both interactive and fun.

This show last I heard was sold out before it opened. It is running from July 7th to August 1. Both Saturday, July 10th and Sunday, July 11th are sold out. Saturday, July 17th was almost sold out last I heard and for all I know could be sold out even now.

This show is a local show and was directed by Jacqueline Hubbard.  Gregg Hammer makes his Ivoryton debut as Buddy Holly. Robert W. Schultz Jr  is the Big Bopper, and if you loved him in The Full Monty (which was performed last year at the playhouse in which he played the character Dave) you will love his antics as the Bopper.

Image courtesy of The Ivoryton Playhouse.

All the performers are outstanding, they have lots of energy and they definitely project it to the audience.  I wasn't kidding about dancing in the aisles either, this show is as great as going to see the musical Mamma Mia!. People go back time and time again to see that show, and this show rates just as high. This is a show worth seeing more than once. You can not miss purchasing a ticket to see this show, take my word for it.

Another thing, stay cool,
until next time,

Cassandra

Jamie Oliver's TED Award Speech

Recently on Linkedin Jamie Oliver's award speech was posted. I found the information he provided very educational. I found it more interesting when he went into people's home and I saw what they ate on a regular basis. I thought I would share this information with you.

Cassandra