blogging for happiness

How do you find your blogging voice?

February 4, 2013 By Ellen 6 Comments

The easy, but probably not terribly helpful, answer is just to say “relax, be yourself and your voice will come”. Eventually, it will, but meantime, a new blogger can easily be discouraged by the supreme effort that all this “relaxing” can take. And how on earth can you be yourself in a whole new world […]

27/365 Things I learned from the blogging workshop

January 27, 2013 By Ellen 6 Comments

Yesterday was the Blogging For Happiness Workshop. I wasn’t going to say much about it here as I assumed it would only be of interest to those who were there. However, enough people have asked me how it went for me to think it worth telling you. So here are the things I learned from holding […]

Guest review – Anya reads Blogging For Happiness

June 8, 2012 By Ellen 1 Comment

Anya from Older Single Mum The very lovely Anya from Older Single Mum has kindly reviewed my book for my blog. Here’s what she said. Ellen’s book starts by expounding upon a series of crippling personal events and she goes on to explain how and why blogging helped her to recover. […]

Hailing Black Cab Wisdom

May 13, 2012 By Ellen 6 Comments

Hot foot from Cybher – the blogging conference for women – my head is rather full of things to write and stuff to do. But where to start? I’ll begin with the most frightened looking person in the place. London cabbie Mark Soloman was shaking when he began telling his story. Not because he had […]

Blogging for happiness: there’s more to writing a book than writing a book

November 17, 2011 By Ellen 16 Comments

So that’s it. My book Blogging for Happiness is at the printers, nine months our so after the idea was conceived. It would be really easy to draw parallels to gestation – mood swings, good cravings, late nights, early mornings, inconvenience, intense emotions and a much anticipated baby.But that’s not it. Apart from the baby […]