Welcome to Hoosier Ink, the official blog of the Indiana Chapter of ACFW. This blog launched on January 4th, 2010. Join the members of the Indiana chapter of ACFW as they blog together on the different aspects of the craft of writing and the journey to publication.
- Any full member of ACFW Indiana can join the monthly rotation schedule. Just contact us for a regular (once a month) posting slot. Anyone, of course, can comment.
- Below, you can find the latest posting schedule. This will allow you to know when your favorite posters are publishing their next post, or see what spots are open (in case you are thinking about becoming a regular poster).
1st Monday------Karla Akins
1st Tuesday------Cara Putman
1st Wednesday--Mary Allen
1st Thursday-----Rick Barry
1st Friday--------Suzanne Wesley
1st Saturday------Joe Allison
1st Sunday--------(open slot)
2nd Monday-----Lisa Faye Harman
2nd Tuesday-----(open slot)
2nd Wednesday-Crystal Miller
2nd Thursday----(open slot)
2nd Friday-------Millie Samuelson
2nd Saturday----(open slot)
2nd Sunday------Renata Jackson
3rd Monday------JoAnn Durgin
3rd Tuesday-----Rachael Phillips
3rd Wednesday--(open slot)
3rd Thursday-----(open slot)
3rd Friday-------Ann Schrock
3rd Saturday----Nikki Studebaker Barcus
3rd Sunday------(open slot)
4th Monday-----Marjorie DeVries
4th Tuesday-----(open slot)
4th Wednesday--Sharon Kirk Clifton
4th Thursday----Kathryn Page Camp
4th Friday-------Jeff Reynolds
4th Saturday----(open slot)
4th Sunday-------Darren Kehrer
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Guest/Float Availability:
When there is a "5th" Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday each month, I will send out requests via the Yahoo groups to ask if anyone wants to fill these extra posting slots (or feel free to contact me). ALSO.....
- From time to time, at the discretion of the leadership of ACFW of Indiana, Hoosier Ink may include guest posts reproduced from other blogs (with the owner's permission) when the topic is particularly pertinent.
- These slots could also be filled by ACFW Indiana members who are unable to take on a regular posting role, but could do one of these "5th day" slots.
Blogger Troubleshooting:
- Things to try: Log out/in to refresh settings, update your browser itself, empty your cache, or clear your cookies.
- If you have formatting issues from a copy and paste from Word, that process sometimes copies those invisible formatting characters which fowls Blogger's spacing up at times. You might have to use Blogger's "remove formatting" button after you copy and paste your post (select all in blogger window, then hit remove formatting button) and then adjust to whatever formatting you want in the Blogger window.
- You can also save your Word doc as "plain text" before copying and pasting into Blogger and then formatting from there.
- Blogger Help Section
- Supported Browsers
- New Post Editor (overview of)
Guidelines to remember:
- Your posts should have something to do about the topic of writing. You can shoot for about 400 words. You can go more or less, but 400 is a solid average.
- Look at all labels before creating a new one.
- Set your posting time for 12:01 AM or later.
- Remember to assign your post to your own "name" topic label (so others can find you under your name label).
- If you need some ideas for your post, be sure to look at the "popular topics" labels located to left.
- When you want to enter a website address into your post, just type it out, highlight it, and click "link" button just above the post window to enter the address. This way, it will work as expected.
- When posting pics in your blog post, remember copyright issues: Don't use a photograph without copyright permission unless you own the copyright or know for certain that the photo is in the public domain. You can reference this link http://hoosierink.blogspot.com/2011/05/photographers-own-copyrights-too.html
How to post in the monthly rotation:
- Accept the invite sent to you by the board admin and create a blogger account ID.
- You will be given a day for your post to appear on Hoosier Ink. You can create it at anytime, since you set the post time via the schedule function when writing your post.
- Log into Hoosier Ink (using your blogger ID). Click on NEW POST.
- Title your post and write it in the window that opens. At the bottom-left of the post window, click "Post Options." Default is already set to "allow" reader comments. Set the "Post date and time" to the date your post is to be seen on Hoosier Ink in the format 00/00/00 and the time to be 12:01 AM (or later). By default, the post time is set to "automatic" and will post immediately if you don't change. There are other options below that, best to leave them alone if you don't know what they do.
- Labels: there is a "show all" button so you can see all the available labels to assign to your post. When using MULTIPLE labels, just type one, then hit return or enter, and a comma will appear so you can then add another label.
- Be sure to add your own name label, already created my the admin, so readers can find all of your posts by clicking that label.
- It is always best to "PREVIEW" your post to make sure it looks like the way you want it.
- When you are done. Hit "Publish Post." This will release it to be viewed on the website according to the posting date you entered earlier. If you just hit "Save now," this just puts into a "draft" mode so you can come back and continue to edit it later. It will not be viewable by others on the date you entered until you hit "publish post." This gives you the ability to write your post in advance and set it to release when the time comes automatically.
How to write a post for the "Spotlight" section:
- The "Spotlight topic" on Hoosier Ink is a section of the website that we ask for submissions that are usually longer than a normal post. Like our normal rotation, the topic can be anything regarding the craft of writing.
- When you are asked (or get approval to submit), just construct a post like you would normally, but set the date for 12/31/12. The Admin can then just move the post over to the Spotlight section.
