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I got bored and decided to search on google with the phrase “Blog” and came across millions of possible links. One that really caught my eye was titled: “8 Ideas to Turn Your Successful Blog into a Book“, so naturally I clicked on it to see what it had to say. The blog post was written by Monica O’Brien on PersonalBrandingBlog.com. She states that “If you currently have a successful blog with a moderate fan base of subscribers, you might be considering the benefits of having a book to expand your personal brand.”. I sat there and pondered this a few moments, I know my blog JUST started, but I do love to write never-the-less. I might consider taking my blog topic ideas and putting them in books, but that is only when I feel there are people who actually care what I have to say, and I mean a fair good amount, not just 3-7 people who happen to be friends, family, and maybe a couple other intrigued individuals.

I love the idea of converting a blog into a book now that I think about it, it really is no different then turning your diary into a book right? Anne Frank‘s Diary was turned into a widely read book, and is translated into 67 different languages. But then that’s a real diary, you also see the books in diary format that are fiction, not real, just ideas drawn up by the author.

The ideas Monica provides for turning your Blog into a book are rather interesting, and they make sense. She posted this last month, July 1st, she gives you ideas for 3 different blog environments:

1. General Blogs: Blogs about maybe animals, career advice, or mediums
2. How-To subject Blogs: Blogs that show how to do certain things, like turning your blog into a book for example!
3. Personal Blogs: Blogs that deal with issues in your life, pros, cons, general “normal” things.

She then lists possible ideas for these environments, the 8 different ideas. I may consider converting my blog ideas into a book while continue blogging, but that wont happen for a while if I do decide on it. That’s all that was on my small little mind, thank you for visiting me My Little Cornerstone…

Ever since January of this year I have been having trouble sleeping. I will find myself sitting here up at the computer until one in the morning before finally feeling tired/exhausted and sleepy. After I shut down my computer (Or leave it on if I know I need to do something in the morning and don’t want to wait for my computer to load) and walk one to two feet to my bed. As soon as I lay down I am wide awake, I’m still tired but don’t feel sleepy at all, no heavy eyelids or blur-ish vision. So I get back up and return to my computer.

Each day it gets worse, I’ll end up staying awake later and later before going to bed, sometimes I end up finding myself going several days without sleep. Right now I am exhausted and sleepy, but can not find myself to fall asleep…as usual. I don’t know what to do anymore, the bags under my eyes get darker, my eyes are blood-shot often, and half the time I will be asleep during the day and be awake all night, my sleep schedule is screwed to the bone. I am afraid to take sleeping pills (funny and sad, I know), because I do not want to take one and then somehow not wake back up, I like my sleep but not THAT much!

Also there are times where I refuse to go to sleep due to a couple reasons:

1. Work: Things I need to finish so I don’t forget, or procrastinate later.
2. Lazyness: I become to lazy to even go to bed (yes lazy, you figure that out haha)

I wish everything would fix themselves, starting with my sleeping habits! I am getting tired of feeling exhausted all the time (Heh a pun).

I guess I will wrap it up here, if you have any suggestions as to how to help fix my sleeping problem, please leave me a comment to this post, and thank you for visiting me at “My Little Cornerstone…”.

Well I was greatly inspired today, which honestly doesn’t happen to often. I am not much of an open person or really like to talk about “Me”. I always felt I should close myself shut and only leave visible my name and physical appearance. I have never really “Blogged” before, I tried doing LiveJournal but I really never felt alright with it. I do use Twitter and on occasion I will speak out my mind, but mostly I used it for endorsing my 3D products on IMVU, ask random odd questions to my followers, or just discuss real life issues that have nothing to do with me directly.

I guess I should introduce myself; My name is Kevin Waggoner, I am 19 years old and was born on February 15, 1990. I do novice web design and am a fair decent 2D artist and Graphic Arts Designer. I am an upcoming writer working on short stories and poetry. I recently purchased my domain name for my soon to come online store to sell graphics, t-shirts, and other types of merchandise. I live in California with my grandfather and currently unemployed and an ex-college student, okay I don’t necessarily fall under that category since I only attended a semester then dropped out due to medical issues (as of which I am still dealing with, can’t tell you exactly what the name of the issue is). I do texturing on IMVU.com for the virtual catalog in hopes to earn enough credits (virtual currency) to sell to a registered credit reseller I am partnered with for cash, yes, real cash..It ain’t going so well *sighs*.

I mentioned I was inspired today, I guess I should explain how, so here goes:

I have been reading only one specific person’s blog for, well, not so long really, only started paying actual attention to it recently. I enjoy learning how one’s life goes, even if sometimes their life has that curve that could cause a problem, even if the problem is big, or even small. I guess you can call it an observation of one’s being, some people may just call it nosy, but what do they know. This person inspired me to open up more, express how I am feeling and what I do on a fair regular basis, because she doesn’t seem to have a problem with it, so why should I? I want to feel comfortable with myself, and this might help me do just that.

I guess you can say that the person who inspired me can be my Idol, maybe not, I honestly don’t know..hmmm, maybe I do in a way, oh well. Her name is Kimi, she has been blogging as she told me for several years if I remember her telling me correctly, and she just recently opened her new personal blog called The Short, Fat Cyclops. Reading her blogs opened my eyes to the bigger picture, that I am not the only person who has their ups and downs, even though I already knew this tidbit of information, I just needed it to “slap me in the face”…

So welcome to “My Little Cornerstone…”, I hope I do for you what my inspiration did for me, even if she doesn’t know it yet.