Blog Explosion

I joined a new free advertising site today to test the waters once again. Will this Blog Explosion bring traffic to my site? If it works for me, then it will work for you. Visit the banner in the sidebar and sign up to test this program for yourself.

Time will tell if it is a worthy venture. If comments start appearing in this blog, then I would say it is worth my time, and yours. Let's monitor it right here to see what happens.

As of today, January 3, 2009, this blog has two comments. Between Blog Explosion and Entrecard, one or both might help get visitors to this site to participate in all the fun treasure hunts and quests being sponsored here.

I'm working on some in depth articles for bloggers and freelance writers to help add some good resource material to this blog. Also, I 'll be writing feature articles on treasure hunting, antiquities, archaeological sites, mysteries of the universe, the secret diary and more. Please come back often and give me your feedback.

First Feature Articles for January- A Preview of Coming Attractions

1. Part two of The Locked Box.
2. The Unknown Soldier's Diary.
3. The Secret Diary Quest No. 1. First clues to be posted.
4. Latest Discoveries in Space.
5. The Mysteries of Stone Henge.
6. Entrecard- A Review- hoping to conduct personal interview with creator.
7. The Making of A Walking- Lakota Traditions and Historical Sites
8. One Ancient City Feature- to be announced
9. Blog Explosion- Traffic update and reports on personal experience.
10. Treasure Hunt- the first featured treasure hunt complete with map and tracking the actual quest for the treasure.
11. Geocaching for Treasure
12. Facebook- face to face interviews with those who experience the social networking business style. One person per month will be chosen for this feature.
13. Twitter- what is all the tweeting about?
14. Who Was the Most Famous Pirate of All Time?
15. Search for the Holy Grail.

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Prize for Secret Diary Quest

The person who answers the most clues in one month correctly will win some prizes. This one month time frame will begin once the first question is submitted to me either by email at themidnightwriter1@gmail.com or in the comments to this post.

Here are the prizes for the winner:

1. A link to a blog page of your choice in a subsequent post updating the contest every time you guess a clue correctly.

2. Your profile featured in the sidebar for one month until the next winner, complete with photograph, and blog or website link.

3. 500 Entrecard credits transferred to the blog of your choice.

4. An ad widget on one of my blogs. I will send the list to the winner.

5. A full scale review and feature article about you, your blog, your talents, your life. A questionnaire will be emailed to you at the end of the month. Your feature will appear on this blog as an honorable mention or linked to another one of my blogs. Again, if you want the feature written on another blog I will send you the list by email.

6. The opportunity to begin the next Secret Diary contest and to make the rules to open the quest.

7. If you choose, you get to write a guest post on one of my blogs. This will give you lots of backlinks as incentive.

So, all you Treasure Hunters and Secret Diary readers, come on down and join in the fun.

I am waiting right here on The Midnight Writer's Secret Portal.


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Midnight Writer on Facebook

If you have cruised down the sidebar of this new blog, you probably noticed the Facebook widget. Click on it to visit my profile at Facebook. If you haven't joined yet, please sign up and join the fun.

Facebook lets you connect quickly with thousands of established users.

Blog or send updates and messages.

Meet new people.

Share your links.

Get a little publicity for your blog or your website
or your cause while enjoying the social parlor of Facebook.

I will be posting updates on Facebook and Twitter for the Treasure Hunts, so check back about once a week to find out what's new. At this time, I have posted a notice about the Secret Diary Treasure Hunt. There will be others as this blog develops. So, sign up as my friend on Facebook and follow me on Twitter for some good old fashioned fun.

Send your ideas for finding secret treasure.

I am looking for Treasure Maps. Replicas or imaginary graphically created treasure maps. Will make a trade for something that you might need, like a review or advertising. I have a domain website that is gaining some good ranking so you can have advertising there or on one of my blogs.


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Join me every week for updates on
The Midnight Writers Secret Portal.

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Secret Diaries

Have you ever tried to read someone else's diary?

Come on now, have you ever seen a diary lying open on a table and tried to read the secret thoughts of the writer?

Have you ever been tempted to pick the lock on your sister's diary and read about all her private thoughts that she just won't share with you?

Keeping a diary is an ages old tradition. At points in time, this form of putting down your thoughts has been kept under different names, but the custom remains the same. Whether it is called a journal, or a diary, or my daily thoughts...the concept remains the same.

In any form, the book is usually private and often kept hidden from all eyes except for those of the writer. Lock and key helps ensure that no one's eyes will gaze upon the things written that are unspeakable to any other human ears.

Diary keeping is a mystery within the mind of humankind that may never be explained. The custom is intriguing to any one, psychologists and philosophers included. Great artists, musicians, scientists, inventors from the ages have recorded their ponderings, their ideas and their secrets that usually ends up in a museum after they depart this world.

Are you fascinated with old diaries or journals of the deceased? Do you like family history and do you enjoy the quest to find a journal written by your great-great grandfather just so you can read and maybe catch a glimpse of the inside of the mind of a man you never knew? Do you enjoy museums?

If you have answered yes to any of the above questions, then maybe you will be interested in helping in my quest to search for historical or fantastic or mysterious journals and diaries. We can search the secrets lives of the people whose journals and diaries that we discover together. It will be a fantastic journey into the mind of our ancestors and it will help to paint a clearer picture of the world in which we now live.

Here is the quest that I propose...call it a treaure hunt, because it is...sort of...

The Secret Diary Quest

* Visit a geneology library or search a family history site online. I will find some links to include in the sidebar of this blog in the coming days.

* Share with us the sources for your quest in the comment section or by emailing themidnightwriter1@gmail.com. Links will be featured in a special section if a website is available. Or an address can be listed instead.

* Give three clues and ask five questions relating to the person/persons/time period and place in history.

* Each week for one month the secret diary quest will continue as you reveal more clues and ask more questions.

* Readers will answer the questions of the featured secret diary quest at the same time they may ask you questions.

* The historical and private information will be developed on this blog in a special feature series as the story of the diary/journal writer is written by you and the readers right here on this blog.

* At the end of one month, the identity of the keeper of the secret diary/journal will be revealed. A story will be submitted by either the holder of the secret diary or by me with your information provided.

* During the month long quest, links to the submitter's blog will be featured and any profile information you want included from social sites and article submission sites.

* A permanent link for the submitter of the secret diary will remain in the sidebar for one year.

* Links for participants in the quest will remain with the consolidated story at the end of the month, at which time a new quest will begin.

Feed back on this treasure hunt is welcome. Send me the first clues and questions to be the first in the secret diary treasure hunt.

To submit, please email themidnightwriter1@gmail.com. Leave a comment in this article to let me know that you want to participate. First one to comment, gets the chance to be the first exclusive Secret Diary Treasure Hunt.

The Midnight Writer