lmec3dcb292fbaf4ecaa079f63b40178cd_1208768805j3Today we turn the Spotlight on to new Giant Squid Lensmaster Flighty02.

Flighty02 shares some excellent Squidoo tips and also  talks about how she got started at Squidoo.com.

Squidoo for me started off as just one lens. One lens where I had the opportunity to say what I thought about something which I am very passionate about. I didn’t realise at the time that I would go on to make another (at the time of writing) 65 of them, even more than that if you include the ones that I wasn’t too proud of and so ended up deleted!

That first lens, Greyhounds Anonymous – Life In The Slow Lane, is the one I am most proud of (though in my opinion I have made better lenses since) and it came about because we have a rescued ex racing greyhound, Flynn, who is so special to us. He was one of a litter of four, who knows what fate befell his sisters. Flynn makes an absolutely superb pet, he lives with two cats and is very gentle and loving. I just thought that I needed to vent off and try to raise awareness of the treatment that some of these wonderful dogs receive when they are of no use as a racing dog, and show through Flynn that these dogs would make somebody a great pet. Squidoo gave me the opportunity to do that.

The thing with Squidoo is that you start one lens and bam! you’re addicted! :-) Then you begin to realise its possibilities and off you go writing about, hopefully, what interests you… and when you can’t possibly think what else to write about you might start a silly lens, in my case (inspired by a game on the message board) A Squidoo Story, a lens which you don’t advertise, you don’t expect anyone to visit, it is purely for your own benefit to help you get over ‘writers block’ so you can move on to make another lens.

So what are my best tips?

  • learn some basic html and use it along with images to add interest to your lens
  • keep all the bits of html and text that you use regularly, for instance custom guestbooks, in one handy text file so you caan cut and paste into your lens.
  • Write about what interests you – if you aren’t interested what makes you think that your reader will be?
  • Keep writing and keep making lenses, the more you do the easier it gets and more ideas will present themselves to you.