Edit, Dec. 1, 2016: The site has changed a lot in the last year, all for the better 🙂 I’m going to do a new post shortly, but in the meantime, know that this post was based on an earlier version of the site and much of it has changed.

I participate in NaNoWriMo every year, and one of the side effects of that is trying out the products from their ( Read more... )

Last year, a friend showed me HabitRPG, which for me was another in a long string of to-do list and productivity apps that I’d tried. I expected it to have a similar usage pattern to the rest of them: I would use it without fail for a few weeks, if I was lucky a couple of months, and then I’d lose interest. I have abandoned accounts on more apps ( Read more... )

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I posted a link to this site with the first badge I claimed, but I felt like calling attention to it again
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I read Twitter almost exclusively on my iPhone. Given the format, it makes a lot of sense to me to display it that way, and I tend to prefer the Twitter apps to the web site. One of the downsides, however, is that I follow a lot of people because they give links to excellent stories, and I hate surfing the web on my phone. I didn’t really have a ( Read more... )

Not a video, like my On the Web posts usually are ^_^

But I loved the essay Annie Dillard and the Writing Life by Alexander Chee, and want to share it.

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I've subscribed to the YouTube channel for Britian's Got Talent thanks to this.

If by chance you haven't seen the video yet, it's more than worth a watch.
Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009

My friends list today has been taken up by query letters!

I follow the feed for Nathan Bransford's blog (nathanagent), and today he's running the Be an Agent for a Day contest. Fifty queries will be posted today, right now it's up to #38, and readers have one week to respond to all of them, and they can request no more than five manuscripts ( Read more... )

I know this is an ad, but I can't help it; I love it.

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I've become quite fond of the CBC Radio Podcasts. There's too many available to list them all, but here are a few I listen to (and follow as LiveJournal feeds):

Between the Covers
Between The Covers is a podcast serializing the best in Canadian literature, from comedy to tragedy. Stories are narrated by some of our finest actors, with new ( Read more... )