This is a promotion he's doing with Blackberry, but it sounded interesting. Alas, I do not have a Twitter account. I watch a few people but damned if I don't feel like I'm listening to one side of a phone conversation and I can't restrict myself to 140 characters. While I tried his prompts, I forgot about them until after he wrote his Calendar ( Read more... )

Passed this on to miss_geek yesterday, but wanted to put it here as well...From The Oatmeal on being a web content creator...

Some Thoughts and Musings about Making Things for the Web

Not that I do this…but applicable to any creative endeavor, I think.  Except for the whole “making a living at it” aspect, because I would starve if that were the case.

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Paragraphs vs. Bullet Points: We Speak Now In A Hail Of BulletsGood stuff to know. Yes, I use them completely wrong here; I quite often combine bullets and paragraphs. Or I'm just so long-winded I find it impossible to cut myself off at a statement per bullet ( Read more... )

Heh, the little writing meme I posted the other day actually got a review in the Monitor. In which it reveals Margaret Atwood got "You write like Stephen King."

It also provides a link to a spoof of said memage, which may, in my case, be a lot more accurate...


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Hmm, I'm not really a fanfic writer; and frankly, I'd sort of forgotten about this. I wrote it several years ago and though I meant to, never posted it anywhere; however I recently stumbled across it again in a little used folder on my harddrive, and was nudged to put it up somewhere. bakayaro_onna, I know you beta'ed this, and I think I incorporated most of ( Read more... )

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I found Neil Gaiman's entry today, about his daughter Maddy, quite touching. Because that is exactly why I started this journal.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/12/replacing-something-that-doesnt-exist.html

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I missed the dailyparagraph for few days:

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