As part of my celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I am planning to commit Twitterfic! However, I am definitely going to need your help for this one. It doesn't necessitate already having a Twitter account, but being previously active on Twitter does help. Read on to find out how to participate!


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Welcome to the Fourth Annual International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day! We're giving it away for free around here all day long. You can find more excellent content available through ipstp, which will likely be updated by participants throughout the day. You can also browse through the past three years of IPSTP offerings at that community ( Read more... )

Speaking of giving work away for free, cadhla has been doing it for years, both in the form of Iron Poet and her awesome poetry tutorials. Because I am mad like a mad thing and also enjoy learning shiny new skills, I have also been known to engage in a round of Iron Poet or two and also to use cadhla's tutorials to practice new poetry styles. (I even composed ( Read more... )

Pardon my brief links here today! I am in the midst of the final week and a half of the spring semester of graduate school: I have two and a half papers to write and two exams to study for-- so I hope you'll understand my brevity!

With that now dispensed:
HAPPY THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PIXEL-STAINED TECHNOPEASANT DAY! [Explanation here.]

Year One ( Read more... )

For International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I am offering up a short piece of fiction that was published in Huntingdon College's The Prelude in 2001 (and was given away for free then, too). I wanted to create something new for this day, but it didn't get done and I'm actually drugged up due to a migraine right now. So I hope you'll forgive ( Read more... )

Welcome to the second annual International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day!

What I said last year still holds true today, and I'd like to add a little more commentary on how free work offered online affects the real world of paid work ( Read more... )

As part of my celebration of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day ( explanation), I'd like to post one of my own poems. This poem is a result of one of my rounds of Iron Poet, but has previously been unreleased to the public before now. I hope you enjoy! Following the poem, you'll find links to more free poetry over at my website.

Elegy ( Read more... )

The Internet (in some incarnation) is here to stay. Online interactive content is the wave of the future, and promoting the value of your work via the Internet is absolutely nothing to shy away from ( Read more... )

Welcome to the first International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day!

I hope you enjoy all the free works that have been made available to you today, most of which you can find by visiting this post over at papersky's journal ( Read more... )