Pages Tagged “Writing”
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- About This Collection I wanted to make an idea-based collection instead of a time-based collection, and make it as light as possible.
- Finish Those Blog Drafts! If you’re not quite satisfied with your draft, schedule it for a few days out instead of just saving the draft. If you really think of a way to make it better, you still have time.
Blog Posts
- Ursula K. Le Guin eBook Bundle (Ended)
Humble Bundle is offering 30 books* by Ursula K. Le Guin supporting the Literary Arts charity, including all of Earthsea, several Hainish novels, Catwings, short stories, Gifts/Voices/Powers, nonfiction writing… I’ve read the Earthsea series (good-to-great) and most of the Hainish novels (some great, some good, some OK), plus Lathe of Heaven (great), and I’ve got […]
- Who am I blogging for?
Why am I blogging these days? Who is my target audience?
- Considering a month of daily blogging
I don’t have the time or ideas for Nanowrimo this year. It’s actually been a decade since I last did it, now that I think about it. But I’ve done NaBloPoMo a few times, and I think I can manage a month of posting one blog entry a day. Plus it’ll be a good way […]
- Thread 1/
Twitter threads are a pain to read, especially when they aren’t well-crafted. But what they lack in readability, they make up in reach.
- 20 Days of NaBloPoMo 2015
Things I learned by trying (and failing) to write a blog article every day for a month.
- Moonrise
The full moon hung low in the east, rising pale yellow against a shadowed sky. A cluster of lights floated next to it, airplanes lining up for approach to the runway I was driving past. I’d glanced over just as I passed under their flight path. Above the moon and the lights, a band of […]
- A Month of Daily Blogging: NaBloPoMo 2013 Round-Up
For November 2013, I decided to try NaBloPoMo and post every day this month. I’d been getting all the NaNoWriMo emails, and while I didn’t have the time or story ideas (and Katieâs covering the âwriting a novelâ thing), I was a little nostalgic for a writing challenge. Today wraps up my participation in the event. I […]
- Daily Posting Observations
So, I think I’ve lost the NaBloPoMo challenge, since I failed to write anything yesterday. I had something planned and everything, but I’ve been blogging in the evenings, and felt sick last night and completely forgot that I even needed to. All I remember is lying on the couch, reading Les Miserables, and reading kids’ […]
- Links: Identity, Kindle, Language, and the Moon
Linkblogging: Privacy in terms of identity. The new Kindle. The future of old-timey language. Geek Merit Badges. The Moon Hoax debunked as a comic.
- Short Copy
How to Write Copy for Short Attention Spans reminds me of advice from usability guru Jakob Nielsen
- Double Meanings
A pair of spam subjects that recently came across the spam traps: Looking to become a published author? Give her climax after climax Hmm, that sounds like writing advice when you take them together.
- No, They Donât Read
It’s clear that a lot of people don’t actually read web pages before they respond to them. They’ll do things like… Contact someone with a similar name, even when it’s clearly the wrong sort of organization — say, a student writing club and not the bookseller that’s been causing them problems. Ask a blogger for […]
- Legality Links
Organization for Transformative Works – dedicated to protecting the expression of fan fiction, fan art, etc. (via Naomi Novik) Open Standards, One Web, and Opera – Just why are standards important, anyway? (via Opera Watch) Speaking of Opera, their EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft has been making waves. Responses at CSS3.info, Web Standards Project, Slashdot […]
- Nanomore
Decided that with everything else that’s going on, I don’t have time for the added stress of Nanowrimo right now. Last night I didn’t even mess with the Flash-related projects that have been looming (way behind on current stuff for my site, and I’m contributing an article to the TwoMorrows Flash Companion book). All I […]
- Writing Slowdown
Well, days 2–3 of Nanowrimo haven’t gone quite as well as day 1. Thursday night I found myself stuck, unable to get past about a paragraph for hours. I was convinced that what I had wasn’t really a story, wasn’t interesting, that all I had was a weird concept and a bunch of people who […]
- And Theyâre Off!
I actually managed to get started on time for National Novel Writing Month this time instead of forgetting until day two. I’ve set myself a goal of 1700 words per day, just slightly more than the 1,667 needed to reach 50,000 by the end of the month. This way I’ll build up a bank of […]
- Nanowrimo: Back for a Rematch
After completing last year’s Nanowrimo* challenge (National Novel Writing Month: write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November), I figured I’d wait a month or two, then start revising my story into shape so I could at least show it to Katie to beta. Then, 11 months later, I’d come back for another […]
- Nanowrimo Completed!
You may have noticed the National Novel Writing Month banner in the sidebar this month. I’ve been participating in it, starting from literally no idea what the heck I was going to write on November 2 and working towards 50,000 words by the end of the month. It turned into a fantasy novel with elements […]
- Quote of the Day
Me: Oh, that’s too many syllables for this character! Katie: What are you trying to replace? Me: Sanctimonious. By writing like a madman over the Thanksgiving weekend, I’ve managed to get ahead of the goal, and complete a 47,000-word novel. Unfortunately I need a 50,000-word novel, so I’m going back and looking for things that […]
- Getting ahead.
Last week my goal for Nanowrimo was to stay right on track. Hit 20K on the 12th, 25K on the 15th, 30K on the 18th. But I realized that the last few days of the month aren’t going to give me much time to write. We’re going to a concert on the 29th, leaving me […]
- Halfway!
I didn’t get much written yesterday, but I made up for it today, and passed the 25,000 word mark right on schedule. I am now just over the half-way mark. A subplot jumped out at me on Monday, and while it’s slowing the A plot down, it seems to be working into things that need […]
- 20,000 words under deadline
Just made 20K with 10 minutes to spare. Actually made a bit more than that, as I was sitting at 19,900 at 11:00 and wrote a 400-word scene. Switching to another progress gauge and going to bed. Word Count: 20367
- Writing Weekend
Mostly random stuff this morning. Read some comics. Finished Callahan’s Cross-Time Saloon. Errands in the afternoon. Late lunch at Ruby’s, which always lends itself to not needing dinner that night. Weather went from warm and sunny to gloomy and cool during lunch. Picked up writing early evening. My goal is to hit 20,000 words by […]
- Full quarter
Managed ~1600 words and passed the 25% mark in Nano. Which is probably silly to play up, since it’s so close to the 20% mark that I hit yesterday. Still, from 1/5 to 1/4. Next milestone at 1/3. Unfortunately to be on track I ought to hit it by the end of the day tomorrow, […]
- NaNO Sleep
Writing 1666 words a day is hard. Writing 1800-2500 or more because you’ve fallen behind is harder. Throw in work, traffic, voting, food, and other plans, and it gets really hard. The last time I got a good night’s sleep was Saturday. I missed my chance to write Sunday morning, and a trip to see […]
- Catching up
Friday night: mad dash through Nanowrimo. Still nebulous, not much in the way of direction. Still behind a day. Sunday night: Mad writing until way too late in the morning… and forgot to update my word count until after midnight, so it looks like I skipped two days. Grrr. Work today, then most of the […]
- Nano
I’ve decided to break nearly a decade of writer’s block by joining NaNoWriMo. Technically I’ve written quite a bit — 250 posts on LiveJournal, 1000+ posts at K-Squared Ramblings, hundreds of articles about Flash comics, the Alternate Browser Alliance website, etc. But aside from some Literary Guild projects back in college, I can only think […]
- Blogging to the top
Molly Holzschlag writes about the Accidental Blogger Effect—what happens when you post something offhand that somehow ends up as a prime search result, leading to that offhand remark taking on a life of its own. I made a comment about how Another One Bites the Dust turned into a 3-year-long thread about Frosty, Heidi and […]
- Missing Links
Slashdot posted a story about a new web browser called Flock. The source was an article at BusinessWeek. Now here’s the interesting part: It’s a fairly long article about a web browser, and it mentions a few other web browsers including Firefox, Opera and IE. It also mentions websites Amazon.com and del.icio.us. But the only […]
- Voyage of the FyreFawkes
A tale of the Browser Wars on the high seas. Harken, lads, and listen to my tale. It is the tale of the FyreFawkes, a vessel that turned the tide in the never-ending battle for the high seas. In this day, shipping lanes criss-cross the ocean like a Web, and in years past, that web […]
- Sleepy Beauty
I just posted a short-short story I wrote: The Tale of Sleepy Beauty. It was inspired by a conversation Katie and I had Monday morning on the way to work. Enjoy!
- Mission Statements are utter BS
The member benefits section in the latest Golden Key newsletter features an announcement of a business partnership. Take a look at the first paragraph and see if you can figure out what the company does: Owens Corning is a company with an unwavering commitment to delivering solutions, transforming markets and enhancing lives. It’s who we […]
- Copyright law: All ficced up
We were having a discussion last night about the specifics of copyright law on derivative works, sparked by a ridiculous flamewar discussion thread on fan-made music videos. While it’s generally known that posting fanfic and fanart is illegal, we were speculating on when exactly these creations become violations of the law. Is it when you […]
- Protected: Review thread for “Prophecy” sections 1-4
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
- Casting call
Maybe it’s egotistical to keep a list of who you would want to play your characters in a visual media production, but I do it. Some characters started out looking like celebrities; others grew into them. Sometimes I’ll see a star I’ve never seen before and think they look familiar, and a second later it’ll […]
- Follow that car
On the way to work, Kelson and I often end up pacing a red Mustang with license plate letters ZAR. This would be very cool if I could find something to go with it, but so far I’ve had no luck. This is partly because there are so few choices of matching plates and partly […]
- Randland Corporate Yellow Pages
Just imagine…… Trakand Leadership Services Aybara Industries Al’Thor Wrecking, Inc. Al’Vere Management Consultants Al’Meara General Hospital (and the Flinn Specialty Clinic) Mandragoran Security Personnel Kinderode, Mosalaine & Larisett, Attorneys at Law Telamon Landscaping, Ltd. Farshaw Vocational Consulting (“Be all you’re gonna be!”) Mervin’s of Cairhien and many more……
- Frighteningly popular
Out of curiosity, I did a Google search for the phrase “blood of the innocent” to see where APK would come up. Given that my poetry pages seem to be very popular with search engines (and that the phrase is at the top of the frikkin’ page!), I expected it to be pretty high up […]
- Keep or Toss: Poll #1
Time to introduce a new feature! I’ve been having a lot of muse attacks lately, and darn it, I can’t wait until I have a finished product to put some stuff up for feedback. I can always read aloud to Kelson, but I’d really like more than one opinion for a change. (Not a dig […]
- Family matters
About a year ago, I decided that my little universe needed its timeline cemented. I’d already adjusted it several times, and it was getting hard to keep straight. So rather than have to redo it yet again, I decided to do it right, and figure it out by generations rather than arbitrary dates. From the […]
- Rain poem (untitled)
If I stepped out into untamed water If I were to melt– All this worldly spray paint Swirling in bright whirlpools over the tiles– If the sugar, the sweetness dripped off the light Would the rain wash away in forty minutes All I have left of self and greed?