New blog/web site and the demise of the Tower of Marlowe
The Tower of Marlowe has been deserted, left to stand as a silent bastion, not to have its parapets nor its winding stairs nor shadowed halls frequented again. Instead, welcome to my new blog, now...
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How Much Time Should Writers Spend Blogging?
There was a pretty good take on the Vigorous Writing blog (which apparently, as of 11/28/08, has disappeared) concerning the question of how much time one should spend blogging. Of note: "Newer writers...
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Unpublished Writers: Web Sites and Blogs Recommended
Agent Kristin of PubRants fame talked yesterday about web sites and blogs, and if unpublished writers should have either or both. Something I've often wondered about is whether or not an agent or...
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Popular Posts
Thanks to Al Nyveldt for providing a most useful extension/widget to track my most popular posts. You can see what it looks like to the right. I had started with just the "Top 5". That quickly changed...
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Odiogo podcasts my blog
If you've noticed a "Listen Now" button at the top of my posts then you know I've signed up for Odiogo, a podcasting service that auto converts your text blog entries into mp3's. There's a separate...
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Stay on target... stay on target!
Whenever I’m reminded of the need to remain focused I’m in turn reminded of a famous line from Star Wars:“Stay on target… stay on target!” Of course, this line was spoken by a character known only as...
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Tor.com hacked
Thought I would pass this on since I've made numerous mentions of Tor Books in previous posts: the Tor.com site was hacked.This from Patrick Nielson Hayden:The break-in was most likely accomplished by...
View ArticleHappy New Year
Happy New Year everyone! With 2008 over, I decided to take quick stock of things with respect to my writing and blogging.Writing I spent all of this past year working on my current fantasy novel. I've...
View ArticleYes, I'm still here… and still writing
Rumors of my death are false. I'm still alive and kicking and trying to squeeze in some writing whenever and however I can. I'm relying more and more on Office Live Workspace for those days when I...
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New Look
Every once in a while it's a good idea to freshen up the ol' web site/blog. Truth be told, that light blue background has been bothering me for some time now, but every time I tried to swap out the...
View ArticleThe 2009 Year in Review
This time last year I took a look at my most popular posts of 2008. Carrying on that tradition, I'd like to do the same for 2009 with a few extras this time around. As dictated by Google Analytics,...
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My Favorites of 2009
Sometime during 2009 I suddenly stopped writing up posts that were merely collections of links, reporting the ongoing status of my writing, or telling you all about free giveaways, and started writing...
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Buy Me A Book
You're probably familiar with the "buy me a coffee" or "buy me a beer" campaigns some bloggers engage in. I'm starting my own and I'm calling it "Buy Me A Book".What that means is if you read a story,...
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300!
This is my 300th post. Rather than turn it into a meta-post or carry on with business as usual, I thought I'd usher this 300th post in with a short list of some of my favorite quotes from the movie...
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Pin Web Sites to your Windows 7 Taskbar with IE9 Beta
And now for something completely different. I usually keep topics of a technical nature confined to my technical blog and those of a writing nature to this one. But sometimes the lines blur, at least...
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The 2010 Year in Review
Another year has passed and so I'd like to take a look what's been happening around here.I blogged a lot more this past year than in year's past. I also undertook LibraryThing's 50 Book Reading...
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The site evolves again
Seems like about once a year I get the urge to give the web site/blog a face-lift. The last time I'd made any significant changes was back in October 2009. Now, here's the latest look: The above is...
View ArticleNo more comments
I've decided to turn comments off, mostly because I'm tried of managing the spam. It's amazing how much spam I get given that this site really doesn't get that many hits/day (maybe 100). Also, I have...
View ArticleThe 2011 Year in Review
It's fast becoming a tradition around here to reflect a bit on the previous year both as a writer and a blogger. Previous bouts of reflection spilled out of me in 2010 and 2009. But, here we are now,...
View ArticleChoosing an Audience
When I started this blog, I always considered my audience other writers. Part of that was because I was just getting started myself and it was (and still is) the collaborative thing to do. Also, I...
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