Things Happening Outside

May 3, 2011

Since the days when I first ran the Writing Adventure Group, which used techniques designed to get the writer out, observing, and...

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A New Look

Dec 11, 2010

Like most people with blogs, I do love an occassional redesign. Some chicks buy shoes, I play with websites. I’d been wanting to...

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The Wasteline Test

Jun 5, 2010

I confess. I love measuring things. I don’t know if it’s a competitive streak, or it’s related to my word-meter +...

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Logging In and Leaving Comment...

Apr 12, 2010

Because of the way I announce blog posts on Twitter and Facebook, I often have people comment on my posts there instead of leaving a...

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Readability

Dec 4, 2009

On Twitter yesterday, someone posted a link yesterday to a Readability Meter. Now I’ve never paid that much attention to these...

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Writers Market Online

Mar 17, 2009

Having found the Writer’s Market books very useful in the past, but don’t like the fact that they “expire”...

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The Fiction of Writer’s ...

Feb 17, 2009

Seriously.  Just don’t believe in writer’s block.  Like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.  (I do believe in the Tooth...

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Tracking Queries

Feb 3, 2009

Four years ago when I was first querying agents, I kept track of to whom I’d sent what (and their replies) by using Microsoft...

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Writer’s Café – Or...

Jan 17, 2009

In the past, I’ve always stuck with using various documents to keep myself sorted out when it comes to character names, plot...

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