Archive for January, 2011
I’ve talked about search terms before. Pretty much everyone who blogs regularly winds up doing it at least once, for the laughs if nothing else. We’ve all had someone wind up on our blogs because they were looking for “how to stab penguins in the ear” or something similar (and now stabbing penguins in the [ READ MORE ]
First off, my apologies for the lateness of this post. Today was one of those eating-ramen-from-a-mixing-bowl-because-everything-else-is-dirty mornings. This is overall good news, because it means there are lots of paying jobs in my inbox, but all the same and nonetheless — my apologies. Now then. Some thoughts about writing, shall we? Writers — creative artists [ READ MORE ]
Be careful where the huskies go, and do not eat that yellow snow. – Jack London or one of those other Yukon-loving fucks [cit. needed] So as you can see, today’s post is about problems. Specifically it’s about this problem where dogs like to pee on things higher than ground level, presumably in some kind [ READ MORE ]
I try not to talk too much about my own work on this blog — in fact, “Works in Progress” is my most under-used category, with only a couple posts from before I realized I sound boring when I talk about things I’m writing. But I’ll make an exception for running an article on a [ READ MORE ]
I’ve talked about the special role of letters in a writer’s life before, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually given helpful advice on it before. So today that changes! Don’t worry if you’re not a big letter-writer. You can apply most of this advice to e-mails or even tweets and texts too. I’m a [ READ MORE ]
I am an argument for gun control: heavily influenced by Westerns in my childhood, I firmly believe that the appropriate response to a cheatin’ varmint is to pull out your six-shooter and plug him full of lead. This would be a problem in modern society because modern society is mostly made up of cheatin’ varmints, [ READ MORE ]
Since it comes up once a week or so in my inbound search terms, I thought I should clear this up once and for all: “Misanthropology” is not a real thing. It is a made-up word and a play on “misanthropy” (the dislike of human company or society) and anthropology (the study of human culture). [ READ MORE ]
I’m not much of a poet. I should say that up front, because what I’m about to do is criticize extant verse, and that’s always a touchy subject. But every once and a while I happen across a song (and it’s usually a song rather than a poem) that forced a rhyme when a perfectly [ READ MORE ]
I’m wrapping up a series of articles on blogs for writers today, so if you haven’t yet, be sure to check out 6 Reasons Writers Need Blogs (which was apparently actually only five reasons — oops) and How to Write a Readable Writing Blog. This last post takes a closer look at the numbers game: [ READ MORE ]
You know what? Today we’re not doing the numbered list thing. People love ‘em, but I just count the number of entries wrong and look like a twit. So today we’re talking about an indeterminate number of bold-faced points that help writing blogs stay interesting, engaging, and above-all readable. Meet the <Enter> Key, Your New [ READ MORE ]
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