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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Get to history class with Doctor Who! And DON’T be TARDIS!
As parents who took the active and on-purpose step of homeschooling their children, one becomes acutely aware of the creative permutations available in the process; there are brilliant thinkers out there, finding ways to hack the process into something far … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Amy Dutsch, Benedict Cumberbatch, Common Core, David Tennant, Doctor Who, History class, Homeschooling, TARDIS
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A Half Dome primer (if you’re going)
One thing is for certain. Googling about hiking to Half Dome bears little resemblance to being there. Another thing is for certain: that previous assertion cannot be made into anything more banal than it already is. Banality, however, does not … Continue reading
Made it.
Nuff, said . . . I present: Half Dome. Off to play with Eric Martin. Novato.
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Tagged Eric Martin, Half Dome, hiking, Mr. Big, Rock climbing, Yosemite
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Yosemite, Half Dome and other rock giants
Off to presumably scale Half Dome tomorrow. Then, on saturday night, I’m sitting in on an acoustic show with Mr. Big lead singer, Eric Martin for a couple of songs. Apparently he likes the undiluted gravitas, star power and overall … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Writing
Tagged Eric Martin, Half Dome, Mr. Big, Music, Rock climbing, Taylor Guitar, Yosemite
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Comments, re-blogging, and the gratuitous traffic grab
Any engaged writer that has ever sat and Googled “How can increase my blog traffic” soon realized: the sites you are sent to did the same thing once and figured out that making a blog about increasing web traffic does … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged Blog traffic, Blogging Advice, Ghost Adventures, novel writing, promotion, publicity, publishing, Reading, Self publishing, Twitter, writing, Zak Bagans
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Exercise: The six-word horror story
A while back, I saw a favorite blogger of mine–someone who does what’s called an “overnight thread” make a brief pass at this subject. It was an exercise such as this one in which a full story arc can be … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Bible, Blogging Advice, Jesus, novel writing, publishing, revelation, Self publishing, writer's block, writing
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Robin Williams: The eyes had it.
There was always something about Robin Williams–something intangibly lurking behind the eyes that betrayed a sadness in direct disproportion to the joys he conjured in others. His face would smile, but his eyes–the EYES. They were different. They told of … Continue reading
Posted in CS Lewis, Writing
Tagged Comedy, Depression, God, Robin Williams, Spirituality, Suicide, writing
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Social media, attention whores and Robin Williams
Perhaps this should be where the conversation stops–The Instagram account of Zelda Williams–Robin Williams’ 25-year-old daughter. This social media thread should also perhaps be the final rallying point, guest book, or sympathy card in social media. But sadly, it is not. … Continue reading
This momentum thing can get addicting (Oh, and WHAT ABOUT posting one’s work to the blog?)
All right. Seems like trying to pinch the germ of an idea out of one’s cerebral petrie dish is the hard part. I’m already a chapter in to my work. For me–THIS is the comparative cakewalk. Those that have been … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged Blogging Advice, novel writing, publicity, publishing, Self publishing, Tesla, writer's block, writing
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And . . . book . . . STARTED!
A couple of posts ago, I stated that I had the idea for a non-fiction book–to wit: An academic satire; a good-natured Manchurian bloodletting of a humorless subject–but one in which I repair most of the wounds at the end. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Academic satire, Blogging Advice, Non-fiction, novel writing, publicity, publishing, Reading, Self publishing, writing
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