Category Archives: Writing

Comments, re-blogging, and the gratuitous traffic grab

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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Exercise: The six-word horror story

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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Robin Williams: The eyes had it.

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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Social media, attention whores and Robin Williams

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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This momentum thing can get addicting (Oh, and WHAT ABOUT posting one’s work to the blog?)

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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And . . . book . . . STARTED!

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

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 →

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A mishmash of Ukuleles, Yosemite, and Strum Shops

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

My buddy Rob phoned me up earlier in the year to see if I wanted to go to Yosemite and climb Half Dome.  I said yes.  Then I realized that seventeen-mile cardiovascular death march was going to require me to … Continue reading →

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And another book idea has hit me

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

So the other day, I was listening to a couple of morning guys in the Northern California area, Armstrong & Getty.  Being that they’re on the radio, I can never seem to mentally parse which one is saying what, but … Continue reading →

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Four blurbs you’ll never read anywhere else

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

I simply have to thank Lynette Noni for bringing the following legendary exercise in pith and summation back to the front of my mind. Little did Rick Polito know in 1998 that his witty rundown of classic movie lore would be … Continue reading →

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Step Number Five: Wait.

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Ron Giesecke

I promise that this blog will eventually become something other than a syncopatedly pathetic drip of information concerning the journey of ONE measly little article.  Now comes the whole “naked in front of the doctor AND my wife” sort of … Continue reading →

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