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01/20/2013 Leave a comment
Read this today: http://www.themarysue.com/bookless-public-library/
Have to say, that is exciting. Not necessarily that I feel like all libraries should become e-libraries — far from it! I am, after all, working on a degree in library and information science! That means that libraries and library districts thinking of new ways to reach users, keep up with technology, and be relevant? That’s good.
This sounds like job security to me. Now all I need is a job at a library…
01/08/2013 Leave a comment
I got a great App on my Mac, has lots of great workspace for writing. It’s called Scrivener, and it has templates for creating characters, as well as great workspaces for your chapters and sections. You can move them around, and rearrange. You can show multiple panes at once, so that your notes or outline can be showing on one, and you can be writing in another. Overall, pretty excellent.
Then I got an iPad. Read more of this post
12/31/2012 Leave a comment
Vacation followed by the holidays is a great way to fall behind on your blogs and writing.
I thought about doing Nanowrimo. How much did I end up writing in November? About one day’s worth of words.
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Just posted this on Tumblr, and it was suddenly a hit. Lots of people noticing it, liking, reblogging. Well, “lots” being more than one. So, what do we learn? Read more of this post
10/23/2012 2 Comments
As GLaDOS would say, I’m still alive.
As it goes, blogging with a full time job is rough. Especially when I am working 50+ hour weeks. Hiring and training. Also, Borderlands 2. A vacation. These things.
I haven’t been doing much of any writing. Not much on Tumblr. Or Twitter. Or for my own purposes. I have some small starts. Photos for my local short story, for use on Tumblr. I am thinking about going with a cruise rather than a hotel for my multi-character story (guess I’ll have to take notes on my cruise next month…). I tried writing up the Dungeons & Dragons game I am playing in, talking through events after the fact. Didn’t seem like a good use of time. But then, setting it aside, I haven’tput anything else in its place.
So what does the blogger do when they have fallen off the wagon? That’s the piece that’s not mentioned in class, the harder side of blogging. Most blogs seem to get started full of fire on the writer’s part, then fade. So what do I do?
First, I have been doing at least one thing successfully. I have been reading some blogs on an almost daily basis. Granted, they’re on Tumblr, but it presents the posting really well. And I have reblogged a couple of good things, kind of fun.
Meaning second, I want to find a good RSS reader, to follow my other blogs. Any recommendations?
Because if I can keep up with reading blogs, it will keep me involved with blogging, and the writing will follow.
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