Six Word Saturday 4
07/12/2014 Leave a comment
I wanted to try to do something related to the story I started working on this week. This is what I got to. Dun dun dun…
Six Word Saturday 3
07/05/2014 Leave a comment
In thinking of Six Word Stories, my mind keeps going back to existing stories… to short lines that might wrap up the whole story, or represent it. Which is not helping me, with trying to think of my own Six Word Stories! However, I think it’s good to get them out, to not have them lingering in my head.
I like Twitter more in the mobile app – you can save drafts of Tweets. That’s helpful for a project like this, where I might be thinking of multiple Six Word Stories at once – but not necessarily wanting to flood Twitter with them. Write them up, think them over, and post them a bit at a time.
I also tend to think of them later in the week, starting Wednesday or Thursday, with the Saturday post in mind!
Six Word Saturday 2
06/28/2014 3 Comments
So, in thinking about the idea of the Six Word Story, it got me thinking of the elements of a story. And when you get down to the basics, a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Well, that works just about right for a 6-word story. But does it tell us much? Read more of this post
Introducing Features
06/17/2014 7 Comments
I shared a post the other day that has really inspired me on figuring out my content here on DBCII. It’s perhaps unsurprising that the idea came from Gene’O, of The Writing Catalog, as he is someone who blogs similarly to how I do.
The idea presented, and one I see a lot in reading blogs, is features. Posts that you can just expect to see, daily, or weekly. As a creator, they help you know what content you’ll need to create, to keep your blog going. As a reader, they help you expect what you’ll see, let you know to come back for more later when you find something you like.
Gene’O lists a number of features on Sourcerer that they run, but I thought I would note a few of my other favorites. On Love Pirate’s Ship’s Log, there’s a quote of the day. I love them – generally a picture from a movie or TV episode, and then a few lines of quote. They just make me stop and smile as I skim through my WordPress reader. Another favorite is the Box Office Top 10 on We Minored in Film, which just fill me with joy each week as I read it.
I see other features, such as episode recaps and reviews of popular shows, or Wednesday New Comics (it’s nice that most all new comics come out on one day, for the purpose of blogging about it!). These are the sorts of features we might consider on Comparative Geeks, but at the same time, because others are doing it, we want to leave it to them. Because we do so little content, as it were – with just our 6 posts a week – features would eat up a lot of that.
Also, it would force us to keep up with shows or reading comics or whatever we chose – which is against what we’re doing with the blog. We are writing for the joy of it, for the thought and sharing, and forcing timelines like that on ourselves would not be great. The closest we get is our ongoing LitFlix – where we read the book/comics and then see the movie.
And we have other ongoing series, like Science Fiction Today, Character Studies, or Science Fiction and Religion, but we don’t follow a schedule on those… it’s more like we try to do at least one of those a month. We could try to make these a scheduled feature, but they’re more of just an ongoing series, and for a blog, those are good too.
So let me introduce the features I am planning on here! Read more of this post
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