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Written August 24, 2008 in Writing
I have been listening to Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac Podcast for over a year now, but I’ve never shared that information. I find that when I’m looking for some “writerly” inspiration, it’s a perfect springboard.
The podcast is only a few minutes long - I keep about 6 months worth on my iPhone at all [...]
This was sent to me by my friend across the lake, Bronwyn Robertson a London-area Virtual Assistant. It was in relation to my new, deeper dedication to niching my business. It couldn’t have been more timely (or more humorous).
The Script Doctor
WickedBlog went a little “dark” for a couple weeks while I got my collective *ahem* stuff together and made the transition from the long-held WickedWordCraft.com to my new, more narrowly focused and less “freeflowing” site, WickedWriter.com.
I could no longer juggle all the things I was trying to do with my life — business and personal. [...]
Since last Tuesday, I’ve had no voice. Literally. I was in the middle of a meeting (by phone) with a client at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning when my voice started getting softer and higher pitched until it was completely gone.
It was like a frog jumped in my throat and squatted there, quite comfortable in the [...]
The writer’s strike resulted in “Black Monday” last week during which the major studios fired many of the best writers, producers, etc. in the entertainment industry. I don’t really watch public television, but I do purchase the shows I like, via iTunes, and the selection has been pretty slim and the episodes pretty strangely spaced [...]
Some words are difficult to differentiate. For those with who struggle with how to use “ensure” vs. “assure” vs. “insure,” I offer the following information:
To “assure” a person of something is to make him or her confident of/about it.
According to the Associated Press Stylebook, to “ensure” that something happens is to make certain that it [...]
I’m tired of hearing the same old words used to describe nothing in particular — and I’m in a largish club.
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Tonight, when I revisited Joseph-Beth for the third time in as many days, I found a surprise waiting. Author Greg Iles was holding a book signing for his latest book Third Degree. Now, in all honesty, I’ve never heard of Greg Iles before tonight and the thriller genera has never held much attraction for me.
With [...]
If you are building your first independently hosted blog for your real estate business and you have decided to go with WordPress, you have already made a great decision.
Now, there are some other items to consider:
My buddy and peer, Katie Baird, over on Loosely Speaking Blog tagged me in her blog yesterday with a meme on blogging tips.
The rules of this meme are that I star the five items I think most important, and then add my own tips at the end. And, of course, tag other bloggers. Here goes.
Today, you should take a moment to consider pumping up your creativity. If you are a writer, or if you have always wanted to be a writer, I have the resources you need. If you are just stuck for a way to begin your next blog, I have a present for you. If you are [...]
I’ve only recently discovered “Oblique Strategy Cards” — now available in a fifth edition. Apparently I’m a little slow sometimes, but I LOVE the concept.
They are, according to the creators:
Observations on the principles underlying what we were doing. Sometimes they were recognized in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition), sometimes they were identified as [...]
I haven’t tried these themes, but they were so pretty, I just had to share them with you.
If you are looking for an unusual theme for your WordPress site, I would like to offer the following group of one dark theme and two white ones.
When I first began looking for a way to represent WickedWordCraft.com, I really wanted a paper-look to match my quill.
Since that time, I’ve gone a bit more “high tech” with my look to appeal to my ideal clients (high tech real estate agents and brokers), but I’ve found a few excellent WordPress themes with an [...]
I’ve always had difficulty with my two polar opposite sides — the side that loves a good pen and quality paper, and the other side that adores all things techie. The only thing that marries the two in me is sharing the same goal: Effective Communication.
Now, I find a new (upcoming) product called LiveScribe that [...]
I tripped across the following site recently and found it quite interesting:
A web-based program to design your own widget-ready WP Theme on the fly. You may want to give it a whirl!
While I’m working on resources to help (in particular) real estate agents using an independently hosted WordPress theme, I happened to trip across this wonderful post full of over 120 resources, links and tools for bloggers.
As soon as I get a bit more time, I’ll be reviewing each of these in light of my WP [...]
While surfing the web (yeah, again) I found a freebie issue of Small Spiral Notebook which was not only free, but thanks to the magic of NXTBook Media, was pretty cool in presentation as an online magazine as well.
If you want to check out some of the works and writers, take a peek at Issue [...]
A recent pearl in the www — a website promoting an author’s book that is so low-tech, but so original and so cool that I don’t care that it breaks all the “rules” for websites.
Visit a book website that you won’t soon forget — using what’s available in the kitchen, a dry erase marker and [...]
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