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NaNoWriMo 2010 That Went Kaphooey

December 30, 2010 by · Comments Off
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About a week late into NaNoWriMo, I decided to do a flash story collection that consisted of 100 flash stories of 500 words each. How hard was it to write four 500-word flash story per day for a month? Turns out that writing is the easy part if I had the idea for a flash [...]

Recovering From A Disappearing ISP

July 14, 2010 by · 1 Comment
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The ISP hosting my three websites and a dozen email accounts disappeared from the Internet for 36 hours last week, starting on Thursday morning at 10:00AM and ending Friday night at 9:30PM. If the outage had lasted less than 24 hours, I would’ve shrugged my shoulders and went on with life. Outages do happen from [...]

The Non-Universal RTF File Format

June 30, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Over the past year or so, I have switched from submitting my short stories via snail mail to email. That decision was driven by both economics and practicality. Being without a full time non-writing job for 16 months had forced me to reduce expenses everywhere to be able to live on my unemployment benefits. Fewer [...]

A Dead Tree Traditionalist Among E-Readers

June 23, 2010 by · Comments Off
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The big story this week is the price war among the various e-readers. Barnes & Noble cut the price on their current Nook 3G + Wi-Fi e-reader to $199 from $259, and introduced a new Wifi-only version for $149. Then Amazon followed with a similar price reduction for the Kindle, dropping the price to $189. That [...]

Adding A Blog to The Author Website

June 16, 2010 by · Comments Off
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When I set up my author website two years ago, I kept it very simple by not adding a blog. At the time, I had only one publication credit and didn’t have enough experience to make a writer-centric blog worthwhile. That was back then. Now that I have a long credit list and enough experience [...]