Writing fun
Write For Your City
NCWA welcomes Joe Bunting from The Write Practice in a series of writing prompts. This post contains excerpts from Joe’s e-book. See links following post to obtain the complete version. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I had the pleasure of interviewing poet Paul Willis recently. Paul is the current poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California, the city of my [...]
Wordles, Clouds and You
How often do you use the same words in your writing? In blogworld, wordles are tag clouds which are word clouds. Clear? ~ The wordle above (but not the world above, keep up with me here) was created by Wordle, after I typed in our blog url. ~ Writers love words, and one picture is worth [...]
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]
NaNoWriMo is Coming!
Amy Letinsky shares her adventure into the fast paced NaNoWriMo. A couple years ago, I became a novelist over the course of one month. Each year, in November, hundreds of thousands of wannabe novelists, like myself, set a goal to write a 50,000 word novel during the month. It’s called NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), [...]
How to Create a Custom Subject Line for Feedburner E-Mail Updates
Laura Christianson of Blogging Bistro continues her series of fantastic tips for social media and website management. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One of the best ways to build a loyal readership for your blog is to encourage visitors to subscribe via e-mail or RSS feed. Many bloggers use Feedburner (owned by Google) to manage their blog’s feed. Up [...]
Ex-chequer
How many errors can you find in this bit of prose? Who wood have guest The spell chequer wood super seed The assent of the editor Who was once a mane figure? ~ Once awl sought his council; Now, nun prophet from him. How sure the job was; It was all sew fine… ~ Never [...]
