Tag: blogging

  • Episode Story and Serialized Blogs : Segment

    Episode Story and Serialized Blogs : Segment

    Once you’ve dissented against the norms in the blogging world, once you’ve clearly outlined how — exactly — you intend to help others, once you’ve focused on substance and earned the consent of readers who want you to contact them on a regular basis, once you’ve fermented your own style and substance until the blog is…

  • Before You Open Blog : Intro

    Before You Open Blog : Intro

    Confession: I’ve never thought of myself as a blogger. Many of you know my aversion to the word “blog,” my aversion to the false sense of immediacy created by that publish button, my desire for us all to reflect on language that has lasted and for us to spend less time spent gobbling up whatever…

  • The Best Amateur Website Still Uses Canva

    The Best Amateur Website Still Uses Canva

    Featured Tool: Click here to access the main tool that the best amateur websites use. Awhile back when I went cruising around for advice on my site, I found the best amateur website still using the same service that all of these other amateur websites used. I hesitate to mention it because I don’t want to…

  • No More Ads on My Site

    It took five years for me to man up and switch over to WordPress.org, but I’m now happy to tell you that I’ve completely cut the cord with WordPress.com and there will be no more ads anywhere on my site. If you see them, please let me know because they’re there against my will. Big improvements,…

  • Artists Thriving and Recovering Imagination

    Artists Thriving and Recovering Imagination

    I’m busy helping people who have lost something magical and are desperate to find their way back: artists who have lost the art and non-artists who have tied their imaginations up with crappy plastic cuffs, shoved them into the basement of lost souls, and stuffed their ears to the whimpers.

  • Blog: An Onomatopoeia for Vomit

    You should love more than you hate, since this world’s filled with far more good than evil. That said, I hate few things, but one is this word “blog.” Oh, I get how it came about. People started creating new pages on a website back in the late eighties (post-Usenet) to create a log of…

  • Free Subscription to this Blog on Your Kindle

    Hey gang, If you love Kindle like me, and if you like free things like me, you’ll love this: In my search to make this site crisp and fun, I found a way to publish my blog on Kindle. After making the blog fit for iPad owners, it was only right to do the same for…

  • Thanks AND A CHALLENGE to International Guests

    For the record, I’ve been humbled by how many of you from outside the U.S. interact on here: Which is why I scheduled this one to post at three in the morning my time, what Ray Bradbury called “no souls hour” in Something Wicked This Way Comes. No, I’m not awake–I’m probably dreaming of being an Animorph or…

  • Liebster Blog Award

    Yesterday, I stumbled onto my “About” page and found out that one of our own, thoughtofvg, gifted me the Liebster Blog Award. The award gets passed on to excelled bloggers with fewer than 200 followers to recognize their efforts  to a larger audience. Like ‘thoghtofvg’ I too love the German language (as chanonyx might tell you)…