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  • Secrets Of The Sea Known Only By Her: An Acrostic

    Secrets Of The Sea Known Only By Her: An Acrostic

    Secrets of the Sea Known Only by Her She sits by the water, Eyes staring at the calm surface, Cringing in the cold. She watched Rings form in the clear depths. Every ring brushed against The waves, beating against the Shores of her mind Read more

  • Some Haiku for You

    Some Haiku for You

    Rain falling softly Children with yellow rain coats Splashing in puddles — Dry grass crackling Orange tongues of fire Marshmallows melting — Flunking another quiz The books I never opened A red pen- grade fixed Read more

  • Laughs and an Outlet for your Writing

    Laughs and an Outlet for your Writing

    Do you do any of these things?  Camilla Marsh, writing for The Writing Cooperative, put together a list of quirks, anyone of which might apply to you. Here’s a sneak peak: 7. You’ve been known to taper off during a conversation, staring into oblivion, mouth slightly ajar, as your mind fills with an enthralling tale-to-be… Read more

  • User Experience Matters

    User Experience Matters

    If you doubt this, come to my office where every little detail of a website is scrutinized. We’re not a big player in the web world. We don’t want to send our visitors screaming for the exit; we want them to come into our site and never leave. We are a black hole sucking you… Read more

  • Fresh Perspective: What Photography Can Teach You About Writing

    Fresh Perspective: What Photography Can Teach You About Writing

    Looking for a fresh perspective to start your week? Look no further. I’ve got one to offer. What photography can teach you about writing On the surface, photography and writing have little in common. If you dig a little deeper, the commonalities become plain. Photographers frame life with their camera lens and capture those images in… Read more

  • Sound off: Advice from the Web

    Sound off: Advice from the Web

    While you relax and enjoy your well-deserved Sunday morning rituals, here’s some advice culled from the internet on a writing, creativity, motivation and process. While your sipping orange juice, some exotic tea, a coffee confection or plain old milk, let your mind consider these tidbits and store them away for future reference. Here’s a new way… Read more

  • Selling books and eBooks with a Dash of Inspiration

    Selling books and eBooks with a Dash of Inspiration

    A recent Publisher’s Weekly article, How To Succeed at Self-Publishing,  zeroed in on self-published author, Victorine Lieske. Her ebook romance, Not What She Seems, sold 150,000 copies and blew up the best seller lists. She talked to Publisher’s Weekly about the secret of her success. Read more

  • Hypocrite? Who me? Say it isn’t so!

    Hypocrite? Who me? Say it isn’t so!

    Yesterday I posted a rambling review of The Girl in the Spider’s Web. Sharp readers no doubt noticed at the end of the post that I contradicted myself. I talked about avoiding the fourth installment of the Millenium series initially just because Stieg Larsson, the series’ creator, passed on and a new author picked up the thread… Read more

  • Caught in the Spider’s Web

    Caught in the Spider’s Web

    I just finished The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz, book 4 in the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series. Maybe you’ve heard of it. Maybe you’ve decided to skip the book out of loyalty for Larsson. That was my plan but it went off the rails when my fellow audio book junkies (aka my IT office mates)… Read more

  • Expand your horizons

    Expand your horizons

    When you left school, did you leave learning behind? Or like me, do you hunger for knowledge? Yes the internet is full of information but unless you find a site or sites that’s curated by someone that knows their shit, you could be surfing through a whole lot of crap. Don’t get me started on the emails… Read more