April 2011

Okay.  I’m here to ask for a favor. Writers, please get off your platforms and network. Platform:  A high place from which I say blah blah blah. Network:  A series of nodes where we all trade favors. Platform:  Experts preaching to the choir. Network:  People learning how to exchange ideas and be inspired by each […]

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Written last night at Ray’s school, where they were holding a math and chocolate night.  My only regret:  they kicked her out at seven.  I rambled; Ray was coloring and cutting out pattern shapes elbow to elbow with other kids, and it seemed like it took forever… — At the chocolate and math night at

Okay, here are a couple of movies I Irrationally Have No Interest in seeing: Tangled. Thor. There’s so much hype for both, that I had to stop to think what it was that turned me off. It may not have anything to do with the movie; I think it’s the marketing. With Tangled, all I

Another writing post.  This is not because interesting, non-writing things don’t happen to me.  For instance, Ray was giving me The Teenager Look this morning.  She’s nine.  That was pretty interesting.  No, it’s because I made a major shift in my writer-mentality, and I’m still trying to work it out. This morning, I felt like

Disclaimer:  Mark gave me a free registration for Storybox in exchange for promoting the software.  However, 1) you can try it for free as long as you like and 2) I was going to talk it up anyway. One of the guys that I met out at the marketing workshop a few weeks ago, Mark

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Wow.  I just feel completely dried up as far as blog posts go. So, rather than write no blog post, I’ll just write a lame blog post!  A braggy post to build myself up.  It feels @#$%^&* weird. The last six months have been a transition from “writer” to “pro writer,” which is something that,

I just finished doing another Lulu gift book, so I better post this before I forget how to do it (again). Same caveats as in the first post: If you privately create on Lulu (using the private only option), it does not affect your first publishing rights; you have NOT made the book public.  If