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NaNoWriMo and What it Means to Me
This year I’ve decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month. Essentially, to those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo is an event set up back in 1999 to allow participates a venue in which to pressure themselves into writing that novel that they kept putting off, or even just trying out writing for the sake of … Read more
On Editing
Writing is truly a glamorized and romanticized career. While we all have pipe dreams of being the next Stephen King or George R. R Martin, the fact remains that most writers won’t be. Whether this is due to skill, ideas or just plain bad luck, this is irrelevant to the fact that most writers will never go … Read more
Lust is a Dangerous Feeling
A new challenge by Penmonkey Chunk Wendig of Terribleminds has us taking a look a monsters. More specifically, he has us looking at new types of monsters of our own creation. Given 1000 words or less to tell this story, we were told to create and describe a monster. I believe I did so in the … Read more
Preteen Media: Quick Tips
We seem to have reached a new style of parenting in the last 10 years or so, around the turn of the century. While it sounds hypocritical for me to be giving advice on parenting, having no children of my own, I feel that it is important to look at it from a third party … Read more
Change: A Quick Political Rant
Political stagnation is a problem that many democratic nations feel on a regular basis. While the politicians play their little State games, many people feel as if the candidates are all interchangeable and fail to feel any kind of connection to any of them or their platforms. While this has been covered to a minor … Read more
A Sleep Experiment
Today’s post is going to come up at some point today, but instead I’m starting with something a little different today. This is going to be a side project, alongside my normal writings. Recently I had an article linked to me about alternative sleep schedules outside of the normal 8-10 hours. Having been an insomniac … Read more
CONTENT SHARING AND SOCIAL MEDIA PART 2
Due to family matters this post was delayed until today. Alright yesterday we talked about political movements in social media and the day before we brought up the rivalries in content distribution over social media like Twitter, Youtube and the like. Part two of content distribution and social media is today’s topic. While the last … Read more
Politics and Social Media: A Short Blurb
Yesterday’s writings touched on the amazing ways that various social media can be used to better spread someone’s created content along the Internet. We touched, although briefly on its uses beyond content distribution, today’s look will be on political uses of social media and how it can not only be used to display your agenda, … Read more
Content Sharing and Social Media Part 1
In the last decade or so, the internet has taken a large leap in its interaction with the human population. Its use has skyrocketed, its functions almost infinite. Looking back at using Netscape all those years ago, I could have never imagined the amount it would change in such a short time. While this can … Read more
The Sweetest Kind
Recently the author of the blog Terrible Minds, Chuck Wendig posed a challenge to the readers of his blog. This was to create a short flash fiction story based around the concept of revenge. Now this could have been any kind of revenge, he of course challenged us to be creative in what we wrote. As … Read more
Lost in the Void
