Archive for January, 2008
Need an apartment? Here’s a good place to start your search
It finally happened. I pushed her too far. My wife of 40+ years, St. Shirl, said she’d had enough of my foolishness and kicked me out. Now I’m looking for Columbus OH Apartments to move as far away from that madwoman as I can.
Just kidding. Absolutely kidding. It was all a horrible nightmare. No, not [...]
Different novel, first excerpt — your opinions, please?
Many years ago, I decided I wanted to write Western novels. These days it’s really hard to make a buck writing Westerns — or as they are sometimes know now, “historical novels set in the Old West.” It never was a lucrative genre, but it’s dear to my heart. I even know a couple of [...]
Time marches on — and I want a grandfather clock to keep pace with it
One of the special wishes I’ve had since I was a kid was to someday own a grandfather clock. Okay, I’ll be honest — if I were rich enough, I would love to have several grandfather clocks. Singular or plural, I’ve just always been eager to own one of these beautiful timepieces.
When I ran onto [...]
Go immediately to ‘ThereTheir.com’ and enjoy — we don’t have to write like idiots
In a comment to a recent post I did about my “more than/more then” pet peeve, one of our readers gave me a link to an absolutely great little writing site — ThereTheir.com. I hadn’t found this website, but now that I know about it I have bookmarked it and will go back, frequently.
The one-page [...]
‘Nouveau Riche’ in the link drew my attention to this useful website
If you see a link labeled Nouveau Riche University, how can you NOTclick on it to find out more about it? The link certainly caught my attention and I think it’s worth passing on to you.
The website teases you to find out more about an online learning center: This online university specializes in training those [...]
Some of the problems with website content and article directories
I made a post yesterday pointing you to ezinearticles.com as a good source of content and ideas for your writing. I discussed in that post some of the ways people use articles to market products, draw traffic to blogs, or whatever, through the Internet and the role article directories may play in that marketing process.
Today, [...]
Business cash flow problem? Here’s a useful website that may help
I know some of you out there reading this run small businesses, either related to your writing or to make money to support your writing habit. And I suspect, like all small businesses everywhere, you have cash flow problems from time to time. If you need some “Fast Business Cash,” here’s a useful website you [...]
If you blog, you know what I mean by ‘comment sp*m’
Sometimes the stuff that comes to me via email and via attempts to “comment” on my blogs just makes me sick. Other times, such sp*m (rhymes with “ham”) really cracks me up.
There appears to be some odd script fools are paying for that sends “comments” out to a list of blogs that start out very [...]
Do you do sports writing? Interested in boxing stories? Here’s a useful site for you
Question: What do James Braddock, Rocky Balboa, Oscar De La Hoya, and Floyd Mayweather Jr. have in common?
Answer: They’re all famous boxing sports stories which could have made — or could make — any of us a ton of money, although one is a fictional character.
Do you do sports writing? Are you making money at [...]
Do know about ‘EzineArticles.com’? You should check out the site
It just occurred to me that, in my eagerness to bring you frequent “Useful Websites,” there are some fundamental sites for writers that I’m missing. So let me remedy that right now with this one — “EzineArticles.com.”
If you are at all interested in Internet writing, you’ve probably already found ezinearticles.com. But just in case you [...]
Another useful website if you’re shopping for a good webhosting service
I’m determined every month or two to encourage all of you with websites or blogs to keep a close eye on them. Are you backing up regularly? Is your webhosting service doing backups? And while we’re on the subject: Are you in the market for a new webosting company?
I mention all this because you may [...]
Saw an interesting interview with Stephen King — where do you get story ideas?
If you’ve hung out around here much, you already know that I’m a Stephen King fan. I would say he ranks as one of my top five favorite fiction writers. (Number one would be Larry Block, number two Dean Koontz, number three James Patterson, then probably … oh, well, anyway, that wasn’t my point.)
King has [...]
Like eBay? Are you also a stargazer? Here’s a ‘Useful Website’ for you
If you enjoy browsing eBay and if you also happen to be an astronomy buff — yes, THAT kind of “stargazer,” not the celebrity gossip kind — this “Useful Website” offers you the best of both worlds. It’s “Astromart,” a really fascinating combination of articles about astronomy, links to buy telescopes, cameras, and other astronomical [...]
Okay, all you writers out there, listen up — I’m getting irritated more THAN you know
Some language battles aren’t worth fighting, but we fight them anyway, don’t we? The one I’m talking about is the ongoing misuse of “then” and “than.” I cannot tell you the number of times every day that I read about something being “more then” something else.
I’ve posted about this before, so I’ll let you get [...]
Looking for some Folly Beach real estate, or ideas for an adventure novel? Here’s the site for you
I’ve never been to South Carolina, but I have a friend who lived there several years and fell in love with the coastal areas of the state. Here’s a “Useful Website” for you if you’re looking for some Folly Beach real estate. My maps tell me Folly Beach is southward along the coast from my [...]
