The blog has become the most often overlooked and perhaps the single most powerful online method for sharing your message with a larger audience. While social networking like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter can have a huge impact on your message delivery strategy, they assume the monitoring of your stream by the audience. Whereas a blog [...]
Posts Tagged ‘writing’
flash fiction: nutroll
Posted: 28th December 2009 by Eric in Fiction, Uncategorized, free fictionTags: Fiction, flash fiction, writing
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The moon was spying on me, watching me through my little window. The sky was blue and the winter moon was a clear three-quarter full. The only other thing visible from my high window was a massive pine. It was like and angry watcher, its branches fracturing the afternoon blue of the sky.
The moon watched [...]
The (T)ruth about blogging…
Posted: 1st December 2009 by Eric in Uncategorized, writingTags: blogging, blogosphere, experts, plumbing, writing
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…Or the Delicate Art of the Human Spectacle
Back in the primordial mist of self-indulgent web-publishing, blogs were a sort of anonymous, online journal, where someone could write their terrible secrets, post their gruesome thoughts, rant about their hatreds, gush about their crushes, wax vitriolic about their employers, politicians and auto-mechanics.
Somewhere along the way, a very [...]
Windows Live “Writer”
Posted: 30th November 2009 by Eric in Uncategorized, reviews, writingTags: blog software, blogging, miscosoft, windows jive, windows live, writing
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I think like any savvy computer user, I’m hesitant to install anything on my computer that comes from Micro$oft. I began my career as we a web designer cursing and swearing at the cheap employers who insisted we use Frontpage because it was “already installed.”
That attitude is/was such a violation of logic and free enterprise [...]
The Steeple-chase
Posted: 23rd November 2009 by Eric in writingTags: Fiction, steeple-chase, story workshop, technique, writing
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I get a lot of searching on my website for the “steeple chase.” Admittedly, by the time I was taking advanced fiction or advanced ii, I was so jaded that the very idea of the steeple chase seemed like a cop out- rather than practice follow through with plots and themes, rather than begin training [...]
Excerpt from Simon’s Symphony (a novel in progress)
Posted: 23rd February 2009 by Eric in free fiction, writingTags: free fiction, science fiction, writing
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It was perhaps, because she was so cold, that he found her charming. He surely suspected that to her, he was just another sub-routine. A program, she would start up and run, when her other programs told her central processor that it was appropriate to do so. He glanced at her eyes.
She smiled, demurely and [...]
Harsh reality
Posted: 3rd February 2009 by Eric in Uncategorized, writingTags: employment, unemployment, writing
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It’s rough out there, this much is true. Between job-losses and the rising costs of everything, corruption and greed, the perpetual misunderstanding between dogs and cats, managers and employees, toxic waste and global warming, seat belts and improperly de-veined shrimp, it’s a wonder any of us have any marbles left to play with. But, we [...]
Credible Critique: tips for writing students and teachers
Posted: 6th January 2009 by Eric in Uncategorized, writingTags: constructive criticism, critique, Fiction, writing
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The world is filled with people who like to snipe and jab at things. Hell, I like to do it too. Makes us feel good, no? But to be taken seriously as a writing resource, to become a trusted confidant of composition and prose, you’ve got to be able to say “this sucks” without saying [...]
Writing books about writing books?
Posted: 3rd January 2009 by Eric in writingTags: Fiction, writing
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I know I’ve mentioned before that How-To books are the most published, easiest to write and most purchased rivaling even the great (if perhaps not eloquent) Dan Brown. Who would have thought The Idiot’s Guide Changing Your Oil would rival a pseudo-sordid tale of idolatry and a Springer-esque Who’s Your Daddy genetic test?
Any writer amateur, [...]