ASCII

Christmas ASCII Art

December 17, 2010

My own ASCII art creations. Please give credit and link back to me if you share these. ldb ASCII Art Gallery. See more ASCII art at my ASCII Art Gallery.

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You Don’t Need an Image with Each Blog Post

September 5, 2010

Why are you adding an image/ graphic/ photo to your blog post? Because someone said to do it that way? Because people are visual and need the extra stimulus? Because the print magazines (or some popular blog you read) does it that way? Rethink that plan. The images added to blog posts for the sake [...]

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Serendipity

July 23, 2010

From Wikipedia: Serendipity is a propensity for making fortuitous discoveries while looking for something unrelated. Now and then you find a really good word for something you never thought had a good word for it. I like the way this word sounds, like the slippery curved back of a sea serpent snaking up and down [...]

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Text Art on Twitter

May 21, 2010

The biggest struggle with posting ASCII art anywhere was always the formatting. Trying to get your work to use a fixed width font so it doesn’t come out all warped looking. Also, making sure you added carriage returns at the end of each line of text. If you missed one you would soon find out [...]

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How to Make a List of Your Interests

November 29, 2009

I don’t think you can make a real list of all the interesting things you like (whether you participate or observe them) in just a few minutes. There are so many elements to ourselves, so many things we have caught in passing and so much flashing through our minds at any given time. But, if [...]

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Playing With Text

March 19, 2007

Writing isn’t the only way to play with words. Take them down a peg, look at them as just letters, forms on a page and you can make a different art with them. This isn’t writing, its a whole new creation. ASCII art is my personal favourite. But, there are other ways to get into [...]

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Writing your Bio/ Profile

December 27, 2006

Now and then you’ll have to write a biography to go along wth an article, book, or something else you publish. It’s tough to figure out what you want to say about yourself in just a few lines. Of course, you consider what you want to share with the faceless masses as well as what [...]

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Writers Getting Outside the Box

August 28, 2006

Every writer should have at least one other art form. We need to work with something outside of our comfort zone with words. Not only is this a great way to deal with writing stress, blocks or rejection but you make your brain work in different ways, bringing out fresh vision and inventiveness. I like [...]

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