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That, There and Then

September 19, 2010

From Self Editing Tips #2 on Write Anything: Annihilate the words ‘that’, ‘then’ , ‘there are’ or ‘there is’ or ‘to be.’ . Its a rare piece of text which requires either of these words to show up regularly or as a valuable or necessary participant. There are always better ways to write sentence without [...]

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Don’t Be Afraid of Bold

September 9, 2010

I’m kind of a shy, quiet person. When I was a teenager and had my first real job I was so quiet the other women thought I was a Mennonite. It wasn’t a comment on my fashion choices, I was just quiet. I’ve always second guessed anything I do that puts me into a spotlight [...]

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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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Have you Ever Found a Word that Said Everything?

July 3, 2010

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for”. — Georgia O’Keeffe Quote found on the Daily Art Fixx site. Do you watch your characters and the scene around them as you write or is it all just coming out as [...]

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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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Fixed my WordPress List Formatting Glitch

January 28, 2010

I’ve made a few list posts, mostly bullet style. The problem was the formatting, all my points were crammed together in a solid block of text. It made the post kind of unsightly and not very easy (or desirable) to read. If I tried to add a space it would try to make it my [...]

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Copy in Plain Text Firefox Plugin

November 20, 2009

Copy Plain Text: A plugin for Firefox that lets you copy in plain text. Very nice! It’s experimental so still beta and you may find it does not work for you, or does not work in every case. But the idea is great! If you have ever used contributed content from another source and find [...]

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Navigation, Style and Content

September 4, 2006

What are the keys to a good website? I think there are 3 main things. I have created this list from many years (since 1998) spent reviewing websites. Navigation, style and content. You can adapt that to NSC, or not. Not works for me, I’m not even sure how to say that. Anyway, navigation is [...]

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A Writer’s Website

May 15, 2006

Here are my ideas about making a writer’s site an asset to you and a resource for others to come to. It’s a bit scattered as I am leaving for Ottawa tomorrow and have some family stuff ongoing. But, I wanted to share the ideas while they were brewing around in my brain. I think [...]

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Free Content

April 17, 2006

I’ve used contributed and/ or free content before. But, it brings it’s own set of difficulties. Before you jump into this, thinking how much easier your life will be consider the following: 1) Unless you want content geared to website promotion, you may be out of luck. The main topic of free content is about [...]

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