How to write a book
January 5, 2010 by Doug
Filed under Blogs, publishing
Random thoughts on a clear and cold morning because I got asked how to start writing a book by somebody who thought they had one in them. Want to write a book? Start with a brand new blog. Disable all comments so nobody can communicate with you. Start writing the book – one page at [...]
Theme design – upgrading – again
Just in case you’re visiting and don’t recognize (or even like) the new design of this blog – wait a few minutes. Or even a day or two. The theme I normally run on – Headway – was upgraded and my entire installation went fubar. It took an “intervention” from the developer to get it [...]
What I’ve Learned in 2009
This has been an interesting year for sure in my writing-life. I always take November to think about the past year and plan for the coming year and this year was no different. Without further ado – a year’s summary of the highlights. I’m not superman. Crap. This realization came about as I blew out [...]
Garden Blogging Resource
One of my favorite garden blogs has decided to branch out a bit and take on the chore of cataloging some of the better ideas about the actual writing, organizing and running a garden blog. Gardening Gone Wild is a partnership-blog jointly written by Nancy Ondra, Fran Sorin, Debra Lee Baldwin, and Saxon Holt. They [...]
DNFTT
In old-Net speak, (coming from forums) this stands for “Do Not Feed The Trolls”. In simple terms, some folks are just never happy. And the Net gives them a marvelous opportunity to take pot-shots at people. They can fire away with their negativity at all kinds of targets – with relative impunity. The crude ones [...]
Laptop Gardener
The Laptop Gardener Blog is one I’ve been quietly following and reading (one of the few garden blogs I do read) but haven’t mentioned here. Anne Marie Van Nest is a fellow Canadian currently residing in Austin, Texas (our loss, their gain) and somebody I respect a great deal. A plantsperson – former instructor at [...]
Headway Theme Development
As I indicated a while back, I had to upgrade my blog theme because I updated WordPress and my theme broke. I looked at it carefully because the old theme could be updated (I was using a Revolution theme) but I decided not to go that route. Why? I liked the magazine look of Revolution [...]
