Monthly Archives: March 2018
Three Days in The Hospital
“Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” John Lennon. I was furiously woking on my newest book proposal when I suffered an attack of acute colitis. The severe abdominal pain landed me in the emergency room … Continue reading
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Tagged book proposal, deadlines, sickness, writing
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Slack Time is Over
I’ve been given the chance to redraft a book proposal, with the thought of making the title more marketable. I’ll have to redo the cover letter, make a new table of contents, and rewrite a sample chapter. All of this … Continue reading
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Tagged book proposal, book publisher, doodles, freelance writing, hand drawn maps, reMarkable, revising proposals
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Slack Time
I am in between major writing assignments. Two of my articles are in process, that is, they are getting ready for print, but I have nothing new to occupy my time, save for my regular work from my Vancouver employer. … Continue reading
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Tagged articles in process, magazine articles, slack time, writing
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A Small But Growing Collection of Radioactive Rocks and Minerals
“You know what uranium is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things. But nobody talks about that.” Donald Trump Well, actually, some very good things … Continue reading
Quotation Quest: Fairies and Their Dimunition
A quotation which I cannot find now has long stayed with me. As I can best recollect, the saying was that elves and fairies still exist, but they’ve become smaller and smaller as people think about them less and less. … Continue reading
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Tagged elves, fairies, peter pan, quotations, visualization, yeats
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The Remarkable reMarkable
My first fleshed out scribble with the reMarkable drawing tablet. (external link) This is a 1,488 wide by 1,455 high pixel size image at 300 dpi. Images are exported as .png or .pdf files. I transferred this image by e-mail … Continue reading
A Writer’s Melancholy, Wistfulness, and Unrequited Love
I’m overtaken with melancholy every time I pass a magazine rack. I think of all the magazines I’ve queried with no success or even acknowledgment. It reminds me very much of being turned down for a date or a job. … Continue reading
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Tagged hope, magazine articles, magazines, melancholy, unrequited love, wistfulness, writing
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Extravagance, Necessity, or a Little of Both? Thoughts on the Apple Watch 3
The Apple Watch 3 is joyous technology; there is fun and fascination in everything it does. The 3 magically marries features in different Apple products, bringing more use to everything it connects with. The watch unlocks your laptop, controls your … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Apple 3, Apple watch 3, apps, dive watch, Garmin Forerunner, Nike +, Seiko, watch
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Good Article on Submitting to Adobe Stock
I haven’t had any luck submitting photos to Adbobe Stock but I haven’t tried too hard. (internal link). Fstoppers today has an excellent article on the process (external link) which you should read if you are interested in selling your … Continue reading
Why Freelance Magazine Article Writing Is Not a Paying Profession
Too many websites say there’s big money in freelancing articles. Too many sites lie. If good money did exist these website operators would be writing the articles themselves, instead of trying to sell a system to somebody else. These sites … Continue reading