Category Archives: non-fiction writing
The True Believer
The story goes of a town facing a flood. Rain had been falling for two weeks and a dam was about to burst. A mandatory evacuation order went out for everybody to leave. One man remained. He was a true … Continue reading
Posted in non-fiction writing, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized
Tagged belief, divinity, god, help, religion
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Those Weird, Crazy, Angry People on Facebook — Among Other Sites
I’ve given up for the most part on trying to help people with questions on Facebook and most of the other discussion sites I have participated in. The only forums that work are those where every question and answer is … Continue reading
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Tagged prodigy, the internet, the web, trolls, usenet
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Conceptual Art is Still With Us!
You didn’t miss it! That Thing From The Nineties is still here, still throwing out nonsense to justify something easy to make. In the Belgian city of Ghent this month, conceptual artist Kris Martin is having a retrospective entitled Exit. … Continue reading
Posted in art, editing writing, non-fiction writing, organizing writing, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized, video
Tagged art, belgian, conceptual art, kris martin, movies, the shining
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The Pulitzer Prize And The State of Jefferson
Winning the Pulitzer was traditionally a career making event for a newspaper reporter. And a real point of pride for the newspaper that employed the writer. It used to be simple, you won the Pulitzer. There were four original awards … Continue reading
Posted in editing writing, non-fiction writing, Stanton Delaplane, Thoughts on writing, Uncategorized, Writing by others, Writing tips
Tagged 1941, 1942, columbia school of journalism, humboldt county, jackson county, klamath county, lake county, northern california, oregon, siskiyou county, Stanton Delaplane, state of jefferson, the san francisco chronicle, trinity county
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Deeper Into SEO
Search engine optimization means producing high ranking web pages. Quality content isn’t enough, that content must employ a variety of techniques to get your client’s pages on the first or second page of Google’s search results. A business may produce … Continue reading
American Heritage is Alive Online and Ongoing
More great history from American Heritage, a lay publication written for decades by famous, notable historians. I never got into this title but I did have three articles published in their sister magazine, Invention & Technology. Which is still going, … Continue reading
