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- Some Ultraviolet Entertainment
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- Those Weird, Crazy, Angry People on Facebook — Among Other Sites
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- southwestrockhounding.com
- ” . . . the ship usually sailed backwards”
- “I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.”
- “The Magical Universe of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne”
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- 2017: The Year of the Photograph
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- A Book Contract Example
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- A Set of Behaviors?
- A Small But Growing Collection of Radioactive Rocks and Minerals
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- A website as work for a freelancer
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- A. E. Housman’s Minimalist Poetry
- Add Craigslist to your writing job search
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- Adding value to your web writing
- After The Gold Rush
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- All The Things I Can’t Tell You!
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- American Companies Driving Down The Wage Floor
- American Heritage is Alive Online and Ongoing
- American Heritage Returns
- An Alien Plays Chess
- An excellent grammar site
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- An Excellent OCR Online Tool
- An Excellent Photography Site and Two Oddities
- An Expanding Balloon
- An Irritated Introduction
- And a Glenlivet To Go
- And No Birds Sing
- Another Article on Spec
- Another Article Submitted
- Another Book Proposal and The Benefits of a Short Query
- Another Freelance Site to Apply to
- Another Freelance Site to Apply To
- Another Literary Magazine Rejection
- Another New Post At SouthwestRockhounding.com
- Another New Post At SouthwestRockhounding.com
- Another newspaper article published
- Another query letter
- Another Revising Example
- Another video introduction to my site
- Anthology Questions and a Catch-22
- Applying to More Literary Reviews
- Approving Edits
- Apps controlling the mobile internet; Another project? Creating an app
- Architecture and Writing and Compromises
- Are Long Paragraphs Dead on The Web?
- Are we writing for readers or search engines?
- Art Deco Design from Singapore
- Art is Long and Life is Short . . .
- Artwork for Joey Lopes Park
- At Least I Got to Go
- Back From Esmeralda County, Nevada and Elsewhere
- Back from Plymouth, California
- Back From The California State Library
- Back From The Mojave Desert — More Thoughts on Flying A Drone
- Back from vacation
- Back on The Road Again for My Book
- Back to magazine query letters
- Back To Railroad Pass, Clark County, Nevada
- Back to Sacramento for Research
- Back to the Nopah Range Wilderness Area
- Background On My Fifth Rock&Gem Article
- Background on My Second Rock&Gem Article
- Battling “Was” and “Is” (Again)
- Battling Through a Cold – Working on A TOC
- Become a Dentist — A Way to Make Your Natural Tendencies Pay
- Best Practices and Your Digital Life
- Beyond Books
- Blocking Out an Article
- Blogging at Another Website
- Blue Lichen
- Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize
- Book Contract Cancelled
- Book Contract Signed — Now, to The Writing
- Book Dead
- Book Proposal Questions
- Book Publishing Point of View From a Small Press
- Book Submitted!
- Book Update
- Breaking News — I’ve Been Offered a Book Contract!
- Burying The Lead
- Buying and Flying a Drone Part II
- Buying and Flying a Drone: Part 1
- Can You Sell Confusion?
- Canadian, eh?
- Careless People
- Celebrating My 300th Post With Poetry
- Chando’s Tacos Expands to West Sacramento
- CHP Academy Article Archived Here
- Clear paths for submitting article proposals
- Close Up Photography
- Closed captioning and indexing
- Collage: The Poor Man’s Art
- Communicating Poorly With Approval
- Conceptual Art is Still With Us!
- Considering a professional course in editing
- Content creation jobs from Craigslist and otherwise
- Continuing Work at Catalogs.com
- Copyright Releases — The Nuclear Option
- Copyscape, Google search, and Unique Pages
- Correspondence With Someone In The Field
- COVID-19 and Some Numbers – A Writer’s Perspective
- Crafting a proposal to a Freelance site
- Creative Nonfiction and Literature Further Defined
- Creative Writing Course Continues
- Current Clichés and Ugly Words
- Custom proposal or generic query?
- Day One of the PowWow In Quartzsite, Arizona: Wednesday, January 15th
- Day Three of the PowWow and at Desert Gardens, Quartzsite, Arizona, Friday, January 17th
- Day Two of the PowWow in Quartzsite, Arizona: Thursday, January 16th
- Deceptively Simple Publicity Questions
- Decluttering
- Decluttering Update
- Dedicated Tablets for Book Titles?
- Deeper Into SEO
- Demonstration of a Photo Gallery
- Describing The Elephant: Part 1
- Describing The Elephant: Part 2
- Describing The Elephant: Part 3
- Describing The Elephant: Part 4 (Conclusion)
- Developing A Table of Contents
- DHL, Serial Disorder and T.S. Eliot
- Different Approaches to OCR Work
- Disoriented
- Does a Book Validate You as A Writer?
- Does Video Look Better at YouTube or Through WordPress?
- Does Word Processing Make us Better Writers?
- Does Your Website Have Ads? It Shouldn’t.
- Doing What An iPhone Could Never Do
- Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell
- Driving Down Geary Street in San Francisco in 2001
- Drool Over Jewels Take II
- Editing – It’s Not Personal
- Eliminating Parentheses. Or, Maybe Not.
- Eliot Never Too Common to Quote
- Entering an editing course
- Essays and Lazy Writing
- Estimating Nonfiction Book Sales – One Example
- Every Writer Needs An Editor (Or Two Or Three)
- Experiment In Terror
- Experiment with YouTube video and WordPress
- Experimenting With an E-mail Signature Line Service
- Experimenting With Online Maps
- Expert in a Single Color?
- Explaining The World
- Exploring Linkedin
- Expression
- Extravagance, Necessity, or a Little of Both? Thoughts on the Apple Watch 3
- Failing To Be Optimistic about COVID-19
- Fallbrook, California
- Feeling Humble Today
- Field Trip in California’s Mojave Desert Coming Up!
- Figuring out WordPress
- Final Thoughts on The UC Berkeley Extension Creative Nonfiction Workshop
- Finally, a Legitimate Freelancer Job Site
- Finding Your Way With QR Codes
- Finishing The Book
- First Attempt at Photographing a Fluorescent Specimen
- First Look At Amazon’s Fire 7 With Alexa
- Flexjobs.com Update
- Deceptively Simple Publicity Questions
- Decluttering
- Decluttering Update
- Dedicated Tablets for Book Titles?
- Deeper Into SEO
- Demonstration of a Photo Gallery
- Describing The Elephant: Part 1
- Describing The Elephant: Part 2
- Describing The Elephant: Part 3
- Describing The Elephant: Part 4 (Conclusion)
- Developing A Table of Contents
- DHL, Serial Disorder and T.S. Eliot
- Different Approaches to OCR Work
- Disoriented
- Does a Book Validate You as A Writer?
- Does Video Look Better at YouTube or Through WordPress?
- Does Word Processing Make us Better Writers?
- Does Your Website Have Ads? It Shouldn’t.
- Doing What An iPhone Could Never Do
- Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell
- Driving Down Geary Street in San Francisco in 2001
- Drool Over Jewels Take II
- Editing – It’s Not Personal
- Eliminating Parentheses. Or, Maybe Not.
- Eliot Never Too Common to Quote
- Entering an editing course
- Essays and Lazy Writing
- Estimating Nonfiction Book Sales – One Example
- Every Writer Needs An Editor (Or Two Or Three)
- Experiment In Terror
- Experiment with YouTube video and WordPress
- Experimenting With an E-mail Signature Line Service
- Experimenting With Online Maps
- Expert in a Single Color?
- Explaining The World
- Exploring Linkedin
- Expression
- Extravagance, Necessity, or a Little of Both? Thoughts on the Apple Watch 3
- Failing To Be Optimistic about COVID-19
- Fallbrook, California
- Feeling Humble Today
- Field Trip in California’s Mojave Desert Coming Up!
- Figuring out WordPress
- Final Thoughts on The UC Berkeley Extension Creative Nonfiction Workshop
- Finally, a Legitimate Freelancer Job Site
- Finding Your Way With QR Codes
- Finishing The Book
- First Attempt at Photographing a Fluorescent Specimen
- First Look At Amazon’s Fire 7 With Alexa
- Flexjobs.com Update
- Fly Me to The Moon
- Flying A Drone Part III
- Follow up on The New Ornamentalism
- For The Joy of Reading
- Format Magazine Looking for Contributors
- Four Year Review
- Freelance sites continue to baffle
- Freelancer.com update
- From My Book: Places to Visit and Collect in The Southwest
- From Quartzsite, Arizona
- From Rough to Refined
- Full Disclosure About My Rockhounding Site
- Fun With Photoshop’s Photomerge
- Future Proofing, Coincidences, and Mariposite
- Get Your Local Library Card!
- Getting Into Character
- Getting more efficient with two screens
- Getting Ready for my Editing Course
- Getting Ready for Quartzsite
- Getting Your Photo In Google’s Search Results — Some Hints
- Ghostwriting for an Online Dating Service?
- Giving up on the freelance sites
- Going Bow-Wow For Bauhaus
- Going to The Dogs
- Gold and Going Away
- Gold!
- Goldfield Gemfield Gem Claims Update
- Goldfield Gemfield Gem Claims Update
- Good Article on Submitting to Adobe Stock
- Good But Going Away
- Good Clip Art Goes A Long Way
- Good Help With InDesign — A Recommendation
- Google Authorship in WordPress
- Google Makes You Think You Are More Popular Than You Are
- Google Search Trick
- Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
- Happy Jewelry From Jwinaia
- Happy New Year!
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Headed to Oatman, Arizona
- Heart Of Darkness
- Her Beautiful Death
- HistoryNet.com Accepting Submissions
- Holiday Greetings From Eight Years Ago
- How Bullying Structures Society
- How do I Develop My Own Writing Style?
- How Do You Define Stoic?
- How does one become a better writer?
- How I Graduated From High School
- How Long Does It Take To Write A Book?
- How Long Should I Wait For A Reply to My Query Letter?
- How To Make A Living As a Writer (Honestly)
- How to Start Writing Locally — Making Pitches
- Howl, Ginsberg, and Kerouac
- Hunter S. Thompson and 9/11
- I am Tiring of These Constructions
- I Did It!
- I Got A Rock
- I Hurled My Youth Into A Grave
- I still need a teacher
- I’ll be covering the TBD Fest this weekend
- I’m a Little Busy At The Moment
- I’m Going On A BioBlitz
- I’m Moving!
- I’m over at RailroadSounds.net
- I’ve put up my second bid
- I’ve Reacquired privateline.com
- I’ve Redesigned The Site
- I, a Stranger and Afraid In a World I Never Made
- Iconic. A one word cliche?
- Icons Tell A Story
- If I Had More Time I Would Write You A Shorter Letter
- Images for My New Book
- Images Might Influence Your Writing
- Improve Your Writing with The Flesch-Kincaid Readability Tests
- In Memoriam to Tim Lukaszewski by Paul Preston
- In Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park
- In Quartzsite, Arizona
- Increasing click-throughs from YouTube
- Informed Delivery by The US Postal Service
- Installing a Genesis framework from StudioPress using a Mac
- Into the Wild
- Is a query letter a day possible?
- Is This a British Attitude or Something Else?
- Is Writer’s Block Limited to Fiction? And What Can be Done About it?
- Is Your Idea Marketable?
- It seems unlikely
- It’s guilt edged glamorous and sleek by design
- James A. Murray: Butte’s Radical Irish Millionaire
- James Timothy Farley — 1955 to 2018
- Japanese and Chinese Poetry Brought Alive by Kenneth Rexroth
- Job Applications and Freelancers
- Joining a professional organization
- Joseph Conrad Would Agree
- Just an update
- Just Because I Like Bob Dylan
- Keats and Fowler and Truth and Beauty
- Keep Calm and Keep Writing
- Keeping Up With the Literary Review World
- Ken Burns’ New PBS Series on Country Music
- Query letter pointers from various magazines
- Quick Takes
- Quotation Quest: Fairies and Their Dimunition
- Radioactive Cows and Operation Haylift
- Railroad Pass Continued
- Railroad Pass, Clark County Nevada
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Random thoughts on internet writing
- Ranier Maria Rilke and Ignatian Spirituality
- Readability and random notes
- Reconsidering The Poetry and Fiction Workshop I Am Taking
- Recovering from dental work
- Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
- Reflections on a Black December
- Reflections on Haiku From a Non-Scholar
- Regarding My Book — An Apology
- Regrets and the Cost of Beauty
- Remington and Maynard Dixon
- Rent-a-Car Problem With Enterprise
- Reporter Tools
- Reporting on Twitter – The Death of Journalism
- Reporting Will Change You
- Requiem for a Camera
- Research completed for query letter
- Retired Assistant City Manager Carol Richardson Looks Back
- Revised My Page on Eliot’s The Waste Land
- Revising 60,000 Words One Paragraph at A Time
- We Are Traveling at Amazing Speed
- We Can Be Heroes
- We The Few
- We’ll Meet Again
- Website verification problems at WordPress and Facebook observations
- West Sacramento Reacts To TBD
- West Sacramento Waterfront Stories
- West Sacramento’s CERT: Prepare, Educate, and Assist
- West Sacramento’s Port is on a Path to Profitability
- West Sacramento’s Role in Coming Elections
- What Are Your Unwritten Books, Essays, And Articles? Part 1.
- What do I charge? And what should you?
- What Does Junk Mail and Wikipedia Have in Common?
- What I Won’t Be Writing On
- What If Civil War Monuments Were Books?
- What if Gordon Gekko Was a Coffee Addicted Writer?
- What if your website doesn’t get many hits?
- What is a Book Without Pictures?
- What is Literature?
- What Is Literature? — Continued
- What Is The Real You?
- What Is This Writing Style Called?
- What is Your Nom de Plume?
- What Lies Beyond Understanding?
- What Not to Write About
- What should I charge an hour?
- What Will God Do When You Die?
- What Would You Prefer?
- What’s In a Name?
- What’s Your Favorite Writing Song?
- When all else fails, try McDonald’s
- When Do Your Eyes Glaze Over?
- When Is Determination Insanity?
- When Microsoft Word Fails
- Where Alph, the Sacred River, Ran Through Caverns Measureless to Man
- Where Do Non-Fiction Writers Go to Pen Their Great American Novel?
- Where Do They Get The Time?
- Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?
- Who Are We Writing For?
- Who Is A Professional Writer?
- Who Will Write The News?
- Why Freelance Magazine Article Writing Is Not a Paying Profession
- Why I Don’t Use Social Media to Promote My Work (yet)
- Why Magazines Are Like Sailboats
- Why telephones? Q&A
- Will Robots Take Your Job?
- Wirecast, Pre-recorded Video, YouTube, and Google
- Wired Magazine handles queries well
- Woot! Rock And Gem to Publish My Article in January
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