From the monthly archives:

June 2006

Even more on stolen content

29 June 2006

This time, we’re discussing my own.
An entry I made a while back titled “Really really cheap domain hosting?” was picked up by a splogger, as I mentioned in a previous post. The splogger shows my content, along with a whole lot of other people’s content, on his website in an effort to attract traffic to [...]

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Cow Haiku

28 June 2006

Moo cows moo loudlyMoo cows moo, tied to palm tree All the live long day
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To Critique or Not To Critique

28 June 2006

For those of you who think you don’t have anything to offer a critique… You’re wrong.
If you read, you can critique. You might not yet be at the level of dissecting something to figure out why it doesn’t work and how to fix it, but you are [...]

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Love Haiku

27 June 2006

Love is all aroundLove is in the air we breathe Holy pollution!
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Webdesign and CSS

27 June 2006

Internet Explorer doesn’t treat html and css the same way other browsers, like FireFox and Opera, do. It would seem that Micro$lop never saw the need to use the same industry standards that other programs do.
What does this mean to you and your little site? Unfortunately, it [...]

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Round Three of the AW Chain…

26 June 2006

Starts now.
For this round, we’ve randomized the blog order and a few new people have joined us, and others have dropped out, so whole new blogs await!
Check these out. When all the posts are up, I’ll post an updated list with links to [...]

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Round Two of the AW Chain

25 June 2006

It’s done! And here are all the posts in order of occurrence…

Loving Twilight
I Might Lose My Mind
At Home, Writing
Fireflies in the Cloud
The Road Less Traveled
Mad Scientist Matt’s Lair
Jennifer Sando
Youth, our greatest natural resource
Peregrinas
Flying Shoes
Kappa no He
Southern Expressions
Everything Indian

Please visit each of these, [...]

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It’s going, it’s going, it’s…. Gone!

24 June 2006

Never to be seen or heard from again.
Sound familiar? That could be your manuscript.
You read the submission guidelines on the publisher’s website, and you found the bit where they say they respond in three months or a year.
Time passes, [...]

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Author rejection letter

23 June 2006

Dawno posted about small press Snowbooks and their author rejection letter. It’s quite nice and well worth reading for any writer who’s received rejections and wondered how to take it.
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Should you post your manuscript online?

23 June 2006

Have you posted your entire manuscript online?
Congratulations, you just published your manuscript.
When you post your work online, whether on your own website or someone else’s, it’s available for the world to see. Even if you take it down, Google caches copies of web [...]

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