From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Search Phrases That Lead People to My Site

23 October 2008

Reviewing the search phrases that get people to land here, I see that most of them are, well, mostly sane. And normal. And expected even. Like these ones:

peregrinas
Plotcraft software [...]

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NaNoWriMo Has A Twitter Feed

22 October 2008

You can find it here.
On the Twitter feed, you can find information about site outages and fixes when and as they happen. You can also see the updates on how many people have signed up and how much money has been donated thus far.
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Two Useful Writing Ebooks – Free to Download!

22 October 2008

Donald Maass’s The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success is available for free download from the Donald Maass Literary Agency website.
And secondly, Noah Lukeman’s How to Write a Great Query Letter is available for free download from Amazon.
Do [...]

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Titles Matter

21 October 2008

When you create a title for something you wrote, how careful are you to choose the right words?
Here’s one example of a not-so-effective title:
Tests confirm chocolates contaminated – CAA

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Sri Lankan and International Intellectual Property Law

21 October 2008

A friend recently had some issues with intellectual property laws and procedures in Sri Lanka. As a result, and due to my own curiosity, I hunted down the PDF for Sri Lanka’s intellectual property law.
It can be found on Wikimedia as well as WIPO (World Intellectual [...]

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Googling Yourself Can Be Useful

20 October 2008

Here I am, minding my own business, comparing results between two search engines – Cuil and Google if you’re interested. And of course, I use my own name for the test.
What do I find?
Back last January, I submitted a test article to a [...]

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Useful Websites For Speculative Fiction Writers!

19 October 2008

Today, I’ve got a couple useful websites for you. The first…
SF Editors Wiki – it’s a wiki for keeping track of the works that science fiction editors have worked on. It includes editors with Ace Books, DAW Books, Baen Books, and Tor Books, just to name [...]

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NaNoWriMo 2008

17 October 2008

NaNoWriMo 2008 is quickly approaching. Only… Uh, 14 more days! Two weeks!
For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and is a contest of sorts geared towards getting you, average Joe Blow, to write 50,000 words towards your very own novel. Whether you’ve ever written [...]

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Exercise in a Pill?

13 October 2008

It’s touted as a couch potato’s dream, but the ramifications and potential uses go far beyond fixing a lazy person’s body.
Think of those who, through no fault of their own, cannot exercise or cannot exercise enough. Those with challenging health problems – heck, I frequently dislocate [...]

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Severely Overpriced Computer Cables

12 October 2008

My brother Tony’s blog can be a bit, well, geeky and way over my head when he talks about programming, Access, and such like that, but he also has some other interesting posts. Like this one about overpriced computer cables.
Who, in their right mind, would pay [...]

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