Happy 2015 to everyone! This feels like an exciting year. I like the sci-fi-ness of 2015. This morning I woke up and did a nice morning stretch and a little strength training. While in the shower, I pondered how to be more active in my daily life without taking away from my writing time andContinue reading “Exploring: Writing on the Go!”
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Exploring: “If You Want to Be Great, Think of Ways to Do Things Differently than Everybody Else”–Gene Ho
I found a great video that inspired me today. I love finding things I’ve never seen, or even imagined before. Something so simple as trusting yourself enough to not look through the lens while taking a picture was exciting enough, but then when he grabbed a camera in each hand to show how you canContinue reading “Exploring: “If You Want to Be Great, Think of Ways to Do Things Differently than Everybody Else”–Gene Ho”
Exploring: Book treasure at the local thrift store
I often stop by the local Goodwill to peruse the books. I recently found a hardback of Eco’s Foucalt’s Pendulum in excellent condition and a Complete works of Poe. This week, I found an extra special treasure: A Stephen King Pop-up book! For those of you that haven’t read the story (originally published in 1999),Continue reading “Exploring: Book treasure at the local thrift store”
Exploring: Kindle Free Downloads – Lots of free books, why not?
Since I’ve been pushing my free kindle download all week, I decided to go explore the free kindle download offerings. I was pleasantly surprised.I now have an eclectic library on my Kindle Cloud Reader. I found children’s picture books. I found books on social media marketing. I found cookbooks. I found an exercise motivation bookContinue reading “Exploring: Kindle Free Downloads – Lots of free books, why not?”
Revision: Adding Videos to Your Blog
You can see why I put this under the revision topic, I’m revising my post of Gator McBumpypants’ first movie. Why didn’t I think of this yesterday? So, how did I do it? It was much easier than I thought. When I clicked on Add Media above my draft’s text box, like I usually doContinue reading “Revision: Adding Videos to Your Blog”
Exploring: Guest Posts
As the happy holiday season is now upon us and many writers are wrapped up in NaNoWriMo, time is sucked away in more ways than usual and I’m guessing many blogs will be quite neglected over the next couple months. This made me think about guest posts. Not only looking to do some myself –Continue reading “Exploring: Guest Posts”
Exploring: A beautiful and inspiring blog
For today’s blog on exploring, I typed the work Exploring into the wordpress tag search (daring, I know) with fabulous results! I discovered a beautiful blog called HARRYBIPEDHIKING, specifically a post about exploring an abandoned mine called Bergeson Prospect. The post starts by recommending a book Discovering Washington’s Historic Mines series by Northwest Underground ExplorationsContinue reading “Exploring: A beautiful and inspiring blog”
Exploring: Collective Nouns
Yesterday’s writing group was incredibly fun, thanks to Ralph Cornish presenting an exploration of collective nouns. We’re all familiar with at least a few collective nouns that we use in regular speech: a hill of beans, a mountain of debt, a litter of pups. But there are so many more fun and interesting collective nouns.Continue reading “Exploring: Collective Nouns”
Reading to Feed Your Wanderlust
This morning I have something very exciting to share. I found a wonderful website called A Year of Reading the World. In 2012 Ann Morgan read her way through the countries of the world–196 independent countries and one extra territory–reading one novel from each country. She wrote a book about her experience that comes outContinue reading “Reading to Feed Your Wanderlust”
Happy Halloween! Friday Exploring
Looking for rare, collectable, hard to find books? Try Turn The Page Books, an online bookstore with a huge collection of well preserved treasures. Happy exploring and have a great Halloween. I’m already in my luchador costume and plan on playing the theremin and ghost hunting until dawn.