One of my blog catalog friends, Jimbozs2000, has started a blog carnival. Its pretty cool, all the moreso because he picked up one of my posts. Head on over to his blog and check it out. You’ll see me if you scroll down a bit and you can also lclick on the Why I Write […]
The Typepad data facility had a power outage this afternoon and nobody could access Typepad for a few hours. All seems well now. So, if you tried to get on earlier and were wondering what was going on…that’s the scoop.
This is the coolest thing ever–I won an award! As you can see it is the Schmooze Award and I got it from the amazing and wonderful Susanne at Sue’s Daily Photos, which you should check out immediately. Her photos of Key West will make you want to book a ticket there, today. The award […]
David the Poet wrote and told me he was reading an incredible Russian novel. "What a novel this is," he said. And because I admired that nice turn of phrase I ordered the book from Amazon. It is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Written as a satire during the Stalin years, and because […]
I’m the Blog of the Day over at Linky Love. Go check it out! Its a great site and I think they did a wonderful job of featuring Word Strumpet. Thank you, Linky Love!
One of the main ways I make my living is through ghostwriting, and I love it. I get to write about topics I’d never write about otherwise, meet fascinating people, and enter the minds of those fascinating people. Sort of like writing fiction, only not. What is Ghostwriting? Ghostwriting is when I write the book […]
I just added another page to my blog. This one is based on a lecture I gave awhile back, and it is called The Three-Fold Writer’s Path. You can access it from the directory to the right.
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Nearby where I live in Portland, Oregon, is the Columbia Gorge, a canyon of great beauty carved by the mighty Columbia River. All along the rim of the gorge flow an abundance of waterfalls and throughout this green, mossy area, there are a series of interconnected trails that are great favorites […]
I just got invited to join a new website called Verve Earth, which tracks members of the blogosphere all over the planet. Its an excellent site, check it out here.
This is just awful. My fabulous new blog network, on which I had two blogs, Powered by Books and Powered by Writing, crashed and burned this afternoon. They had a power outage for a few hours and somewhere in the midst of that the software completely compromised itself. These are the nicest people and they […]
