Writing the good read
I used to have a calendar that on the June 30 square said, “Half the year is gone. Have you reached half your goals?” Kind of passive aggressive for paper office supplies, right? As I mentioned a couple posts ago, my life has been a bit out of my control lately, and I haven’t been…
There are two more days for the blogathon and I have managed to visit each of the 250-plus participant blogs at least once. This is the last time this year I’ll be putting together a list of some of the great writers I discovered through this annual endeavor. I’m sure there are a large number…
Once each blogathon, we have a day that I refer to as “the easy day” where we create a word picture using the magnificent Wordle website. Most people do a picture of their blog; last year I did a picture of my favorite e.e. cummings poem, which I couldn’t put into my blog at the…
Here are a few more good reads I’ve discovered through the blogathon experience. Popcorn Homestead by Joan Lambert Bailey takes you on a brief trip through her life in metropolitan Tokyo. It’s a unique opportunity to see what living in Japan is like, read about it in real time, and not have to read Japanese!…
As we enter the second week of the fifth annual WordCount Blogathon, wherein I, and 251 of my closest writer friends, do our darnedest to blog every day in the month of May. It gives us a chance to go through each others blogs and find new gems to follow. Here’s the first of three…
Yesterday was theme day at the Blogathon, in which we were supposed to create a Wordle of our blogs or of some meaningful language and post it. Unfortunately, for reasons I have yet to discover, I’m having difficulty adding pictures and videos to my blog. I’m working on it. So for now, here is a…
If you count the last post I did in April — on April 30 — then really, this is my 32nd straight day blogging as part of the Third Annual Wordcount Blogathon. It’s been hard. Often I’ll have to reach deep to come up with something to blog about, usually in the evening after my…
It is haiku day for Blogathon 20-10 Need more syllables *** One lonely bagel Sits among seven croissants It begs to be ate *** Three people need more than one working computer Need adapter quick *** Bar Mitzvah countown Just 19 days to finish Will it all be done? *** Two months without Kate I…
Hi, I’m Heather and honored to be guest posting today! Lisa and I share a love of reading, so she asked me to write about books. I’m a YA enthusiast but also enjoy chick lit or a comically written non-fiction from time to time. I read a lot – and friends, both online and off,…
Much as I would like my faithful readers — what are there, five of you now? — to stick with my words and only my words, I have to admit that there are some other great blogs out there. Today, day 10 of the Third Annual Wordcount Blogathon, all of the participants are recommending some…