This Week’s Blog Posts
Being a creative keeps me living and writing in a few different categories. Most of them have to do with producing creative content (writing, photos or projects) for some larger than life purpose (STORY, POTSC, my books & so on).
...Though some of them involve two year old emperors locking themselves in bathrooms. This week's posts included:
Camera Candy
The Impoverished JK Rowling (A Brain Dump for Writers)
Ten Days of Transformation (Remembering Faith: An ongoing look at ...
Camera Candy
If I lived near Todd Selby, I would camp out on the sidewalk just to catch a glimpse of one of his shoots. He's also the guy behind Edible Selby. Fair warning, don't go hungry.
**Gasp** Hotels use tricky photos to lure in customers. So are you saying my tan won't look this good by the pool??
I've been following Ari Seth Cohen's Advanced Style since the beginning of time (or since 2008, whichever came first). You cannot go wrong with glamorous old people. You just can't.
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How do you make your online interactions meaningful?
Last week, readers shared the unwritten rules they follow to stir good in society--things like giving up a seat for an elderly person or buying a serviceman a free meal.
This week, I am wanting to spin that same question toward online interactions. What unwritten rules help you positively contribute to the online world?
Most of us are aiming at the same result (ease of strategy, respect of other users), but often have different approaches to achieving that goal.
Twitter
People of the ...
The Impoverished JK Rowling (Brain Dump for Writers)
J.K. Rowling was told she should find a day job because she'd never be able to rely on writing children's books for a living.
Gosh. I hope poor little J.K. scrapes by.
The crowd is starting to impact the way literature is written and distributed. Take "Cyberpunk", for instance.
The crowd may get more of the Kindle action too. Rumor has it Amazon is going to let self-published authors into the Kindle Lending Library.
Follow three literature trends over time: Lord of the Flies ...
A Ten Day Transformation
A couple weeks ago, I started blogging about “remembering faith”.
This lead to a small group of us scraping up these embarrassingly-easy-to-read books on the life and faith of D.L. Moody. You can grab the book for $2 if you want to come along.
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In Moody's early days, he ran a program for kids the modern world would label "at-risk".
One year, one of the teachers in Moody's program developed a health condition. And because the doctors believed the teacher was dying, the ...