Category: ministry of writing
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This is why I read Chris Lema
If you asked me a year ago who Chris Lema was, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. My experience up to that point was a brief mention by my friend Josh at Event Espresso that his was a blog worth reading. Chris tweets a lot — one of my biggest turn-offs when I am…
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Close to 8,000 words on my story-thing…when I hit 30k or so, I’ll stop calling it a “thing”…
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Update on my book/story/whatever…
6000 words down. 44,000 (give or take) to go…
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Slow progress
A while ago I wrote about slowing down. What could be slower than a few days camping in the desert? No internet, the phones died our second night there, nothing to actively distract or divert. In my last post, I wrote that I hoped the process of slowing down my internet (and media) consumption would…
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Programmatic poetry
I was working on a WordPress plugin today that will allow users/developers to stop a javascript from running on a particular page. That doesn’t sound very exciting, but it got me thinking about the WordPress adage “code is poetry”. (Blame this on my recent initiative for going slow — I had this idea when I…
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Post a Week 2011: Blogging year in review
This year, I participated in WordPress.com’s Post a Week Challenge. Well, how’d I do? I was using Joost de Valk‘s Blog Metrics plugin, but that only tells you how you’re doing overall and how you’ve done in the last 30 days and, while I could have logged how many posts there were on January 1…
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A note on details…
A couple of years ago I found a book, The Illuminati by Larry Burkett. I picked it up at a garage sale or a library book sale or maybe it was just lying out on the street. It’s worn, heavily water-damaged, somewhat mildew-y and I thought that I would read it, you know, eventually. I grabbed…
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Grandpa
One of the things that has been occupying my time the last couple weeks was my grandfather’s funeral, which was last Tuesday. We drove out to California, visited family and got preparations ready, had a rosary (I’m a recovering Catholic) and then the funeral the next day. I wrote a thing for the funeral, and…
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I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?. Gaiman. ’nuff said.
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rise above
[audio:RiseAbove.mp3] so i had this long post all ready to run based on some stuff i discovered through clicking around a certain blogger’s twitter feed. it became the fictionalized story of two like-minded neophyte bloggers who came to the blogging world from an altogether different online world — the online porn industry. they both had similar…