Archive for November, 2007

Build Traffic With Bigfoot

I don’t know what I’m doing.
See byzantine roads is my Other Blog. The main one is Steel Valley Outdoors .
You may have heard about the recent Bigfoot Sighting in PA. The area is a popular outdoors area about 2 hours from my house.
So, just for kicks, I posted a headline, with a picture of the [...]


Writing in the Cafe

As part of the Great NanoWriMo Experiment, Sunday Morning I actually went to our Local B&N and at in the cafe and wrote on the laptop. First time ever. Started out feeling like the biggest jerk in the land- “Stand Back everyone! let the Artist create!”
But you know what? It actually works.
I Didn’t have to [...]


NanoWrimo: First Weekend

Well As to be expected I’m a little behind on the word count, but for reason’s out of my control: Jamie Tried to burn down the house today.
She left a candle burning while she went on a walk with a friend.  The candle burnt through the stereo it was sitting on and the whole thing [...]


NaNoWriMo Kickoff: Excerpt from Today’s Writing

“Kill Your Babies”- common advice to new writers.
It means that no matter how literate, funny, poetic or amazing a passage is, if it doesn’t advance the story cut it out. At the beginning of the writing process it can be had. I often start not with a character or situation, but an image. I really [...]


Suffering from Outrage Fatigue

We are living in the age of outrage.
We don’t need Howard Beale to get us up out of our mediated stupor. The media is now telling us we’re supposed to be mad as hell and not taking it anymore.
Rush Limbaugh. Al Franken. Michael Savage. Michael Moore. Sean Hannity. Keith Olberman. Ann Coulter. The Daily [...]