Tales from the Raven

A: My blog sat on your blog.
Or, so I suspect it will say.  And how do I know Wednesday and Saturday will be in this unique conversation?  Simple.  I’ve decided that it’s time to put the blog on a diet schedule so that it can stop this feast or famine cycle going on.  Perhaps my dear, [...]

The blog turned four years old this month–and she learned to tie her shoes, too.
Okay, so that last was just silly . . . since, she hasn’t got shoes.  But maybe she could learn to come up with her own tags?  Re-categorize all those posts that never got placed in a category?  Back herself up [...]

By tomorrow night I need to be 100% ready for an early morning flight to Yellowstone.  As a sensible individual, I’ve taken some steps to get ready.  My preparations include:

An empty suitcase with two items of clothing laid on top.
A batch of wet laundry.
A tentative confirmation from an untrained friend willing to watch our fish, [...]

In the same post which anounced his quarter finalist win at wotf, Jordan discussed his take on the pros and cons of blogging as a not-yet-professional writer.  His general take, as I understood it, was that a blog of this kind is not worth the investment, and a couple of his points were that writers should be [...]

You may not have noticed, but I’ve had quite a crop of spam comments this last day or so.  I didn’t think to keep track, but instead of my usual maybe one a week, at a guess I’d estimate that I’ve had 6-10 just today.  In addition, they where all the kind were just a [...]

Not sure why that’s up twice.  Excepting the vehemence of my irritation, of course.  And I can’t see how to delete an entire post…but I’ll get it figured out.  Wish I could say the same of my dealings with Dork.
Later:
Okay, got that fixed, and learned something about my site, too.  Yay me.

Yesterday I spent some time thinking about this blog, its successes and failings, and what the heck I’m going to do with my LJ account and the new Facebook I started.
I found some useful tips here, and here.  This one, on good author websites, was perhaps more to the point.  One thing they all seemed to [...]

Yeah, I’m back!  Hello everyone!
You may not have missed me, but I’ve been in withdrawal.  We moved over a week ago, and other than one short moment of nauseatingly-slow dial-up internet, I’ve been entirely unplugged.  No emails.  No blogging.  No feedback on writing.  No chatting with online friends.
It was an electronic wasteland.
The amusing part is, one of [...]

Seriously, when I started this thing, I wasn’t sure I’d last two months, let alone two years.  But the habit’s grown on me, and I don’t think I’ve gone for more than a week or two at a time without blogging, even when life threw up its spinach salsa and pickled eggs all over me.  Been noticing [...]

I happened to link to my LJ tonight and noticed that it’s been just a few months shy of a year since I last posted there.
Uhm…oops.
I never intended it to compete with this one, but by any standard of regular blogging, that’s still pathetic.  So I decided to take pity on the poor thing and [...]