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Things wordy, geeky, and webbyLinks: One Week until Black Friday 2009 Edition
Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 1:45 PM |Congratulations to Dawn Herring for winning The Last Will of Moira Leahy! Never fear… Thirsty is still up for the winnin’. Also, please vote for your top 25 books on writing.
Articles full of brain goodness…
- Oxford Word of the Year: 2009: I had to unfriend someone on Facebook who abused the “Join this Page” button. Other terms listed include hashtag, sexting and Obamaisms.
- Copyright Essentials for Writers: It does matter. For example, if a pub puts your article into a book, you could get paid for that — but not if you sell all rights [Link: Jessica Strawser].
- 10 Productivity Tools for Computer Addicts: I use a couple of them and others I won’t use because they’ll just hook me in and take me away from work.
- How to Identify and Deal with Different Types of Clients: Covers just about every kind of person I’ve met.
- Why Do Great Writers Steal: Good info on how to steal without plagiarizing.
- 50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2010: Still trying to get through my list from 2005! [Link: Bubblecow]
- The Most Powerful Two Hours You’ll Ever Spend as a Storyteller: Larry ain’t kidding. I’m gonna do this someday.
For fun because we’re allowed…
- Postcards From Yo Momma: A repository of modern day material correspondence [Link: Allison Winn Scotch]
- 35 Incredible Digital Painting Tutorials: Wow. I wish I had time to try this as I can’t draw worth a darn.
- The 15 Coolest Weapons from Sci-Fi Films: Ha! I guessed Lightsaber would be the big one and it’s #1.
- Steampunk Art and Gear: Why is it we’re suddenly seeing steampunk everywhere? [Link: Calista Taylor]
- Masters of Paper Art: Whooaaaa… stunning is right [Link: Kristin Butler].
- Bio-Diversity: Leaf art… like you’ve never seen it [Link: Mark Hurst].
- The History of the Internet in a Nutshell: I used BBSes. (I appeared in the BBS Documentary.) I met the Internet in 1993 using Mosaic and then moving on to Netscape Navigator by 1995.
- Texas Footwear Fail: We certainly don’t want to keep taxes beautiful…
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1 comment
Thanks so much, Meryl, for the opportunity to be a part of this book giveaway. I enjoyed the discussion; I learn something new whenever I take part in a blog book tour.
Have a refreshing day!
Dawn Herring
Dawn Herring’s blog …A Mult-Dimensional View: Gratitude