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Melody Watson's Blog
http://www.melodywatson.com/blog
Creative, ADD, optimist, nomad. I design websites with Squarespace & blog about whatever catches my attention.
Recent Posts
Ugly But Yummy Cheese Straws: Cooking with A.D.D. Chick, Episode 2ish
Why don't we say, for the sake of hypothetical entertainment purposes, that you've carefully laid out plans for the next 3 days that include a list so long that thoughts of running away intermittently crossed your mind? Or going back to bed and hopin...
Stephen King on the importance of reading, for writers
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order. Constant reading will pull you into a place (a mind...
Will this be Mr. Pie\'s first snow day ever?
My nephew is in preschool now. Writing that still feels strange, but it's true. He now tells me stories of "at school today" and it freaks me out sometimes, that he's already so big. But I love it, too. Those clichés are true - children are sp...
It\'s time to revisit Tyler Thompson\'s list of reasons to choose Squarespace over Wordpress
Earlier, on a phone call with a woman who never heard about Squarespace before last week, we talked about the new business she's beginning, her experience with marketing and communications, her comfort level with web technologies, and her first round...
A List of 11 Things: My response to yesterday\'s writer\'s block
Since Wednesdays at noon I regularly meet with a group of writers to work on my novel, the luxury of saying "I'm not in the mood to write" is not an option I've chosen to give myself. It's been my goal, instead, to be fiercely protective of these two...
Because I\'m the cool auntie, that\'s why...

