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Plans for 2010
Back on January 1st this year, I published my resolutions for 2009. And now, it’s time to review my goals, and set some new ones. My 2009 goals: redesign this blog – FAIL; I need to get a decent header image that I can work from, but my ...
The Sharp Words review of the year: 2009
All statistics correct to the time of posting this – further hits and comments on December 31st not included. Posts made: 74 (including this one) ; 170 in 2008 – I wrote 19 posts in January, but only managed about 1 a week after that. Mos...
A strange obsession with notebooks
I love buying notebooks. I buy them even when I don’t need them. The photo shows the notebooks I found in my study. (Which admittedly is a large room, and I don’t think there are too many other notebooks lying around the house; maybe just...
On the 161st page of the 1st book
Susan, bless her, has tagged me with a meme in a most timely fashion. But although I’m supposed to tag people in return, I’m not going to bother; I’m not sure exactly who’s reading this any more. (I need to start networking ag...
Which fantasy writer are you?
Yes, this is a meme on HelloQuizzy.com (not one of the most distinguished quiz sites out there, but then again, not one of the worst). But it interested me, and my result is one of my favourite fantasy authors… Katharine Kerr (b. 1944) -9 High-...
Taking a break
I’ve realised that I’m boring myself with my own blog. And if I’m bored, what about you poor saps? Not much got posted during February, and I certainly didn’t get round to writing any of my planned posts. Neither did I get muc...
WOOF!
Looks like I made it on to the WOOF top picks list again - and these days, there’s a much bigger field to chose from. It’s interesting to see what makes the top 10 (chosen by the other entrants) - certainly not always my own choices! So, ...
New Year’s resolutions for 2009
First off, my FAIL and WIN for last year (my 2008 resolutions): write something every day - FAIL read 6 books for this challenge - WIN post a monthly Read instead of a weekly - WIN (a pretty easy one) post a book review every fortnight - SEMI-WIN (I...
Literacy FAIL
I’m fairly brain-dead today and also caught up in writing something (and it’s not even November yet). So I just thought I’d share this, from FAIL Blog: see more pwn and owned pictures © 2008 by Sharp Words; all rights r...
Search terms #4
I thought for some variety, I’d take a list of the questions people have entered into search engines to find this blog with. And then answer them. Why do we give satsumas at Christmas? Because they are bright and orange and shiny. And once upon...
Stuff I like on the internet #5
I’ve been bookmarking things in my Bloglines feed reader for a couple of months now, in preparation for this post! For that reason, some of the articles linked to aren’t necessarily the freshest, but they’re all good ones. “S...
Back on board the blogship
And thanks to Susan, in fact, for the very concept of a blogship. I’ve certainly abandoned the good ship Sharp Words for quite some time; longer than I intended, in fact. Did you miss me? I do have the excellent excuse that I got married on Fri...
Kick-ass blogging
While I’ve been swanking it up in a Belfast hotel and not reading other blogs, it seems that I’ve been deemed a Kick Ass Blogger by both Jonathan at CopyWrite and by WordWebbing.com. So, thank you both very much, and I’d return th...
Sorry for the inconvenience
Regular readers will have noticed that the site was down from Friday August 1st until this morning. I’m not sure what exactly happened, but of course, it had to happen the weekend I was away from home and couldn’t do anything about it (ev...
Stuff I like on the internet #4
I know it’s not that long since my last one of these posts, but I’ve seen a lot of interesting stuff lately that I wanted to share. “First Readers” - Storytellersunplugged - the importance of having someone read over your wor...
Stuff I like on the Internet #3
Because I haven’t done it for a while (and yep, I need a filler post), here are some things I’ve spotted round and about and wanted to share with you: Joanna at Confident Writing is running another group writing project (with prizes!) on...
Bad advertising copy
While visiting my parents back in Wales last week (pre-eye infection, thankfully), I flicked through the local free paper. It has about 4 pages of news, 1 page of sport, and about 15 pages of estate agents’ ads - with the housing market in a d...
Blogging updates
1) As my new Notices widget currently says, I’m away from today until Saturday 28th. I will hopefully have a couple of posts scheduled, but I might not get a chance to reply to comments, and I definitely won’t get any Entrecards dropped. ...
Time for a revamp #2
Wow, I never expected so many comments on my previous revamp post! There were enough suggestions made that I decided to address them in a fresh post rather than just a comment… hence this. So, in no particular order: Categories - I like them a...
Time for a revamp
I want to give Sharp Words a good overhaul by the end of June, in time for its second-and-a-birthday. Hopefully I’ll be putting together a custom theme (maybe even a custom logo) - although Cordobo has served me well since I moved from Blogger ...
The satisfaction of completion
Finishing a piece of work, particularly when it’s been lengthy or difficult or both, always gives me a strong sense of satisfaction. It’s not necessarily pride in work well done, nor is it relief that it’s over; sometimes it’...
Early morning funnies
I just needed to share this before I head off to work… More graph humor and song chart memes © 2008 by Sharp Words; all rights reserved....
Idling without tent
No Technical Writing Tuesday today, because I was due to have a guest post from Tam of Fighting With Writing - I think that’ll be going up tomorrow instead. So, at this late hour, I thought I’d waffle about nothing much instead - actuall...
Search terms #3
Here are some more of the words and phrases which produce my blog when people search for them: why, commas are important (or in the case of Google search, why commas make no difference, since this term brought up a post of mine entitled Why commas...
Happy faces
Some of you may see your gravatars (globally recognised avatar) appearing next to your comments. That’s because I’m clever and have finally figured out a) the correct WordPress plugin to use and b) how to set my own gravatar. Although I h...
Personal things
I don’t normally post anything here that isn’t related to my reading or writing, but I’m making a brief exception this morning just to let you, my loyal readers and regular Entrecard droppers, know that I haven’t been around a...
Stuff I like on the internet #2
Here are some blog posts I’ve found interesting of late (and I freely admit that this post is partly filler): “An Introduction to the Vocabulary of Poetry” - Writing Forward - a run-through of ways of using words in poetry, such as...
Eight random things about me
Dammit, I got tagged for a meme by Haley of The Beacon. She originally seemed to want me to keep the eight random things writing-related - she’s since recanted, but since this is my reading & writing blog, I’m going to stick with the...
My guest appearances: Fighting With Writing
A Scotsman, an Irishman and a Welshwoman walk into a bar blog… No, this isn’t the start of a bad joke, it’s just a synopsis of the recent run of guest bloggers on Fighting With Writing, a blog written by Tam about his steps into th...
Wanted: guest posters and interviewees
Although my next major work deadline isn’t for another couple of months, I’m actually planning ahead for this blog, for once. I know that already that during May and June, my Technical Writing Tuesdays posts will be going fortnightly ins...
