Recent Posts Tagged With 'favourites'

• Stuff I like on the internet (06/09/09)

  Posted on Sunday September 6th, 2009 at 12:46 in poetry, comics, blogs, articles, working from home, favourites

  IKEA changes its font – The Guardian – I’ve had the catalogue sitting on my dining table for weeks, and have flipped through it more than occasionally. I didn’t notice the font change – but then, I’m fond of Verdan...

• A missing orthographical symbol?

  Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 17:02 in favourites

  I’m a big fan of Dinosaur Comics. This strip is particularly worth sharing, in my opinion. © 2008 by Sharp Words; all rights reserved....

• Stuff I like on the internet (26/01/09)

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 16:00 in humour, blogs, articles, lolcats, favourites, reading challenges

  Time for a round-up of things that caught my attention recently. “Wearing the Many Hats of a Freelancer” - WordWebbing.com - juggling the different roles of a freelance writer “Writing in the Age of Distraction“  - Locus Onl...

• My love affair with poetry #3

  Posted on Saturday January 24th, 2009 at 06:30 in poetry, poems, my poems, favourites

  This entry is part 3 of 2 in the series My love affair with poetryMy creativity didn’t so much dry up in my late twenties as get redirected. From about 1995 onwards, I wrote very little fiction or poetry and even gave up on my journals. It wasn...

• My love affair with poetry #2

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 14:54 in poetry, poems, my poems, favourites, teenage years

  This entry is part 2 of 1 in the series My love affair with poetryI can thank one of my secondary school English teachers, Mrs Thomas, for protecting the rest of 2H4 from my enthusiasm for poetry - although it was her fault in the first place that I ...

• My love affair with poetry #1

  Posted on Sunday January 18th, 2009 at 16:41 in poetry, poems, childhood, favourites

  This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series My love affair with poetryI have my parents and my primary school to thank for my love of poetry. For introducing me to it, and it to me, when I was quite small, and for making it something so very normal. My p...

• Group writing project: Writing that we love

  Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 12:20 in writing, favourites, group writing project, words and phrases

  I’ve never tried running a group writing project before, although I’ve taken part in a couple. But inspired by a series of posts I’m writing at the moment, entitled My love affair with poetry, I thought I’d have a go. So, tell...

• Stuff I like on the internet (05/01/09)

  Posted on Monday January 5th, 2009 at 10:51 in comics, blogs, articles, favourites

  I do have a whole set of content-full and (hopefully) interesting posts planned for this month. Unfortunately, all my plans have been scuppered by the horrible cold I developed last Friday and which has kept me mostly languishing in bed ever since. (...

• The Sharp Words review of the year: 2008

  Posted on Wednesday December 31st, 2008 at 06:21 in blogging, favourites, metablogging

  All statistics correct to the time of posting this - further hits and comments on December 31st not included. Posts made: 170 (including this one) Most popular posts: A love poem for St Valentine’s Day (Feb 14th) - 1009 - most of these hits ca...

• Stuff I like on the internet (10/12/08)

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 07:09 in blogs, articles, favourites

  So much for returning to a normal schedule once NaNoWriMo was over! My excuse, I suppose, is that I’ve been busy both with work and with catching up with my ‘real life’. Sadly, I haven’t done any proper writing since November ...

• Stuff I like on the internet #5

  Posted on Monday October 13th, 2008 at 14:22 in blogs, articles, Waffle, favourites

  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...

• Kick-ass blogging

  Posted on Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 11:29 in awards, meme, Waffle, favourites

  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...

• Stuff I like on the internet #4

  Posted on Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 07:22 in Waffle, favourites

  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

  Posted on Friday July 11th, 2008 at 17:36 in Waffle, favourites

  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...

• Stuff I like on the internet #2

  Posted on Thursday April 24th, 2008 at 07:48 in Waffle, favourites

  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...

• Stuff I like on the internet #1

  Posted on Thursday March 27th, 2008 at 07:35 in short stories, Waffle, favourites

  I read a lot of blogs - some found through Entrecard, some through other recommendations.  Here are some of the writing/reading-related posts that have struck me in the past week or so: “Book cooties and mysterious stains” - That Grrl -...