Category Archives: Writing
School & Office Supplies
Shark Pens flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Fountain Pens flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says: Show us the old school office supplies you regularly … Continue reading
Group post: Staying Motivated
This week’s group post asks us about our motivation to blog, and Krikket gives us a set of prompts. Here they are, with my answers. Q: What tricks do you use to keep yourself motivated when something feels impossible? Bricolage. … Continue reading
Story Prompt Generator
Story for today’s TDC Story Prompt Generator flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Wandering through the desert looking for a home Freda the Friendly Ghost came upon an oasis. As she looked around … Continue reading
Blog Post Title Generator
Today’s TDC asks us to Use the Portent Title Generator to randomly generate a title about DS106…then WRITE THAT POST! So I did. Amusingly I got this prompt Portent Title Generator flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA … Continue reading
On The Letterhead
How I found the Daily Create
Creative Bomb flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license I found out about the Daily Create because I became part of an online community. As I’ve written before, in 2014 I signed up for an … Continue reading
Busy Bees
248/365 Busy bees flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license I love making postcards. Doodling ideas on paper, then drawing them on blank cards, looking through my spreadsheet of names and addresses, writing a … Continue reading
Blogging as an academic practice
Percolating ideas flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license I’ve been enjoying dipping in and out of the “On Writing” series that Jim Groom’s been hosting on Reclaim TV, although I’ve not been able … Continue reading
Academic Book Chapters
Every time I have an academic book chapter published I promise myself that I will never do it again, because it takes so long from first submitting an expression of interest to finally seeing it published. But then I forget, … Continue reading
The seven stages of writing
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, “Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart, and write.” Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. I used to agonise over how I wrote, because it seemed to be so … Continue reading
