Tag: blogging

What does a writer owe his readers?

I’ve been reading very interesting thread over at Paperback Writer about what an author “owes” a reader. Paperback Writer wrote: I don’t know what, if anything, writers actually “owe” readers. I always feel a responsibility to do my best work for the reader; that goes without saying. No one can write something that makes everyone …

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Maybe I’m just a contrarian, but…

…when people start preaching inevitable doom and gloom climate-wise due to global warming, it puts my back up. Yet, when people try to tell me there is no such thing as climate change, it annoys me just as much. Where’s a middle-of-the-road, yes-there’s-a-problem-but-it-ain’t-the-end-of-the-world-yet kind of guy to do? Turns out there’s a whole middle ground …

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The Devil’s Publishing Dictionary

Paperback Writer is a blog by multi-pseudonymous writer S.L. Viehl that I’ve missed until now which suddenly (for obvious reasons, now that I have one book in paperback and another at the publisher’s) has great resonance with me. Particularly these two posts, the Devil’s Publishing Dictionary parts one and two. Many funny entries. Among my …

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Gradatim ferociter revisited

It’s a funny thing, this Web we weave. I was startled today to see visits to this blog suddenly jumping up from the usual 30 or so a day to (at last count) 260. The last time something like this happened was when Kate at small dead animals linked to a column on curling. So …

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It’s the end of year as we know it, and I feel fine

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when a columnist can fill his allotted space simply by looking back on everything he wrote about in the previous 365 (give or take) days. However, it would be too easy to simply look back at the columns that appeared in the newspaper. Instead, here is “the …

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Is this a meme I see before me?

I picked this up from Andrew Wheeler at The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.: What to do: post the first sentence of the first post from each calendar month of this year, with links. So here is the year that was, in Hassenpfefferland (I took the liberty of including the post title, since sometimes …

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Nothing about Hassenpfeffer, alas, but…

…here’s a local news story about Saskatchewan bloggers. (Via small dead animals.)

"Animal intelligence" leads the search-term pack

A new leader in search terms bringing people to my main website this week: “animal intelligence” takes the top spot. Physics of football still ranks high, though, and if you throw in “soccer science” and “science of soccer,” it takes first place. On the other hand, there’s also “animal emotions” on the list, so it’s …

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"This Is Strange"

It’s my niece’s blog. Nothing earth-shaking, but the girl knows how to put words together. She’ll make a fine lawyer some day. Check it out.

This blog is number one!

The number-one hit on Google if you do a search for the term “hassenpfeffer,” that is. Had I realized this sooner, I could have used it as one more reason for my idiosyncratic spelling of the word. (For which I was recently taken to task.) If you search for the “correct” spelling, “hasenpfeffer,” all you …

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A favorable blog mention for Lost in Translation…

…comes from Jethric’s Mess. Jethric summarizes the plot, then says: It’s a wellwritten book that surprised me in a number of ways. Willett does a wonderful job of bringing his characters alive for the reader, getting you interested in them, and having them do amazing things for all the right reasons. Having commented before on …

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