I'm a lost helicopter pilot

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

May 27, 2022

CommitStrip's RSS Feed is Broken

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Feb 15, 2022

Sweet Smelling Code

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Feb 2, 2022

The Weaknesses of Your Programming Language: a lament

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jan 23, 2022

A Word Cookies Worksheet App

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Oct 5, 2020

Reimagining the Website

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 14, 2020

The HubSpot Coding Challenge and Me

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 8, 2020

Musings about Version Control (and other development tools)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 29, 2020

Beware HackerRank

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 19, 2020

On Returning to Java from Perl

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 11, 2020

Making Sense of My Stage-5 Post

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 27, 2019

My Recent Posts at The Perl Shop Blog

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jun 28, 2018

Subclassing vs Embedding in GoLang

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jun 25, 2018

Finishing Off that Bug in djangocms-picture (part trois)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jun 17, 2018

I'm disabling comments on my blog

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 13, 2018

Still Fixing that Bug in djangocms-picture (part deux)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jun 11, 2018

Fix that Bug in djangocms-picture

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jun 9, 2018

The Wonders of That Particular Time

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 3, 2018

Website Revamp to Django CMS

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 15, 2018

How to Cheep in Many Programming Languages (not a tutorial, but a spiritual journey)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Mar 28, 2018

Five Harmful Religious Ideas I Had to Unlearn about Sex

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 23, 2018

The Turn That Saved My Life

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 16, 2018

3 Romantic Bible Stories

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 3, 2016

Living as Genuine Me

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 29, 2016

The "Good" about Friday

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 25, 2016

Mourning My Faith

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 24, 2016

On the Anniversary of Losing My Religion

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 2, 2015

Self Rules

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 23, 2015

I (Used to, Want to) Really Like Christmas

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 24, 2014

Atheist Problems

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 19, 2014

An Atheist in an Airplane

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 3, 2014

A Born Again Unbeliever

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 29, 2014

More Myths about Sex

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 28, 2014

Myths about Sex

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 21, 2014

Regrets of Sorrow and Forgiveness

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 19, 2014

Intimacy and Marriage, and Sexual Ethics

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 14, 2014

More Artwork: You've Come a Long Way

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 9, 2014

It's Not Just about Teen Pregnancy

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 7, 2014

What I Want My Teenage Daughters to Know about Sex

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 30, 2014

Take a Few Sensitive Hours

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 28, 2014

A Walk through the Forest

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 25, 2014

A Child of a Single Mom

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 22, 2014

3 Best Things Being a Gentile in a Jewish Home at Passover

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 18, 2014

It's Not Sunday's a-Comin'

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 16, 2014

The Last Passover

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 14, 2014

If Everyone Did This, the World Would Be a Happier Place

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 11, 2014

The Very First Wife Swap

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 9, 2014

Whatever the All-Merciful Does Is for Good

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 7, 2014

When You Feel You're Falling Off a Cliff...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 4, 2014

A Little Truth Would Go a Long Way

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 2, 2014

Replacing Passive-Aggressiveness with Grace and Beauty

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 31, 2014

The Most Powerful Programming Paradigm in the World?

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Mar 27, 2014

Removing the Leaven from Passover

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 26, 2014

Mopping up with Perl

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Mar 13, 2014

Should We Merry Merry Be?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 12, 2014

A Wicked, Wicked Man (video)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 10, 2014

The Twenty-first Century Meeting

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 3, 2014

God Gets Mail

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 28, 2014

The Dangers of Shopping at Target

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 21, 2014

If We Switched Sexes on Valentine's Day

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 14, 2014

Found in My Bathroom

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 31, 2014

Bits & Pieces 2014-01-30

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 30, 2014

The Curious Story of Tamar

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 29, 2014

The Trouble with Religious Morality

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 28, 2014

Being a "Good" Parent

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 27, 2014

Benchmarking Perl 6: How Ready for Prime Time Is It?

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Dec 12, 2013

Share a Little Good News This Thanksgivukkah

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 27, 2013

NaNoWriMo Progress Sheet

Be the Story

Oct 30, 2013

Listening to the Siddur Project CD

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 22, 2013

Dear New Indie Author...

Be the Story

Oct 13, 2013

More Simple Stats with Perl 6

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Oct 8, 2013

Reason #2 Why We Write Unit Tests

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Oct 4, 2013

Some Simple Stats with Perl 6

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Sep 24, 2013

If You Followed This Blog for My SD Posts...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 19, 2013

How Fast (or Slow) Is Perl 6?

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Sep 17, 2013

Perl 6 and the Price of Elegant Code

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Sep 9, 2013

Perl 6's Top 3 Coolest Features

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Sep 2, 2013

This Site Is Such a Hack

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Aug 19, 2013

State-of-the-Art Computer Folklore (part 5)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jun 26, 2013

Happy Birthday to Me!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 20, 2013

State-of-the-Art Computer Folklore (part 4)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jun 19, 2013

Why I Will Probably Never Earn a College Degree

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 18, 2013

Bits & Pieces 2013-06-13

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 13, 2013

State-of-the-Art Computer Folklore (part 3)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jun 12, 2013

Bits & Pieces 2013-06-06

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 6, 2013

State-of-the-Art Computer Folklore (part 2)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jun 5, 2013

The Love of Money

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 3, 2013

State-of-the-Art Computer Folklore

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

May 30, 2013

Teaser Tuesdays: Walking in the Moment between Tick and Tock

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 28, 2013

The Bridge over the Chasm

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 8, 2013

May the Omnipresent One Comfort You from His Place

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 1, 2013

A Good Friday

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 29, 2013

When Do We Eat?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 25, 2013

Bits & Pieces 2013-03-07

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Mar 7, 2013

Emergency!

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Feb 19, 2013

Bits & Pieces 2013-02-14

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 14, 2013

Nemo: Good, Bad, and Beautiful

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Feb 11, 2013

Let It Snow: The Blizzard of '13

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Feb 8, 2013

Bits & Pieces 2013-02-07

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Feb 7, 2013

Making Progress

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Jan 28, 2013

Insert Something Funny Here

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Jan 25, 2013

Bits & Pieces 2013-01-24

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Jan 24, 2013

Bits & Pieces 2013-01-17

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 17, 2013

Most of What We Think We Know about Nutrition Is Probably Wrong

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 16, 2013

Teaser Tuesdays: Mr. Billy! (He rocks!)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 15, 2013

Not Giving Up on New Year's Resolutions

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 14, 2013

Teaser Tuesdays: Warpaint, by Holly Lisle

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 8, 2013

Bits & Pieces 2012-12-27

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Dec 27, 2012

A Merry Happy Christmas Holiday

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 24, 2012

The Next-to-the-Last Cat Post (for awhile, anyhow)

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Nov 26, 2012

A Thanksgiving of Gratitude

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 22, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-11-08

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Nov 8, 2012

The Bat-Mitzvah Speech

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 5, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-10-25

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 25, 2012

Halloween Pumpkins Are Working Overtime

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 19, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-10-18

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 18, 2012

The Joy of Old Friends and New Family

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 10, 2012

Is It Ethical for Me to Use My First Name?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 8, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-10-04

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 4, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: Personal Development for Smart People

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 2, 2012

The Story of the World

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 28, 2012

The Power of Forgiveness

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 25, 2012

How Deep Is Your Sinkhole?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 21, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-09-20

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 20, 2012

News Flash! This Is NOT a Big Deal

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 19, 2012

What Are You Selling?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 16, 2012

The View from Someone Else's Eyes

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 12, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays on My Wedding Anniversary

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 11, 2012

The Greatest Story Ever Told (and the Star Trek Universe)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 10, 2012

How I Waste My Time (The last 7 shows I watched on Netflix)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 7, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: Dreams & Visions (by Rev. John P. Lathrop)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 4, 2012

Some More Photos I Found on My Cell Phone

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 31, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-08-30

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 30, 2012

So You've Never Been to a Bat Mitzvah

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 29, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: The Investigation, by Stanislaw Lem

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 28, 2012

And Which Part of the Bar Mitzvah Is That?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 24, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-08-23

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 23, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: The Man Who Did Too Much, by Camille LaGuire (again)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 21, 2012

The Day My Daughter Becomes a Man

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 20, 2012

The "On the Couch with Frasier" Drinking Game

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 17, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-08-16

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 16, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: The Man Who Did Too Much, by Camille LaGuire

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 14, 2012

This Is Not a Real Blog Post (Ponderings and Plans)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 13, 2012

Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers (Recipe)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 10, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-08-09

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 9, 2012

Living a Life of Balanced Thoughts

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 8, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: Midnight Rain, by Holly Lisle (again)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 7, 2012

The Amazing Plastic Spoon

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Aug 6, 2012

Hickory Smoked Barbecued Beans (Recipe)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 3, 2012

Studio JMS (B5 Fans Will Get This!)

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Aug 2, 2012

Why Reading Fiction Is Good for You

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 1, 2012

Portraits, by Lawrence Strauss

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Jul 31, 2012

Shopaholic

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Jul 30, 2012

Curried Split Pea Soup

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 27, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-07-26

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 26, 2012

Yelling with the Boss

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 25, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: Taken, by Charlotte Abel

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Jul 24, 2012

And a Stolen Laptop Later...

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Jul 23, 2012

How I Totaled My Favorite Car

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 20, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-07-19

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 19, 2012

Accidents Will Happen: Picking Up and Moving On with Integrity

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 18, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: I'll Mature When I'm Dead (Dave Barry)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 17, 2012

Delve Engage Seek Ask Hope

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 16, 2012

13 Podcasts for Lucky Friday

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Jul 13, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-07-12

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 12, 2012

Running for God 2: Faith and Works

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 11, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: Laundry Day, a Short Story by Stacy Juba

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 10, 2012

My Little One Said e-Posters Were a Kewl Idea

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 10, 2012

And This Is Why You Want to Be Careful around Explosives

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 6, 2012

Depression and the Software Developer: Smiling in the Piss Pot

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 5, 2012

Independence Day Is Here!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 4, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: Minerva Wakes, by Holly Lisle

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 3, 2012

The Myth of Depression

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 2, 2012

I So Suck (and 3,000 naked people)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 29, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-06-28

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 28, 2012

Running for God

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 27, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: Abandon, a short story by Missy Frye

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 26, 2012

A Crazy Cat Story

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 25, 2012

The Man With the Scary Scissors

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 22, 2012

Bits & Pieces 2012-06-21

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 21, 2012

Budgeting is a Love Thang

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 20, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: The Psychology of Hope

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 19, 2012

Twitter vs. the HMO

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 18, 2012

Don't Sell the Harlot Short

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 17, 2012

No Surprises, Until...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 8, 2012

Amidst the Geeks

Stories

May 25, 2012

#CharacterStory Writing Prompts 2012/05/14

Be the Story

May 14, 2012

Tugat haNefesh

Stories

May 10, 2012

Just When You Think You Might Not Be So Out of Touch...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 27, 2012

Redefining Marriage?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 19, 2012

How I Ended Up in a Messianic Jewish Synagogue

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 13, 2012

Ideas Having Sex

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 6, 2012

Accident (and a cute Jewish joke)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 9, 2012

Feigning Pinterest?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 8, 2012

Stranger in a Strange Land

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 23, 2012

Favorite Indie Romances

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 17, 2012

Writing Character Flaws

Be the Story

Feb 8, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays: Enchantment (again)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 7, 2012

Bazooka Nanny: A Political Satire

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 6, 2012

Ugly Wallpaper (Bazooka Nanny: Government Superhero)

Freedom Blog

Jan 6, 2012

Favorite Holiday TV Episodes

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 23, 2011

On the First Day of Hanukkah...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 21, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – November 3, 2011

Be the Story

Nov 3, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – October 20, 2011

Be the Story

Oct 20, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – September 22, October 18, 2011

Be the Story

Oct 18, 2011

Software Development: a Love-Hate Relationship

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Oct 12, 2011

Baptism of Chaos and the Writer's Soul

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 11, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – August 11, 2011

Be the Story

Aug 11, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – July 28, 2011

Be the Story

Jul 28, 2011

Self-Publishing for Fun and Profit

Be the Story

Jul 26, 2011

What the End of Borders Means for Authors

Be the Story

Jul 25, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays: Enchantment, by Charlotte Abel

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 19, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – July 14, 2011

Be the Story

Jul 14, 2011

A Sneak Peek at the Ardor Point #2 Outline

Be the Story

Jul 12, 2011

What a Disappointment: Crony Capitalism and the Religious Right

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 12, 2011

More about Book Covers

Be the Story

Jul 11, 2011

Once you've walked in my shoes...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 9, 2011

How to Design Your Book Cover

Be the Story

Jul 7, 2011

I Can Do All Things... (on Philippians 4:13)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 6, 2011

Three Kinds of Love

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 5, 2011

What Does Seduction Look Like?

Be the Story

Jul 5, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – June 30, 2011

Be the Story

Jun 30, 2011

Monday Morning #CharacterStory Writing Prompts 2011/06/27

Be the Story

Jun 27, 2011

My Birthday Books

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 21, 2011

Monday Morning #CharacterStory Writing Prompts 2011/06/20

Be the Story

Jun 20, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – June 16, 2011

Be the Story

Jun 16, 2011

Writing Tip: Research the Obvious

Be the Story

Jun 14, 2011

What Is a #CharacterStory (and the 2 Laws of Character Action)

Be the Story

Jun 13, 2011

Monday Morning #CharacterStory Writing Prompts 2011/06/13

Be the Story

Jun 13, 2011

On Plagiarists and "Real Writers"

Be the Story

Jun 10, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – June 9, 2011

Be the Story

Jun 9, 2011

What My Doctor Was Afraid Of

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 7, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays: Midnight Rain

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 7, 2011

How to Write: Show and Tell

Be the Story

Jun 6, 2011

Monday Morning #CharacterStory Writing Prompts 2011/06/06

Be the Story

Jun 6, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – June 2, 2011

Be the Story

Jun 2, 2011

The Novelist's New Clothes?

Be the Story

Jun 1, 2011

Monday Morning #CharacterStory Writing Prompts 2011/05/30

Be the Story

May 30, 2011

My Personal Writing Spaces (photos)

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 27, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – May 26, 2011

Be the Story

May 26, 2011

Character Needs: The Need for Autonomy

Be the Story

May 25, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – May 12, 2011

Be the Story

May 12, 2011

How to Write Those Darn Character Arcs

Be the Story

May 9, 2011

The "In Plain Sight" Drinking Game

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 6, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – May 5, 2011

Be the Story

May 5, 2011

Story Hidden "In Plain Sight" (the TV show)

Be the Story

May 4, 2011

How To Write Felt Need

Be the Story

May 2, 2011

Gotta Write Who You Are

Be the Story

May 2, 2011

Some New Authors and Bloggers

Be the Story

May 2, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – April 28, 2011

Be the Story

Apr 28, 2011

Character Needs: The Need for Community

Be the Story

Apr 27, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays: Return to Redlin

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 26, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – April 21, 2011

Be the Story

Apr 21, 2011

Character Needs: The Need for Intimacy

Be the Story

Apr 20, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – April 14, 2011

Be the Story

Apr 14, 2011

Character Needs: Physical Needs

Be the Story

Apr 12, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays: Ship of Magic

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 12, 2011

What Do Your Favorite Stories Give You?

Be the Story

Apr 12, 2011

A Kindred Spirit on Your Writing Journey

Be the Story

Apr 11, 2011

#CharacterStory Prompts 2011/04/11

Be the Story

Apr 11, 2011

Still Writing after All These Years

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 11, 2011

Yay! Juvie Fantasies and Major Online Writing Course

Be the Story

Apr 11, 2011

#FridayFlash Favorites (2011/04/08)

Be the Story

Apr 9, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling – April 7, 2011

Be the Story

Apr 7, 2011

Character Needs: The Need for Security

Be the Story

Apr 6, 2011

Writing Likable Characters

Be the Story

Apr 6, 2011

Character Needs: The Need for Attention

Be the Story

Apr 5, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays: Fire in the Mist (again)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 5, 2011

Spring in New England

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 1, 2011

Substitute (by Danielle La Paglia)

Stories

Mar 31, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling - March 31, 2011

Be the Story

Mar 31, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling - March 24, 2011

Be the Story

Mar 24, 2011

Easy to Be a Good Customer

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 21, 2011

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Feedback as a Writer

Be the Story

Mar 21, 2011

Character Fiction 101: Table of Contents

Be the Story

Mar 18, 2011

Carnival of Storytelling - March 17, 2011

Be the Story

Mar 17, 2011

Ever To Be an Aspiring Author

Be the Story

Mar 16, 2011

Whipped into a Feeling Frenzy

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 16, 2011

So, How Do YOU Research?

Be the Story

Mar 16, 2011

Everything's a Metaphor—7 Ways to Build Meaning into Your Story

Be the Story

Mar 15, 2011

Negative Reviews May Be Good for Your Book

Be the Story

Mar 14, 2011

Running on Coffee Fumes

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 11, 2011

#FridayFlash Favorites (2011/03/11)

Be the Story

Mar 11, 2011

Getting Published Ain't So Great, Either

Be the Story

Mar 10, 2011

Perhaps to Dream

Stories

Mar 10, 2011

Aspiring Authors: Quit "Aspiring" and Just Do It Already!

Be the Story

Mar 9, 2011

Fired Up over Short Fiction

Be the Story

Mar 9, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays: Chasing Beth Rider by Ellen C. Maze

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 8, 2011

Are You Really Ready to Indie Publish?

Be the Story

Mar 8, 2011

7 Ways to Eradicate the Copulative (How to Get Rid of the Verb "To Be")

Be the Story

Mar 7, 2011

I Am Such a Geek (The Star Trek: TNG Trivia Game)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 7, 2011

Rejection Sucks

Be the Story

Mar 7, 2011

Not Taking Criticism So Seriously

Be the Story

Mar 2, 2011

11 Functions of Plot

Be the Story

Mar 1, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays: Fire in the Mist

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 1, 2011

Memorize in the Morning

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 28, 2011

#FridayFlash Favorites (2011/02/25)

Be the Story

Feb 25, 2011

What Is Character?

Be the Story

Feb 22, 2011

The Woman Who Loved Men

Stories

Feb 18, 2011

O, Phil, How Thou Dost Deceive Me!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 11, 2011

Of Death and Smiles

Stories

Feb 11, 2011

10 Steps to Punch Up Your Prose

Be the Story

Feb 7, 2011

#FridayFlash Favorites (2011/02/04)

Be the Story

Feb 4, 2011

Some Photos I Found on My Cell Phone

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 4, 2011

Metaphor in Stories: the Lake, the Void, and the Skating Rink

Be the Story

Feb 2, 2011

Happy Groundhog Day!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 2, 2011

The 5 Principles of Story Design: How Storytelling Is Like Mapmaking

Be the Story

Feb 1, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays: Hawkspar (again)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 1, 2011

9 More Sources for Character Ideas

Be the Story

Jan 31, 2011

Abusive Comments Will Be Summarily Deleted

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 27, 2011

I Was Looking Forward to Holly Lisle's Rebel Tales, But...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 25, 2011

Novelist, Heal Thyself (Why Everyone Should Write)

Be the Story

Jan 20, 2011

How to Turn Character Ideas into Characters

Be the Story

Jan 18, 2011

Peace from the Ashes

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 17, 2011

Rats, Naked, and a Fast Car

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 14, 2011

The Needs of the Many...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 12, 2011

Writing Interesting Sex Scenes

Be the Story

Jan 11, 2011

Three Spiritual Stories

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 10, 2011

Definitely, Is an SUV

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 7, 2011

Writing as a Spiritual Walk

Be the Story

Jan 5, 2011

The Health of Venting Anger

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 5, 2011

How to Make a Character Sound Angry

Be the Story

Jan 4, 2011

Today Is My New Year

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 4, 2011

All I Got for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 30, 2010

And the Book Giveaway Winners Are...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 29, 2010

Book Giveaway: A Box of Previously Read Books

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 14, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 14, 2010

Big Book Giveaway - Video Promo

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 9, 2010

Book Giveaway: In the Eye of the Beholder, by Sharon E Cathcart

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 9, 2010

Could You Ever Work at Starbucks?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 8, 2010

Book Giveaway: Truffles by the Sea, by Julie Carobini

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 8, 2010

Book Giveaway: Hawkspar, by Holly Lisle

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 7, 2010

Book Giveaway: Talyn, by Holly Lisle

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 6, 2010

Book Giveaway: EyeLeash, by Jess C Scott

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 3, 2010

Book Giveaway: Musical Chairs, by Jen Knox

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 2, 2010

Book Giveaway: Chocolate Beach, by Julie Carobini

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 1, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Chocolate Beach

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 30, 2010

When You've Screwed Up

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 17, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Hawkspar, by Holly Lisle

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 16, 2010

Please Pray for US Families Now Stuck in Nepal

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 15, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/11/12)

Be the Story

Nov 12, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: The Joy of Work, by Scott Adams

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 9, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Altered Beginnings, by Destiny Booze

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 26, 2010

What I Did Over My Summer Vacation

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 25, 2010

An Indelible Design

Stories

Oct 22, 2010

Giving Stuff Away Is Hard Work

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 10, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Talyn (still)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 7, 2010

Two Chances to Win the "Ashes of Courage" Book

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 3, 2010

“Big Book Giveaway” Begins

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 27, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Talyn (again)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 24, 2010

Top 10 Reasons (Not?) to Be a Writer

Be the Story

Aug 12, 2010

A Star-Trek-style Ebook Reader

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 11, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/08/10)

Be the Story

Aug 10, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Talyn

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 10, 2010

The Nitpicker's Guide to Magnum, P.I.

Stories

Aug 6, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/08/04)

Be the Story

Aug 4, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/07/30)

Be the Story

Jul 30, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/07/28)

Be the Story

Jul 28, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/07/26)

Be the Story

Jul 26, 2010

God Has an Ironic Sense of Balance

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 23, 2010

Dead, Long Dead

Stories

Jul 10, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/07/09)

Be the Story

Jul 9, 2010

Another Car Bites the Dust?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 7, 2010

Abigail White

Stories

Jul 2, 2010

Flash Fiction Turn-ons and Turn-offs (part 2)

Be the Story

Jul 2, 2010

7 Flash-Fiction Turn-Ons (and 17 Turn-Offs)

Be the Story

Jul 1, 2010

"Aha!" Moments and Character "Change"

Be the Story

Jun 30, 2010

If I Die, Please Post This Posthumously

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 30, 2010

Tuesday's #FridayFlash Favorites (2010/06/29)

Be the Story

Jun 29, 2010

How to Write a Character-Driven Flash Story Really Fast

Be the Story

Jun 28, 2010

My Computer Is Back, and Maybe I Am Too?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 28, 2010

Crime Fiction: Ten Cliches to Avoid

Be the Story

Jun 25, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/06/22)

Be the Story

Jun 22, 2010

10 Flash Fiction Writing Tips

Be the Story

Jun 18, 2010

Just A Bite of Coffee and Ice Cream

Stories

Jun 18, 2010

Examples of Alternative Conflict

Be the Story

Jun 17, 2010

The Need for Better Writers' T-Shirts

Be the Story

Jun 16, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/06/15)

Be the Story

Jun 15, 2010

Exploring Alternative Conflict

Be the Story

Jun 14, 2010

10 Basic Character Needs

Be the Story

Jun 11, 2010

Too Much Information

Stories

Jun 11, 2010

Craft Beer, Garage Bands, and Self-Published Authors

Be the Story

Jun 9, 2010

#FridayFlash Favorites (2010/06/08)

Be the Story

Jun 8, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Truffles by the Sea (again)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 8, 2010

Writing Prompts from Classic Stories

Be the Story

Jun 7, 2010

Mission Magical

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 4, 2010

The Confidant of Jericho

Stories

Jun 4, 2010

Who Is the Narrator's Audience?

Be the Story

Jun 2, 2010

Only the Lonely

Stories

May 28, 2010

When Great Authors Break the Rules

Be the Story

May 26, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: The Prodigal God

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 25, 2010

Asking the 5 Whys for More Convincing Story Characters

Be the Story

May 21, 2010

Better Junk Food through Science

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 21, 2010

My Life Playing Musical Chairs: An Interview with Jen Knox

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 20, 2010

The Myth of the Thick-Skinned Novelist

Be the Story

May 19, 2010

25 Things You Should Know about the Original Americans

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 19, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Lies My Teacher Told Me

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 18, 2010

Playing with Narrative Mode

Be the Story

May 10, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Truffles by the Sea

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 4, 2010

No, Mr. Obama, the Government Is Not Us

Freedom Blog

May 3, 2010

The Great Water Panic of 2010

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 3, 2010

Now's Your Chance to Get Back at Me

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 1, 2010

Reading Your Characters' Minds: Picking the Right Voice

Be the Story

Apr 30, 2010

Musical Chairs (Book Review), Jen Knox

eBook Reviews

Apr 30, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Musical Chairs

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 27, 2010

Happily Domesticated (Book Review), Kevin Cummings

eBook Reviews

Apr 26, 2010

Your Story's Point of View: Picking the Right Person

Be the Story

Apr 25, 2010

Why Do You Write?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 22, 2010

EyeLeash: A Blog Novel (Book Review), Jess C Scott

eBook Reviews

Apr 22, 2010

The Price of eBooks: 7 Reasons Why I'm Raising Mine

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 21, 2010

In the Eye of the Beholder (Book Review), Sharon E. Cathcart

eBook Reviews

Apr 21, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: In the Eye of the Beholder (again)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 20, 2010

Living on the Sunny Side (Book Review), Sunny Deuber

eBook Reviews

Apr 20, 2010

Intense Conflict vs. Gentle Conflict

Be the Story

Apr 19, 2010

eBook Reviews, Deals, and the Like

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 19, 2010

Taxed to Death (Book Review), Debra Purdy Kong

eBook Reviews

Apr 19, 2010

Get Me a Piece of That Action

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 16, 2010

For a Real Buzz, Touch This Microphone!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 14, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: A Time to Tell, by Maria Savva

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 13, 2010

I See You, by Holly Lisle, Book Review

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 12, 2010

When You Don’t Feel Funny

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 9, 2010

Dreaming Big: an Interview with GrrlWriter

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 8, 2010

Grand Theft Internet (part 5)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 6, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Becoming

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 6, 2010

Grand Theft Internet (part 4)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 5, 2010

Grand Theft Internet (part 3)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 2, 2010

Grand Theft Internet (part 2)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 1, 2010

Grand Theft Internet (part 1)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 31, 2010

Grand Theft Internet

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 31, 2010

All About “Becoming”: An Interview with Linda Boulanger

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 25, 2010

New Release: Free Romance eStory for eReaders

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 24, 2010

The Widow's Granddaughter, a Short Romance

eBook Reviews

Mar 24, 2010

The Birthday Season Upon Us

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 22, 2010

Depression: An Interview with Author Sharon Cathcart

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 18, 2010

Depression and the Software Developer: The Last Straw (Conclusion)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Mar 17, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: In the Eye of the Beholder

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 16, 2010

Depression and the Software Developer: The Last Straw

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Mar 15, 2010

When Bread Comes Out of the Oven

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 12, 2010

Reaching across Generations, an Interview with Sandra

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 11, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: I See You

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 9, 2010

The 5 Rules of Book Reviews

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Mar 5, 2010

Interview with Author Jess C Scott

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 4, 2010

Bamboo Tiki Torch (Indie Music Video)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 3, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Taxed to Death (again)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 2, 2010

Wearing Haman’s Hat

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 1, 2010

Links across the Web

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 26, 2010

7 Reasons eBooks Should Be Almost Free

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 25, 2010

A Song to Bring Peace (Music Video)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 24, 2010

Creepy Crawlies Everywhere, and Ants and Flies

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 23, 2010

When Is Your Narrator?: Picking the Right Tense

Be the Story

Feb 23, 2010

A Date at the Laundromat

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 22, 2010

SUCCESS! And More of It!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 19, 2010

EyeLeash: A Blog Novel (Book Review)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 18, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: Taxed to Death

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 17, 2010

Christian Fiction, What’s Wrong with It?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 16, 2010

My Favorite Romantic Movies

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 12, 2010

Valentine's Day Blog Posts

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 11, 2010

A Young Love Story: The Sister I Never Had

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 10, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: A kinda sorta love story

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 9, 2010

The Best Valentines Come from the Little Ones

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 8, 2010

Our Favorite Star Trek Episodes

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 5, 2010

A New Bunch of Books to Read

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 3, 2010

Praise for the Love-Idiot Book; Tuesday Teaser

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 2, 2010

Jojo's Sunning Himself under the Waterfall

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 1, 2010

Starting a New Business

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 29, 2010

Starting a Novel without a Title (but with a Cover)

Be the Story

Jan 28, 2010

All My NetFlix DVD's Are Accounted For

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 28, 2010

Two Women Search for the Meaning of Life

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 26, 2010

"From the Ashes of Courage" First Book Reading

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 25, 2010

Quip Hits

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 22, 2010

An Ice-encrusted Car Means that Flowers Are Near

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 21, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays, and FtAoC News

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 19, 2010

Thoughts on Life and Loss

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 15, 2010

Writing the Opposite Sex

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 12, 2010

Ever had a computer that wanted to make your life difficult?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 11, 2010

Faith'n'Fiction Saturday

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 10, 2010

Agile Storytelling

Be the Story

Jan 8, 2010

The Roaring 20-Somethings

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 8, 2010

A Dream to Explore

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 6, 2010

Have you ever dreamed a New Year's wish?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 5, 2010

11+ Ways to Say "He Smiled"

Be the Story

Jan 4, 2010

What is Love without Strings?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 4, 2010

Resolutions: 0; Wishes: 1

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 30, 2009

The Worst Story Ever (the MST3K version)

Be the Story

Dec 29, 2009

In Honor of Indie, Unknown, and Mid-list Authors

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 29, 2009

Should You Always Avoid the Verb "To Be"?

Be the Story

Dec 28, 2009

One Day in December (a Holiday Update)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 28, 2009

Are You Having a Merry Christmas?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 24, 2009

Battling the Post-Revision Blues

Be the Story

Dec 23, 2009

Ideas and Inspirations

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 22, 2009

Checklist for Revising a Novel

Be the Story

Dec 21, 2009

A Cute Kitten and a Poinsettia

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 18, 2009

Interview with Julie Carobini, "Beach-Lit" Author

Be the Story

Dec 16, 2009

Sneak Peek: The Kiss

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 15, 2009

A Belated Holiday Gift: Limited Advance Edition of From the Ashes of Courage

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 14, 2009

Revising Your Novel

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 11, 2009

You Too Could Save $00** Using a Service You Already Have!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 10, 2009

Revising "From the Ashes of Courage"

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 10, 2009

“Dirty” Really Is Dirtier

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 4, 2009

Word Counts and Words That Count

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 1, 2009

The Lazy Man's Chocolate Pie

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 25, 2009

Parents of Divorced Couples

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 24, 2009

She’s a headstrong businesswoman...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 23, 2009

7 Fun Links from My Feed Reader

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 20, 2009

How to Grow Flowers

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 13, 2009

Etude in Black and White

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 6, 2009

Making Sense of Narrative Mode (and Tense)

Be the Story

Nov 6, 2009

Anybody Go to BU? (and NaNoWriMo Update)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 4, 2009

The Best Thing You've Ever Written

Be the Story

Oct 30, 2009

Driving in Boston 2

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 30, 2009

Political Bytes

Freedom Blog

Oct 30, 2009

Finding the Answer to the Meaning of Life

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 29, 2009

10 NaNoWriMo Tips

Be the Story

Oct 23, 2009

Driving in Boston

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 23, 2009

Another One of Those Weeks

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 23, 2009

I Wanna Write like Nora Roberts: 7 Tips for Prolific Writers

Be the Story

Oct 19, 2009

Finding the Right Word: 7 Unusually Useful Online Word Tools

Be the Story

Oct 16, 2009

What’s in a Cat?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 16, 2009

Book Review: The Ruby Key by Holly Lisle

Be the Story

Oct 15, 2009

Literary Rambles: An Interview with Writer-Blogger Casey Mccormick

Be the Story

Oct 14, 2009

Online Story Tuesday: Ilker Drennan

Be the Story

Oct 13, 2009

You Wanna Win a Nobel Peace Prize, Too?

Freedom Blog

Oct 12, 2009

Shoeboxes Full of Gifts

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 12, 2009

Making Fun of FedEx

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 9, 2009

Keeping to Regular Deadlines

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 8, 2009

Interview with Humorist Kevin Cummings

Be the Story

Oct 7, 2009

A Hebrew Medley (video): Ayts Chaim/Hashivenu

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 5, 2009

The Semantics of "Healthcare Reform"

Freedom Blog

Oct 2, 2009

A Well-Run Household

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 2, 2009

Computer Upgrades Cost Lives

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 1, 2009

The Psychology of Worship Music

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 25, 2009

What Luxury Do You Wish For?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 23, 2009

When Nothing Goes the Way It Ought

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 22, 2009

Baby Boy

Stories

Sep 22, 2009

Online Fiction Tuesday #2

Be the Story

Sep 22, 2009

Just Write Blog Carnival

Be the Story

Sep 21, 2009

Looking for Smart Software Developers

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Sep 18, 2009

New Writer's Tools at Holly Lisle's Site

Be the Story

Sep 18, 2009

YA Audio-novel Giveaway

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 17, 2009

Writing Your Characters Using the APET Model

Be the Story

Sep 16, 2009

How Many of These Games Can You Identify?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 14, 2009

The 9/11 Wedding Pictures

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 11, 2009

I've Been Married 16 Years: Do You Believe It?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 11, 2009

Looking Forward to 9/11

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 9, 2009

Of Baking Bread and Busy

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 8, 2009

True Stories of Painless Births

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 7, 2009

Are women flirting with me?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 4, 2009

Why Are We So Unhappy Having All These Things?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 2, 2009

This is Peace!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 28, 2009

Life & Liberty, a Short Animation

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 28, 2009

Stories to Evoke Fear; Stories to Inspire Love

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 27, 2009

WARNING: Be Inspired Rather than Subjected to the "Texting while Driving" Video

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 26, 2009

7 Things I Wish I Knew before Writing My First Book

Be the Story

Aug 25, 2009

The Lazy Man's Ginger Chicken Stir-Fry... at least the leftovers

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 24, 2009

OpenOffice Drop Caps Too Big? Try This Work-around

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 23, 2009

Abbie’s Artwork

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 22, 2009

:-p :^) to Prospective Employers

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 20, 2009

4 Myths (and More!) Bloggers Believe about "Old" Media

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 18, 2009

Gilmores, Blocks, and Judging a Book by Its Cover

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 17, 2009

11 Thoughts on the Love Boat

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 14, 2009

Opening the Door to Your Own Destiny

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 12, 2009

So THIS Is Why I Can't Find Work

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Aug 11, 2009

Rediscovering Blogging

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 10, 2009

My Favorite Columbos

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 7, 2009

A Prayer for the Depressed

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 5, 2009

5 Points of Life-Expanding Stories

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 4, 2009

Getting Rid of Loads of Books

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 3, 2009

The Bread Machine Chronicles: Homemade Hot Dog Buns

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 2, 2009

Craisin®-Nut Bread

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 31, 2009

The Asshole vs. the Nicest Man You'd Ever Want to Meet

Freedom Blog

Jul 30, 2009

I Wish to Remember to Feel What My Reader Feels

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 29, 2009

A Programmer's Empowering Daydream

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 28, 2009

Hope through Feelings of Hopelessness

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 27, 2009

Groped in Good Taste

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 23, 2009

Wishcasting Wednesday: Being Very Afraid

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 22, 2009

10 Things I Hate About Software Development

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 22, 2009

Why I No Longer Belong in a Dilbert Cube

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 21, 2009

Last Day for 40%+ Discount on Love-for-Idiots Book

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 20, 2009

My Happily Ever After

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 15, 2009

My Worst Date Ever

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 14, 2009

Opening Ceremony for the Proof

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 11, 2009

Pre-order "Love through the Eyes of an Idiot"

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 8, 2009

Dear Delilah...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 2, 2009

The Secret to Happily Ever After...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 23, 2009

On Turning 40

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 20, 2009

A Bad Job Two-fer: Living Inside a Top/A Tribute to Lorelai

Stories

Jun 2, 2009

Twitter Suspended My Account!

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 21, 2009

The Widow's Granddaughter

Stories

May 18, 2009

A Comedian's Motive

Stories

May 15, 2009

Two Dirty Little Words

Stories

May 14, 2009

Interpretation of a Nightmare: A real-life murder turns into a dream

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 13, 2009

Disorder

Stories

May 13, 2009

A Penchant for Cotton

Stories

May 12, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 13)

Stories

May 11, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 12)

Stories

May 8, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 11)

Stories

May 7, 2009

The True Meaning of Dreams

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 7, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 10)

Stories

May 6, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 9)

Stories

May 5, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 8)

Stories

May 4, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 7)

Stories

May 1, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 6)

Stories

Apr 30, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 5)

Stories

Apr 29, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 4)

Stories

Apr 28, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 3)

Stories

Apr 27, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship (part 2)

Stories

Apr 25, 2009

Recovery, Relapse, Relationship

Stories

Apr 24, 2009

Pine (part 4)

Stories

Apr 23, 2009

Pine (part 3)

Stories

Apr 22, 2009

Depression and the Software Developer (part 3)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 21, 2009

Pine (part 2)

Stories

Apr 21, 2009

Depression and the Software Developer (part 2)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 20, 2009

New "Stories" Blog

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 20, 2009

Pine

Stories

Apr 20, 2009

Depression and the Software Developer

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 17, 2009

Software Bugs, Crawling Everywhere

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Mar 24, 2009

Too Late, the Code Is Already Written

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Mar 21, 2009

Truth in Advertising: New Names for Cable Channels

Hope, Love, and Peace

Mar 8, 2009

7 Reasons More Worship Bassists Should Listen to WSRS

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 26, 2009

7 Best Things About Being a Consulting Software Developer

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 8, 2009

I Want Your Opinion on a Potential New Book: People Stories

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 6, 2009

Top 10 Most Bizarre Programming Languages Ever Created

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jan 16, 2009

Cats in Sinks

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 14, 2009

Funny Comedian Quotes

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 7, 2009

Lie Detecting: A Bullshit Episode Penn & Teller Should Do

Freedom Blog

Jan 6, 2009

More Reasons to Avoid SourceSafe

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jan 2, 2009

5 Tips on Telling Backstory without Interrupting the Flow

Be the Story

Dec 29, 2008

Don't Underestimate the Objects of Our Thanks

Freedom Blog

Dec 26, 2008

Would I Run? (If you've read this viral email...)

Freedom Blog

Dec 19, 2008

My eBook Destroyed a Kindle?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 18, 2008

Bacon-wrapped, chicken-stuffed-duck--stuffed turkey

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 15, 2008

I Can Practically Hear My Left Ventricle Slamming Shut

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 12, 2008

OpenOffice 3.0 on My Mac-- Now Reverting to 2.4

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 8, 2008

Looking for Beta Testers for Kindle/Mobipocket/Palm/iPhone eBook

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 5, 2008

A Free Gift You Can Give to Authors: How to Write a Book Review (for a Fiction Book)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 4, 2008

Putting Up the Christmas Star

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 28, 2008

Ode to a Bedbug

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 27, 2008

Convicting Anyone of Anything

Freedom Blog

Nov 26, 2008

Our Kids Can Handle a Lot More than We Give Them Credit For

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 24, 2008

No Such Thing as an Overnight Millionaire

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 21, 2008

Proof That Programming Language Trivia Is Stupid

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Nov 21, 2008

Not "Global Warming" Anymore; It's the Global Climate Crisis!

Freedom Blog

Nov 20, 2008

7 Warning Signs of Bogus Politics (and Science)

Freedom Blog

Nov 19, 2008

In a Truly Free Market, Small Businesses Would Rule

Freedom Blog

Nov 18, 2008

I Am So in the Wrong Line of Work!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 18, 2008

Feeling Sorry for the "Impeach Barack Obama" Group Creator

Freedom Blog

Nov 17, 2008

How to "Prove" That Poetry is Valuable

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 17, 2008

Write Every Day: What Does that Mean & Why?

Be the Story

Nov 14, 2008

How does Squidoodlr work?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 13, 2008

Walter Koenig & George Takei in ST Fan Film

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 12, 2008

Actually Bated for the New Star Trek Movie

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 12, 2008

War-time Espionage for My Story Character

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 12, 2008

Why I Like Being a One-man Entrepreneur

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 12, 2008

Book Giveaway Winners: Can You See God in This Picture

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 10, 2008

Book Giveaway Winners: The Conscience of Abe’s Turn

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 10, 2008

Here's a Question...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 7, 2008

How to Select a Design for Your Book Cover

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 6, 2008

How to Finish and Publish a Book

Be the Story

Nov 6, 2008

FEAR of Failure, Success, and Obama

Freedom Blog

Nov 6, 2008

Marshall Fritz Passes Away

Freedom Blog

Nov 5, 2008

Trampling on Liberty

Freedom Blog

Nov 5, 2008

Yeah, That's What I Think of the Election

Freedom Blog

Nov 2, 2008

Book Giveaway: Can You See God in This Picture

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 2, 2008

Book Giveaway: The Conscience of Abe's Turn

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Nov 2, 2008

How Well Do Your Children Know You?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 2, 2008

Are We Scared Yet?

Freedom Blog

Oct 29, 2008

NaNoWriMo almost Here, and Do I Have a Surprise for You

Be the Story

Oct 25, 2008

Friday Snippet: Kick the Pastor Out of the Church

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 17, 2008

You Are Worth Every Word You Write

Be the Story

Oct 12, 2008

Friday Snippet: Back to Butler, PA to Teach Biblical Greek

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Oct 10, 2008

How Much Does It Cost to Publish a Book?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 8, 2008

How Much Does It Cost to Publish a Book?

Be the Story

Oct 8, 2008

Good Enough, Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People LIKE Me

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Oct 1, 2008

Abe's Turn is Up at My New Online Web Shop

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Sep 26, 2008

Video: A Glimpse into the Self-Publishing Process

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Sep 18, 2008

Funny Bits from around the Internet

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Sep 11, 2008

Friday Snippet: Recovery, Relapse, Relationship

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Sep 5, 2008

7 Random & Weird Facts About Me: Another Quick Meme

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Aug 29, 2008

The Writing Meme

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Aug 25, 2008

Something I Would Be Embarrassed to Be Seen With (Friday Snippet)

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Aug 22, 2008

A Message to Spammers

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Aug 19, 2008

Check Your New RCN Bill for This Error

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Aug 15, 2008

Another Reason to Sell Your Book Direct to Readers

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 14, 2008

Political Bytes from the Blogosphere

Freedom Blog

Aug 12, 2008

Editing Your First Novel: 7 Things You Must Know

Be the Story

Aug 8, 2008

Why I Miss Bill Clinton

Freedom Blog

Aug 8, 2008

Finding the You in Your Writing; Finding the Genre in Your You

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 28, 2008

Blog-to Show Visitors, Welcome!

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Jul 26, 2008

Friday Snippet: The Preface to Abe's Turn

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Jul 25, 2008

My Coffee is Messing with Your Mind

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Jul 18, 2008

Honey-Curry Chicken (Kosher)

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Jul 6, 2008

Bad RCN! Or, It's All in How You Say It

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 2, 2008

Mini-review: A Good Woman, starring Helen Hunt

Be the Story

Jun 20, 2008

New A-cappella Choir Score Based on Psalm 8

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Apr 22, 2008

A Friday Snippet on Thursday

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 10, 2008

Night Echoes by Holly Lisle Book Review

Be the Story

Apr 8, 2008

PersonalityPage, Character Traits for Writers

Be the Story

Mar 27, 2008

Why I Never Want to be Published

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Mar 18, 2008

Friday Snippet for the Premier of Jezebel James

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Mar 14, 2008

Online Fiction Tuesday #1

Be the Story

Mar 11, 2008

Presenting Abe's Turn, the Novel

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Mar 10, 2008

Friday Snippet

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Mar 7, 2008

My Worst Review Ever

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Mar 6, 2008

Carnival of Storytelling #9

Be the Story

Mar 6, 2008

Why I Don’t do 70 Days of Sweat (and other sprints)

Be the Story

Feb 29, 2008

The Last Friday Snippet of Februrary

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 29, 2008

A Friday Snippet on Saturday

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 24, 2008

Friday Snippet, and a Valentine's Gift for Writers

Hope, Love, and Peace

Feb 1, 2008

Carnival of Storytelling #8

Be the Story

Jan 2, 2008

7 Steps to Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jan 1, 2008

Discovering Character Secrets from Your Relatives!

Be the Story

Jan 1, 2008

The Most Important Story Element

Be the Story

Dec 23, 2007

Ha! I KNEW Peter Drucker was Wrong!

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 20, 2007

3 Steps To Writing Winning Fiction Characters

Be the Story

Dec 12, 2007

The Christmas Meme

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Dec 11, 2007

2 Virtual Holiday Gifts Bloggers Love to Get

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Dec 10, 2007

Does God Get Angry? Or Does He Love Us?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 1, 2007

Reason #217 Why Google AdWords Makes Me Laugh

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Nov 26, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving Wishes

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Nov 22, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving Wishes

Be the Story

Nov 22, 2007

Here's Talking about Religion and Politics

Freedom Blog

Nov 21, 2007

A Writers' Rant by Harlan Ellison

Be the Story

Nov 20, 2007

The Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan Drinking Game

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 17, 2007

Trying Twitter...

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Nov 16, 2007

Yesterday I Went Swimming in the Jury Pool

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 15, 2007

March of the Penguins... Again

Be the Story

Nov 12, 2007

Carnival of Storytelling #7

Be the Story

Nov 10, 2007

A Sure-Fire Cure for Writer's Block

Be the Story

Nov 9, 2007

Friday Snippet: The Widow's Granddaughter (2)

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 9, 2007

The Value of a Skillful Writer

Be the Story

Nov 9, 2007

Is my story cliché and contrived?

Be the Story

Nov 9, 2007

100 Free Fictional Character Ideas

Be the Story

Nov 8, 2007

What It's Like to Finally Finish My First eBook

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 7, 2007

Free Newsletter from a Long-time Published Author

Be the Story

Nov 5, 2007

Friday Snippet: The Widow's Granddaughter

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 2, 2007

Maybe This Explains My Family Connections

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Oct 30, 2007

How Google Can Prove Anything With Statistics

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Oct 29, 2007

Aborted Works in Progress (and a Friday Snippet)

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Oct 19, 2007

Friday Snippet: Pine

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Oct 12, 2007

Changes: Fading Out of the Software Business

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 7, 2007

I'm so Pissed at RCN

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 3, 2007

Life's Too Short for the Wrong Job

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 1, 2007

7 Entrepreneurial Secrets of Survivorman

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 25, 2007

I'm Reed Fish Top-10 Review

Be the Story

Sep 15, 2007

Kickin It Old Skool Bottom-10 Review

Be the Story

Sep 5, 2007

Carnival of Storytelling #6

Be the Story

Aug 29, 2007

You Know You're an Old Fogey Software Engineer When...

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Aug 23, 2007

Secrets of Business from Rainforest Cafe

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 21, 2007

I Finally Threw My Apple Mighty Mouse Across the Room

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 8, 2007

The Real 7 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

Be the Story

Aug 6, 2007

Sued for Reading an RSS Feed?

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Aug 1, 2007

When to Use Character Quirks

Be the Story

Aug 1, 2007

I've Been So Busy...

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 26, 2007

Mixing the Ridiculous with the Sublime

Be the Story

Jul 22, 2007

Carnival of Storytelling #5

Be the Story

Jun 5, 2007

Actually, It's the Word "ZOiZ"

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jun 4, 2007

Here's Why It's Good For a Consultant to Tell the Employees How Much He Makes

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 16, 2007

Carnival of Storytelling #4

Be the Story

May 1, 2007

Here's Why Rushing the Ending Would Save Gilmore Girls

Be the Story

Apr 20, 2007

The Lake House Top-10 Review

Be the Story

Apr 6, 2007

Featured at Carnival of Cinema XIII

Be the Story

Jan 14, 2007

If You Think Sylvia Plath Was Crazy, Think Again

Be the Story

Jan 9, 2007

What Chocolate Says About Entrepreneurship

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 31, 2006

Does Bad Writing Reflect Poor Programming Skills?

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Dec 15, 2006

Ten Things That Are Different Now That I'm Self-Employed

Hope, Love, and Peace

Dec 5, 2006

The Mantra That Will Get Me Through My Last 4 Days

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 17, 2006

Why Grey's Anatomy Is Great Despite All the Sex

Be the Story

Nov 17, 2006

Seven Truths of Good Code

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Nov 14, 2006

Yes, I've Left Normal

Hope, Love, and Peace

Nov 11, 2006

Why Leaders Never Assign Blame

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 20, 2006

For the Love of Gilmore-isms

Be the Story

Oct 15, 2006

The Dr. House Drinking Game

Hope, Love, and Peace

Oct 10, 2006

Quick and Dirty May Be Dirty, But Is It Quick?

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Oct 9, 2006

I Just Realized How Miserable I Am

Hope, Love, and Peace

Sep 29, 2006

Fix for w3mir With Latest URI.pm

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Sep 15, 2006

Is Consulting More Stable Than Employment?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 31, 2006

Dead Fish and Other Things People Wear

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Aug 27, 2006

Carnival of Storytelling #3

Be the Story

Aug 14, 2006

Please Don't Share Your Bodily Fluids With the Rest of the System

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Aug 11, 2006

Top Eight Reasons to Abandon SourceSafe

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Aug 9, 2006

Wage Slave or Crazy Entrepreneur?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 4, 2006

When the Best Tool Isn't, and Why a Growing Team Doesn't Care

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Aug 2, 2006

Why Geeks Should Care About Fashion

Hope, Love, and Peace

Aug 1, 2006

Carnival of Storytelling #2

Be the Story

Aug 1, 2006

Why I Hate Microsoft

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 27, 2006

Top Ten Reasons to Remain a Wage Slave

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 27, 2006

Five Things Software Teams Can Learn From Build-A-Bear Workshop About Customer Relations

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 26, 2006

Carnival of Storytelling #1

Be the Story

Jul 24, 2006

How DeMarco, Lister, and Cockburn Helped Me Find a Better Job (Part 2)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 21, 2006

How DeMarco, Lister, and Cockburn Helped Me Find a Better Job (Part 1)

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 20, 2006

The Secret to Breaking Out of the Box

Hope, Love, and Peace

Jul 17, 2006

What Is a "Story"?

Be the Story

Jul 13, 2006

Twelve Benefits of Writing Unit Tests First

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 12, 2006

Refactoring the Monster

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jul 1, 2006

The Speed of Dark (Review)

Be the Story

Jun 30, 2006

Fourteen-Day Screenplay Starts Saturday

Be the Story

Jun 1, 2006

The Center for Interact-a Huh?

Be the Story

May 27, 2006

Moving Chairs, and Why It's Cool

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 26, 2006

My Performance Sucks, and I’m Proud of It!

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 20, 2006

The Thought-Work Uncertainty Principle

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 17, 2006

The Fourteen-Day Screenplay

Be the Story

May 16, 2006

My Interview at The Writing Show

Be the Story

May 16, 2006

Setting the Mood With Conflict

Be the Story

May 15, 2006

Using Conflict to Keep the Flow

Be the Story

May 13, 2006

Thirty Days to Better Software

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

May 10, 2006

Short Stories for Success

Be the Story

May 9, 2006

Why Small Is Better Than Big

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 5, 2006

Professionals Should Make Mistakes

Hope, Love, and Peace

May 4, 2006

Story Games and Empty Reviews

Be the Story

May 3, 2006

So Much Time And So Little To Do!

Be the Story

May 2, 2006

Don't Jinx the Passion

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 30, 2006

What Makes Gilmore Girls the Best Show on TV

Be the Story

Apr 30, 2006

The Dark Side of Professionalism: An Epiphany

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 28, 2006

Spotlight: The Notebook (the movie) (Review)

Be the Story

Apr 27, 2006

Practice Makes Perfect Professionals

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 25, 2006

Did FedEx Finally Deliver?

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 24, 2006

Setting the Mood With Milieu

Be the Story

Apr 24, 2006

Pet Peeves: Loose Instead of Lose

Be the Story

Apr 21, 2006

Be a Toxic Employee

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 19, 2006

Building Brand Image: 2 Lessons

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 18, 2006

Setting the Mood With Expectations

Be the Story

Apr 17, 2006

Best Job in America: Software Engineer

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 14, 2006

Facts Tell, But Stories Sell

Be the Story

Apr 14, 2006

Lawyers Are Not Businessmen

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 13, 2006

Eight Things Leaders Never Do

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Apr 12, 2006

Justice, Masthead Style

Be the Story

Apr 11, 2006

How to Accept a Resignation

Hope, Love, and Peace

Apr 11, 2006

Character Ideas Through Substitution

Be the Story

Apr 11, 2006

Manual Test-First

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 10, 2006

James Shore on Good Design

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 7, 2006

Break Your (Software) Process Addiction

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Apr 6, 2006

Spotlight: Holly Lisle's Website

Be the Story

Apr 6, 2006

My New Blog

Be the Story

Apr 5, 2006

The Storyteller and the Wordsmith

Be the Story

Apr 3, 2006

Would you tell your story to help others?

Be the Story

Mar 31, 2006

Better Character Ideas: Throw Two Away

Be the Story

Mar 31, 2006

Spotlight: Smilla's Sense of Snow (the movie) (Review)

Be the Story

Mar 30, 2006

Writing Great Ezines & Blogs

Be the Story

Mar 29, 2006

What's So Great About the X-Men? (Astonishing X-Men Review)

Be the Story

Mar 29, 2006

A Necessary Step to Creativity

Be the Story

Mar 28, 2006

Anatomy of a Story Game 2

Be the Story

Mar 27, 2006

Inexcusable (Review)

Be the Story

Mar 24, 2006

Spotlight: A Certain Slant of Light (Review)

Be the Story

Mar 23, 2006

"Show; Don't Tell" Works for Ads, Too

Be the Story

Mar 21, 2006

A Simple Way to Improve Your Blog

Be the Story

Mar 17, 2006

Spotlight: Walk Two Moons (Review)

Be the Story

Mar 16, 2006

An Interview with Mama Maia

Be the Story

Mar 16, 2006

Using Story in Your Non-Fiction

Be the Story

Mar 15, 2006

Anatomy of a Story Game

Be the Story

Mar 13, 2006

Doctor Who 2005 U.S. Premier

Be the Story

Mar 12, 2006

Where to Get Character Names

Be the Story

Mar 11, 2006

A Gilmore-Girls Spec Scene

Be the Story

Mar 10, 2006

Ender vs. Anakin

Be the Story

Mar 10, 2006

Spotlight: Because of Winn-Dixie (Review)

Be the Story

Mar 9, 2006

Children and Toilets (a short story)

Be the Story

Mar 8, 2006

Writing about real people

Be the Story

Mar 7, 2006

How much uncertainty is too much?

Be the Story

Mar 7, 2006

How to Spin a Yarn: Conflict, Resolution, and Story Arc

Be the Story

Mar 6, 2006

Spotlight: Ender's Game (Review)

Be the Story

Mar 2, 2006

Favorite Classic Story Games

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Feb 27, 2006

Sick and Writing

Be the Story

Feb 25, 2006

How to Name Characters

Be the Story

Feb 24, 2006

Spotlight: The Goat in the Grey Fedora (Review)

Be the Story

Feb 23, 2006

Be Careful About Happenstance

Be the Story

Feb 22, 2006

The Minister's Daughter (Review)

Be the Story

Feb 21, 2006

Great Characters and How to Make Them

Be the Story

Feb 20, 2006

Moving Between Characters in Omniscient Point of View

Be the Story

Feb 19, 2006

The Birth of a Story Thread

Be the Story

Feb 18, 2006

The Legacy of the Story Game

Be the Story

Feb 17, 2006

Spotlight: City Lights (Review)

Be the Story

Feb 16, 2006

Sin and Vengeance (Review)

Be the Story

Feb 15, 2006

Best of Valentine's Day

Be the Story

Feb 14, 2006

Of Stories And Wine

Be the Story

Feb 14, 2006

Feeling the Romance and Keeping it Real

Be the Story

Feb 13, 2006

How to Handle Too Many Ideas

Be the Story

Feb 12, 2006

How to Measure a Good Story

Be the Story

Feb 11, 2006

Where to Get Character Ideas

Be the Story

Feb 10, 2006

Spotlight: Heartbeat (Review)

Be the Story

Feb 9, 2006

The Forces of Character Change

Be the Story

Feb 8, 2006

The Uselessness of Genres

Be the Story

Feb 7, 2006

Pulling Us Into Your World

Be the Story

Feb 6, 2006

Spellbound by Nora Roberts (Review)

Be the Story

Feb 5, 2006

Info Dumps Suck

Be the Story

Feb 4, 2006

Guilty Pleasures

Be the Story

Feb 4, 2006

An Example of Real-Story Power

Be the Story

Feb 3, 2006

How to Moralize Without Getting Preachy

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Feb 3, 2006

Spotlight: Peanut Butter and Tofu on Jewish Rye (Review)

Be the Story

Feb 2, 2006

Gilmore Girls Saved My Day 2

Be the Story

Feb 1, 2006

Gilmore Girls Saved My Day

Be the Story

Jan 31, 2006

3 Stupid (or Not So Stupid) Story Mistakes

Be the Story

Jan 30, 2006

March of the Penguins, and Why Should I Care?

Be the Story

Jan 27, 2006

Spotlight: Gilmore Girls

Be the Story

Jan 26, 2006

The Secret to Naming Characters

Be the Story

Jan 25, 2006

How Not to Run an Online Bookstore

Be the Story

Jan 24, 2006

The Power of Your Personal Story

Be the Story

Jan 24, 2006

The Telling of Tom Sawyer

Be the Story

Jan 23, 2006

Are you a story geek?

Be the Story

Jan 21, 2006

Spotlight: Storyteller (Review)

Be the Story

Jan 19, 2006

How to Create Powerful, Sympathetic Characters

Be the Story

Jan 16, 2006

Am I a Story Geek?

Be the Story

Jan 16, 2006

The Longest Journey (Review)

Be the Story

Jan 13, 2006

Spotlight: Tales of Pirx the Pilot (Review)

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Jan 12, 2006

The Investigation by Stanislaw Lem (Review)

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Jan 9, 2006

Spotlight: east of the web

Be the Story

Jan 5, 2006

Internal and External Conflicts

Be the Story

Jan 2, 2006

EFF and Sony BMG Reach Preliminary Settlement over Flawed DRM

Be the Story

Jan 2, 2006

What Happens When You Develop on Production Data

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Jan 1, 2006

Spotlight: Firefly and Serenity (Review)

Be the Story

Dec 29, 2005

Three Things to Make Your Audience Adore You

Be the Story

Dec 26, 2005

Pigeonholing the Reader with Genre

Be the Story

Dec 24, 2005

How Not to Run an Online Bookstore

Be the Story

Dec 23, 2005

Spotlight: Psychonauts (Review)

Be the Story

Dec 22, 2005

IFComp 2005

Be the Story

Dec 19, 2005

Site News

Be the Story

Dec 14, 2005

Sony BMG and That Darn DRM

Be the Story

Dec 12, 2005

The Alchera Project

Be the Story

Dec 12, 2005

Free Culture

Be the Story

Dec 7, 2005

Site News

Be the Story

Dec 7, 2005

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (the movie) (Review)

Be the Story

Dec 5, 2005

Security, DRM, and Sony

Be the Story

Dec 4, 2005

How to Build Up Complexity with Layers of Story

Be the Story

Nov 28, 2005

Storyline Patents

Be the Story

Nov 21, 2005

The Intuitiveness of Time-boxed Iterations

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Sep 25, 2005

Honestly

Software Development: A Love-Hate Relationship

Sep 3, 2005