Tag Archives: Blogging Blogs

On Giving Up All Pretense

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Andrew

For example, keeping this blog regularly updated. It’s true, I managed to pound out a post a day for a year and so one would think (wouldn’t one?) that writing a post a week (at the least) would be relatively … Continue reading →

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On Coming to a Crossroads

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Andrew

I. The whole A Year of Living Bloggily experiment was an attempt to figure out what purpose (or what porpoise) a blog served in my writing life.  I hoped that writing a blog a day for a year would somehow … Continue reading →

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On Returning to the Future

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Andrew

As you well know (and you know you do) I am in love with form.  Maybe not form in everything, but form in art.  I’m especially in love with it because I it aids in my creative process.  If I’m … Continue reading →

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On Nano-posting and NANO Fiction

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Andrew

So, as you might have noticed, I’ve stopped posting everyday since my Year of Living Bloggily successfully ended (and, Oh, how I was afraid it wouldn’t, that I’d keep writing forever, every morning, until, alas, my fingers absconded for parts … Continue reading →

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On the Blog as We Know It Coming to an End

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Andrew

Today is the final day in the year-long experiment that was titled, naturally, A Year of Living Bloggily. I’ll start off with a song I recently fell in love with.  It reminds me of my friend Jason (he once gave … Continue reading →

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On What I Dearly Wanted This Blog to Be But Did Not Know It

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Andrew

This is what I wanted my blog to be: Go ahead and click on it.  There you will find awesomeness.  Be sure to also check out the two About pages as they will enlighten you beyond all enlightenhood. I am … Continue reading →

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On Coming to the End

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Andrew

Man, does that sound like a depressing subject.  But all is not lost! A. Phoebe North (you can find her blog here) just finished the first draft of her second novel, a novel that has agent(s) clamoring to get their … Continue reading →

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On Academic Romances

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Andrew

I don’t read romance.  No, Sir, I don’t like it. Which isn’t to say that my opinion is at all informed.  I’ve never read a romance novel, so I can’t rightly say that I don’t like it (even though I … Continue reading →

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On Writing and Submitting Stories Like an Alternate-World-View Person

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Andrew

Apparently Ray Bradbury wrote a story a week and submitted that same story to a magazine each week.  This is what is typically defined as crazy.  And/or hard-working.  Also, perhaps, “a good plan.” Not, perhaps, the sending out of the … Continue reading →

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On This Being Written in Only Fifteen Minutes

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Andrew

START CLOCK 00:00:00 When I first started researching publishing seriously (which, unfortunately, was several months after I’d started submitting my first novel to agents) (which method, by the way, in not recommended) I found a lot of publishing information through … Continue reading →

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