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Theme Parks and External and Internal Input
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Creativity | 7 Comments »
This week I've been on vacation in Florida, visiting my family and touring the theme parks -- Seaworld, Disneyworld, and (soon) Busch Gardens. I used to live in Florida and ... Read more..NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo Start Nov 1
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 Posted in Creativity | 9 Comments »
Today is the start of both NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000 word novel in one ... Read more..Forms of Play
Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »
Boagworld, a podcast on designing and developing websites, has a recent episode on innovation worth listening to whether you're into web design or not. Paul Boag gives good tips on ... Read more..The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging: Sin #3, Being Boring
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Creativity | 7 Comments »
Being boring is sin #3 in my list of the seven deadly sins (other sins include being fake, irrelevant, unreadable, irresponsible, unfindable, and inattentive). Perhaps a more tactful way of saying ... Read more..Choosing Between Academic and Corporate Life: Did I Make the Wrong Choice?
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Podcasts, Technical Writing | 20 Comments »
[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts/academiccorporate.mp3] Download MP3 Length: 15 min. For the past couple of days I've been in Idaho at a pre-professional writing conference at Brigham Young University – Idaho. The purpose of the writing conference ... Read more..Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging: #2 Being Irrelevant
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Posted in Blogging | 11 Comments »
This is the second post in my 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging series. My version of the seven deadly sins of blogging are as follows: being fake, irrelevant, boring, unreadable, ... Read more..My STC Summit Blogging Presentation Is Free
Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Podcasts | 7 Comments »
As you know, the sessions at the STC Summit in Atlanta last year were recorded. My blogging presentation, Introduction to Blogging: A New Technical Communicator Role, is the only recorded ... Read more..“Tell me a story” — Advice from Writers
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Posted in Creativity | 1 Comment »
I listened to a good discussion about writing from a group of Mormon writers on episode 7 of Everything Creative, an LDS sponsored podcast. Some parts of this podcast are ... Read more..Writing as Conversation — Brainsparks Podcast with Ginny Redish
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Technical Writing | No Comments »
In a recent User Interface Engineering Brainsparks podcast, Jared Spool interviews Ginny Redish about her book, [amazon-product type="text" text="Letting Go of the Words: Writing as Conversation"]0123694868[/amazon-product], as it applies to ... Read more..Creativity in the Workplace
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Posted in Creativity, Technical Writing | 15 Comments »
In previous posts, I've explored whether technical writing is boring. Penelope Trunk's latest post, All advice on how to manage creative people is awful, made me see the topic of workplace ... Read more..