Thursday, March 1, 2012

Update for Thursday, March 1, 2012


"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. " -- Gustave Flaubert

Regular and orderly is fine, but this ruthless dispatching of long-held goals (some much too long) is fun, too.  Check out The Update for the story on that and...AND...something special.  And sometimes less is more, and The Helper describes how that might be applied to the share buttons in your blog.  And in honor of some courtroom work being done tomorrow, a little legal lunacy in The Wind-Up.

The Update

A very productive week here overall.  I managed to block Chapter 8 of MGC and it turned out very well.  On to Chapter 9 on Sunday.  The really cool thing about the week is that I finished a long-awaited re-release of my e-book Turning Springs on Smashwords dot com.  No editorial changes, but just some format things that I wished I'd done to begin with.  They changed a few things in their publishing process which made some nice new features available (like a Table of Contents).  I'm so pleased about this that I'm offering a coupon for $1 off the price of the book through March 9th.  The non-case-sensitive code for that coupon is:  BL67B.  If you haven't read it, now's a good time to jump in.  Or at least download the first half of the book for free.  Go get it here, and enjoy the read!

The Helper

We've all seen it.  A nicely done, intriguing blog post that makes you want to maintain contact with the writer.  And you get to the share button line and it's a regular conga line of possibilities.  Pinterest?  Facebook? Google+? Twitter?  How do you choose?  Don't let your social networking riches embarrass you.  Check out this post from Pushing Social about being choosy about your buttons.

The Wind-Up

From Fark comes this story about an unfortunate fellow who wasn't there.  Memories of the TV show "Soap".  Don't miss:  his previous record.

Thanks for reading.  Back next week.