Archive for "Mar 2011"

My 5 Minute Creative Writing Exercise

I’ve done a lot a couple of pieces of writing on serious things and so, to try and balance it out I decided to try a little creative writing exercise. Simply (probably one of the simplest exercises going) I just wrote for 5 minutes non-stop, without thinking. I got about 270ish words out in that [...]

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Thoughts on Google Changes n’ Junk…

Ok, so I keep telling myself that I need to write about things more. Not just as a way to keep my site producing content, but also to keep them gosh darned writing skills sharp as a squirt of lemon juice in the ear hole. So, at the moment I seem to be thinking a [...]

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Changes

I’ve been thinking a lot bit about this site recently and I had an epiphany of sorts. I realised that the way I’d set it up was ridiculous. I was trying to be something I’m not and as a result I found the whole thing very cringe-worthy. The realisation hit me (like an obese hippo I should add)that [...]

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Urgh… Spam

It’s a pain. I wouldn’t mind so much if the spam I received on a daily basis (fake comments) was either a) intelligent b) funny or c) a good read, but everything that gets caught up in my Akismet fishing net is just so obviously spam, it is quite pathetic. Something that has caught my eye [...]

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