• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • Books
    • Content Strategy for WordPress (2015)
    • WordPress for Web Developers (2013)
    • Beginning WordPress 3 (2010)
  • Blog
    • Content Modeling for WordPress
    • WordPress Hidden Gems
    • Web Design
  • Work
    • MLIS Class Projects (2019-2022)
    • Portfolio (2002-2019)
    • Services
    • WordPress Plugins
    • WordPress Themes
    • Presentations and Interviews
    • on GitHub →

Stephanie Leary

Writer, WordPress consultant, recent MLIS grad

  • About
    • Press Kit
    • Presentations and Interviews
  • Contact Me

People need context

August 27, 2002 Stephanie Leary

700-ish words on Sunday and 500 words last night – a minor breakthrough, I think, and not just because it’s the first thing I’ve written in a while, but because it provided a key bit of worldbuilding.

I owe both tidbits to the Liaden Universe books, which I devoured last week. They made me realize that while I have characters, I have very little context. I need to give my people a society to play in!

This sounds so silly – you see, I thought I had, and then I read this series and realized how wrong I was.

Writing

Footer

My Books

This is an excerpt from Content Strategy for WordPress.My latest books are Content Strategy for WordPress (2015) and WordPress for Web Developers (2013). Sign up to be notified when I have a new book for you.

I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

Copyright © 2023 Stephanie Leary · Contact