I'm delighted to announce that the Viable Paradise alumni weekend is on! Paradise Lost will be held April 7-10 at the Wingate conference center in Round Rock, TX. Jay Lake, who's teaching at this year's VP, will be the writer in residence. The schedule, travel details, and … [Read more...] about Announcing Paradise Lost
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What’s your favorite reading chair?
Help me, internets. I need a new reading chair. The old one is a papasan. It's doing horrible things to my back. (See how there's a bottle of aspirin in the photo next to the coaster? Yeah. Took me forever to figure out that the damn chair was causing at least half my back … [Read more...] about What’s your favorite reading chair?
Hitmen in Love
Jenny and Lani are doing a "Hitmen in Love" series once they finish the current run of the Popcorn Dialogues. Oh, I am so there. And it seems we've managed to convince them to do Red as a one-off, if not as part of the series. Whee! As for this week's Dialogue: One of the few … [Read more...] about Hitmen in Love
Twenty Links, a Delicious-inspired Twenty Ten child theme
Since I got all my Delicious bookmarks imported, I needed a theme that more or less mimicked the Delicious functionality. For my installation, I've added scribu's Query Multiple Taxonomies plugin, which provides a great Tag Drilldown widget to go with the rudimentary tag filter I … [Read more...] about Twenty Links, a Delicious-inspired Twenty Ten child theme
Import Delicious bookmarks as WordPress links or posts
So, a while back, I was working on a Delicious importer for WordPress. It's an update of Guillermo Moreno's plugin, which imports bookmarks as posts. I added an option to bring them in as links, which made more sense to me, but there's a big problem: since the WordPress link … [Read more...] about Import Delicious bookmarks as WordPress links or posts
Like criminals
"Psychologists have found out a little bit about the personalities of writers. They are individualists, skeptics, taboo-breakers, mockers, loners; they are undependable, likely to be behind on their rent; they keep irregular hours and have strange friends. Professional writers, … [Read more...] about Like criminals
Paradise Lost? Calling all Viable Paradise alumni…
If you've attended the Viable Paradise writer's workshop, Sean Kelley and I would like to know whether you're interested in some kind of weekend reunion, workshop, or retreat. Let us know! … [Read more...] about Paradise Lost? Calling all Viable Paradise alumni…
Content Audit 1.2: automatically mark things as outdated and send email notifications
The Content Audit plugin has been updated to version 1.2. It now has options to automatically mark things outdated after a configurable time period — 3 months, a year, whatever. You can then email the assigned content owner or the original author a list of all their outdated … [Read more...] about Content Audit 1.2: automatically mark things as outdated and send email notifications
Don’t be that guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fc-crEFDw … [Read more...] about Don’t be that guy.
Critiquing: Make it Work
We're done! Or almost done, as the case may be. For many of us, after revisions, there will be workshops and group critiques. Tim Gunn's design critiques are a great model for all sorts of criticism. … [Read more...] about Critiquing: Make it Work
