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Country: United States
State: Minnesota
Metro: St. Paul
Birthday: 9/16/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Jesus, Church, Missions, Family, Art, Writing, Music, Unicycling, Scherenschnitte, Origami, and Pottery.
Expertise: Art, Writing, Music, Unicycling, Scherenschnitte, Origami, and Pottery.
Occupation: Computer related (Internet)
Industry: Nonprofit
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Yahoo:  smilerjg
Member Since:
5/9/2005
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| Hi everyone.
Just signing in to let you know I've started (yet another) blog! I won't be posting on this one very much at all.
My other blog is www.emergencymetaphortechnician.blogspot.com.
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| Ok, is anyone else as annoyed as I am with fake bloggers? You know, the kind of people who advertise that their blog is the best because it gives you inside information on what an agent thinks and feels or promises to write daily for writers and then when you visit their sites all you see are links to other people's blogs or other websites?
Are we even adding original content to the internet anymore?
If I had wanted to learn about punctuation in dialogue I would have done a google search myself. It takes about 30 seconds so if someone blogs about it with links to the top five pages, they've saved me 30 seconds, but wasted my attention span to their blog.
I am especially frustrated with one particular example. Awhile back I heard a peculiar phrase "charismatic witchcraft". In an effort to find out what this contradictory term meant, I googled it. There are hundreds of pages claiming to give the answer to what it's about, but they all repeat the same text. Every single one out of the 14 pages I looked at had the same exact text pulled from whichever one was the original source. (I'm not even going to go into my annoyance with demon busters about their red and pink color scheme that grates on the eyes and the "no demons allowed" sign that smacks of hypersensitivity to these kinds of things.)
And while feedback is great and summarizing is awesome, do I really want to visit someone's blog only to be consistently redirected to other people's sites? I was on Nathan Bransford's blog (which I happen to like a lot) the other day and he had almost no original content in his post. One of the links on there led me to another blog that also had no original content. I read blogs because of the people behind them, not because I need another search engine.
And since I'm trying to make fun of myself by posting links to various places of interest, I will pose a question following the example of Mr. Bransford: You tell me, are blogs supposed to be mostly original content or are they supposed to be more like search engines? Is it annoying to see links to other pages or is it exciting and like an easter egg hunt?
Have fun everyone, and please, be original.
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| This past week I have done what I consider to be probably the most exciting thing I've ever done besides agreeing to date Nathan: I submitted my writing to an agent. Now the nerve wracking begins until I hear back from someone. I'm also waiting to hear from the U of M about graduate school. After reading more about the publishing business and how to get attention from agents and publishers, it is becoming apparent to me that I need to create more websites. Publishers and Agents (P & A) will often look for a potential author's name on facebook, xanga, myspace, and livejournal. As much as it detests me, it's a necessary evil for me to create a myspace page. And a livejournal page, and another xanga site devoted specifically to me as a writer. My plan is to link all these pages back to one that I've created myself on my Mac. This will happen in February after the Ellie Ryan Benefit webpage is no longer needed. Speaking of which, feel free to check out web.me.com/reesha/Site_2 to see details of the Benefit coming up on January 21st. It's a dinner, dance and silent auction. More work to come on the website, but it should have some helpful details on there. | | |
| BookTrek Writing: My final career. These are the adventures of Reesha's writing enterprise. Her five year mission: To explore strange, new plot lines. To seek out new agents and new publishers. To boldly submit where no Reesha has submitted work before! Dooo-dooo-da-da-da-da-doooo-dooooo...whoooosh! ... Um, yeah. So I have publishing on the brain. :) I hope you all envisioned a giant book zooming past your head at the whoosh part, with its rear deflector shields beaming at you, and leaving inspiration embedded in its warp signature. My crew, as usual, has decided to mutiny against me. Several characters are holding out for a bigger piece of the plot. I have yet to decide what I'm going to do with them. It's difficult because, while I could just have them killed off once they try to get too much attention, there's only so much of that which can fit in a book. And I can't simply alter their character. That’s the whole point of having characters in my story: if they don’t remain true to character (which I cannot predict with plot) then what good are they to me? Thus, it is a necessary mutiny. Commercial break. | | |
| Thought for the day: When an instructor, teacher or preacher is talking to a crowd of two people, each person thinks the message is intended for the other person. We might not listen to something because it is meant for 'someone else'. Or we might listen intently FOR someone else, trying to remember it so we can repeat it to our neighbor who needs to hear it. I was thinking this morning...how might my life be different if I actually listened to the Old Testament prophets, to pastors and sermons, with the acknowledgement that they are talking directly to me? Not to the collective conscience of my Christian culture or my world, but to only me? Would I listen differently if I was the only one in the room? | | |
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