Thursday, July 26th, 2012
I actually have a folder in my browser called Creativity and Productivity.
On the “productive” side, I have sites like Lifehacker, Fast Company, Freelance Switch, and Harvard Business Review. On the creative side, I have Dear Photograph and a Flicker stream from a photographer. Stuff that falls in the middle: TED, You Are Not So Smart, and Brain Pickings. {And let me apologize now for giving you these links and sending you off into the wild Internet without a net.}
Now, you might be tempted to think these things are unrelated. But they’re not. I go to this folder when I need a mental break or inspiration. Sometimes my inspiration is a new program; sometimes it’s the story found in a photograph; sometimes it’s in something I never knew.
Of course, if I just want to goof off, there’s always Facebook!
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Well, maybe it’s not that exciting, but I sure have been thinking about it lately. I’m updating my work website, and on the “About Me” page (because everyone wants to know about me!) I am adding a link to this personal blog. It’s a little scary. It’s a little weird. It’s…well, it’s the Internet, I guess.
I tend to be a bit goofier here than on my work website – which you would expect, I guess, so forgive me if I act silly here in my little corner of the Internet. I promise I’ll get serious when I’m working on your manuscript! And as a proofreader, I hereby declare this to be a judgement free zone (by which I mean, don’t judge me by my grammar and typos!) This is supposed to be fun and, despite my best efforts, I will make errors. Just remember – I can’t write for crap (or maybe my writing is crap) and I don’t have aspirations to be the next Stephen King (or Theresa Ragan). I just want to make all my authors shine. (Almost sounds like Agnes Nixon’s poem The Great and the Least, The Rich and the Poor, The Weak and the Strong, In Sickness and in Health, In Joy and Sorrow, In Tragedy and Triumph, You are ALL MY CHILDREN, doesn’t it?) (Ok, maybe not.)
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