chocolate, css, Leo Laporte and books

Click on image below for a bigger version.



Will Write For Chocolate has been updated! This week's column: a caution about looking for writing jobs on Craigslist.

Thanks to everyone who dropped by Allison's and Jodi's virtual party. It was quite the bash...hey, even my sister showed up at the end, with homemade desserts from my nieces! I had to highlight that news because Ruth very, VERY rarely posts anything online. :-) Anyway, Jodi, Allison and I are getting together tomorrow.

Thanks again to David Barker for recommending the W3Schools CSS Tutorial. I'm learning a ton by just fiddling around with the "Try-It-Yourself" examples on that site. My next major site revamp project is going to be my sister's site...wish us both luck!

Novel revisions are going well. I've cut about 2000 words from the first third of the book so far and am tightening up my prose. Because I'm also very excited about my next book project, I'm also continuing to work on background and plot notes for that so I can leap back into the fray when my revisions are done. I've given up on SuperNoteCard, at least until I can figure out what went wrong...the program crashed on me while I was working on my most recent article for Writer's Digest (the day before it was due, in fact), including backup files, and I had to recreate my notes from scratch. I was not a happy camper. I'm using TextMate to organize my notes instead. I'm all for reliable plain text instead of crash-y bells and whistles right now.

Jeff came home pretty happy last night; he and Doug Gardner enjoyed hanging out with Inside The Net's Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte as well as Merlin Mann of 43 Folders, at an Inside The Net Meet-up. You can see a photo here (Jeff is third from the right, Doug is next to Leo).


Recent reads (I've left this for so long that I'm only going to list the most recent two, sorry), both novels for young people:

Enna Burning by Shannon Hale. Excellent sequel to The Goose Girl, which I also recommend, and not just because of the gorgeous cover art by Alison Jay. The next book in the series, River of Secrets, appears to be only available in hardcover so far.

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel. The book blurb didn't do anything for me...it really didn't sound like the kind of story I'd usually enjoy. BUT I enjoyed Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing, and The Flying Dragon Bookstore had a glowing mini-review displayed in front of the book, so I decided to take a chance. Very glad I did. I loved the book...it was the kind that I kept reading waaaay too late one night because I was unable to stop.

Livejournal comments