Tag Archives: Writing

Some Thoughts on Blogging: Original Content, Linking, Engaging

[fr]Quelques réflexions sur l’enseignement de l’art du blog.[en]I like teaching people about blogging. Right now I have nearly 100 students who are learning to blog, with varying enthusiasm and success. Teaching blogging makes me realize that this mode of expression … Continue reading

Posted in Blogging, My work | Tagged blogs, content, content creation, debate, engagement, hypertext, linking, Links, Writing | 4 Comments

Second “Back to Blogging” Challenge

[fr]Un court article par jour pendant 10 jours, histoire de reprendre le rythme et de se souvenir qu’écrire un article sur un blog, ça peut être vite fait.[en]Do you have a blog? Have you been really bad about blogging of … Continue reading

Posted in Blogging | Tagged back2blog, challenge, Writing | 69 Comments

Urges

[fr]Un vieux texte ressorti des brouillons.[en]A draft dating back from March 2010. Probably inspired by a dream. Loud rhythmic music started drifting in the air, and the crowd on the festival river boats slowly went quiet. People stood up and … Continue reading

Posted in Creative | Tagged dream, fear, Music, water, Writing | Leave a comment

Help Stop Comma Abuse!

Yes, there are some rules for commas. Some are strict, some aren’t. Some are debated (the Oxford comma), some aren’t. And some commas are just a question of style. I’d like to draw your attention on a comma issue which … Continue reading

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Bloggers: an Opportunity to Contribute to the paper.li Community Blog

[fr]Paper.li développe son blog communautaire et cherche des contributeurs![en]Bloggers and freelance writers, this is for you! I’m working with paper.li (you know them, right?) and we’re plotting an expansion/development of their community blog. In short, this means: more interviews of … Continue reading

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Blogging Inertia

[fr]Peu d’envie d’écrire (et donc de bloguer). Pas courant pour moi![en]This hasn’t happened to me often before, but I’m going through a phase where I don’t feel like blogging at all. Actually, I don’t even feel like writing, which is … Continue reading

Posted in Blogging, Personal | Tagged blogging, tired, Writing | 7 Comments

Sam 1

[fr]Exercice d’écriture: personnage Sam.[en]The adventure begins. She doesn’t know Sam yet. She just knows his name. She’s not sure if she’ll like him or not. She’s afraid of making him too likable, too cliché, too unidimensional. She realizes that if … Continue reading

Posted in Creative | Tagged exercise, fiction, sam, Writing | 5 Comments

Twitter Killed My Blog and Comments Killed Our Links

[fr]Un titre un peu provocateur pour une réflexion que je pourrais résumer ainsi: l’apparition des commentaires sur les blogs a réduit le nombre de liens que les blogueurs faisaient entre eux (et leurs articles), et a distendu la blogosphère. Celle-ci … Continue reading

Posted in Blogging | Tagged backtype, blogging, blogosphère, blogs, coComment, comments, disqus, evolution, facebook, permalinks, twitter, Writing | 8 Comments

Writing: Source of Income or Marketing Budget?

[fr]Ecrire pour gagner de l’argent (en tous cas en tant qu’indépendant) ça ne rapporte pas des masses. Par contre, écrire est un formidable moyen de promouvoir ce qu’on fait (indirectement). Je propose donc de considérer l’écriture comme “budget marketing” plutôt … Continue reading

Posted in Being the boss, Blogging, My work, On Writing | Tagged blogging, earning, marketing, money, Writing | 3 Comments

About my Writing

[fr]Mon écriture souffre généralement de trop de parenthèses, de tirets, de phrases trop longues et… de mots, simplement. Ça m’ennuie mais j’avoue que je suis paresseuse lorsque j’écris: pas de relecture, pas de réécriture, j’écris et je publie, voilà c’est … Continue reading

Posted in On Writing | Tagged dashes, digression, parentheses, sentences, Writing | 3 Comments