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The right 1000 words.

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I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but I'm starting to think the words are getting short-changed.

Pictures are little more than height and width and implied depth. The right 1000 words can inspire tastes and smells and pull things from our memory that are so strong.

I was looking at a photo ID of someone recently and though the photo looked like the person, it also did not. It said nothing about the sparkle in the eye or the twitch of the mouth in full grin. It didn't capture the furrowed brow in a moment of thought. There was nothing in the ID but a pattern on a flat surface.

I should begin to practice finding that right 1000 words.

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Teaser Chapter

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I convinced my writer friend (the same one I mentioned here) to put a teaser chapter of his Deadwood novel online.

He did so.

Here it is. He's good. (Too bad about the use of Comic Sans, though.)

Two Up on a Dead Bandit's Mule Chpt001 - Upload a Document to Scribd

Read this document on Scribd: Two Up on a Dead Bandit's Mule Chpt001

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After two months, I'm back.

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I'm going to writers' group today. I haven't been there for a while, and I don't know that I'll keep going every meeting (gas is expensive and it's a long drive). However, a friend decided to try out a meeting and I thought it would be good for me to get back into the loop.

It's going to be strange; our group has significantly changed since I was last there.

I don't have a lot of writing to bring, though, with all the blogging I do, it's not as if I don't write regularly. However, I did come up with a little something that I thought I would share with the group. It's a very basic listing of web sites they might find useful as writers. You can see the page I'll be passing around here (PDF).

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As the crow flies.

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One of my artist friends, of Prairie Oaks Artisans, informed me of a little project she's got going that has me intrigued:

Details:

1. A limited edition hand bound book called Three Poems on Three Crows.

2. It will feature more than three poems and a few black and white images of one or more crows, so the title is not literal.

3. If you would like to share a poem or a drawing, it will considered for the book. The poem should not be terribly long and the drawing should be something that can be scanned and printed out, as the pages will be printed by computer.

4. You will get a hand bound copy of the book for yourself. The edition of 50 will be sold. Your copy will be marked as A.P. - and artist's proof. You will not be reimbursed monetarily; the copy of the book will be yours to keep.

5. If you send a poem or drawing be sure to note how you want to be credited if you want something more than just your name. Pseudonyms for the book are fine as long as you let the project leader know your real identity.

6. The deadline is April 20.

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So, writers and artists, get busy eating crow.

If you're interested, email me and I'll get you connected with the project. I hate to post other people's email addresses on my site, so I'll just funnel it through mine for now. Or, use the contact information found on the Prairie Oaks Artisans web site.

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My first Associated Content article.

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My first article...is on beauty: A Guide to Invigorating Your Life with the Color Red

(Yeah, I know...)

Anyway, I talked about Associated Content earlier, and have at last gotten my article available for viewing. At first, I considered selling it outright to AC, but decided to not do that ($4 was about all I'd get), and instead, get paid a wee bit each time someone happens upon it to view it.

Here's my Associated Content profile. If you'd like to subscribe to my Associated Content feed, you can do that by clicking here.

We'll see how this goes. If you have an Associated Content story or bit to share, by all means, use the comments section.

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Writing in advance.

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In my draft section of my blogging account sit many drafts.

Many, many, many drafts.

I really should finish them. They are fine ideas. I just never bothered to finish them. If I were to finish all the drafts I'd started in all my blogs, I'd have an additional 300 posts of content to work with.

Whew!

One reason I don't go back and finish the drafts is because the moment that they were pertinent to whatever I was thinking or doing or desiring to share has long since passed and the topic doesn't seem as pressing anymore. It would behoove me to finish the drafts, ready to go, so that when I found myself stuck or in a dry spell, I at least had material that could be published that was written when I was hot on the topic. To go back and try to resurrect interest for some of the posts is like eating sand.

I've never eaten sand.

Well actually, yes. At the beach. Big waves. Terrible things.

Anyway, back to writing in a timely manner. Check out this post on developing good blog writing habits.

I don't have the ability to write and set them to post automatically. That would be very nice, though it feels a little like cheating. Part of my shtick whilst blogging is that what ends up on this site is fairly fresh, not too moldy, and written/published as close to the moment as possible. I'd like to think it sets me apart from the local newspaper, which arrives a day late and causes me to miss out on all the cultural events that they seem to see fit to announce the day of.

I could, however, start stockpiling some writing for those sandy days.

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Associated Content for freelance writers.

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In the past, I'd occasionally run into a few articles on the Associated Content (AC) web site during random searches for information. I decided to check it out and see what AC really was, in terms of its purpose and how it would be useful to writers.

At first glance, I wondered if it were similar to citizen journalist web sites like Now Public or NewsVine. It doesn't appear to be exactly like that, however, in regards to content. Essentially, AC is a web site for freelance writers to ply their trade and possibly make a little money. AC also accepts video and audio. Though there is obviously news-worthy content (like the citizen journalist sites), there are also informative articles in a similar vein to those that you might find in a topical magazine.

In general, the average article on AC seems to bring in about $5-6. It might not seem like a lot, but if you are a blogger, consider what your average blog post brings in -- nothing. AC has a kind of Google Adsense feel to it in that you also receive money for page views and other various programs. This is likely why, as I touch on in the next paragraph, people write for search engine optimization (SEO), and why there are accusations of key-word mining.

I've seen discussion of both sides on the web, with some people saying it is merely a trick to put out key-word-laden content with some sort of connection to Google, and nothing more. Some have referred to it as little more than a pay-for-blogging site which, essentially, does the same thing: tries to grab Google searches. For supposedly being design for that, if that be the case, I have to admit it doesn't do a great job in as much as the searches I've done on Google. I have only fallen upon a few articles in past searches, nowhere near the amount of a successful "mining" web site. Admittedly, in nearly every unofficial how-to article that talks about promoting your AC content, the idea to load your writing with key words seems to be paramount. That could be just traditional SEO advice given for any writing on the web, however.

I went and set up my own free account just yesterday, and though I don't have anything there quite yet, the setup process was easy. I'm still familiarizing myself with the web site and the methods AC uses to both put out calls for work on certain subjects as well as let people supply material and articles on topics of their own choosing. I'm curious to know if this is just a gimmick or if it works.

UPDATE: The submission process for my first article was easy, but in no way random. There were opportunities for links, bylines, categorization, highlight quotes, etc. All materials are supposedly reviewed, so my article is not available yet. In my account and content areas, however, I see that I can track how each article performs (views, payment, etc.)

Promote your AC content:

Get an Associated Content web widget How to promote your AC writing

Links:

Wikipedia: Associated Content Online Journalism Review: AC middle man for grassroots journalism?
Charges of plagiarism at AC Responding to plagiarism charges Making money writing online Debt Free Goal: Review of AC Hollywood 2020: Review of AC Squidoo page on AC Writer Compensation Programs: Comparing AC to eHow Interview with AC's founder

UPDATE: My first article was accepted for exclusive, up-front payment for around $4. I decided to resubmit and try for performance payments, instead. I may not make as much money off of the article, but the idea (which reminds me of Google Adsense) suggests that there is the possibility there to earn more than the $4. In the AC email that announced the article was accepted for that payment, it said that it could earn more money off of performance payments. I decided to take that option, instead, and see how it would compare in the long run.

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For those who love to write.

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If you like to write, or are even brave enough to consider yourself a writer, then you're at the right place. There are lots of things for writers here at Lone Prairie. Here are a few links to pages and articles that you might find interesting.

Supplies:

Journals from Lone Prairie
All things for writers Art and writing supplies the world over

Ideas:

Articles on writing, and the writing life Writing activities and ideas from writer's group Writing prompts
Lone Prairie Sometimer writing activities Unblock your creativity (a free worksheet!) Tools for writers: prompts, web sites, and more Contests

Publishing:

Get help with your self-published book (cover, layout, etc.) Forewarned is a good thing

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Close your year write.

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New Year's Resolutions never appealed to me. They seemed arrogant, as if, by trying to water-witch the upcoming year, I could determine, on the first day, the changes I needed to make in my life for the 364 days that were about to happen. How should I know what the new year will require of me, and what changes I need to make now to be ready for that?

I suppose the general idea is to look at the previous year and see what changes you need to make. The New Year's marker is really just random. Personally, I find more success and less pressure on making life changes if I do them throughout the year, not associating them with any holiday, special moment, or life marker. Just randomly, maybe on a Sunday in May, think "today, I need to start stretching and exercising a bit more."

Starting a new year with a list of massive life changes is a horrible way to go. Change is hard. One thing at a time, spaced throughout the year so that the change becomes normal before adding another change, is much more realistic and doesn't leave me, at least, feeling like a failure when some changes don't take right away. Since there was no major moment when I deemed it necessary to establish this change, I don't catch myself thinking "oh well, I'll try again next year" but instead, I think "well, I guess I'll give it a try tomorrow."

I do think, however, that reflecting on the year that has just passed is of utmost importance. Perhaps our focus on the new year is just another example of people wanting to toss away the old (and possibly painful or disappointing) and rest in the hope of something new. That old year, though, has a way of affecting the new, and I had better learn from it.

So, for those of you who can relate to my way of thinking about the new and old year, and for those of you interested in writing, I have a couple of ideas for you.

I recently read in a book about a writing assignment that an adult education teacher gave her class. Essentially, she had them write about themselves, but the essence of the assignment was: I am. I found that particularly intriguing. It wasn't a listing of events, family, abilities, or what I wasn't. Instead, a simple statement of being, a bold question: I am.

Who am I?

From my burgeoning collection of blank journals, I selected one and have inked inside the cover: I am. I may not fill up the journal this year. Perhaps I'll do this again at the close of 2008. Perhaps I'll keep this journal as a yearly collection of who I believed I was, starting at age 33.

If such an assignment is not to your liking, I am also intrigued by the Six-Word Memoir Contest, and how I could take that idea -- brief, succinct, summation -- and look at my life or the past year. A friend had emailed me the link to the Memoir Contest, and my first thought was one of relief at the sever reduction in word count. Too often memoirs become bloated and filled with writing about the lives around us in an effort to not address the idea of "I am." Six words doesn't allow for a lot of writerly dilly-dallying.

"I hope I can be clever," I emailed my friend back, both in response and as a possible memoir of mine.

So, for the ending of 2007, for those so inclined towards writing, two possible ways to end your year "write."

"I Am"

I handled this assignment by breaking up my writing so that each paragraph started with an "I am" statement, followed by concise sentences that fleshed it out. For example, I have for one of the statements: "I am happier with fewer voices in my life." It sounds like I'm not writing about myself, but in the rest of the paragraph, I try to determine why this is, and what it is about me that makes it true. Another statement I've written is "I am unable to walk away." (Which could also fit for the six-word memoir project below.) I'd encourage you to keep a specific journal for this project, and do it again at the close of the years ahead. I have a feeling I'm going to learn an awful lot about myself as I read who I thought I was each year. You could also write this as a more typical memoir, as long as it remains about truly discovering the answer to the statement of "I am" instead of writing about those around you. They aren't you; don't let them define or determine who you are. Write about the "I am."

Six-Word Memoir

Either write one, or a short series, of six-word summations. Check out this website for ideas on how other people handled it. Think of other ways to apply the six-word limitation in thinking about your year. For example, six words to describe your professional life. Six words to talk about your relationships. Six words for your family. See what starts to transpire, and jot them all down. Do you see a pattern? Are you leaning towards humor, negativity, or writing it straight?

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Non-readers, non-writers, and professional book handlers.

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I once found myself cracking the binding and dog-earing three pages of a very boring book. I'd never read the book, mind you. It had been a gift that had cruelly sat on my shelf for a long time. The gift-giver's visit caused me to rush about and make the book appear read. I also read the last pages of a few chapters. Just in case I was quizzed.

I asked a friend on LibraryThing if he'd read all the books he had listed.

"Most of them."

I was immediately shamed. I have many books I've not read yet, though that doesn't stop me from buying new books.

I'm not an entirely horrible creature. There are books that have been sitting on my shelf or bedside for ages that suddenly, I latch onto and can't put down. Some books I try repeatedly to get through before giving up and chalking it up to what I call the "reader's manifesto syndrome." Life's far too short to torture myself with the writing of another if I can't bring myself to enjoy it.

Sooner or later, though, the majority of my books will get read. Or made to look like they were.

All that said, then, it is with great interest that I read the following three blog posts by Alex Massie:

The bluffer's guide to not reading. The greatest non-reader of them all. Not writing is the new not reading.

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A kind of book depository where no one will get shot.

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Tacky title. Sorry.

But, Scribd is kind of a depository. A document depository. And I signed up for a free account, because that's what I do. [my Scribd profile]

So far, the only documents I have available are PDF's from the projects and such already on my Lone Prairie School blog. I doubt that I would put documents on Scribd that I don't also include elsewhere on my site. However, since most people don't read every blog or go through every page on this site, Scribd will be a great way to have access to all of the documents I make available for free.

I like the idea of people sharing the documents they have on their computer, though, I suppose, I'm a little Utopian in thinking that such documents are all going to be interesting. I was thinking of other possible uses, beyond the ones Scribd lists. Top of my mind, right now, is NaNoWriMo. Scribd could be a great way to provide long excerpts if you didn't want to end up with a huge number of long blog posts.

I've already used Google Docs (an absolute favorite of mine that I'm finding I use nearly every day) to publish information such as meeting minutes or meeting summaries that need to be read by multiple parties. I simply send them the link, the click it, and it matters not what kind of computer or security settings or software they have at their disposal; the link takes them to a fine, easily read and printed page on the internet.

I suspect that Scribd could be used in a similar manner for sites that are continually uploading PDF files and then manually linking them, but perhaps for more complex documents. For example, on the NRN-ND site that I manage, we have a document section with things like forms and applications. I link to the documents back here, which I manually uploaded and stored on this site, since I don't have the storage I'll eventually need for the free WordPress account. Scribd could be a handy solution for this, and save me some bandwidth issues on LonePrairie.net.

I'm rambling a bit. I am easily enthralled by the services available on the web for free, particularly when they seem to dovetail nicely into current needs for projects I'm involved in.

If you have a Scribd account, or an opinion on the service or how it could be used/abused, please leave a link or discussion in the comments section of this post. I would love to get some links and have a look at what's out there. If you're a writer, in particular, I'd like to hear your thoughts on such services as Google Docs and Scribd. I'd also like to know of other web sites that offer similar services in regards to documents and tools that would be handy for writers or people with information to publish.

Find out more about Scribd here.

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Wheat Porn.

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::As if you thought I wouldn't do it; you knew I would as soon as I mentioned it.::

Dirty Wheat
by Julie R. Neidlinger

The filthy wheat waved in the wind,
Slender and willowy,
Lasciviously beckoning the huge huge combine.
The heavily bea--

(Time out here. I just thought of something that would be perfect to include in this agrarian double-entendre, but I just can't bring myself to show anyone else those workings of my mind.)

...and willowy,
Lasciviously beckoning the huge huge combine
Except for the stalks, broken, hailed on, pounded down,
Lying supine.

(Having some trouble with the rhythm.)

Flushed cheeks on each kernel,
The crease narrow between two rounded--

(What was I thinking? I'm making myself blush at my own pen. About wheat.)

Flushed cheeks on each kernel

Flushed cheeks on each kernel

Flushed cheeks on eac--

(Kernel doesn't rhyme with many useful words.)

The flushed cheeks on the farmer
From too much sun

(I wonder if I should denote that it is the facial cheeks I'm talking about? I think that would be a given considering we're talking a farmer here, and no farmer tan in the world would reveal any other cheeks, though this be a poem of double entendre.)

As he gently brushed his hands over the
over the
over the

(I can't go on. This is too much.)

Nine dollars a bushel is a good price.

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Whispering wheat.

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A few years back, the writer's group I'm a part of (Lake Region Writer's Group) put out an anthology. We invited writers from across the state to submit up to three pieces on the topic of winter. Another woman and I were the ones who came up with the idea and sort of did all the work on the book. The end product didn't reveal the process, which is to say the book looks very fine and the process was not. When you put out a call for up to three pieces of writing from North Dakota writers on the topic of "winter", you're going to get bombarded with:

Four or more pieces, sans explanation, with the obvious intent being that either all make it in and we'll be forgiving of the rules, or that we'll just pick the best three out of the last ten year's worth of work instead of the writer being his or her own editor. Writing that has little or nothing to do with winter except a casual insertion of something like "hell freezes over", as if that would qualify it. Some really bad writing. Instructions on how and where to send the check to pay the writer for their submission. And so on.

It was a very frustrating experience. Some of the submissions were not so good, including my own. That is why I said I would not be involved in heading up such a project again.

It is nice, then, that another writing group is working on an anthology, though they are not opening it up to the entire state. However, not being involved in the inner workings of the project sounds lovely, and so I found myself, at the meeting this past Saturday, contemplating possible things to write.

Let's see. The title of the book is going to be 'Whisperings from the Wheat' or something like that, I thought. "So...we can write anything, basically, that has to do with this title?" I asked the group aloud. I'd missed a few meetings and hadn't been in on all of the discussion of this project.

"Yes, pretty much anything on harvest, in a broad context. Except porn, of course," was the reply.

Could porn and harvest really be a viable mix? Then I remembered some of the stories we got for the winter anthology, bizarre ones on older people in the "winter" of their life and how to have more vibrant...uh...lives. I suppose it could feasibly be a problem.

"If I wrote a story called 'Wheat Porn', would they accept it?" I asked. I always want to cause some trouble whenever I can. I was envisioning lascivious descriptions of "busty kernels" and "long, shapely stems" and "flexible wheat grass."

I also considered humorous poems or stories with the following titles: The Deaf Farmer; The Drunken Farmer; Wheat Weaving; With or Without Beards; The Prices Are in the Toilet Again; and John Deere Sucks.

The deadline is approaching. I don't know if I'll ever get anything submitted. If, however, you hear of Wheat Porn floating about on the internet, you probably know who wrote it.

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The secret formula.

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My friend Corrine has a secret writer's formula.

Except it's no longer secret.

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Useful tools for writers.

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::Every once in a while I go on a link-collecting mission to see what useful stuff is out there. Here are tools for writers that I think you'll like.::

Stuff I use:

Google Documents: Google's online word processing (and spread sheet, if you're so inclined) is extremely handy. I use it often, writing up short stories, essays, blog post drafts, and other ideas. It's safe, secure, works just like regular word processing software, but the nice thing is that no matter where you are, if you can get to an internet connection, you can access your files. No jump drives, portable drives, disks, etc. It's right there when you need it. Because it's a Google product, you can integrate it with your free Google account, making login easy and convenient. Yeah Write: A kind of goofy little bit of software I use for writing letters, journals, etc. It's a very different set-up from a typical word processor in that you fill in data blanks and the software takes care of the formatting.

Writing prompts:

CreativeWritingPrompts.com Writers' Digest writing prompts
WritingFix: Daily writing prompts Prompt generator: Meant for kids in school, but kind of fun. Creativity Portal: Prompt generator

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Using spam for your writerly benefit.

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I was talking with a friend of mine a year or so ago, and mentioned an idea I had about using spam email as an element in a writing project. She came up with the clever idea of writing a story where the main character would have the luck (both good and bad) of having all the email in her inbox be true and not scams. I often find myself using the fake names that come with spam email as the names of characters in my stories.

Spam email, I've come to believe, is a writer's gold mine. I've decided to give you some ideas on how to make your spam-filled inbox your writing prompt and muse:

A character who magically finds that all the spam, for her, is TRUE. (obviously just mentioned above)
Spam haiku: create hilarious haiku poems out of spam subject headers.
Spam poetry: similar to spam haiku, but without the 5-7-5 limitations. Again, lots of hilarious possibilities.
A story or chunk of dialogue where spam is used. Either the subject header, or some of those crazy large paragraphs where the spammer has evidently copied and pasted from fiction and non-fictional sources to create bizarrely bad and incoherent writing that seems to want to read true.

Any other ideas? I'll add more to this post as I think of them, but if you come up with some, be sure to post it in the comments section. And feel free to post any spam haiku or poems you create.

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The way to destroy a professional veneer.

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The hot post of the moment is still hot. It even caused me to turn comment moderation on for this blog, which it hadn't had before. In fact, I even saved a copy of the page in case any of those who left comments get some sense in their heads and come back to delete.

What in the world possesses supposedly professional writers and publishers to act like a bunch of monkeys on a dung heap?

We have writers who can't write/spell/use paragraphs. We have a publisher insulting writers and daring them to sue him. We have snipers hiding behind anonymity.

Monkeys.

Dung heap.

And, I might point out, very likely newbies. Only a person who hasn't been online much would be foolish enough to leave comments like that on a blog, name attached and all. Just do a Google search on Airleaf Publishing and see what comes up. In just a few days, those who left their names will also bring Google searches here, and therein lies the sad truth: what you write on the web does matter and will be found and it can hurt your professional veneer.

Veneer being the key word.

These people are like monkeys on a dung heap, throwing their outraged writerly crap at each other. I can't say that enough. Unbelievable.

Take your grievances to a less public realm, or handle yourself in a factual, controlled manner. That's my advice for today. That, and do a save a screenshot of web pages which contain material that can come back and haunt someone. You never know when I'll be needing a new car.

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The hot post of the moment. Watch out for Airleaf Publishing.

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