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The Googlization of Faltarego

April 19, 2010 in Internet, Mind, Music, Software, Technology, Writing by faltarego | 3 comments

So, I’m trying to get organized.

This is no mean feat for me. It’s forever been a challenge, and I’m one of those people who always seems to have six zillion things bouncing around in my brain and never enough time to focus on any of them.

I’ve often thought there was something wrong with me, because I never seemed to be able to focus on any one thing. My interests are many and varied, and I’ve just never managed to narrow things down to my One True Passion™. Writing has always been there, but so have music, videography, web design/programming, and a whole host of other stuff, mostly creative, partly creative with a technical bent. Again with the “both sides of the brain” thing.

Annoying.

But lately, I’ve been rethinking things. I’ve begun to wonder why on earth I can’t do all the things I want to do. Why can’t I have my cake and eat it too?

It’s just a matter of getting organized. Read the rest of this entry »

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Write or Die!

October 2, 2009 in Blogging, Internet, Writing by faltarego | 1 comment

I'm using another new, free writing tool to compose this entry. It's called Write or Die, and it's not a product that you download and install on your computer. It's a writing tool on a website. You just go to the site, tell it how many words you intend to write, how much time you're giving yourself to write them, and how strict the site should be as you type away.

But let me back up a bit, here. This is not a writing tool for the faint of heart. This is a tool for people who seriously want to get some wordage down. It's a nagging tool. It's the closest thing you'll find to a schoolmarm with granny-glasses standing behind you and whacking you with a pointer if you pause too long in your writing.

I'm using this site for the first time today (okay, it's actually the second time, but the first time, a couple of days ago, was a bust, because I was seriously interrupted and had to abort the whole process), so I don't yet know all the ins and outs, but this is basically what happens: Once you've entered your proposed word-count and the time you're allowing yourself (and optionally setting the level of strictness you want brought down upon you), you click the big "Write" button, and off you go! You're taken to a page with nothing on it but a big text-entry field with a countdown timer and a word count at the bottom. Read the rest of this entry »

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WordPress: My Hero

September 4, 2009 in Blogging, Internet, Software, Technology, Writing by faltarego | 1 comment

Free software is a wonderful thing, and I've written about it not only on this blog—with my posts about WriteMonkey, Celtx, and yWriter—but on Asheyna's blog as well, with my guest post about OpenSource. I still marvel at the dedication of the individuals and groups who develop and maintain these tools; they do it because they love it, and they're often able to continue working on their projects because of donations from users.

Today, I'm going to talk about the mother of all free packages for writers: WordPress.

In the miniscule-to-nonexistent likelihood that you are a reader of this blog and somehow don't know what WordPress is, let me tell you. WordPress is a large and elaborate set of PHP scripts that allows a person to very quickly and easily set up a blog website.

If you have your domain name and web hosting service set up, all you need to do is download WordPress to your computer, unpack it, and then upload the uncompressed files to the root directory of your website. After a quick run of an installation script, you can go straight to logging in, tweaking your settings, and writing a blog post. Read the rest of this entry »

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Concerto in “Gee” for Blog and Hurricane

August 23, 2009 in Blogging, Writing by faltarego | 1 comment

As I sit here in the den, typing away in WriteMonkey (which is now my text-entry program of choice), watching the wind and rain of Hurricane Bill begin to build to what I assume will be mighty crescendo later today, I thought I'd take a moment to reflect on this blog, life, the universe, and whatever else happens to wander into my overactive noggin.

After all, what else can one do besides reflect and ruminate when the weather outside is frightful and it's not cold enough for a fire, however delightful (or one doesn't have a fireplace)? No, don't answer that question, because it will derail my train of thought.

So, this is me, pretending to be a mirror, reflecting…

I can't believe I've done three weeks of this blog without missing a day. I did have a little help, from Ganga and Asheyna, who wrote guest posts at just the right time (the heat was getting to me, and I was not in much of a writing mood on either of those days), but still, there's a blog entry every single day since August 2nd.

I'm kind of impressed with myself. Read the rest of this entry »

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