Daily Archives: October 24, 2007

Writing, Writing Contests

A Contest, Won!

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To be honest, I’d forgotten that I’d entered the WritersWeekly Fall 2007 Short Story Contest.  I’d entered as a lark, a way to spend a weekend in solidarity with my friend Ray Solberg and her friend John Goodrich.  It was fun, but I thought my story, "In the Living Room, a Painting", was rather weak despite claims from many of my writer buddies that it was quite good and captured well that combination of horror and humor at which I’m apparently very talented.

So it came as a surprise to me when I received an email today informing me that my story had tied for third place in the contest!  Forget the prizes (well, I’ll happily take the check!).  It’s exciting just to have won a contest for my writing.

The winning story has been published on the WritersWeekly website, here, and is also available on my personal website, here.

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Just a Day in My Life

Integration Madness!

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Thanks to my friend Katster, I’ve located a WordPress plugin to integrate my blog with Twitter.  Because, you know, that’s what you all want me to do.  The only issue I’m having is a wee problem with the Twitter Tools plugin finding the table in my database where my category names are kept.  For some reason, it just can’t find it, so my daily tweets are put in a category called "1" instead of where they should go.

The tool I’m most interested in trying out right now, though, is Tumblr.  Looks like a place where you can generate all of your various feeds and what not into one single place.  I’ve seen a couple of people who simply use their Tubmlr feed as the source for their main blog.  We’ll see if this works out.

I guess I ought to do some actual work while I’m here in the office, too, oughtn’t I?

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