• If Your Blog Dies, It’s Your Own Fault, Not Ours

    I failed to write anything yesterday. In my mind, I came up with several ideas, and even some opening sentences. The problem is, in my perverse pursuit of perfection, I wordsmithed them to the point of useless drivel. Call it writer’s block if you want; I call it fatigue and frustration. When I started this…


  • Just a Little CSS Magic

    As I explored all the “Dashboard” features for this blog, one of the things I noticed was the “Custom Design” upgrade. This paid option includes a custom domain name, which I was already considering. It also provides easy theme customization with fonts from Typekit and the ability to change the CSS to exercise even greater…


  • My very own domain!

    I took the big web plunge just a while ago. I registered this blog with its own domain. It is now http://www.writesomethingtoday.com. Don’t I feel special!


  • Two Things and a Jelly Ball

    Two things happened; no, three. My wife gave me a Kindle for Christmas. I downloaded some free books. The next day I downloaded some more. The next day eight more, the next day ten more, and twelve more and eight more and the Kindle grew fat on free downloaded books and grew and grew and…


  • The Daily Post at WordPress.com | Post something every day

    This is the basic information about the Post a Day and Post a Week campaign for 2012. I pressed it here as a reminder of something I started yesterday and hope to continue. We apologize that these weren’t available sooner. As for tagging your posts, we’re going to keep it simple this year, so please…


  • Write Something Today (A first post)

    Maybe you’re a little like me; you’ve been curious about blogging – maybe even thought you might try your hand at it one day. Maybe you fancy yourself a writer or an author or a storyteller or a journalist or a novelist or a bard. Maybe you’re a bit more like me; you’re too busy…