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Procrastination Destination
Housework would never get done if it weren’t for procrastination. It’s amazing how important the organization of the spice cabinet is when I have a writing deadline. But the internet gives me so many, many ways to distract myself from the task at hand.
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Improve Communication With Trees, maps, and theorems by Jean-luc Doumont
Highly powered writers I respect recently recommended the book Trees, maps, and theorems by Dr. Jean-luc Doumont as a set of coherent recommendations for improving communications, and I am happy to report I can now concur, and I look forward to trying to catch one of his talks on his US tour.
As a science/technical writer, I often hope to write the book, the document, the instructions that rescue someone in particular need. Similarly, I often hope that some book or document will save me, have the juju I need to solve a particular problem.
Continue ReadingFlexJobs: Putting the Power of Employment at Your Fingertips
Many moms chose to work from home to help pay the bills while remaining flexible for their families. FlexJobs.com is a great resource for matching freelancers up with prospective clients.
Continue ReadingMy First 200 Posts and Here’s to 200 More!
Today’s post marks my 201st post to go live on GeekMom! I’ve had some amazing experiences and opportunities to write about everything I’m passionate about from comics to products to life experiences. I’ve also had the chance to interview celebrities and alike.
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms Podcast #23 Breaking Into Comics
Listen in as Corrina talks about how she got a chance to write a comic and the creative processed that followed. You’ll also learn how you, too, can write your own comic, and cross that item off your geeky bucket list.
Continue ReadingFrom NaNoWriMo to Sold
I first heard about National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo in 2007, halfway through November. This is where millions of people, all over the world, attempt to each write 50k in the month of November. I attempted to join it, and was actually working on something that month, but I couldn’t figure out their word count […]
Continue ReadingRe-Entering the Job Market
I talked about being a stay at home mom in my last post, but I’m preparing to re-enter the job market. The thought of working outside the home is a rather terrifying thought to me. I’ve been in school for the last two years and I’m due to graduate with a degree in Medical Office […]
Continue ReadingCursive Writing: A Nod To The Past
How many people actually write letters anymore? Letter writing along with cursive script is going the way of the dinosaurs if it is not extinct already. With so many alternative and quicker ways to communicate, what is the point of writing something down with a pen on paper? Fellow GeekMom Kathy questioned teaching “script” to […]
Continue ReadingChildren: Natural Born Storytellers
Anyone who has ever watched children play knows they are not merely building with blocks, squishing clay, or coloring with crayons. They are telling themselves a story the whole time, building a world and creating characters as they “play”. Because of that natural born love of a good story, it often doesn’t take much to […]
Continue ReadingCreating a Steampunk World is Not as Easy as It Might Seem
I first heard “steampunk” used in connection with William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine, which was published in 1990. At the time, I thought adding tech to the Victorian Age was a fascinating idea but I was much more interested in reading space-based science fiction and gave it a pass. I didn’t think much about steampunk […]
Continue ReadingKenn Amdahl Makes Learning Fun
Educational reference materials don’t have to be dry and boring. There are ways to teach important topics to children (and adults) in ways that are interesting and entertaining, but most textbooks don’t lay out their material this way; we often must turn to supplemental resources for this kind of teaching. One author, Kenn Amdahl, has […]
Continue ReadingTips for Using Your New Kindle
I noticed from Facebook and Twitter posts over the last week that a lot of my friends got Kindles for Christmas. And so naturally, they were all looking to the veteran owners for what to do with them. Here’s what I’ve been telling them–and now you. Lend your books You can lend Kindle books you’ve […]
Continue ReadingWolverine’s Claws in my Heart
This week I watched the first X-Men movie with my son. My husband declined, saying he hadn’t been that impressed with the plot when we saw it in the theater. He was right. The movie is more about introducing the world and characters. I loved it. I remember walking out of the theater with my […]
Continue ReadingFigment.com Helps Young Writers Find Their Tribe
An interview with Jacob Lewis, Co-founder of Figment.com. Back in the early ’90’s my dad gave me my first computer–one he’d built himself but subsequently outgrown. At the time I was a freshly-minted military wife. I’d gotten married just a year out of college and within two years I’d lived in three different states: Central […]
Continue ReadingReview: Wordtoons Turn Words Into Cartoons
Invented by New Zealand cartoonist Wayne Logue, Wordtoons show kids how to turn a simple written word into a cartoon depicting that word. With the addition of just a few pencil lines,”dog” for instance, is transformed into a cartoon of a dog. Step by step instructions teach kids to turn words like robot, fruit, city, […]
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