JR: Interview with Chuck Palahniuk - Fiction Writing Advice - (my blog post from Tuesday, November 19, 2002) In the Onion: "For each character, I try to identify a body of knowledge. What is it that that character knows so well that it colors how they see the rest of the world? So I'll do a bunch of researc... more>>
- Jul 18, 2014 - #writing #author #howto

JR: Writing-related links - June 2014 - QA with the Authors of Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose #writing - #blogging - #cms - #media
- Jun 24, 2014

JR: Examples of nicely formatted Medium.com stories - Collections: https://medium.com/inside-matter https://medium.com/matter https://medium.com/beautiful-stories https://medium.com/stories-worth-seeing https://medium.com/ux-ui-design https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1 Stories Seeking A... more>>
- Apr 05, 2014 - #blogging #medium #writing #design #media

JR: This is a line of text that gets automatically made into a title. the text to the first newline is the title. if the text exceeds X-number of characte - rs, then the title is made from a substring. responding to: what if i change my code for blog/article posts where a title only gets created if either the Textile or Markdown/MultiMarkdown heading-one syntax is used? but what about RSS feeds?... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 12, 2014 - #juncotodo #blogging #writing #design

JR: Crafting an online media story - PolicyMic doesnt sound like a news website that could work. It peddles news and opinion pieces on serious topics, like North Carolinas voter ID laws, anti-gay policy in Russia, or Republican opposition to immigration reform all targeted at Millennia... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #media #writing #design #blog_jr

JR: Boost Your Productivity With Hemingway’s Hack - To my surprise, none of these lists mentions an easy to grasp rule Ernest Hemingway applied to his writing process. His hack is perhaps too nonconformist to be part of the "getting things done" gospel. The winner of the 1954 Nobel prize in Literatur... more>> 2 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #writing #gtd #creativity #productivity #blog_jr

JR: Another user's view on Medium.com - Certainly different and a bit humorous. Nov 25, 2013 - Im Already Tired of Medium - "I came here to write and think, not to be told what to do." Though the sites tagline is attractive and reassuring (A better place to read and write), its unf... more>> 1 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #medium #blogging #writing #howto #blog_jr

JR: Wikipedia on mobile - Wikipedia, the worlds fifth-largest website, but one with a relatively minuscule operating budget, has been especially slow to adapt to a mobile world. Only 20 percent of the readership of the English-language Wikipedia comes via mobile devices, a f... more>> 3 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #wiki #mobile #writing #notes #app #blog_jr

JR: Reading longform on phones - Jan 21, 2014 - The Atlantic - Sit Back, Relax, and Read That Long Storyon Your Phone Interesting data about users reading long articles on phones. More than 50 percent of Buzzfeed's traffic comes from mobile visits. And that includes stories th... more>> 4 min read
- Mar 03, 2014 - #media #writing #longform #mobile #blog_jr

JR: Day One Journaling App Info - https://dayone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200265094-Markdown-Guide https://dayone.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200265094-Markdown-Guide #blogging - #writing - #notes - #app - #mobile
- Mar 03, 2014

JR: Proposed Ghost blogging platform - Idea proposed in the fall of 2012. Development began in 2013. First release expected in summer or fall of 2013. A lot of nerd hype. Concept, however, contains interesting ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4743245 http... more>> 6 min read
- Feb 13, 2014 - #blogging #writing #design #ghost #blog_jr

JR: Parallax Web Design - #design - #css - #longform - #media - #writing - #blogging
- Dec 20, 2013

JR: GitHub system for writers - People discussing a collaborative, version control system for writing projects and non-programmers. Some fascinating ideas and user experiences exist in these posts. Good ideas. It's an interesting area of software development that includes the Web ... more>> 31 min read
- Oct 27, 2013 - #writing #github #collaboration #blog_jr

JR: Winter Bird Atlas Writing Guidelines - Capitalize the English (common) names of birds, other animals, and plants when they refer to a particular species, based on a recognized source. For example, Eastern White Oak tree would be capitalized, but oak tree would not; Red-eyed Vireo would be... more>> 2 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #writing #nature #birds #books

JR: Story ideas and other tips for authors - August 2013 https://medium.com/editors-picks/60ad7174718d "Joshua is also one half of Epic Magazine, a new publishing start-up that is collaborating with Medium. We asked him about his writing." From Joshua: A lot of the distribution platforms ... more>> 1 min read
- Oct 08, 2013 - #writing #author #gtd #howto #blogging #blog_jr