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Sd’s Sister Sites for the Future

What I’ve been working on:

  1. Move the Sherlock Holmes stuff to its own blog so I can focus it appropriately. I have material planned, but not all of it is writerly type stuff.
  2. Move my Fiction off to its own blog so I can focus it appropriately, and I can feel better about updating it without drowning out the writing technique “signal” on Sd.
  3. Do quite a lot of more fine-grained re-categorization of the remaining Sd material.
  4. “Life” stuff will remain, in its own little category while the writing category diversifies.
  5. If Reviews or Blogging really start to break the “it’s about writing” focus (and they already sort of do, a bit), I will start looking for places to guest-post or submit those particular articles.
  6. As a result of the above, I should be able to refocus Spontaneous Derivation as a writer’s resource.

When all the shaking gets done… which won’t be for a couple weeks… I hope to get each site focused like a laser. That means more article series like Writing on the Stage, more resource articles like 6 Word Meters and Trackers for the Word-Count Obsessed, and more one-offs like Writing and the Mysterious, Nebulous, Fickle Audience.

And lowering the noise ratio by a LOT.

Getting Back on Track with Spontaneous Derivation


Photography: Kevin Collins

After the switch to Wordpress and another domain—which necessitated doing some magic for my Blogger blog and re-inventing my blog template in Wordpress and finding all the necessary Wordpress plugins to feel at home—I’m finally going to be back on schedule for posting everyday.

And since I now have separate areas to play with, posting everyday will probably not inundate any one particular category and thus reduce article turnover (as long as I don’t post too often in any single category. Like this one, heh).

I’m glad to be back to writing rather than hacking my blog.

Introducing Area-Specific Derivations! (And a Wordpress Move)


Photography: that kat chick

I finally moved to Wordpress, which was much painful, and got some hosting at EsoSoft–the same guys who host Smart Bitches, Trashy Books of recent “justified and amusing tearing apart of Cassie Edwards” fame.

(EsoSoft are very nice folks and got me set up in less than a day. With Wordpress installed with the trimmings.)

What does this mean for you?

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