Looking for Spell- and Grammar Checkers and things like that.

Computer Support?

O.K. I probably should edit
the tiny little story I recently wrote,
only currently I don't like to do any Editing or Proofreading.
Since I do know that there are special computer programmes
that can assist in all kind of way's, instead I will look
if there possibly is some kind of online editing support
or something like that...,

After doing some websurfing I discovered that there is indeed
a number of Online Spell- (and Grammar) Checkers,
it's even possible to offer it as a service myself on this website.
Only that looks somewhat complicated (and costly) to implement
especially when you want to run it from your own server.

All possibly interesting things only not for now...,



Developing Proofreading Skills

It probably can't hurt to develope some more Proofreading skills
Recently I helped checking somebody elses (letter) writing,
and I do think that I really did help to make it
very sharp and clear.

'So possibly it's not that I can't Proofread,
only that I am not so good at proofreading my own stuff'.

A Fresh Look

Years ago when I worked at a Big Record Company I checked
the writing of a collegue and he checked my writing before
we faxed it to all the Music Retailers. Some how it seems
a lot easier to Proofread other people writing than my own.
So I probably put it a side for a while and look at it some
other time and look at it with a Fresh Look.

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Welcome Readers! Thank You, Thank You, You Are a Fantastic Audience!

In my previous post I wrote a tiny little attempt
of writing a Short Story titled:
Air Traffic Control, What's Out There
And just as a Starting Pop Artist that starts performing
on a small stage,

'The Crowd Went Wild...!!!'

Well, possibly 'wild', only not yet that
much from enthusiasm for the Short Stories.

So the response to the Short Stories isn't yet
that impressive, the amount of visitors to this
blog is,

Some of you even do write
Comments & Replies on blogposts.



Expressing Phase (EP)

Since in my 'Expressing Phase' - to be able
to keep in the 'Flow' - I wasn't really looking
at the spelling,

So I run it through a spellchecker and there
are a lot more spelling errors than I expected. Anyhow now
Air Traffic Control, What's Out There
at least has been spellchecked.


Publishing Phase (PP)

4) Next Step is
to do some more editing...,

'And oh no you got to be kidding,
also spell check this new Post...?'

O.K. I do think that I will need an Office Manager soon...!!!
Or just speak my ideas into a Memo Recorder and send it to a
Transcription Service like for example www.mt-stat.com although
that looks like a somewhat expensive way,

'Btw anybody out there that has any experience
with using such services for their writing...???'

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Air Traffic Control, What's Out There?

O.K. here is an experiment of a Short Story in the making.

(below the story you can find 'The Making Off'.)

Actually it might still be a little to Short
for a Short Story it's just the 'Raw Diamond'
or piece of Coal or whatever you want to call it....,

Anyway, here it is, it's titled:



Air Traffic Control,
What's Out There?


The Red sports car came around the corner with great speed,
people walking on the side walk - blinded by the sun reflecting
in the windshield - nearly had time enough to jump away to escape.
Than with the tires making a high pitched sound the car came
to a sudden stop while making a terrible screeching noise
crashing against the ladder I was standing on.

Than in a flash I looked at the ladder under me that was
launching me through the air like a rocket in a direction
that I didn't yet know. I was flying in the air and like
a cat that can turn himself around in the air when falling
to be able to make a perfect landing, I was trying to do
something similar. The speed that I was falling with was
making me notice how the wind was blowing against my skin,
making me feel like a fighter plane pilot that just
ejected from his plane. I was wondering about what advice
birds could give me in this situation, 'flapping my wings?'
that didn't seem to be working for me that well. Lets think,
lets think real quick! Oh.., aaaaah..., Yes! I need
to 'Glide' towards that tree!

'O.K. lets - hug - the tree now', 'Ready for impact...!'

How do you ever prepare for something like this, I do
think that I need to rely on my instincts

'YES' 'The Eagle has Landed!'

'NO' 'The Eagle Slides!!!'

'YES!' 'I am hanging in the branches of the tree!'

'Naaaaa' I am falling to the ground with my hands pointing down!
'Huh....?' my hands touch something in mid air! What on earth
is happening? Now with my hands I am leaning on something in
the air, with my feet still hanging in the tree! What just
happened? What am I leaning on? It looks like a UFO, Yes it
must be a UFO, without a shadow of a doubt it really looks
like an UFO! Sure I have been rescued by tiny aliens! no it's
much to small for a UFO, You see it's just a street lantern.
O.K. so far so good, I am standing on my hands with
my feet in the tree, now 'hug' the street lantern,
While grasping for air I just make a swing and Yes,
hanging on the lantern now.

Pffff..., I do think that it's time for just a little rest,
relaxing a little hanging on a street lantern. What shall I
do now, read a newspaper?, already read it this morning,
Stock Markets Dropping, Mmm, don't like the word dropping!
Shall I reach for my cell phone and call somebody? Now some
of the people that where walking on the side walk that where
barely recovered from their own jumping away adventure came
to help. Hanging there with my feet hanging down, my feet felt
something, near the top somewhat halfway the lantern was
a sign that indicated that there was a side walk. When I put
my feet on it, I noticed that I could slide down, now only
hanging halfway the lantern only making it a small jump. At
the same time the people from the 'side walk incident'
came to help me to make a soft landing.



'The Making Off'

To come up with ideas for Short Stories, for finding possible
'writing Prompt' I came up with the idea to read
a Newspaper to look for titles and articles to get a little
inspiration, I read something about the Stock Market falling
down..., and

I just started with writing about what
I wanted to write like this:

I just want to write a compelling Short Story
that people can enjoy reading.

So to be able to do that I think that I need
at least some basic things to aim for to be able to establish
something like that:


So I have thought about some random boundaries:


1) first of all I want to make it somewhat spectacular just
as with James Bond movies, so I will begin with a spectacular
action opening making people wonder 'What is Happening'
and what will come next
Just as I wrote about in
The Secret To Writing Success.

2) than there has to be some sort of time pressure
somebody falling down from a cliff or something like that,
in his way down, (read in the Newspaper about
the Stock Markets dropping.)

3) than I want it to have a surprising ending.

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What Do You Think Makes Reading Short Stories The Most Enjoyable?

When I think about expressing myself through writing, there usually
are so many ideas that come up and fly through my mind
that I don't find it easy to actually do any writing.


What to Focus On?

Also I don't find it easy to Focus on any specific type of writing
to express myself. I even tried my hands on Song Writing
actually writing Lyrics to Music,
and a lot of other types of writing.

Since I also enjoy Photograpy
as you can see on DigitalCamera-Ideas
and since as far as I understand Short Stories usually are more
like a 'Snapshot' of only one specific event or moment,
I was wondering about how I might be able to make use of my power
of observation to possibly focus on writing Compelling Short Stories.

A Tiny Step Towards a Short Story

Or maybe more of a 'Footstep' of a Story...,

Anyway,

I have written some other things that probably look more
as actual Short Stories than this, only currently
I write at my 'Rooftop Office'
and I currently don't have it on this computer I am working on
right now.

So to have atleast something to show, you can find
a tiny little 'Fantasy Story' (or as you can expect
from a writer like me - creating my own Genre - (part fictional,
part reality or reality anticipating) 'Footstep Fantacy' :))
A tiny little Story about a The Writers Lifestyle
and Writers Workspaces that Inspire

You can also have a look at a
Making Off... of
a Short Story.

And you can find some
other ones on the

Short Story Page

(That you can find near
the top of this blog.)


What is Your Experience
with Reading Short Stories?

What do you think makes Short Stories
the most enjoyable to read?

Or What Experiences Do I Need to Create For Readers
to make it the Most Enjoyable to read?

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My Current WorkSpace is a 'Rooftop Office' that is also somewhat 'Outdoors'.

Somehow an old post I did some years ago seems to become somewhat
popular when I look at the Stats, it's a post titled:
Writers Workspaces that Inspire

'So I will elaborate on that a little....,'

O.K. for one thing currently I work on a Laptop with under it
a stack of Books to put it in an 'Upward Position'
Just as I wrote about in a previous post with the 'catchy' title:
How do - You - Get it in an Upward Position...??? (your Laptop)

Having it in an Upward Position is makes that your Monitor will be
in a slightly higher position and you don't constantly have to
look down giving you a pain in the neck. So that is one of the
things that I can tell you about the way I work, for what my
actual Workspaces is concerned, I currenty just work on a big desk
and sitting on a not particularly interesting standard desk chair
with wheels on it. (I also have a 'Outdoor Home Office'
with a Big 'Lean-Back' Chair. That Office is somewhat similar
as the one I discribed in the post
Writers Workspaces that Inspire)

One of my currently Writers Workspaces, is a pointy 'Rooftop Office'
that also makes it posible to instantly give it a somewhat 'Outdoors' appearance
by opening a few (Skylight) Windows. Being able
to have fresh air blow through the Whole Workspace
that way.

So for my Coffee Breaks I direcly will have a little excersise with using the stairs.

Btw talking about Fresh Air what do you think
about having done an actual New Fresh Blogpost...???

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Writing Book Reviews.

Frequent visitors to this Blog might already know about
the hpshappybooks.blogspot.com where once in a while I write
a Book Review when I hear my Sister
or somebody else talk about a Book they are Enthousiastic
about or when I myself suddenly am Inspired to write
a Review for a Book.

Although I usually don't read that many fictional books,
that's why I also have a special
homebusinessbook-ideas.blogspot.com where I write (Home Business) Book Reviews
about interesting (Non-Fiction) Home Business Books.

Anyway,

You probably will get an idea what this post
is heading to, Yes it's about
(Making Money with) Writing Book Reviews.

It goes without saying that you can have a look at my clumsy
attempts of writing Book Reviews, or you could have a look
at the sites here below to have a look at some
of Book Review Sites:

Bloggingads.com

Blogvertise.com

SponsoredReviews

Smorty.com

When you work, or have worked with any of those sites
I would appriciate when you share your experience with the readers
of this blog by writing your 'Review' by writing
a Blog Comment.

BTW I also wrote a tiny little Review for the Apple iPad that
you can find at:
Super Electronic Gadgets and also
wrote about how they are great for for example Browsing
your (Vacation) Photo's.

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How Do - You - Get It Into An Upward Position....??? (Your Laptop)

With this Writing Lifestyle Blog about a writers lifestyle,
I am aiming to come up with interesting things and practical ideas
that can make the life of a writer better.
Like for example writing about:

* How you can create a
Promotional Book Trailer or

* Helping you to find out what Writers Trade Magazines
you can read. or

* How to Start your Freelance Writing Carreer. or

* How to Create Writers Workspaces that Inspire

* Or Just to Find Out what Super Electronic Gadgets
you have for Writers etc. etc.

(and Possibly even about becomming a Writer that can Escape
the 9 to 5 'Treadmill')

As you can see in the Image-link here above you can see a
very practical thing that can help a lot with writing without
getting a Pain in the Neck, because your screen gets
in a much more upward position, and you don't constantly have
to look downwards to your screen.

'To be honest, I currently only use a stack of books
to get my Laptop into an Upward Position....,'

A Better Way

Only than once in a while I have to make sure that it doesn't come
sliding down, so I might buy one of those Laptop stands somewhere
in the Future. Especially when I get a massive amount of visitors
to this blog and constantly have to write New Comments on the Comments you write,
and when I constantly get new ideas for new posts.

'So give me a Break don't Comment to Much
and don't ask to many Questions! :)'

Talking about 'Breaks'
How about Frequently Taking Breaks...???

'Frequently I have to remind myself to take breaks
once in a while and not just keep on hammering on'.

I noticed that Keurig B-40 B40 Elite Gourmet Single-Cup Home-Brewing System is a
Popular Brand and - as you can see - I also put up
a Banner-link on the left side of this Blog. 'After all this Blog
IS about the Writers Lifestyle'.

'Yeeeeeears agoooo (when I was still in College) I worked
at a department store and sold Electronics and also Coffee and Espresso Machines.
It has been a loooong time agooo only I do remember that
for some reason it's important to have a Machnine
that can do 15-bar. So I was surprised to have found
an actual 15-bar Machine that's so nicely priced!'

Anyway,

An other thing - that might be helpful - is sharing
something that I recently learned about Blog-Writing
and about a specific technique to be able to Monatize Writing
with Affiliate Marketing in Particular is about Giving You Choices while listening on
my MP3 Player to a
Podcast-Interview with a Successful Blogger.
It was about something I didn't think about that much before, about
a way to have a better chance that people actually will have a look,
and click on a link.

How to get people to click?

The Secret is to simply
place the link more times in a post and Giving your Visitors Choices and offer your Visitors Multiple Opportunities for
your readers to click on for example the Keurig B-40 B40 Elite Gourmet Single-Cup Home-Brewing System or on
for example the Cuisinart EM-200 Programmable 15-Bar Espresso Maker, Stainless Steel Link. (Or for example the MP3 Player that I was
talking about before.) When you want to have a look at
all different types of MP3 Players they have on Amazon Make sure
to simply Click to the Amazon 'Search MP3 Players'-Page to check it out!!!
Or simply Buy your MP3 Players by clicking on the Banner here below:

The 'Hoovering Mouse' and
Popping Up...!!!

to make it even more exciting I even created a 'Hoover' link
for you, because when you 'Hoover' near for example the Cuisinart EM-200 Programmable 15-Bar Espresso Maker,
Stainless Steel link
with your mouse (you can try it out by just putting your mouse
near this link) the Espresso Maker Image will actually 'Pop-Up' 'How about That!!!' :)
YES, you can find the most Modern Technology on HP's Happy Blogspots! (BTW it's also possibly
to simply click on the 'Image-text-link'
both will get you to the webshop where you can read more
about the product.)

Research Buddies and Collaborators

As I wrote about in my previous post, I like to receive
Readers Feedback to be able to get a feel about what people
like about my Blog,(or dis-like) or in general to get an
idea about 'What's on the Writers Mind'. Something
that can give me possible new ideas to blog about.

As you could read in my previous post, since not everybody
can easily write comments, I also created a
Shout Box where people can easlily 'Shout' their
Readers Feedback.

(At the left side of this Blog you can even find a
'Recent Comments'-widget where - Your Name -
will 'Pop-Up' when you Write a Comment on
any of my Posts.)

So this Blogspot is specifically about
'The Writing Lifestyle', Since I can only call
this Blogspot (or these Blogspots) an 'An Online Community'
when visitors actually Re-visit this Blog
(or these Blogs) on a regular basis. For this I do have to
make the Blog(s) 'Sticky' meaning making it
attractive and compelling enough for visitors to Bookmark
this Blog and frequently return to reading new posts.

Can you help me with this by sharing your thoughts about
- Your - Writing Lifestyle...???.
For example by telling about...,
What-are-your-top-5-of-books?

'I might not be the Best Writer in the World I do however have
besides a little experience as an actual Writer for Magazines,
a lot of Experience as a Blogger and Affiliate Marketeer. Also over the
years I build up a huge amount of Resources that I have
immidiate access to that could help you, and that you could
Benefit from!!!'.

I like to know more about you and how I could help you, so that
I can get a better idea if the Resources - Like for Example
the Posts, Video's and the Links on this Blog - that I offer are of
Value to YOU. Also I can Learn more from you about Writing in
General, and Look for Possbile other Resources and other Products
than Only things like:

MP3 Players you can use
to Get into a Specific Mood for your Writing or things like a
Cuisinart EM-200 Programmable 15-Bar Espresso Maker, Stainless Steel
for your Breaks, and Inspiration,

I also already wrote posts about the
Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology
and the Apple iPad Tablet (32GB, Wi-Fi) Keeping your Posted on some of
the new technology that's arround for Writers.


So Feel Free to Ask Me Your
Questions and I will Look How I can Help You.



(Simply Write Your Comments/Questions here below
and I will look if I Can Help >>> YOU <<< )

'So what are YOUR Writing Goals, Can I Help You...???'

'With this Blog I Aim to Help You
with >> YOUR << Writing Goals.'

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For Visualising Your Business

What does your Writer's Kit Look like?
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