When I first started exploring the strange world of the Internet*, I was overwhelmed by the amount of information available. It felt like having a 24 hour library on tap. I made lists of topics to research; the list topped ten pages, single spaced, front and back, and I still had more questions. I started over, this time with a ready-made list: the dictionary**.
Shortly thereafter, a relative asked me, "So what are you going to do with all this information?"
I stared blankly. "Do?" I said. "What do you mean, do?"
"Well, you have to do something," my relative insisted. "Otherwise you're just wasting your time with useless information."
I blinked a few times and changed the subject as fast as I could.
But years later, I have to admit: my relative had a point. Rather like the lady who raised sheep for their wool and wound up with so many skeins she had to open a shop, I have a room filled with file cabinets, bookshelves, index card files, and storage boxes of information.
Why not use this information to write articles for pay? Well--I tried that. But writing an article and sending it out to a magazine petrifies me past all reason; every cell in my brain shuts down at the thought. I have tried for ten years and never gotten beyond a weak and blathering attempt at a dog-food article which was, rightly, rejected without hesitation by the two markets I sent it to.
However, I discovered that writing an article for my website or blog causes me no fear at all. So I'm posting my articles free--for now--hoping to thereby gain courage enough to submit something to a paying market in the future.
To the left is a list of articles available on this site and on my blog; please feel free to link to the articles, but be kind enough not to repost my work elsewhere. Also, please do tell me when you link to this site; I like to know these things.
All articles are copyright Leona Wisoker 2009; you are welcome to print them out, as long as you retain the author and web site information on the printout, and do not mass-redistribute the printouts to others without explicit prior permission from me via email or letter.
Enough about that--go forth and read! Read and Enjoy . . .
Leona Wisoker
Notes
*rather late; I will not even pretend I was one of the early geeks. I stepped on board, rather tentatively, around the time of Windows 95.
**it is absolutely amazing how much you can find online about aardvarks.
Shortly thereafter, a relative asked me, "So what are you going to do with all this information?"
I stared blankly. "Do?" I said. "What do you mean, do?"
"Well, you have to do something," my relative insisted. "Otherwise you're just wasting your time with useless information."
I blinked a few times and changed the subject as fast as I could.
But years later, I have to admit: my relative had a point. Rather like the lady who raised sheep for their wool and wound up with so many skeins she had to open a shop, I have a room filled with file cabinets, bookshelves, index card files, and storage boxes of information.
Why not use this information to write articles for pay? Well--I tried that. But writing an article and sending it out to a magazine petrifies me past all reason; every cell in my brain shuts down at the thought. I have tried for ten years and never gotten beyond a weak and blathering attempt at a dog-food article which was, rightly, rejected without hesitation by the two markets I sent it to.
However, I discovered that writing an article for my website or blog causes me no fear at all. So I'm posting my articles free--for now--hoping to thereby gain courage enough to submit something to a paying market in the future.
To the left is a list of articles available on this site and on my blog; please feel free to link to the articles, but be kind enough not to repost my work elsewhere. Also, please do tell me when you link to this site; I like to know these things.
All articles are copyright Leona Wisoker 2009; you are welcome to print them out, as long as you retain the author and web site information on the printout, and do not mass-redistribute the printouts to others without explicit prior permission from me via email or letter.
Enough about that--go forth and read! Read and Enjoy . . .
Leona Wisoker
Notes
*rather late; I will not even pretend I was one of the early geeks. I stepped on board, rather tentatively, around the time of Windows 95.
**it is absolutely amazing how much you can find online about aardvarks.
THE MADNESS BEHIND THE METHOD
copyright 2009 Leona Wisoker
Leona may be contacted by email at the following address:
leona at leonawisoker dot com (no spaces, of course)
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