Some tips to writing online

I've been writing a lot lately. It's been messy, so I've tried to focus my efforts. There's obviously the blogging that's going to be consistent for two more months until my research project ends. Since I get to watch a LOT of movies and television, and they're the subjects of a lot of online searches, I thought I'd make hay while the sun shines and try earning money.

Wish it were as easy as writing good pieces though. Especially when it comes to online writing sites. They pay 0.5-3$ for every 1000 views of all articles published by the writer. So it's not so much about the content as the searchability and the quantity of articles. But it's a good start because besides all that practice, it gives enough material for print and non-internet media to evaluate your potential and experience.

After a lot of trying and testing, I decided to settle on Suite101.com. The major advantages are the higher pay-per-thousand-views, more financial incentives for rookie writers or seasoned ones writing for specific categories, MANY learning tools, major first article feedback for EVERY category, and great collection of articles.

New Blogs!

I've taken the "I Power Blogger" motto too far.

In the last three days, I have opened three new blogs:

Not Just An Idiot Box:

http://ssyal-tvshowblog.blogspot.com/

Celluloid Mania:

http://mycelluloidmania.blogspot.com/

Leeuwenhoek- A Research Diary

http://a-research-diary.blogspot.com/

I think that'll make the flow of blogs a little smoother :)

eek!- an undignified title for an undignified post

I have officially been published on something (online) of a global platform:

http://www.newsciencejournalism.net/index.php?

yay :)

Despite the calculated Facebook notes and blogging, I had been on the lookout for something that looked more official. So I ran into this website that allows students and professionals, particularly students, from science, media and education post articles on science. So I figured I'd give it a shot. I've had two articles published, so I hope you can take a look and maybe even give some feedback, and spread the word:

http://www.newsciencejournalism.net/index.php?/news_articles/view/the_peppered_moth/#comments

http://www.newsciencejournalism.net/index.php?/news_articles/view/amaranth/

I guess now Im wondering what took me so long. The world's been online awhile.

I carry your heart with me

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart) I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

I fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

And for that alone I'm indebted to E. E. Cummings forever.

Tenderfoot

Just how do you start off a blog?

I've been doodling since I was ten, published my first flimsy poem a year later in the school magazine, and a couple such stints in high school, an editorial position with the publication by the student's society, and several calculated Facebook notes later, I think blogging might actually be long overdue.

Especially when you're someone who's thinking about stem cells one instant, Narciso Rodriguez the next.

Especially when you devour a Ruskin Bond, Paulo Coehlo or Kafka with the same voracity as a Thomas Friedman or a Malcolm Gladwell.

Especially when you can't do without regulated exercise, but you'd rather practice pointy toes and straight torsos dancing Latino and do those laps without foregoing the underwater cartwheels.

Unfortunately in a world where compartments are the best solution for information processing or storage or whatever else, I'm still looking for a haven for a jack of all trades.