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Monthly Archives: June 2010

On Style: Deconstructing the Blogstory Style

Friday, June 25, 2010

The blogstory is powerful writing, a carefully-crafted experience that’s the perfect marriage of storytelling and the blog environment. Julie Roads has it down.

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On Style: Julie Roads, e-Friend #2

Thursday, June 24, 2010

I went looking for a good place to advertise my blog, and accidentally discovered an astonishingly good writer and, ultimately, a new friend. Meet Julie Roads.

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On Markup Languages: How to Use Heading Styles

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

This week I’m talking about document formatting through markup, and specifically the difference between applying labeled styles to your document and just using formatting effects. When you do it right, a little bit of work beforehand can make all your writing easier. If you’ve set up a WordPress blog, you’ve probably seen this in effect. [...]

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On Markup Languages: Labels vs. Effects

Monday, June 21, 2010

Yesterday I talked about my social anxiety and how it broke me. And I promised that it had applications to tech writing. The problem I ran into was that I could clearly, directly see the effects in my life without so much as a clue what the causes were. That’s pretty typical of anxiety. It’s [...]

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On Markup Languages: My Crisis of Faith

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Years ago my lifelong faith faltered because of effects in my life that I couldn’t explain. Here’s how a simple label fixed me, and can fix your writing, too.

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