I feel like I’m about to invade a small country.
With a rucksack full to the brim with t-shirts and other unsuitable clothing for the Canadian, New Zealand, Australian and other climates I’ll be experiencing, I’ve spent the majority of the day with more important tasks – installing software on my netbook and charging/prepping all forms of gadgetry in order to last three months in the wild.
Tags: Trip
At some point I plan to do a whole article on procrastination and how it is literally the bane of all writers; the equivalent of a thousand Twitters beeping incessantly in the background as you try, and fail, to get any work done.
Right now I’m struggling with a long piece I plan to submit to [...]
Tags: sabbatical, suite101, Writing
As some visitors to this site are probably aware, I write for a popular PlayStation 3 centric news site.
As I pass my one year anniversary with this particular online publication, I’ve become more and more aware of just what some people think games journalism is, and the reality.
Studying journalism’s totem pole of respectability, with positions ranging from print media to obituary writing, games journalism (or gaming journalism or even game journalism, the practice has bred numerous similarly sounding names) has the unfortunate indignation of languishing quite close to the mucky foot. Somewhere above writing for your local parish paper but still below the dazzling heights of sports or music journalism, writing about videogames comes with its very own tailored form of digital stigmata.
Branding its practitioners as “chancers”, “misfits” or, if the hand on the iron in question belongs to a male between the ages of 15 and 21, “lucky bastards”, there are a lot of misconceptions, half-truths and, in some cases, blatant falsities flying around about just what it’s like to work in this industry.
Here are just five of the most obvious ones.
Tags: Gaming, journalism
When contemplating what to put on this new fandangled blog of mine, I have to admit that I spent an unhealthy amount of time not creating actual content (which I am doing right now of course), but trawling the web looking for a WordPress theme that suited my rapacious needs.
It’s silly really, especially considering that the old adage “Content in King” couldn’t be more suitable than a site wishing to focus on writing.
But when it comes to beautifying your work online, it’s highly likely you’ll spend more time tinkering with CSS during those nascent first steps than creating the all-important content.
It was during this monotonous process that it hit me: selecting a new blog’s appearance is quite similar to another crucial and painstaking process – choosing that one special woman to spend the rest of your life with. Or until she tires of your crap and issues divorce papers.
The more I thought about it, the more I realised that there are more than just basic similarities between what a wife is, and brings to the table and your very own WordPress theme.
Triond promote themselves as the complete publishing service.
If you’ve never heard of what Triond provide, the premise is quite simple: you write the content, submit it using a fairly simple submission process, at which point they go off and work out how best to make money from your hard work. This includes publishing your content on the most appropriate websites in their catalogue.
What’s in it for them? Well, they take 50% of the cut from any profit your content generates.
Tags: marathon tips, triond
Quite understandably, the first post on a new blog often takes the form of an introduction. This blog will be no different.
My name is Lee Cash. That’s me over to the right there looking a bit ridiculous and a few years younger than I am now. When I find a more recent photo that doesn’t portray me as either half-crazed or suspiciously portly I’ll be sure to add it to the site.
This is my new site where I will chronicle my goal of becoming a paid writer. A bold claim you might say but, as I’m sure you’ve heard, writing online is the next big thing with publishers falling over themselves to give unexperienced new authors as much money as possible. If only it was that easy.
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