Daily Archives: July 18, 2009

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Short Story Wordle

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I’ve written my first short story in years (and am working on a second) , and have absolutely no idea what to do with it. So, I thought I’d create a Wordle of it, which doesn’t seem to give anything away at all in terms of plot. Only two people have read it to date. Both reviews are positive, from people who I think would be critical if it warranted it.

Any suggestions on what to do with a short story would be greatly appreciated. Right now it’s stashed doing nothing, like a wad of leftover currency after a holiday.

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Being Current

Picture 6For any of the hit-hunters out there, this should end any queries in your mind about currency being related to your hits. I posted yesterday morning about Thursday night’s Pecha Kucha night, and the result is expressed in the image to the right – nearly all search hits were Pecha Kucha-related, contributing to a one-day trebling of traffic.

Apart from the tiger sex search, that is. Jeez, you post one item about Tiger Sex and for the next two years……

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Lucky Strike

I spent last weekend working in the press office for the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, with a few hours each day of frantic news-gathering for the daily report, in-Design work producing the newsletter, and interviewing the sailors.

Story of the weekend actually happened before the racing got underway – when Antix Dubh narrowly avoided being struck by lightning on its journey up from Cork. The blast hit the water 15 metres from the boat and fried the electronics for a time. Here, delivery skipper Rob O’Leary describes the incident.