Previously on Ficlets... After the excitement my first two ficlets, I found myself at a loss for what to write. The first two stories were unsuccessful in the sense that they did not inspire anyone to continue them, so I...

Image based on Who you looking at? by Askpang which was licensed under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa license just as this image is. Image inspiration from icanhascheezburger.com I love text. Books, letters, blogs, emails, instant messages, text messages. I could...

Previously... I recently finished John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. After putting the book in my "Read" stack in the back of the shelf, I looked about trying to decide on my next read. The possibilities ranged from Stephen...

In late November 2003 I saw a piece online about NaNoWriMo that sparked something in me. The desire to write, dormant since my teens when playing music took over the creative/expressive portions of my brain, suddenly flared up again like...

The Dark Tower Series (audio) - Stephen King There are some who decry the audio book revolution. I am not one of those people. I have an account at audible.com through which I am allowed to download two audio books...

For Christmas a few years ago, my friends David and Reatha gave me a copy of Monica Wood's "The Pocket Muse", a book of ideas and encouragement for writers. Unfortunately, it was given about four or five weeks before I...

Nick Hornby: How To Read Found via: kottke.org/remainder My solution was to try to choose books I knew I would like. I'm not sure this idea is as blindingly obvious as it seems. We often read books that we think...

The Ms.Scribe Story Is there anything so grand and delicate as web-based drama?  The story linked above, which seems as exaustively researched and as well presented as a book like Bill Carter's "The Late Shift", tells the story of how...

By now, the chances of someone being a active and widely read participant in the blogosphere and not having heard of David Allen's book "Getting Things Done" are likely slim. Site that feature articles relating to "GTD" implementation, sites like...

Ever since I set up jayprickett.com, I go back every few days and check my old wordpress.com blog to see if there is anything going on, to see if anyone has visited, and most importantly to check the comment spam...