Writing Resume

Articles Published

For a list of crafting articles I have had published please consult the listing under the Scrapbooking and Digital Work resume.

Blogs (Founded and Owned)

2001 – 2008 | Scrapability Blog (previously at www.scrapability.squarespace.com)

- a personal and niche blog dedicated to documenting the scrapbooking craft. This blog contained, at one time, the largest links listing for scrapbookers in the world, and was linked to by many other scrapbooking blogs, websites and industry magazines.  Covered – paper-based scrapbooking, photography, digital scrapbooking, other paperarts, altered and mixed media work. Reviews, opinions, news, and a personal look at my own work in this craft. The blog also hosted two travelling blog book tours with authors of niche-targetted books.

- note – before Scrapability there were several other blogs, mostly held at bloghosts such as blogger.com, typepad or wordpress.com. I have actually held personal blogs for nearly fifteen years now.

2008 | Juiced on EBooks (previously published at www.juicedonebooks.com)

- a short-lived blog (although it gained a quick readership) created within the 30 Day Challenge as an example of a niche topic blog.

2009 – Present | Juiced on Writing (www.juicedonwriting.com)

- the eBook blog quickly was ported over into a blog on writing as I began writing in earnest myself. This blog explores the technology and methods behind fictional writing as a new writer. I have left it open, but not updated for some time, as I moved back into creative crafts in total (and this, my last blog). Juiced on Writing, although now in hiatus, continues to find the occasional new reader or blogger interested in guesting on it.

2008 – 2010 | The Chicken Diaries (www.thechickendiaries.com)

- the Chicken Diaries was based within the virtual world, Second Life. I spent a lot of time in Second Life as a virtual pet farmer, and based a niche-targetted blog on the subject. One of the first virtual pets within Second Life was a virtual chicken called sionChickens, and as I entered the virtual world there, I encountered and started farming them. The Chicken Diaries became one of the most well-known blogs to be read on the subject of virtual animals within Second Life, but was wound up mid-2010 due to some drastic changes in my own real life which necessitated my own leaving of the second life I very much enjoyed.

Note that the Chicken Diaries is both an example of a well-read and very specific niche blog, and of a fiction-based storyline written out as a blog. Although I was personally very much there within Second Life, and writing from that viewpoint, the virtual world afforded me the ability to remain anonymous and to produce characters and events to work blog ‘stories’ around. An example of that is the character of Aunty Audrie – my own virtual family member. Aunty Audrie’s adventures were mainly fictional, but the people she met online within Second Life certainly weren’t. There were many good people in Second Life, and I still miss them six months after my own departure.

I originally entered Second Life to look at the writing opportunities there. And interestingly, it was only within the first couple of months of being a noob within SL that I won my first writing competition in-world. I won a short story competition based on taking a journey through various spots in Second Life, and had the chance to read out my story on stage to a writing audience and was presented with a [virtual] certificate.

Second Life also allowed me to find publications within the virtual magazines found in-world. One such magazine was Slick Magazine, and I had a long article on a particular resort-type land holding available for couples published, plus later was invited to provide freelance articles for the web-based side of that magazine. I also worked as a freelance blogger for a couple of other SL blogs, and briefly on the well-read and popular MetaversallySpeaking.com as a relative newbie to the meta world.

2010 – Present and Future | Create Minded (www.createminded.com)

- this blog signifies both a combination of all of my interests, and a return to my blogging routes. On Create Minded I have the main objective of covering anything creativity and crafting associated, which includes any topics which may have previously been found at Scrapability, Juiced on Ebooks and Juiced on Writing.

Blogs (Administered or Worked On)

2009 and 2010 | Fantasy Faire (http://fantasyfaire2009.wordpress.com (deleted) and http://fantasyfaire2010.wordpress.com/)

In 2009 and 2010 I was heavily involved in the virtual world of Second Life and worked as the writer / editor for a large charity fundraising event within Second Life called the Relay for Life Fantasy Faire.

These two blogs contained the news, information and images from the Faire as the official coverage for the event. Unfortunately, the owner of the 2009 blog itself (held on wordpress.com) decided to have the content deleted from the wordpress databases, so the writing there is no longer available, but the 2010 Faire coverage remains open. As the editor of that blog, I worked with the FF Leader in supplying information on the Faire, and ran a number of other writers for the Faire blog that year.

I am relatively unpublished (as yet) in fiction, and unfortunately, for the minor successes I have had, they can be found within Second Life, and without evidence externally. But I am going to use this area to show you the progress in my own writing projects, using the fun badges found at Merit Badger. To learn more about Merit Badger, and what these badges mean, read here.

Here’s my collection so far -