Category: retro-posts

For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. My general rule is not to link to anything I’ve written in the last 365 days. I was at Disney World last week and missed a day, but here’s what was posted.

• 1/2/22 Isaac Asimov at 92 (2012)
• 1/3/22 None
• 1/4/22 Rainbow Room Dinner 2007 (2007)
• 1/5/22 Vacationing in Bookland (2018)
• 1/6/22 Battered and Ink-Stained (2021)
• 1/7/22 A Walk in the Woods (2015)
• 1/8/22 The Perfect Storm (2016)

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For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. My general rule is not to link to anything I’ve written in the last 365 days.

• 12/26/21 Presidential Biographies (2016)
• 12/27/21 You got your fact in my fiction! (I got my fiction in your fact!) (2011)
• 12/28/21 Writer Envy (2020)
• 12/29/21 Being a Writer Gets Better with Age (2012)
• 12/30/21 Writing science fiction as a non-scientist (2011)
• 12/31/21 Revving the Treadmill of Life (2016)
• 1/1/22 My First New Year’s Eve Party and Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” (2014)

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For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. My general rule is not to link to anything I’ve written in the last 365 days. This week’s theme are posts I wrote “on this date” in previous years.

• 12/19/21 Geeks I Admire (2006)
• 12/20/21 Simple Version Numbers (2016)
• 12/21/21 Adventures of the Little Man and Little Miss at Disney World, Day 2: Animal Kingdom and Epcot (2012)
• 12/22/21 Driving Interstate 95 (2018)
• 12/23/21 A typical winter vacation day in sunny Florida (2011)
• 12/24/21 Hurry Up and Wait! (2016)
• 12/25/21 Christmas Morning! (2015)

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For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. My general rule is not to link to anything I’ve written in the last 365 days.

• 12/12/21 All I Want For Christmas Is To Be a Syndicated Columnist (2019)
• 12/13/21 What I Want to Be When I Grow Up (2016)
• 12/14/21 Trains (2019)
• 12/15/21 The Evolution of First Lines (2018)
• 12/16/21 9 Phases I Went Through to Become a Writer (2014)
• 12/17/21 Non-traditional Lullabies (2016)
• 12/18/21 Time Traveling with Bing Crosby (2013)

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For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. My general rule is not to link to anything I’ve written in the last 365 days. This week’s theme is blogging and contains links to various posts on blogging topics I’ve written over the years.

• 12/5/2021: A Blogging Mid-Life Crisis (2016)
• 12/6/2021: My Blogging Influences (2014)
• 12/7/2021: Why blog (and how do you do it)? (2011)
• 12/8:2021: Questions and Answers About My Blogging (2014)
• 12/9/2021: Guest Post Requests Get Meta (2020)
• 12/10/2021: Guest Post Over at SF Signal: “Daddy, What’s Dungeons & Dragons?” (2014)
• 12/11/2021: Blog Milestone: One Million in One Year! (2014)

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For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. My general rule is not to link to anything I’ve written in the last 365 days. This week, since I’m beginning to think about the holiday break, I’ve got a collection of travel-related posts.

• 11/28/21: At the Scene of the Crime (2017)
• 11/29/21: A Trip to Gunston Hall (2017)
• 11/30/21: “Giving Tuesday” Morning Quarterback (2019)
• 12/1/21: Thomas Jefferson: Lifehacker (2015)
• 12/2/21: A journey to Miletus (2007)
• 12/3/21: People Used To be Travelers (2018)
• 12/4/21: Vacation in Colonial America (2020)

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For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. My general rule is not to link to anything I’ve written in the last 365 days. This week, you’ll find some holiday-themed posts from the past.

• 11/21/21: Jamie’s 10-Step Guide to Writing a Christmas Movie for the Hallmark Channel (2016)
• 11/22/21: Flying vs. Driving (2016)
• 11/23/21: Spoiler Alert! (2017)
• 11/24/21: The Golden Age of Television (2019)
• 11/25/21: Our Thanksgiving Dinner (2012)
• 11/26/21: Black Friday (2016)
• 11/27/21: A World Without Television (2010)

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For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. My general rule is not to link to anything I’ve written in the last 365 days. This week, the theme is about science fiction conventions I’ve attended.

• 11/14/21: My first con: It doesn’t get any better than this! (2007)
• 11/15/21: Readercon 2008, Part 1 (2008)
• 11/16/21: Nebula Weekend 2011, Day 1, Part 1 (2011)
• 11/17/21: An Open Letter to My 20-Year-Old Self Regarding the 2014 World Fantasy Convention (2014)
• 11/18/21: 5 Things that Make Capclave an Outstanding Science Fiction Convention (2013)
• 11/19/21: LoneStarCon, Thursday: Day 1 (2013)
• 11/20/21: The Amazing Friends I Made at Launch Pad (2013)

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For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. My general rule is not to link to anything I’ve written in the last 365 days. This week, I decided to post things I wrote from last year (2020), but more than 365 days in the past.

• 11/7/21: The Fun They Had (2020)
• 11/8/21: Final Pages (2020)
• 11/9/21: The Junk Drawer (2020)
• 11/10/21: We Are Buying a Salt-Water Farm in Maine (2020)
• 11/11/21: My Journal in the Days of COVID (2020)
• 11/12/21: 1,000 Books Finished and It Only Took 25 Years! (2020)
• 11/13/21: My Favorite Airport (2020)

You can find last week’s posts here. If you want to see these as they appear each day, you can follow me on Twitter or my Facebook page.

For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. You might notice a theme for the first half of the week. It being November, I thought some retro-posts on NaNoWriMo were in order.

• 10/31/21: 5 Tips for #NaNoWriMo I’ve Learned from My 464-Day Writing Streak (2014)
• 11/1/21: Another Possibly Useful #NaNoWriMo Tip To Avoid Rewriting (2012)
• 11/2/21: Going Paperless: 4 Ways To Use Evernote for National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo) (2012)
• 11/3/21: Five tips for a successful NaNoWriMo (and how Scrivener can help) (2011)
• 11/4/21: Quiet Places (2019)
• 11/5/21: Map Reading Is a Dying Art (2016)
• 11/6/21: Do Fifth-Graders Still Learn to Read the Newspaper? (2019)

You can find last week’s posts here. If you want to see these as they appear each day, you can follow me on Twitter or my Facebook page.

For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week.

• 10/24/21: A Heatmap of Over 900 Days of Writing Data from My Google Docs Writing Tracker (2015)
• 10/25/21: I, Robot; I, Robot; I, Robot; and I, Robot (2011)
• 10/26/21: The “lost” Harlan Ellison meeting (2007)
• 10/27/21: My first ever Doctor Who episode: “Blink!” (2011)
• 10/28/21: FAQ: How can you be a science fiction writer/fan if you don’t like sci-fi movies/TV? (2012)
• 10/29/21: Describing My Stories (2012)
• 10/30/21: I Once Received a Personal Rejection From Algis Budrys (2013)

You can find last week’s posts here. If you want to see these as they appear each day, you can follow me on Twitter or my Facebook page.

For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week.

• 10/17/21: My Favorite Fictional Battle Scenes (2014)
• 10/18/21: My Isaac Asimov books: a bibliography in pictures (2011)
• 10/19/21: Life-Logging: The Problem with Food and Mood Tracking (2013)
• 10/20/21: How Do You Find Time to Write? (2015)
• 10/21/21: The Mathematics of Reading (2017)
• 10/22/21: What I Learned on My Internet Vacation (2012)
• 10/23/21: One of My All-Time Favorite Quotes (2014)

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