Category: Wonderings
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Yummy, Yummy Data
Did another one. This post is about how amazing data is for writing amazing content. Numbers, blah. BUT: the only way to write content that is just oh so perfect for your target audience is to look at the numbers. Before, to tell you what they liked in the past. And after, to tell you…
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Stripping the Corpus
Good phrases from my corpus, as I am allowing myself to call it: Feeble sex Afraid and crying The wrinkled shade of the canyon Rhythm stolen Clever pebbles Slowly fuck the love back inside Grimy wrist Forgotten castle Polished immortality The author of tangled charity acts Camaro snarls The blanket creeps Some belated chick Tomorrow…
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Oulipoetry
Challenge: Nouns swapped for randomly-selected words from the book I’ve just finished: Deaf Sentence by David Lodge. Just because it’s near me and it’s Friday and I’m in bed. Original: Kid Freak You’re a dingy freak with opium claws. Liquid stress, clever words scattering in the gutter. Pick ‘em up kid. Scrabble in the dirt…
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Soul Ticks
It’s interesting, the things you notice about people you don’t interact with often. You know, like someone you have to email every so often who always ALWAYS mentions how much work they’ve been doing. What is that? They probably don’t say it to people they talk to every day, because they’d notice they were doing…
