Mind Sieve 6/23/14

Greetings peeps!

Fan Fun

Dear White People Trailer - this actually looks like it will be fun! lol.

The Judge Official Trailer - Oh hanky time! But it looks good!

Ragnarok Official Trailer - Monster movie! Not sure what to make of it. Heh.

Druid Peak Trailer - wolves! Oooo wolves!

Social Media/Author Platform

5 Free Content Tools to Enhance Your Social Media Marketing from SocialMedia Examiner. Article by Kierra Stein.


How To Use Semantic Markup from the Social Media Examiner, Article by Ruth Burr Reedy. I did some stuff with this months and months ago. Don't know if it's helped any, but it is the way things are moving.

Writing Advice

Do You Discuss Your Work in Progress? by Jami Gold. Nice! Glad I don't have a widget though, the WIP has had no progress due to RL WORK! Waaaahhhh.

6 Steps to Balance Your Editing: Plot vs. Characters by Jami Gold. Excellent post!

Have a great week!

Mind Sieve 9/16/13

Morning!

Supernatural Season 8 Gag Reel and a cute article by Michelle Carlbert on it at SheKnows.com.

Homefront Official Trailer - Man, talk about something getting way out of hand. Eek!

Grudge Match trailer - oh yeah Rocky 30 lol. Actually this looks really cute. A ton of Rocky jokes and more too. Stallone vs DeNiro. Heh heh heh.

Escape From Tomorrow trailer - this one look WEIRD!

Facebook AD Changes: This Week in Social Media by Cindy King at Social Media Explorer. The part about Google and Wordpress.com will probably make a lot of you very happy. :)

Why I don't Like to Negatively Review Other Authors' Books by Chuck (NSFW) Wendig. I have to pretty much agree with this!

And he's on a roll too! For here's his 25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out of Your Story from Chuck (NSFW) Wendig. Great stuff. I've had to set aside crits for weeks before I dared look again. It's always when you think the 'baby' is good that 'BAM - Surprise!' you find out it had giant holes all over it. Waaaahhhhhh!

Mind Sieve 3/26/12

Greetings!

Petapixel put up two videos by PES where they use stop motion to turn random objects into food. Too cute!

Making a Tintype - How Civil War-Era Tintype Photographs Were Made shared by Petapixel. This was a long process. Dang!

115 Reasons Why We Love Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Joanna Robinson (Celebrating BTVS 15th Anniversary. Dang!)

The newest Simon's Cat. Hee hee!

Video Game Mashup - Chuck Norris vs Angry Birds. ROFL

Designing From Bones - The Map Of The Creator. Hah, what fun! 

What's An Author-Agent Agreement? from Rachelle Gardner. Nice bit of info!

25 Things You Should Know About Creativity from Chuck (NSFW) Wendig. Yes, creativity is more than about writing! There is even creativity in accounting! Booyah!

Interesting post from Jami Gold - Who Cares About Quality Writing Anymore? I do! I do! *holds hand up*

After last week's flood, this one seems a little on the lame side, but dang I'm pooped! lol. Been a hard week. Don't worry, I'll dig up for stuff for next time. :P