Yep. I’m doing another one in front of people. (Okay, I should have really clarified that.) By doing, I mean writing; by one, I mean post; by in front of people, I mean my students plus one visitor. Totally made sense when I was doing one in front of people, then I changed locations, and it just didn’t work.
This is why writing is an ever-evolving business for even the greatest writers ever–we’re always becoming, never become.
And now I’m home and editing this post as practice. Writers must always practice. Sometimes, I do a lot of writing in my head… just let something rumble around in my mind for awhile, and then it comes out in a big messy sploosh. Of course, I have to revise for what seems like ages.
I really wanted to edit this post to see if I could figure out the categories thing. I don’t like “uncategorized” attaching itself to something I write. Just as I get my nose out of joint when I encounter art work entitled “Untitled.” Really? If there’s no title, then leave it without a title. I may have to do a tutorial again today, this time on categories. So. I’ll do it. I also want to add tags (not exactly sure what these do, but I heard they were good and I’ve done them in another blog). So far, I haven’t figured this out yet. Tutorial here I come.
As I am moving along, I feel the need to add an image here. In order to do that, I think I need to add the image to my media library (a button on my dashboard on the left nav bar). I’m going to try that approach.
Yep. That was right. I needed to add an image to my media library–really easy. Then I add it into this post, by clicking on the image inserter icon thing at the top of the posting page. You can add images from your computer or through a URL, too, but this is a photograph I actually took on an eerie evening one night. (We’ll talk about copyright and such when we get to reading the Web Writing Style Guide soon (by Writing Spaces)–there’s a great section on copyright for text, images, film, etc.). In the meantime, this is fair use (most likely) of any materials because we are doing this for a class–though our blog’s somewhat public nature might be an issue. Such a tricky business.
But what matters most: I remembered how to upload an image into a blog post. Go me.
"Moon Over WAC" by wacattack@aum
write across this_________ 