Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2020

A Message to My Dear Readers

I feel like this blog is getting academic but I'm a different person than I was several years ago when I finally hammered down this blog. 

In the yesteryears, I kept trying my hand at different blogging platforms and kept losing each one. I also didn't have a clear message for why I would maintain a blog. 

Now I'm posting old notes and other information I've gleaned from journals over time but I feel it's important. As I grow as a creative, so much that creativity be expressed and when I change and evolve, that will reflect in my creations. 

So again, my dear readers, thank you for staying with me all this time and I hope you will continue to do so. Also, to take something from the Hunger Games films but with a little twist and in the spirit of this blog: May the opportunities be ever in your favor.😃🙋🏿‍♀️

Friday, March 25, 2016

New phone, new chapter

For anyone who knows me, I am a total tech geek - especially for what it says on my Twitter profile - and revel in using technology to its fullest. But I am in no way a trailblazer or pioneer, trying to bring new concepts into existence. 
Rather, I am that technical person who will learn about a software/hardware inside out, understand how it must be upgraded somewhat, and then use the HECK outta it! I will become fiercely loyal to that particular update, version, and refuse to change it in any way because I become so comfortable with the way the tech is. 

My mother laughed when my last cellphone died on me because, unlike other people, friends, a certain sibling, I don't lose my phones, I don't shatter their screens, drop accidentally in toilets, etc. As a matter of fact, when I bring in previous phones to get the upgrades, sales clerks often express awe that my phones are in pristine shape, almost as the day I purchased/contracted it!

Why I was laughed at is because I do EVERYTHING on my cellphones. From the moment I changed my Nokia to a Sony Ericsson, and discovered WAP (the earliest internet connection for phones), I have used my next Sony Ericssons, Samsungs, LGs, and even this HTC to type stories, blog, film short videos at cultural events, network, participate in forums, surveys, done market research, update blogs, synch with desktops and netbooks so I could continue my web designing projects, etc. 

And did I mention NOTES!? Ever since students at the college where I work introduced me to a certain note app, I've been a beast! I can actually say that the Samsung that died and this HTC literally helped me through graduate school! When I'm at work, and my mom, who's retired, negotiates phone deals for me, she has to go down the list of all the things I do with my phone to the customer representatives. 

Right now, I'm in a bit of a dilemma: this phone needs an upgrade but my provider no longer gives upgrades, rather, one must purchase a phone all together. Yet, the problem does not really remain on price, but, more so on what type of phone a crazed tweeter, blogger, writer, and author can use?

I'm still doing research on this, but please, if any of you dear readers have any suggestions, please, please, as many of my favorite YouTube celebrities would say: leave your comments in the box below, and happy reading, writing, and drawing!

Friday, July 31, 2015

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

I've been MFA'ed

So my hooding ceremony is done. The preparations for cap and gown is done. All my printouts were completed. All emails submitted. My requirements have been met. What is the next step? Tune in because this blog and my life as a writer and artist isn't done.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Winter Wrap Up! *Bronies will know*

I had so many things I planned to do, as I often try to nearing year's end. I updated my website AGAIN, updated the blogs, had planned to overhaul my mom's Blogger store as I shut down one account to open another.

Good thing I did most of my list earlier, possibly a few months ago. As I did volunteering for the Book Fair, I had to add that to my CV on LinkedIn. Once I published a new piece, both LinkedIn profile and my bibliography blog needed updating.

Now that the craziness and wonderfulness of Christmas has ended and I look forward to the New Year, I try to settle accounts, update my eBay Half.com store (you'll notice there is an icon added to the blog. I'll use a smaller icon later, like what I use on my official website), and do some more writing and computer work that my job and my coursework had prevented. I am also looking to my last term before I graduate. There are many things I must attend to. Updates and tweaking will continue.

"In Pretty Print" has gone through many changes as I have. Here's looking to more. Much, much more.

P.S. I promised my readers and visitors that I would continue to share 'classic' posts online, and I will do so, until all of the writing information originally posted to 'Third Sunday' is sent. Here's to 2015!

Monday, December 8, 2014

More projects upcoming!

Now that this is my last week at work, I'm gearing up for some personal projects I can take off the back burner. When these are completed and possibly uploaded, I will let my readers know through this blog and other social media.

Don't worry, more posts to come!

Including more of the 'November' 'classic' posts that will be a 're-posted' for December!
Look for them!

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

This Blog Turns 4 YEARS OLD

Had just realized once this November started, "In Pretty Print" has turned 4 Years Old! My little Bloggie is growin' up! Now that I wiped the tear from my eye, I can get started.

This has caused me to re-evaluate my blog and its purpose. Something I think all bloggers run into and have to ponder. I don't have any special downloads or swag to offer. I used that for the official site, and initially, the blogs were to be 'companion pieces' to Tabber the Red website. I didn't expect the blogs to take on lives of their own. They are now complete entities in themselves, yet part of my mini-network with the site (this also includes the DeviantART profile).

Blogging didn't come easy to me when building my website. It was a learning process. I made mistakes and lost blogs because of it. This blog is actually my FOURTH attempt. Still, I don't feel like an expert. I still read and follow and 'fan' other blogs (as well as grinding my teeth in envy over their beautiful interfaces and templates) but I also try to learn from other bloggers to continue to help mine grow and evolve.
One day, I want others to visit In Pretty Print in droves. I want it to change lives. I want it to be one of many sources of inspiration. Just as other blogs do for me and more.

In celebration of "In Pretty Print - A Writing and Artist Life...Ongoing", I will try to break my average 2-3 posts per month.

If you're a fan of my blog, I will be highlighting pivotal posts that were first debuted on the now closed literary blog carnival, Third Sunday. The posts I submitted to the blog carnival consisted of writing advice and tips, things that inspired me, ideas on what to do if deciding on an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree, and much, much more.

There are a lot of events happening this November: NaNoWriMo, the Miami Book Fair International, etc.
Let me celebrate the blog's 4th birthday by offering the information and ideas that have sustained me as a writer and artist over the years.

Thank you.


Thursday, April 5, 2012

It's a good thing I updated my Work Cited page on Tabber the Red. Now I can't get online to update this blog. WONDERFUL.

FB is BS

Facebook has so many aspects wrong with it and I have loathed it since the beginning. Someone said we need to dismantle patriarchy but not g...