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I’ve been developing another site for the past few weeks and it’s now ready to go live. I present the Essay Outliner.
Free Essay Outliner is a simple tool that will help anyone outline a standard five paragraph essay. All you need to do is input the data in the form such as: main thesis, idea 1, idea 2… etc and then a script will compile the data and present sentence by sentence instructions on how to write your essay.
This is a very simple, yet invaluable tool that I wish I had while going through cool. It’s perfect for young students whom are still trying to understand how to structure an essay or for seasoned college students who don’t have time to do the legwork. This could conceivably help you outline blog articles as well. The possibilities are endless.
I hope to develop more sophisticated tools based on this concept (such as a term paper outliner) in the future, but for now, this tool does the job simply: outline an essay.
After several days of testing and working out the bugs, my latest web project, Webinar Central has gone live today.
Webinar Central will become the web’s best destination to find out about the latest free webinars taking place anywhere on the web. It’s the ultimate webinar directory. At Webinar Central, you can view the latest free webinars, submit your own for inclusion and comment on past webinars. We’re harnessing the power of social media to spread the word on the latest educational webinar opportunities.
Key Features of Webinar Central:
Submit Your Own Webinar
See Upcoming Webinars for Current Week
View Month by Month Calender
Subscribe to RSS Feed of Latest Webinars
View Webinars by Category
Comment on Webinars
Updated Daily
Ongoing Blog About Webinar Tips and Tricks
Why did I start Webinar Central?
I love to learn and the advent of webinars has revolutionized the way knowledge can be disseminated over the internet. I’ve learned so much from these wonderful tools that I want to make sure that anyone has the knowledge and abilitiy to learn via this medium. There hasn’t really been a central location for all the webinars taking place on the web. There is so much going on, that if you don’t have a way to find out about it, you’ll miss out on valuable learning opportunities. So using some tools that I’ve set up, I’ll be able to monitor for future webinars all across the web and let you know about them here first. Don’t see your webinar in the database? Then you can add it for free by filling out the submission form.
The wife was very forggiving this weekend and I was able to have a lot of time to write. I cranked out two chapters on Saturday and two more on Sunday. It came to about 30 pages and 4000 or so words. All of this was new content, created from scratch.
Things are progressing better than I could imagine. The ideas are flowing, the pagecount is increasing and the book is turning into exactly what I envisioned. I should have no problem finishing this book in time.
This week I need to get back on the blogging horse, I didn’t do much last week and my traffic stats are showing it. Need to continue the creation of new content so I can get lots of new traffic.
The last few days have been very productive, despite the fact I’ve come down with a nasty cold. I did no writing yesterday due to illness but I was very active over the weekend, getting several chapters knocked out, much to the annoyance of my lonely wife.
I was feeling well enough today to write and punched out about a thousand words. The good news to report is that I’ve reached the one hundred page park. It’s a meaningless milestone but it feels good to have 100 pages of a book locked and loaded.
When I stopped writing the book last year, it was at about 50 pages. So, since restarting the book, I’ve rewritten a lot of what I wrote before and added another 50 pages of brand new content.
I like how the book is shaping up and all the twists and turns the process takes as I come up with new ideas. I’m should be on track to have the book done by the time my wife and I go to England in March.
The local media was abuzz a couple weeks ago when infomercial spokesman Billy Mays visited town. He made a stop at my company’s offices and helped produce a hilarious video. Livemercial was really excited to have him - imagine Babe Ruth coming to your company softball game. The office went nuts.
Anyway, they filmed a hilarious movie parody of the office for the ERA Convention Awards Ceremony. Props go out to Jim Barnthouse for spearheading this fantastic project!
Despite multiple interruptions tonight, including having to go to work at a second job. I managed to get a whole new chapter written. I’m not crazy about it. But it serves a purpose and it will grow to fit perfectly as the book grows.
Things are continuing to progress nicely. I’m nearing 100 pages, which is encouraging. The first 100 pages are always the hardest and everything usually falls into place after that. I intend for this book to be the longest of all the ones I’ve written. Probably around 400 pages or so. I have a lot of story to tell. Brevity is for the red pen.
I also got some major blogging done today. The current political and economic climate is a huge distraction and I find it hard to full away from the Drudgereport. I hope the debate goes on tomorrow.
I’m going to stop keeping track of Chapter numbers, because they are irrelevant at this stage. Too much of the book is in flux right now to be stuck in an ironclad structure. Numbers just make is harder down the line to edit the thing.
I finished another chapter tonight. This is the first chapter that was completely new content, written from scratch. I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.
My new process works great. I’m genuinely excited to get home and write. That hasn’t happened in such a long time. I still have to work hard at making myself actually do it. But I’m getting the book done, slowly but surely.
I was able to sit down and hammer out Chapter 3. Most of it had been written before so I just needed to tweak a few things. No major changes were necessary. It’s looking good. I’m getting on a roll.
I also updated many of my blogs over the last couple days.
I was able to sit down and hammer out Chapter 2 today. I rewrote a lot of what was there and took out that I needed to save for use later. It’s going well so far. I have a good handle on the voice. It was smart to just restart from the beginning.
I also did a shit ton of brainstorming and came up with some golden ideas for new chapters to help beef up the overall story. I’m excited about this book for the first time in a year. I hope I can keep this up.
I love having my new office. It creates a perfect environment to create. It’s large so I can walk around and think. I can go to the bookshelf and pick up a book and look for inspiration. I can play music as loud as I like. I’m also making great use of my whiteboard to outline ideas. This new process works greatly.
Things are going well. I hope they continue to go so well.
After days of fiddling and pondering, I’ve managed to sit down a rewrite the first chapter of my novel. I pretty much gutted it from before, simplifying it and make it quicker to read.
I’m pretty happy with it so far. It’s small progress, but I’m slowly getting back into the groove. Tomorrow, I’ll approach Chapter 2, which won’t need much changing but needs to be heavily tweaked.
It feels good to be doing this again.
In other developments, I’ve finally developed the Projects page and the Blogs page. That way if anyone is interested in what I currently have going on, they can take a look.
