Dear blog readers,
I interrupt regularly scheduled vacation blogging to bring you this critical news flash.
Some of my regular blog readers know that I have had plans for quite some time (first documented here) to self publish my blog writings in the form of a book, for my children to read and share with their own [...]

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It was such an innocent looking box, sitting conspicuously in my office chair. But when I returned from a meeting yesterday to find the small cardboard carton that said “Wiley” on every surface, I knew exactly what it meant. My author’s copies had arrived! I wasted not an instant tearing into the package, and my [...]

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For those of you who are following such things, the book to which I have contributed an article, Best of The eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions: Top Articles from the eMagazine’s First Five Years, is officially scheduled for release on April 11. It’s already listed on Amazon. Check it out!
Meanwhile, a preview of the table of [...]

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This letter appeared in my email inbox, with no warning, exactly one hour ago. No words can describe my sheer euphoria, so I won’t even try. The letter speaks for itself.

Dear Monique,
 
The eLearning Guild has identified your article, “The Design Document: Your Blueprint for e-Learning Standards and Consistency,” as one of the top [...]

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Don’t you hate it, really hate it, when you can’t think of a word that is right on the tip of your tongue? And the blasted thesaurus was no help, because I couldn’t hit on a word that was quite close enough to lead me to the word I was really trying to find. The [...]

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Today, boys and girls, we take a brief time out from normal blogging for a little lesson in punctuation. Today, I’m going to educate you about the underutilized mark known as the em dash. Never to be confused with the lowly hyphen.
Folks, way too many people out there are using a hyphen or two (like [...]

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I haven’t a creative bone in my body, apparently. I’ve been wanting to try my hand at writing some fiction, but every time I sit down at the computer, I stare and stare and stare at the blank page on the screen. I’ve wasted a lot of time staring at this infernal blank screen. I [...]

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Anyone who was reading me way back when may remember this post from several months ago wherein I first publicly declared my intention to get professionally published, as well as several posts along the way chronicling my progress. As of today, that mission is now officially accomplished and is something I can forever cross off [...]

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Just got to work and found out that I have a publication date for my article. It’s scheduled to run December 12, 2005. I thought that was an important enough development to document. I am getting ever so much closer to my goal of being professionally published!
Now I am going to perform an amazing trick [...]

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My article is done and as of now sent off to the editor, after quite a few late nights of spit and polish. 4500 words of pure technical mumbo jumbo. I might actually even sound like I know what I’m talking about. With time to spare too, since my submission deadline was September 30. I [...]

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