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mallorcaman (65)in #story • 8 years ago
Why I joined Steemit and share your story to win STEEM
This is a story/contest and also a way to share some great experiences about how we you first heard about Steemit, it might also shed some light on what some of the most…
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irenepsmith (59)in #life • 8 years ago
Writing in the Age of Distractions
(Monday, 2/13/2017) Here I sit on a train, headed to New York City. I'm wearing headphones to drown out the sounds of the train and the people around me. I'm writing on my…
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irenepsmith reblogged
nigelmarkdias (67)in #angelinvestment • 8 years ago
Forget about making money on Steemit. For now.
When browsing Steem, I regularly come across the congenital whingers who lament that they have not yet had even a solitary thousand dollar payday. Neither have I, as yet. To…
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irenepsmith (59)in #life • 8 years ago
Why I've had Enough of Recruiters
I have been on and off the job market for the past ten or eleven years. After spending five-plus years as a full-time employee of Medidata Solutions, I have been doing one…
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irenepsmith (59)in #blogging • 8 years ago
Using Markdown with WordPress
My appreciation of Markdown began when I created my account here at Steemit. I have been using it to write articles in Scrivener for publication here at Steemit, but this isn’t…
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irenepsmith (59)in #writing • 8 years ago
Writers Should be Agile Too
What is Agile? If you are not involved in software development, you might not be aware of the concept of agile development. The idea is that you track your project by tasks.…
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irenepsmith (59)in #technology • 8 years ago
Are our devices over-stepping their bounds?
I know the title sounds like something out of Conspiracy Central, but this is a conversation we need to have sooner rather than later. Not because I think that technology is…
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irenepsmith (59)in #personal • 8 years ago
What have I been Doing?
At the end of December, I signed up for a long list of courses from Udemy.com because they were offering their usually $200 courses for $10. I signed up for web design courses…
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irenepsmith (59)in #personal • 8 years ago
Feeling a Little Less Lost
I haven't been around in a while. In case you actually noticed and/or are wondering where I've been, I started a new job at the end of November and fell into a deep, dark hole.…
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irenepsmith (59)in #life • 8 years ago
Hedwig Taught me to Fly
When I was a child, we lived in the same small city where my mother was born and raised. Mom’s father was from Kingston, but her mother was born just outside of Port Jervis, in…
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irenepsmith (59)in #nanowrimo • 8 years ago
C'mon, Get Happy! (Chapter 1)
Friday, November 10, 1972 Where did it begin? All these years later, I can close my eyes and see the scene just as it was. Lily and I were doing our homework in the…
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irenepsmith (59)in #life • 8 years ago
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to NaNoWriMo
Life is strange, isn’t it? Monday I was feeling so down that I basically spent the day sitting on the couch, binge watching Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory. I spent…
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irenepsmith reblogged
reneenouveau (66)in #nano • 8 years ago
...and we're off! NaNoWriMo 2016 + Virtual Write-In on Discord tonight 6pm PST!
November is here and with it the monumental task of the NaNoWriMo participant: Write a 50,000 word novel by midnight on November 30th! That breaks down to 1,666 words per day…
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irenepsmith (59)in #nanowrimo • 8 years ago
C’mon, Get Happy!
So, where have I been lately? Trying to get ready for NaNoWriMo (for details of what that means, take a look at this post that I did a week or so ago, Do you NaNo? . After…
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irenepsmith reblogged
steemitguide (65)in #steemit • 8 years ago
Steemitguide: [HowTo] Make Use of a Steemit Feature that allows you to display Content Floating Left/Right and learn to Paragraph Text with Linked Images
This Post is Dedicated for those Interested in Learning Custom Markdown Style Editing Many of you don't know this but this feature has been released for quite some time…
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irenepsmith reblogged
ballinconscious (65)in #steemit • 8 years ago
My top 6 features I want added to steemit
Loving all that is steemit Steemit is an amazing place were I have learned how to express myself in many different ways. It's a platform that allows any expression of one's…
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irenepsmith (59)in #programming • 8 years ago
Would Anybody Care?
Twenty-two years ago I wrote a bunch of games for Windows 3.1; games that you might have found at Electronics Boutique or KMart. The games did pretty well but times change.…
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irenepsmith (59)in #fiction • 8 years ago
Simon Says
Margaret and her brother, Simon, sat on the front porch of the farmhouse where Margaret lived with her husband and children. Croplands stretched in every direction as far as the…
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irenepsmith (59)in #writing • 8 years ago
Do you NaNo?
It is getting closer to November, and you know what that means… You don’t? My friend @merej99 knows! She has already talked about it in her post, Calling on the Community.…
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irenepsmith (59)in #iphone • 8 years ago
Unboxing the iPhone 7 Plus
Counting my new iPhone 7 Plus, I have had four iPhones over the years. I had an iPhone 4, 5, 6, and now the 7 Plus. I know that iPhones are expensive, and that they are not as…
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