Greetings, readers. I hope this special message finds you well.
I wanted to let you know how pleased I am that you follow this blog; so I want to give you the best opportunity to stay in touch. I will be away from the website for the next several weeks because I [...]
I just got a nice, little note from WordPress tonight:
Thanks for remembering, WP. That’s very kind of you.
I started this blog in June 2008 on the Blogger platform, but since I took a year off in the middle, I won’t argue with celebrating my four-year anniversary.
(Incidentally, it’s 2013 today [...]
Last month I started Fiction Fridays, a series in which I post a new short story on the blog each week. Who knew that writing a story every seven days in addition to a novel and other posts took so much time?
But in all seriousness, I’m not complaining. I’ve [...]
I’m a tinkerer. An experimenter. An investigator. If I see something interesting I want to know how it works. So when I saw Google search results complete with a picture of the article’s author, I had to figure out how to accomplished this.
It’s called Google Authorship, which is an extension of [...]
If you follow this blog on Google Reader, I have some bad news. Google has announced they are shutting down the service on July 1. They identified the casualty as part of their recent spring cleaning:
We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy [...]
Starting next Friday, March 1, and continuing each Friday after that, I will be posting a new short story on danielgardina.com. Why? Because I must be crazy.
I was trying to come up with new ideas for the blog — hopefully in the form of some kind of [...]
I’ve thought of this idea off and on for a long time — as a writer in general but specifically as a blogger: What am I supposed to discuss on this website?
Where’s the line between sharing good information with the reading/writing community (on story, on craft, on theory) and keeping certain trade secrets to [...]




