Tag Archives: writing

On Reviews and Reviewing

I'm a fan of reviews and thought­ful crit­i­cism. I also like to write reviews, but I've had a hard time fig­ur­ing out what to do with them.

March 21, 2010 – 9:30 pm | By Clint Howarth | Posted in asides, reviews | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

constraints and joy

At first I didn't under­stand twit­ter, but I've come to enjoy it. As a hob­bi­est writer, I appre­ci­ate the chal­lenge of 140 char­ac­ters. Strunk said to Omit need­less words, but twit­ter advances the con­cept. If I have a com­plex or mul­ti­step thought and want to tweet it, on a geeky level I like try­ing to cram …

January 25, 2010 – 7:56 pm | By Clint Howarth | Posted in asides | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

A New Hope

I used to write a lot of fic­tion. Unpaid–but I approached it with every­thing that I had. At the time I returned to being a full-time soft­ware engi­neer, I was a decent writer. Some years have passed since then.

November 20, 2009 – 12:45 am | By Clint Howarth | Posted in asides | Tagged | Comments (0)