About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Category Archives: writing
Scrivener rocks! (59)
I have been using Scrivener for a while now. It’s a tool for writers and since I do quite a bit of writing it comes in very handy.
Some of the features I like and use often:
- different views on the same content;
- full screen mode (no other windows visible);
- import .pdf in a project.
And [...]
Joining Pedro (57)
It will be Pedro’s motto this year, inspired by Henriette, and I’ll join him.
I’m serious! Today I’ve been figuring out how to include epic stuff in my weekly routines to make sure I start doing what has always been so close to my heart: creative writing.
(about the number in the title)
Halfway (33)
I’m on day 33 of my mission to blog every day for 66 days to make blogging a daily habit. Hurray!
I only missed two Saturday postings, which I compensated on the following Sunday and I posted twice on December 18th and today, which adds up to a total of 35 blogposts in 33 days. [...]
Difficult times ahead :) (31)
I’m not talking about the holidays, I’m talking about keeping up with a blogpost every day during the coming week and a half. Tomorrow we’ll be off to my parents for Christmas, Saturday is for Ton’s family and Sunday we’ll be driving off to Switzerland to celebrate the end of 2009 and the beginning of [...]
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Window of opportunity for blogging? (30)
Yes, I’m still using one of those blogging-dinosaurs aka a feed reader to keep track of people. While I keep hearing signs that feed readers are a thing of the past, I spent an hour today to wade through my Twitter subscriptions and added blogs from people to my reader (if they have one).
While doing [...]
Not in the mood for writing… (24)
and therefore I created a drawing intstead so you can see why I’m not in the mood for writing.
(about the number in the title)
My ideal role in a project (22)
This year I’ve been giving myself time to develop new skills: creating video’s. I’ve been practicing editing with every opportunity that crossed my path. Currently I’m even working on a video for a client! So things are heading in the right direction.
That said, I’m a bit uncertain how I can speed things up. I really [...]
Ohoh, I missed a day (20)
I can spot a trend: Saturdays are hard for blogging. Last week I was caught in the middle of Sinterklaas celebration.Yesterday I was just busy doing Saturday things (sleeping in, shopping, relaxing, watching a movie). Breaking my daily routines, which is why weekends were invented, immediately breaks my blogging routine. A good thing to remember [...]
Rethinking webpresence (15)
This week I spend some time together with Ton to restructure both our collection of websites. What began with just one weblog, grew into a whole collection of various websites where I manage my online identity (and I’m not talking about social networks).
My biggest concern is my Dutch (company) blog. I started it in 2005 [...]
The end: Day 66 (66)