An Interesting Little Experiment

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So I’ve spent the last year trying to improve my cooking and eat more vegetarian and healthy. It’s been pretty successful, so I’m at the final stage – an inventory.

What I’m doing is trying to track my basic nutrition day by day for a week to see if everything paid off, if I have any gaps in my nutrition, etc. It’s already pretty interesting (for instance I’m eating more low sodium than I realized).

Just a day in already has me thinking and noticing things. Going to be interesting to see where this goes . . .

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Got To Love The Fans

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I created Focused Fandom: Fanart, Fanartists, and Careers because I had seen fanartists do amazing things.  The mixture of passion, format, and disinhibition was wondrous to behold.  So I love sharing clever creations

This Fandon Alphabet is one.

It’s cute, clever, and clean.  Each letter gets one fan favorite character or thing.  The artist challenges herself, the artist gets a great portfolio, and we all get the enjoyment of watching her do it.  I hope she can do prints or something (I always get a bit confused over the proper way to handle that since I’m not an artist).

As I proudly have some Ukiyo-e heroes prints on my wall, you can guess my inclinations.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

 

iDelay the iBook for “Quest For Employment”

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Still having trouble getting the format the way I want it on the iBook version of Quest for Employment.  I’m oddly having trouble with the Table of Contents not looking right, so I’m trying to figure that out right now.

Since I’m using iBook Author on several projects, I might gain some additional insights, but I’m going to need a bit of a break from it.  I’ve also got a lot to juggle right now.

Many authors out there balk at all the challenges they face; the formats, the software, the uploading, the configurations.  It’s certainly frustrating as I have to follow 4 formats if I do it all by hand (3 if I let services do it, which isn’t much of an improvement).

It’s also a learning experience.  Lately I’ve found my writing experience plays well in the job market.  When I was interviewing I always gave out a copy of my book, because let’s face it, its hard to argue with your competency when you can self-publish (well you may not be the right kind of competent, but still).

It’s an opportunity and a hobby.  I’ll be honest, the more I write the more I enjoy it.  I can make a damn book these days.  I’m thinking of what I can do with old works, to give them a moment of immortality.

So frustrating, but worth it.  Plus I got stories to tell kids when they have it easy!

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.