http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/466194..in fact, gardening is like life - birth, maturity, reflection, death. In this part of Canada the plants have 4 short months to recover from their icy burden, bud, bloom, soak up sunshine, wither and die. The birds have the same timeline. The sparrows literally throw their youngsters out of the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/461159Recently I sent an email to my Scots buddy. In it I bragged that for the first time in aeons I was being paid, albeit miserly sums, for my writing. Not only that, but the Seniors Pool league had finished (OFP – Old Farts Pool) and I was amazed to be presented with a cheque for $55.00 for coming...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/451928I tried out what I was talking about in the previous post, and every article has been published – and paid for. As I said, the prices are derisory, but as Ell keeps reminding me, I was writing the self same type of article for Blogit for sweet nothing at all. And, it is good for the ego to get...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/447958That would be the alter ego who is younger and apparently lives in a different country. Now, if AE can only write another 9 articles per day I would have $60.00 per day - $420.00 per week and……carpal tunnel. The hilarious thing about it is that the prices are going up – for something I dashed off?...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/443942Last night I went along to a Writers’ Group. I’d heard about the group from the young at heart lady who wrote the Church’s history – the one who inveigled me into proofreading the finished product. Also, in last week’s local newspaper, there was an article regarding the group, which distinctly...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/441437Not only that, paid another astonishing $4.00. However I am chuffed that I managed to get around the rules and regs. The thing that was intriguing me was whether Paypal would actually accept the money from a…..er….different named source. It seems they have and the money has been credited to my...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/439900The latest ‘serious’ writing is going slowly and non-profitably. I’ve checked out Carl Peter’s suggested site, POVray, but it wasn’t what I needed – thank you Carl Peter. I’ve also checked out Pat_B’s suggestion of ‘Corel Painter 8’ – which has got a much higher number on it now, but it wasn’t...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/435928We had tea with our author friend last week. I was eager to hear more of her success at marketing her book. The news was not good. In a previous post I mentioned that she had sold 2,000 copies, but during this visit, we found out that 400 of them had been remaindered. She did what I would have...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/433632My eyes are weary and my neck is sore, and it’s all my own fault – let’s put it another way – Ell refuses to accept any blame. The story I sent to CommonTies seems to have died a death, but that was my fault. After reading samples of the work published on the site, it was obvious that most of the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/johnmcnab/429725After my last post in which I was aghast yet amused at being offered only $5.00 for an article I’d submitted to Associated Content, (The aghast part was because I took it.) The article was submitted as ‘non-exclusive,’ so, thinking it over, I submitted another one a few days later which I made...