I don’t know about you, but I just don’t see the resemblance.

I have a pair of Old Navy socks. They are brown with yellow writing.
That writing does not say Old Navy, in fact, the writing is of a directional nature.
A picture will help.

What makes me a rebel? The “left” sock is on my right foot, and the “right” sock is on my left foot.

Take that.

Challenge completed - story ongoing. I’m currently at 50,234, but the story is progressing in several new directions and I’m going to keep on truckin’ along. We’ll see whether I completely finish the story this month, but I will continue to update my wordcount on the site for those of you who are also NaNoing and keeping track.

Best wishes to everyone who is participating - and I look forward to the rest of you hitting the 50k mark soon!

What a difference an L makes.

It can turn a bet into a belt, or a mat into a malt. It can bog down your blog or put a clog in your cog. Rea Pearlman isn’t her Real name, and while you might like Ike, no one would watch a show called Famiy Guy.

But the real L that I want to discuss is the L in my name. It’s the L that turns Heath into Health and Health into Heath. Most spell checks will correct someone typing in Heath, and try to make it Health. They just insist on shoving that L in there where it doesn’t belong. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t know that many people who like getting an L shoved in them. Well, I do know some people like that - Ike likes it.

I have several alerts that…alert me when someone searches on “heath” or “heath buckmaster”. I also have alerts on “digital heath” since that’s the domain that hosts this blog. It’s amazing some of the hits I get for people who are really trying to refer to digital HEALTH, but have mistakenly left out the L.

MSNBC did this not that long ago, and here’s what it looked like on the front page of the website:

If you look closely (and follow the big red/yellow arrow I drew), you will see that MSNBC had a very important article right there on the front page. And I have to say, I totally agree with their message. “Few Americans follow heath advice.” I couldn’t agree more. More people need to listen to me. I say important things people!

What a difference an L makes, huh? And I was lucky enough to get a screen shot of it before someone ran a spell check and realized that in this one particular case, an L needed a good shoving.

To finally hammer home my point of the importance of knowing when to, and when not to shove an L up in there, I present to you this very famous passage:

Mr. land Mrs. Dursey, of number flour, Privet Drivel, were proud to slay that they were perfecty norma, thank you very mulch. They were the ast peope you’d expect to be invoved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hod with such nonsense.

I’ll spare you the rest…it gets a lot worse. Don’t forget your L’s!!!

Reminds me of when I choreographed a routine to Vogue for the Montreat Youth Conference when I was a freshmen in college

Very talented though - I was impressed with the synchronization, and the leg muscles. Bike riders…

Did you know that the Princess Carrina series for Young Readers is complete? That’s right! A three book series that’s just waiting for you to grab it up and enjoy. If you haven’t been with us in a while, you might not know that the third and final book just became available on amazon.com. This means that the entire series is there for the taking!

I haven’t decided if I will write a fourth in the series, but if I do it will probably not be until 2010, or perhaps in November 2009 during NaNoWriMo. There is just too much other stuff on my plate, and while I enjoyed the young reader’s series, I tend to prefer more adult fiction, and I think my writing is better in non-youth literature.

I’ll share a secret with you - most people like book 2 the best - that’s The Venus Diary. Personally, I prefer the third, and final book in the series The Dragons of Tarnack. Book 1 - Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale, was originally intended to be the only book, but then I got the itch to see if I could evolve the characters and storyline, and that’s why books 2 and 3 are better :-).

The other things that you’ll find available on amazon.com, or Barnes & Noble if you prefer, are my blog compilation volume 1, a 3-book poetry compilation, and a short story (exclusively at lulu.com). Everything is also Kindle enabled, if you’ve got one of those snazzy devices (just search “heath buckmaster” on amazon.com). Buy everything and you’ll get free shipping from amazon.com!!

With the holidays coming up soon, a book is a wonderful gift for readers young and old alike, and thank you in advance for supporting Independent Authors!!!

Here’s a quick one…

Should I be using categories, tags, or both to “categorize” my posts? Wordpress has these wonderful new features regarding categories and tags, but I find myself at a crossroads trying to use both.

So far I haven’t used any tags, only categories, and I do enjoy having a category cloud widget at the right so you can see frequency and search based on those…but…I feel like I must be missing out on something by not using tags?

What’s the general recommendation on how to use both of them together, effectively? Oh and what about keywords? Should they be the same as the categories or the tags?