irenepsmith

Why I joined Steemit and share your story to win STEEM

This is a story/contest and also a way to share some great experiences about how we you first heard about Steemit, it might also shed some light on what some of...

Writing in the Age of Distractions

(Monday, 2/13/2017) Here I sit on a train, headed to New York City. I'm wearing headphones to drown out the sounds of the train and the people around me. I'm wr...

Forget about making money on Steemit. For now.

When browsing Steem, I regularly come across the congenital whingers who lament that they have not yet had even a solitary thousand dollar payday. Neither have ...

Why I've had Enough of Recruiters

I have been on and off the job market for the past ten or eleven years. After spending five-plus years as a full-time employee of Medidata Solutions, I have bee...

Using Markdown with WordPress

My appreciation of Markdown began when I created my account here at Steemit. I have been using it to write articles in Scrivener for publication here at Steemit...

Writers Should be Agile Too

What is Agile? If you are not involved in software development, you might not be aware of the concept of agile development. The idea is that you track your proj...

Are our devices over-stepping their bounds?

I know the title sounds like something out of Conspiracy Central, but this is a conversation we need to have sooner rather than later. Not because I think that ...

What have I been Doing?

At the end of December, I signed up for a long list of courses from Udemy.com because they were offering their usually $200 courses for $10. I signed up for web...

Feeling a Little Less Lost

I haven't been around in a while. In case you actually noticed and/or are wondering where I've been, I started a new job at the end of November and fell into a ...

Hedwig Taught me to Fly

http://irenepsmith.com/steempics/hedwig.jpg When I was a child, we lived in the same small city where my mother was born and raised. Mom’s father was from Kings...

C'mon, Get Happy! (Chapter 1)

Friday, November 10, 1972 http://irenepsmith.com/steempics/fallleaves.jpg Where did it begin? All these years later, I can close my eyes and see the scene just ...

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to NaNoWriMo

Life is strange, isn’t it? Monday I was feeling so down that I basically spent the day sitting on the couch, binge watching Modern Family and The Big Bang Theor...

...and we're off! NaNoWriMo 2016 + Virtual Write-In on Discord tonight 6pm PST!

https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/http://reneenouveau.com/Steem/nano.jpg November is here and with it the monumental task of the NaNoWriMo participant: Write a 50,00...

C’mon, Get Happy!

So, where have I been lately? Trying to get ready for NaNoWriMo (for details of what that means, take a look at this post that I did a week or so ago, Do you Na...

Steemitguide: [HowTo] Make Use of a Steemit Feature that allows you to display Content Floating Left/Right and learn to Paragraph Text with Linked Images

This Post is Dedicated for those Interested in Learning Custom Markdown Style Editing Many of you don't know this but this feature has been released for quite s...

My top 6 features I want added to steemit

Loving all that is steemit Steemit is an amazing place were I have learned how to express myself in many different ways. It's a platform that allows any express...

Would Anybody Care?

Twenty-two years ago I wrote a bunch of games for Windows 3.1; games that you might have found at Electronics Boutique or KMart. The games did pretty well but t...

Simon Says

Margaret and her brother, Simon, sat on the front porch of the farmhouse where Margaret lived with her husband and children. Croplands stretched in every direct...

Do you NaNo?

It is getting closer to November, and you know what that means… You don’t? My friend @merej99 knows! She has already talked about it in her post, Calling on the...

Unboxing the iPhone 7 Plus

Counting my new iPhone 7 Plus, I have had four iPhones over the years. I had an iPhone 4, 5, 6, and now the 7 Plus. I know that iPhones are expensive, and that ...