Don't Worry About Writing Crap

Don't ever storp writing because you think what you're writing is crap because no matter how bad your writing is, chances are, you'll never have to publicly apologize for how bad your writing is...  That is, unless your name is J.D. Shapiro and you wrote the original rough draft for Battlefield Earth.

Battlefield Earth, one of the worst hollywood movies in recent memory won a Razzie for "Worse Movie of the Decade".  Shapiro offered an apology for being a part of it's making as well as tried to explain what happened.  An Excerpt:

It wasn't as I intended -- promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn't really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.

It's a pretty funny article and gives you some insight on how hollywood works.

Blog Fiction Widget Back in Working Order

I haven't done too much to maintain my site lately.  I almost let the Blog Fiction Widget atrophy into nothingness.  I just revamped it so that it should be back to working as expected.

There was a serious bug that was preventing new items from displaying.  Turns out my wonderful ISP decided to delete a deprecated php library I was explicitly using.  I fixed that.

Also, I noticed that a couple blogs that are listed decided to publish to future dates.  I had to insert a hack so that they wouldn't be at the top for the next month or year.

Finally, I went back through the forums and added a bunch of new Blog Fiction sites.

So, the Blog Fiction widget is back, if you'd like some free traffic, please, consider putting it on your site.  If it's up, shoot me an email(DustinM (at) blogfiction (dot) org) to let me know.

A site way better than mine

I'd like to direct your attention to the write.blog.fiction site. It is dedicated entirely to blog fiction. It has some great features. It has a list of current blog fiction sites. Allows readers to rate them. Once a month it features a new blog fiction site. It even lists the most recent posts from each of the blogs BY CATEGORY(take THAT Blog Fiction Widget).

It's a great site and someone put a lot of time into it. If they ever get a blog section, you'll have no reason left to visit me.