#fordummies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fordummies, aggregated by home.social.
-
Fajny artykuł o cyberbezpieczeństwie dla początkujących z dużym naciskiem na prywatność
https://hashman.ca/security-101/
#cybersecurity #privacy #fordummies -
Ich beschäftige mich aktuell vermehrt mit Memes ^^'
-
LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies
https://zacharyhuang.substack.com/p/llm-agent-internal-as-a-graph-tutorial
#HackerNews #LLMAgents #Graph #Tutorial #ForDummies #AIInsights
-
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: What to Read to Learn About… Writing
Hi everyone! I hope you’re all doing well! Today is post number seven in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2025 here. If you want to read about how others have responded to today’s topic, you can do so here.
What to Read to Learn About… Writing
Over the years, I have read many books claiming to instruct in the proper ways to write fiction and poetry, and today, I will share with you some of my favourites, i.e. the ones that actually helped me to hone my skills.
First, there’s no beating the “For Dummies” series of books, which teach you everything from basic story structure to how to look for an agent or even how to self-publish. My favourite book in this series is “Writing a Novel and Getting Published for Dummies“.Another great book (and partial memoir) is “On Writing” by Stephen King. This book is full of helpful advice for writing, and it also gives a glimpse into King’s life and career. For instance, it was through reading this book I learned he almost died in 1999 when he was struck by a van and spent three weeks in hospital.
“The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook” is another tome of helpful information and solid advice. It is updated yearly and contains all sorts of useful stuff, like lists of agents you can query and tips from published authors. It’s a book I return to often.
Finally, one more book that offers good tips and advice for writing is “Take Off Your Pants: Outline Your Books For Faster, Better Writing” by Libbie Hawker. The book shows you how to create a solid working outline for a story and introduced me to “The Story Core”. This method has been a revelation to me; it’s a way of outlining that helps combine a plot structure with a character’s arc, and I’ve just started implementing it, so we’ll see how it works out.
Anyway, I think I’ve gone on for long enough, but I’m curious to read all your posts!
As always, thanks for stopping by!
Until next time,
George
© 2025 GLT
#challenge #forDummies #StephenKing #Wednesday #WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge #writing
-
@koldotxu Oinarrizko osasun gomendio horiek #ForDummies ?
-
And maybe send these small business owners a copy of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson".
#economics #Economics101 #Econ101 #HenryHazlitt #OneLesson #ForDummies
-
Baby Steps with AI
-
Building DIY Websites For Dummies 2024 by Jennifer DeRosa
Building DIY Websites For Dummies guides non-designers through the steps of creating an attractive and effective website using today's top web-based tools. This book helps you launch or improve your website designed to boost your entrepreneurial endeavors, small business, or personal passion.
-
@DrCassone @curtis As a kid, I learned how to code through the #ForDummies books. It’s the perfect combination of explaining everything in a way that’s easy to understand, and the touch of humor that I love lol
-
LOL
And this is why I'm reading Mastodon for Dummies
I just learned that I can have a Display Name separate from my username and that I should change mine lol
(all I really did was format it nicely)
-
Ah, I’ve barely ever touched #Twitter tbh! Read tons of #ForDummies books about it as a kid though
-
@Leyonhjelm @theexplorographer @sj_zero As a kid I fell in love with #Twitter after reading #ForDummies books about it (I know), but I was never allowed to use it as a kid. When I finally joined alt social media (I started on #Gab, joined the #Fediverse, got disillusioned by #AndrewTorba and left #Gab) it felt exactly like the platform I'd read about, in a way that #Twitter didn't at the time, and still doesn't.
In retrospect, it was probably silly to expect 2016 #Twitter to feel like 2006-2009 #Twitter. -
Yep! I actually learned it as a kid, when I was learning about #Twitter through #ForDummies books tbh
-
Why hell?
It feels more to me to be very similar to how the #ForDummies books I read as a kid about #Twitter made it seem like, but if everyone who was on the platform at the time grew up and got jobs and got too busy for #Twitter and all the people that were left were the nerds and the geeks -
Those #AOL #AIM chatrooms seemed pretty nifty when I read about them as a kid in #ForDummies books. I feel like I’d get the same thing outta them now that I can easily get out of #IRC, tho
-
@lanodan @ironee212 @dielan I love this since I grew up on #JavaScript #ForDummies haha
Many such images were spent as depicted in the post
