Catana

@Catana (735)

United States • Age 86

Joined myLot 14 years ago

Self-published novelist, six-time NaNoWriMo winner, blogger

writingcycle.wordpress.com/

Catana's Activity

Use it or Lose it!

starberry @star4u (90) • Quezon City, Philippines 23 Nov 15

Do you read books or check your twitter account, or do you keep on checking updates who likes your post in Facebook? According to the study daily habits of mental stimulation can prevent Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Do you...

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Catana I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. They're two of the worst time-wasters ever invented. I've been a book reader ever since I could figure out what those little black marks meant. I read constantly because I love reading. Maybe it will keep Alzheimer's away, maybe...

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Writing Helps with Writing

Jillybean1222 @jillybean1222 (6407) 24 Nov 15

As I have spent the last several days attempting to retrieve cached Bubblews articles from the web, I have realized something. When I was writing daily, my writing skills were improving. Considering my wild and wacky...

blogging

journaling

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Catana I don't write everyday, but I'm almost always thinking about at least one of my writing projects and making notes. I just finished NaNoWriMo, so that's been a daily job. I have a writing blog, and I'm on Google+, so one way or another, I do a fair amount of...

24 Nov 15

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Why is Wordpress such a popular site? What makes it special?

Ptrikha_2 @ptrikha_2 (47071) • India 24 Nov 15

I keep on seeing people talking and advertising about Wordpress. What makes it special? Is anyone active on Wordpress?

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Catana It has a lot of theme options, and it's fairly easy to use. I've been blogging there for quite a while. In fact, my writing blog is about five years old.

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Will you buy a book which you can read it in Internet?

Polang @tkonlinevn (6438) • Vietnam 28 Feb 11

I like books. I usually look for the good books to buy. But now, almost of them I can read in Internet, so I don't buy them anymore. Do you know the book "Angles and Demons"? It's very famous. Everyone want to read it. I'm...

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Catana If you downloaded Angels and Demons (not Angles and Demons) and didn't pay for it, then you got it from an illegal site. The internet is a big place, and there are pirate sites as well as sites where you pay for what you want. Of course, if you don't care that...

28 Feb 11

Genre Biases

allyoftherain @allyoftherain (7208) • United States 27 Feb 11

Hey all the readers out there! I've got a question for you. Do you have Genre Biases? As in... you only read books from a certain genre or you won't read books from other genres? Or are you an easy to please person who's going to...

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Catana I read literary fiction sometimes, mostly rereads of classics, and historical fiction. There's a genre that's not really too well known -- darkfic, which is often a combination of other genres, but with a dark slant. When I'm in a mood when I can concentrate,...

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Importance of blogging on the decline?

DoctorDidi @DoctorDidi (7018) • India 28 Feb 11

Do you think that the importance of blogging is on the decline after the launching of twitter, facebook or so many similar sites?

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Catana It depends on what you mean by importance. For people who like to talk about their everyday lives and get in touch with other people, maybe it's become less important than social networking sites. But I doubt that there's any way to prove it. In some ways,...

28 Feb 11

Genre Biases

allyoftherain @allyoftherain (7208) • United States 27 Feb 11

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Catana I read a lot of different genres, but there are a bunch I don't care for and won't usually read. Romance, horror, westerns, chicklit of any kind, real crime, mysteries, high fantasy -- they're all on my list of boring and a waste of time. For me, of course. I...

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Fake Rolex watches

viru1981 @viru1981 (95) • India 26 Feb 11

Hi everyone, Now a days there is lot of advertisement about fake Rolex watches. They say that they are exact replicas. What are your views.

fake rolex watches

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Catana In general, replicas use cheaper materials and the assembly may not be as good. Watches are precision instruments, and it's unlikely that a cheap knockoff is going to be as well made. It may look good, and it may work as well as any normal watch, but it won't...

26 Feb 11

Email Processor

jlwolf87 @jlwolf87 (19) • United States 25 Feb 11

I have been doing some research on the email processing but all of them I have seen you have to pay to get started. Does anyone know if doing this would actually work or have you done this?

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Catana This is just the new digital version of the old envelope-stuffing scam. No legitimate company is going to ask you for money in order to get a job. Don't fall for this, because the chances are good that even you pay, there will never be any work for you to do.

25 Feb 11

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Mylotters are walkers!

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27560) • Philippines 24 Feb 11

When I started in mylot, I had wanted to have a profile of mylotters, sort of want to know what makes them stay and write on mylot, what do they do on their spare time... Well, I just read a discussion about walking and...

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Catana Maybe some are walkers, but a few responses from people here isn't exactly scientific way to develop a profile. I walk when I need to, but spend most of my time in front of my computer. And my writing ideas don't come from nature at all. In fact, as I get...

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What do you think of IPADS ? Are they yet ready to replace computers/laptops ?

Ritwick @ritwick (190) • India 22 Feb 11

Although most ipads are cool and fun to play with .I feel that the ipad is yet not much ready to be called matured for full time computing. They look good ,feel good with a good interface but not yet powerful. Most of the...

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ipad are fashion

ipads are not necessary

not useful ipad

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Catana You're free to form your own opinion, of course, but you don't know anything about me. I have no use for an iPad, since my computer does everything I need. And I really doubt they will replace computers. It's far more likely that they will be one more option.

25 Feb 11

Feng shui - for a better standard of life?

LeighB @LeighB (700) • Thailand 24 Feb 11

Feng Shui - the ancient Chinese system of blending heaven (astrology) and Earth (geography) together to improve ones living standard by dispelling negative forces and replacing them with positivity. The literal translation of...

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Catana Feng Shui is just like any other superstition. If you believe in it, it may have some minor effect on your life. But most of that effect is actually in your imagination, or because your believe caused you to do something a different and better way. You see...

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online shopping is not possible for middle class person

smilywomen @surekharathi (14146) • India 24 Feb 11

I know e-commerce or online shopping is fastest growing activity but till i want to say this is not possible for middle class person because cost of the goods are so high in online shopping. Credit card is necessary for online...

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Catana This may be true if you live in India. But I live in the United States. My income is just barely over the poverty line and I do a lot of shopping online. If you're going to go to luxury sites, then, yes, it's expensive. But there are thousands of reasonably...

24 Feb 11

Is any computer truly safe?

megamatt @megamatt (14291) • United States 23 Feb 11

Downloading the proper software and scanning your computer on a fairly regular basis does go a long, long way in keeping it rather safe. Still the problem is while there are updates being released to help combat the viruses,...

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Catana There's no such thing as a totally safe computer as long as it's connected to the internet. But I can say that in more than ten years, I've never had any virus or malware on my computer. And I don't have virus protection, a firewall, or any other means of...

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Regression - does it work?

LeighB @LeighB (700) • Thailand 20 Feb 11

Has anybody been hypnotised and regressed to a past life? Share your experiences, of what you experienced and what you found out. Really interested.

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Catana Many things are unexplainable at the present time. And there are many we now understand that were once mysterious. There are undoubtedly things we will never understand. Of the three things you mention, ghosts don't exist except in the imagination or...

22 Feb 11