Notes"Wrox Blox are short, electronic-only, downloadable, and typically going to be on hot cutting edge topics. For short, these first few range from about 20-40 pages ... And, here's something I think you'll find cool: they're DRM free."Unfurl
Notes"I suppose sheer numbers might indicate there are more authors in social applications than publishers, but that stands to reason. Many of us are pushing into this space and although it is too slow for my taste."Unfurl
Notes"How much did it cost you to write the most popular ebook ever and to reach those millions of people and to do a promotion that drove an expensive hardcover to #5 on Amazon and #4 in Japan and led to translation deals in dozens of countries and plenty ofUnfurl
Notes"As such, grouping by categories is self-imposed, grouping by tags is organic: You don’t envision your tag cloud first and tailor your blog to fit it, but the tag cloud grows depending on what you write."Unfurl
Notes"Weeping is like a five-dollar chocolate bar. Someone else could enjoy it but I feel guilty opening the wrapper. I have a girlfriend and Halo."Unfurl
Notes"And yet, while criticism can be taken as hurtful and demoralizing, it can also be viewed in a positive way: it is honesty, and it can spur us to do better. It’s an opportunity to improve."Unfurl
Notes"Fuck is just a word. I use it liberally when I don't feel like filtering (and I feel that by not filtering, the post will be better for it). So get over it, you bunch of pansy ass, oversensitive, hypocritical whiners."Unfurl
Notes"So, on my plane ride home from San Francisco, I decided to write you up 100 blog post titles that I want YOU to write. Take one of these and run with it."Unfurl
Notes"If writing a novel or non-fiction book is something you've dreamed of, the only way to make that dream a reality is by putting it into action -- day by day."Unfurl
Notes"Twitfics are extremely short stories that I've been writing on Twitter. The maximum length of a Twitter message is 140 characters; however, the maximum length of a twitfic is 131 characters, because each one begins with the word TWITFIC! and a space."Unfurl
Notes"Last week I got eighty-five emails from people I've never corresponded with before. Strangers to me. However, I wasn't a stranger to them."FeedUnfurl
Notes"I was still somehow brainwashed, though, as perhaps many people still are today, into believing that Word was the “serious” word-processor: the professional tool for anyone who did heavy lifting with language."Unfurl
Notes"You see, I’ve fallen into that blogging trap where you start to feel as if you have to write a very long and involved essay in order to post to your blog."Unfurl
Notes"take your XML source (using the format defined in RFC 2629 and its unofficial successor) and see how the results look like in the original ASCII look-and-feel or the new modern HTML rendition of that look-and-feel."Unfurl
Notes"CommentPress, a free, open source theme for the WordPress blog engine designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text."Unfurl
Notes"where I was signing and where the books would be signed would be separated by 3,000 miles. This all seemed fairly science fictiony to me, so I said sure, I’d give it a try."Unfurl
Notes"The problem is I just don’t know what will happen in the future. And neither do you. So if you’re about to sign a contract of any sort with a noncompete clause, try to get out of it."Unfurl
Notes"A publishing agreement should be a partnership, and if an editor is doing his or her job it should be part of an ongoing relationship with the most valuable asset any publisher has - its authors. If both parties are reasonable and understand the otherâUnfurl
Notes"You know what? I'm bored with my trauma. That's it. I'm putting it out there and I am putting it to bed. I can't make the scars go away, and there is no catharsis that will kiss it and make it all better. But I can treat the damage just like everything eUnfurl
Notes"Although I don't spend much time in the blogosphere, I am aware—particularly through emailings from various SFWA committee members— that the use of the term "webscab" has touched off something of a firestorm."Unfurl
Notes"This happens much more quickly now, sometimes at head-spinning speed. The downside is more bad writing is making it out there onto the internet; the upside is that good writers can find an audience, too. The other downside, of course, is that you might nUnfurl
Notes"I think that blogging is a natural fit for introverts. I blog because it's such a convenient way for me to connect with people. I blog when I want to. ... I can withdraw and re-join without anyone noticing."Unfurl
Notes"A ficlet is a short story that enables you to collaborate with the world. Once you’ve written and shared your ficlet, any other user can pick up the narrative thread by adding a prequel or sequel."Unfurl
Notes"This lexicon was compiled by Mr Lewis Shiner and myself from the work of many writers and critics over many years of genre history, and it contains buzzwords, notions and critical terms of direct use to SF workshops."Unfurl
Notes"This lexicon was compiled by Mr Lewis Shiner and myself from the work of many writers and critics over many years of genre history, and it contains buzzwords, notions and critical terms of direct use to SF workshops."Unfurl
Notes"I’m not suggesting that authors or publishers purposely try to game the Amazon.com reviewer system. However, there are several ways authors can participate to be sure that their voice is part of the conversation."Unfurl
NotesI want to go to Clarion someday. Need to start writing more, first. "This summer marks the first year that the venerable Clarion Writers' Workshop will run at the University of California at San Diego."Unfurl
Notes"Unlike the goal of 50,000 words in a month, which really isn't a goal at all, the goal of ShortStoryAWeek (that old sSaw) is to produce a good, readable short story once a week."Unfurl
Notes"Victor Hugo ... concocted a unique scheme to force himself to write: he had his servant take all of his clothes away for the day and leave his own nude self with only pen and paper, so he’d have nothing to do but sit down and write."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Just because most blog entries aren’t written for posterity doesn’t mean that many can’t be or shouldn’t be. My view is that blogs are becoming our resumes, our digital portfolios, our public identities."Unfurl
Notes"Being a self-employed writer is not a lifestyle that suits everyone. In fact, there are a lot of misconceptions about what the job entails."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Want to write a science fiction story but can't think of a character or problem to write about? Below is a suggested way to use the Mission Control chapter of the multiple-award-winning book, Space Station Science, as a springboard to create your own shoUnfurl
Notes"I sat next to Cory at a conference today. It was like playing basketball next to Michael Jordan. Cory was looking at more than 30 screens a minute."Unfurl
Notes"These rules (and their runes) create a scaffold for the brain, which, now able to engage with complex ideas in contemplative solitude as opposed to interlocution, begins to conceive of itself as an individual entity rather than as part of a collective. LUnfurl
Notes"Ever since Gamer Theory we've been thinking about how to design social environments for texts that aren't as conveniently hyper-structured as McKenzie Wark's."Unfurl
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