Notes"Cat hoovering (also Cat vacuuming) - 1. any excuse to avoid writing, even vacuuming the cat (Gerri); 2. A pointless exercise used to avoid real work."Unfurl
Notes"Conversation, not content, is king. If you were stranded on a desert island and you opted to bring your records instead of your friends, we'd call you a sociopath."Unfurl
Notes"It's simply three sets of square brackets. The first set denotes deletion, the second set denotes addition, and the third set denotes a comment."Unfurl
Notes"This list of fictional expletives contains expletives invented by writers of fictionoften science fiction or fantasyto add nuance to the fictional cultures in their work, and sometimes as a form of censorship"Unfurl
Notes"I finally got everything into a single archive in an open, stable format... and just 3 short years later, Apple found a way to screw me one last time."Unfurl
Notes"My CD-ROM is accessible only to cranks and connoisseurs, members of the "dead formats society" who've invested in the dead tech required to play it."Unfurl
Notes"I have come to view Tinderbox as a three dimensional writing tool. I can work using its basic functions one day, then dive into its more diverse functions the next to examine my thoughts and ideas from many different angles."Unfurl
Notes"By federal law, I am required to inform you that by stepping outside of these doors, you are releasing the federal government from liability for your safety."Unfurl
Notes"After a quick back-and-forth, we came up with the following capsule definition: "a networked book is an open book designed to be written, edited and read in a networked environment.""Unfurl
Notes"They have a plethora of writing utensils, cards, stationary, and Sanrio-like gifts. I adore their notebook section. It's definitely worth a look through if you're into that cutesy stuff."Unfurl
Notes"We're looking for innovative, exciting stories that use the tools of speculative fiction to examine contemporary issues and take a look at what's just around the corner."Unfurl
Notes"I've been talking to a lot of friends and acquaintances who are writing tech books for a wide variety of old-school publishers and I can't believe the deals they're taking."Unfurl
Notes"blogging ... is kind of a responsibility for a curious person who does interesting things, or even someone who does mundane things but has a curious way of looking at the world."Unfurl
Notes"These days, I find I don't have a lot of time to read everything carefully, so the better structured a document is, the more I get out of it."Unfurl
Notes"For the science fiction writer, the reasons to blog are perhaps a little more humble but no less important to those who do: it's a simple yet successful tool for writers to promote their work."Unfurl
Notes"Your only real competition...is with yourself, with your fears, your insecurities, your determination to learn what needs to be learned; your willingness to apply ass to chair and fingers to keyboard and Get It Done instead of Talking About It."Unfurl
Notes"One thing that must scare the wigs off of media moguls is that many writers and other content creators will work for free, because it's so intrinsically enjoyable."Unfurl
Notes"Incidentally, the folk tale that if you put a frog in a cool kettle and apply the heat gently, it won't notice the water temperature rising is apparently untrue. But it's a neat metaphor for gradual intensification of stress, so I'm going to keep usingUnfurl