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
Notes"At this point, I can’t even imagine what life would be like if I didn’t spend every weekend doing research and writing. I mean, I do something book-related almost every day, so it’s completely sewn into the fabric of my life."Unfurl
Notes"Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do any writing."Unfurl
Notes"Got to force myself to sit down, sluice, educe the force that through these carpal tunnels drives the florid." Such an awesome story, reads like William Gibson mashed up with Douglas Hofstader.Unfurl
Notes"The attention may last for a few years, and then our mental lives are deposited in libraries, where they remain like unvisited tombs, until someone decides to sell them for $1 each or throw them into a dumpster to be pulped."Unfurl
Notes"It’s one thing to write a sucky article that no one will remember a year later, but a sucky book will be on Amazon for a good long while and will be a constant reminder of your suckitude"Unfurl
Notes"You just spend a little less time drinking Heineken and a little more behind the keyboard." How about drinking the Heineken *at* the keyboard?Unfurl
Notes"If you want to be a good email citizen and ensure the kind of results you're looking for, youll need to craft messages that are concise and easy to deal with. "Unfurl
Notes"White crayon ('hwIt 'krA-"n), n: A useless person or thing you are nonetheless required to have for the sake of completeness or tradition."Unfurl
Notes"Since your action took advantage of the female nature of Ilexya Eiin Dephryn, to properly experience the victim's role your body will be surgically altered to reflect the feminine characteristics of your species."Unfurl
Notes"In a series of unsent letters to her mother, a theoretical physicist meditates on her life, examining how her work and her personal life both mesh with and obstruct each other. Taking a highly original approach to science writing, Levin reveals herself aUnfurl