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
Notes"As a follow up to my previous post on what I hope lesscode.org might become, I’d like to solicit the names of individuals you feel might be conned into posting here."Unfurl
Notes"You can wax on about how the web is revolutionizing personal publishing and I'm a fan, but holding a published book with your work in it... is just... real. Being in the business of bits, it is a pleasant change to see my work in atoms."Unfurl
Notes"Even with all these reasons for selling the huge tomes, I still wish we could move to 300-page computer books that focus on narrow topics and offer good value to the book buyer."Unfurl
Notes"Buffering your creative output is one way to bridge the world of creative endeavors and the linear expectations of the world that wants to manage creativity."Unfurl
Notes"If you're writing about something you are really passionate about (and if you aren't passionate about what you write about, why are you writing), 1 1/2 - 2 hours of blogging a week should be fun."Unfurl
Notes"In the end, I think the biggest challenge of computer book writing is not necessarily selling a book idea to a publisher; it’s the actual writing."Unfurl
Notes"The outline is the structural foundation of the book – even the most insightful, entertaining writing can’t hide the flaws in a weak outline."Unfurl