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Two Weeks? Maybe? Could it be True?
Image via Wikipedia At work last week, I was talking to a friend who’s been following the progress of my Work in Progress since before NanoWriMo. She mentioned that, for as long as she knew me, she had never seen me as excited or happy to be actually writing and working on a project. So, after a holiday season in which I didn’t really get a lot of writing done, I decided to take a look at “Teddy Roosevelt and …
Star Trek Acid Drive
Ok. Fine. You Probably saw this on Reddit, bit I like the music and I’ve been busy trying to get a rough draft of the WIP done.
Posted in Random Blogginess
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Pay It Forward 2011: 10 Free Books
I saw this on facebook and thought I’d modify it for here: I’ll give away a copy of my #WIP to the next ten people who comment on this post. All you have to do is promise ( Just promise- I have no way to back it up) to do something similar on your facebook page or blog. Just Promise to give away 10 copies of whatever you feel like in 2011 to the first ten people who promise to …
Posted in Working My Book, Writing
Tagged Facebook, Online Communities, Social Networking, Twitter
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Useful Hashtags for Writers: Now with more linkage!
You’ve started to Follow the writers and blogs you like. You’ve managed to get beyond the ”Sitting here tweeting. What’s the fuss?” tweet. Now you’re looking at some of the posts, trying to find a way to grow your social media circle and see those funny little codes appended to the end of Wil Wheaton‘s and Neil Gaiman‘s tweets. So, a couple notes on Hashtags: First, hashtags are unofficial and unsupported by Twitter. You can start using anything as a …
Yeah, It’s Like That: Writers vs. Marketers
Check out the newest Penny Arcade, both the comic and the blog, in which Tycho gets his rant on about the destruction of language at the hands of marketers: In twenty years, I wonder if we’ll have any language left that isn’t based on flavor or texture, if it will be possible to describe any object, event, or emotion without the use of delicious terms like flaky or moist. Thanks Guys.
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R.A. Salvatore’s “Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction”
6 Steps to Writing Your Bestseller A quick glance at Today’s Amazon bestsellers shows the Post-Christmas Kindle blitz going strong with most Science fiction and fantasy books being self-published. So, for your enjoyment, here’s an excerpt from R.A. Salvatore’s ” Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction.” Enjoy.
Posted in Kindle Excerpts, Publishing
Tagged Fiction, Kindle, R. A. Salvatore, Science fiction
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