Advice
National Novel Writing Month Kick-Off
Check Out the Daily Specials from our Sponsor, Tiger Direct And Save Big!It’s that time of year! November is National Novel Writing Month. Time to kick yourself in the butt and get that novel out come hell or high water. Tonight you get to write for an Extra hour, and then on Thanksgiving weekend get [...]
Quick Links 10/27
Just a couple of quick bookmarks that were supposed to be articles. Took on additional responsibility at work so here they are:
Codeweavers Lame Duck Chalenge just paid off- With Gas under $2.79 cents, they’re offering free software for Linux Users on Oct.28th. Bookmark the page in case any of the other challenges are met.
Here’s everything [...]
Stay Home and Earn A Masters Degree
Every year it seems there are more schools offering distance learning Master of Fine Arts degrees in creative writing. It only makes sense: Why ask your students to relocate or put the rest of their life on hold when the important thing is for them to sit their butt down and actually produce something?
Most of [...]
Open Source is Not Free if Given Away
Even if you give it away, it’s still yours to give.
According to Information Week, a federal appeals court struck down an earlier court decision that said open source software licenses could not be enforced and were “Too Broad.”
The appeals court disagreed, saying the software developers had the right to determine how their products were used [...]
Free Online Writer’s Conference
The Muse Online Writer’s Conference is now accepting registrations. This looks like the second year this has been around, and they have a pretty nice lineup of workshops for beginners including classes on creating a magic system for fantasy, organizing for yuor career, writing SEX, and setting up an impressive website.
How does it work? Basically [...]
Tech Savvy Wins Over Arrogance Everytime
This article showed up in my reddit search today: What NOT to say to someone Offering you $60/hr.
Basically, for those of you afraid to click, The writer was given an ODT document as part of pre-employment screening for a job in which he would be converting, ummm, ODT documents. Instead of doing his job, the [...]
WRITE A BOOK!
The Above Message was brought to you from my 16 Year-old-daughter, upset that I Didn’t finish a draft using the Book in a Month she bought me for Father’s Day.
This shows the dangers of leaving the computer unattended for a minute, as the post she wrote over was a sparkling, brilliant piece of prose that [...]
