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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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Failing Nanowrimo: Winning the Book
Image via Wikipedia I failed at nano. Failed miserably and hard. But I’m still plugging away at the book, and actually think it’s stronger because of it. Look, it’s 2:00 Am here, and I;m up typing. Forget getting 2,000 words a day. I’m lucky to get 200 in. But I’m still enthused about the book, and the few thousand words I managed to eke out in November and December still make sense. The structure and plotting work I did in …
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35 Day Novel Tracking Chart
Fo NaNoWrimo, I wanted a bar graph to track my progress.I wanted something I could post on the wall to motivate me, not some database that I could use for billable hours. I had the chart from the No Plot No Problem writer’s kit, but have used it up on several aborted projects. And anyway, it just didn’t seem flexible enough. So I Opened up Open Office Writer and created a quick couple of tables and frames and twenty minutes …
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Tagged Arts, Google Docs, OpenOffice.org, Quick-and-dirty
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