If you care about history, when handling precious old print books and documents you wear gloves (not cotton) to protect it from your skin oils. Now here’s another reason.
Then here are some tips from the fucking great Suzanne Reisman.
I generally don’t like to post negative reviews. What’s the point? So let me say right off that I did not hate the movie. It just left me feeling flat. I want to understand why. As a writer, I want to avoid these mistakes.
Do as I do.
From my work blog: What’s a rule and what is just style: Using italics for direct thought in fiction
Aside from writing, I do book design, layout, and editing for others. This is my first post on the new site that touches on rules vs. “rules”—important considerations when you’re editing someone else’s prose.
A book (or short story or painting or movie or any creative work) comes to life and dies several times over.
The story and the telling of the story are two different things.
[Update: Kindle book will be free again on April 13–14, 2018.] To outsiders, she may seem like a […]
What was rarepattern.com is no more, though some of it lives on here. If you followed a dead […]
A short story infested with yellow jackets is out.
I’ve been writing science fiction and a bit of fantasy. One story is out for submission. A couple […]
When starting out with something new like Bullet Journaling, of course I have to geek out on the equipment.
That’s a question I explore in a guest blogpost over on Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. There’s a joke […]
I’ll be an entrepreneur … if you pay me to do it.I’ll paint the picture … if you […]
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016). Let’s just agree that 57 is too young.
This blog has been too quiet. I’ve been typing words elsewhere. This changes now. So a couple of […]
When I saw the news on Twitter that David Bowie had died, I started to cry. It was the middle of the night, but I couldn’t sleep anymore. I tossed and turned with “Heroes” echoing in my head.
I am spiny.
The Apple Watch seems to be inspiring a lot of uninspired thinking. Things like all the news that fits […]
Following up on my review of three ergonomic keyboards last year, I pass along now Marco Arment’s review of […]
’Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions, a tradition floated by best hopes and intentions for the future […]
This is a question our culture seems to be still trying to figure out. Yesterday Kate Lawrence explored […]
I first came across Lagrangian Points many years ago in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel A Fall of Moondust. It boggled my young mind, picturing satellites orbiting in seemingly static positions around the Moon!
Last year, I took some rather timid steps into NaNoWriMo — which is to say I signed up […]
Its done! Not done done, but done — a “first draft.” Not an actual first draft — I […]
What happens to this blog when I die, when I no longer pay the monthly bill? What happens […]
[Update 26 Feb 2018: This post was written about Scrivener 2 some years ago. It does not apply […]
It’s nice to have an office.
The place: The Facebook website thingie. The time: A moment of weakness (escaping from my manuscript). The assignment: […]
[Update 26 Feb 2018: This post was written about Scrivener 2 some years ago. It does not apply […]
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Imagination On. Check. Motivation On. Check. Quiet On. Check. Distractions Off. Check. Comfort Zone On. Check.…
Originally posted on Whatever:
I can’t actually remember when it was that I first met Jay Lake, which is an unusual…
If you’re a science fiction fan like I am, here’s a new reading list. Novel Winner: Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie […]
Last night, on impulse from a friend’s suggestion, I had the immense pleasure of attending the main concert […]
Originally posted on The Bloggess:
I was just on Facebook, and this popped up in my feed as something suggested for…
Piggies are for saving! My piggy is Instapaper, Pinboard and Evernote, where I bookmark all the things that […]
It’s not that we need a second screen, it’s that we have an inadequate first screen. If we’re […]
What does life mean? Does it need to mean anything? If all you find is emptiness, Is that […]
I haven’t been blogging the A to Z Challenge these past few days because they were blocking me […]
Regular keyboards give me a pain — a pain in the wrist, specifically. It makes a huge difference […]
If you have nothing to say, jot it down. If you have something to say, jot it down. […]
To what domain should I devote my pen? To verse where I betray my ignorance? For I to […]
It’s one thing to know formal English, but this is not all that’s required for the subtleties of […]
Apply nose.
I confess! I have many fears: fear of death; fear of illness; fear of embarrassing myself; fear of letting […]
“The problem with the School of Hard Knocks,” they say, “is that the final exam comes first, and […]
Sometimes the cupboard is bare. Sometimes the tissue is gone. Sometimes the tank has no gas. Sometimes the […]
So often our language can become so bland it feels like it’s been diluted with chicken milk. Or […]
What do you do when you’re blocked? I freewrite. That’s what I am doing here. I just keep […]
Pity a. A gets no respect. A gets taken for granted. A gets trotted out and used—and often […]
