I’m taking December off of my rigorous blogging schedule of maybe posting once or twice a week to finish the first and second drafts of Retardo Montalbán*. It’s verboten form for writers and bloggers to explicitly state things like this, but I’m neither so I don’t recognize those social constraints. There will be one small … Taking A Month Off
In my last post, I may have made it sound like I find blogs annoying*, but I really don’t. I subscribe to many of them and I know there are some mutual subscriptions. The crux of it was that, even though I’m not a heavy publisher, I was getting burnt out on my own blogging. … An Addendum to My Last Post About Blogging
Lately I’ve taken to writing microfiction on Twitter. There wasn’t an epiphany or earth-moving impetus behind it. It was very fly by night. I’ve been doing them for over a week, once a day. Back when I posted a lot of flash fiction on here I used to do 100 word stories daily for quite … Blogging Is Annoying So Here’s a Bunch of Tweets
I’ve noticed a tendency of modern writers to write clipped sentences and paragraphs. Like this. One or a few in each paragraph, for certain scenes. Not even action scenes. Ones where there’s supposed to be descriptive of a scene, or internal thought development. I can understand if it’s first person from a certain kind of … Have No Fear, This Is an Easy Read
If you’re managing your writing or publishing blog correctly — and the jury is still out on whether I am doing it right — you’re pretty much prostituting yourself to get those uniques and Adsense hits. Like any real-life professional sex worker you’ve probably had a contest by now, either for a new book you’ve … How to Run a Blog Contest Like a Classy Hooker
Via Lew Rockwell’s blog today, Wired ran a great piece on craigslist founder, Craig Newmark. About craigslist’s stripped-down functionality, Gary Wolf writes: Each of these sites, of course, is merely one of the many sections of craigslist, which dominates the market in facilitating face-to-face transactions, whether people are connecting to buy and sell, give something … Throwing Spaghetti at Craigslist