[From the Archive] Standard Manuscript Format
Because every year or two, we have to trot this out… this is from early 2010… Feel free to comment and debate at will. __________ One of the fundamental tenants of professional writing is to put every manuscript into “Standard Manuscript Format”. What few people tell new writers is that there’s no longer a set [...]
[From the Archive] The Rule of Writing
This post was written in early 2010… I’m sure I’ve addressed it numerous times since. Announcements: I’ll be appearing at the North Texas Comic Book Show tomorrow, Saturday, Jan 14th from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the Arlington Hilton just west of 360 on Lamar. Also, I’m participating in ConJour on the University of [...]
[From the Archive] When the Publishing World Doesn’t Hand Me Articles
From early 2010… one of the first “blathering” posts…sadly, not the last. ————– When the publishing world doesn’t hand me my articles on a silver platter (like it has for the last couple of weeks), I sometimes struggle to come up with something interesting. So I fall back on the day-to-day struggle of writing and [...]
[From the Archive] Ebooks, Piracy, and the Writer’s Life
This was from early 2010 — but are still issues today… —- I had a whole post written up about the “glamorous” life of being a writer, and then I read – with interest – a long, ongoing discussion on ebooks, piracy, and copyright on one of my mailing lists. They all seemed to tie [...]
[From the Archive] The Amazon Kerfuffle
This was my post in early 2010 about one of the first Amazon ebook pricing kerfuffles. In the past month, they’ve had *3* different kerfuffles pop up. Amazon is a major player in publishing. I do not like their current tactics to strong arm the industry and devalue content. If anyone wishes to defend Amazon’s [...]
[From the Archive] What Now?
Continuing with the theme of “independent projects” (aka self-publishing), it’s time to move on to the Now Whats. Let’s say you’ve made it through to this point – whether you’re new or established – you’ve written something awesome that for whatever reason you’ve decided to put out on your own. You’ve done the layout and [...]
[From the Archive] Things They Don’t Tell You About
This is from really late 2009 or really, really early 2010… And now back to the revisions. _________________ With the internet and advances in technology, many new and aspiring writers are bombarded with new way to get their brilliant prose and poetry into the marketplace. The new options scream that you don’t need to go [...]
[From the Archive] It’s Okay to Read
Many of us fans and writers have heard other professional writers say, “Oh, I don’t read.” This is usually followed by one of a handful of reasons/excuses. Yeah, that doesn’t fly with me. As writers, I believe we should all take or make the time to read. The most common of the excuses are “I [...]
[From the Archive] Writers and Resolutions
I believe this is from late 2009 or early 2010. It would be a kind of yearly “no resolutions” post… ____________ 2010 begins in just a couple of days. Now is generally the time people start making their list of Resolutions. Discovering all the things they want to do or accomplish in the New Year. [...]
