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Who needs a weekend project?
With the day job, I find myself around a lot of very interesting characters – some crazy smart people. Which is always good.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I hang out with crazy smart people every time I’m with my wife. I read crazy smart people on the…
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Shakeups
I have just made the official announcement on the Galley Table podcast, which will be up on Youtube later, but I should mention it here also.
Effective a week ago, I stepped down as managing editor of FlagShip and Flying Island Press. Reasons are many,…
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Dig In. Pull.
Lately, the news has been nothing but doom and gloom.
Doom and Gloom.
Doom and Gloom.
DOOM AND…
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☛ What We’ve Failed To Do | According To Hoyt
Is it too late to get out in front of the train and yell “DAGNABIT, STOP!”
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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☛ FlagShip - Captain’s Review – A Few Good Men
tl;dr version of the review – A Few Good Men is a good read for older teens, but I felt it was a little… disconnected from the struggle going on. Also, the protagonist is gay. Some people are going to be put off by that, which I understand, but I would encourage parents who might be worried about that to read the book and discuss the issues involved with their families. And not just that issue – there’s a lot in here about freedom, responsibility, and some parallels to the American Revolution. 4 out of 5 stars.
Click through for a spoiler-laden review of this spinoff from Sarah A. Hoyt’s Darkship series.
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Wow. For all his world building, Tolkien had his moments of pantsing also.
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Market Devolution, and Brie
The other day, as I was tootling around the internets, I happened upon a very quick exchange between one of my favorite authors and some random dude. They were talking about Kickstarter.
Kickstarter, said the author, isn’t charity. It’s an open market.…
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☛ When I sit down to write a book | The Passive Voice | Writers, Writing, Self-Publishing, Disruptive Innovation and the Universe
It’s a short enough quote to post here, but you really should be reading Passive Voice.
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
- George Orwell
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What’s scary about this?
Reading David Farland’s Million Dollar Outlines, and liked the first exercise so much I thought I’d post it here.
It’s easy enough.
Sit down for ten minutes.
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Holy cow, it’s almost done.
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☛ Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Forgot I’d stuck this in Instapaper. A good reminder, all things considered.
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Breadcrumbs
I wrote Battlehymn with a vague inkling of where it might be headed. I borrowed from a number of places including LDS scriptures, the works of John Ringo, Macross Frontier, etc. And I wrote it pretty quick – it was a NaNoWriMo novel, after all, and the…
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Happy 2013 - A Year for Writing
It’s day one. Yes, it’s an arbitrary distinction, but it’s one I am wholeheartedly embracing.
After taking a look at my writing goals for this year, here’s what I’m doing. I’m erasing the Google Docs tracker that you see in the sidebar, and re-assessing…
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