How Not To Write

I have a little studio office where I practice my writing hobby. It’s a sweet little place. After the jump, there’s a little essay I wrote about my street. In any case, this article in the NYTimes reminded me of another dream: to have a writing cottage in my backyard. Now [...]

John Scalzi hands out a nice writer’s rant about money and how it gets that way (at least as far as writers are concerned).

2. Don’t quit your day job.
Lots of wanna-be writers wax rhapsodic about how great it would be to ditch the day job and just spend all their time clickety-clack typing away. [...]

Sorry, I’m a die hard romantic.

See the original in the opera mafia’s Flickr collection.

Simon Owens has more on the story about Tor’s new site (ref’d by both Boing Boing and Futurismic), but I thought the teaser at the end of his post was really interesting (this is how we fall down the Internet Rabbit Hole)…

In an article published last week titled “The rise of the genre ezine: Will [...]

Just saw this post by Cory Doctorow. Looks pretty exciting!

Tor Books has confirmed its rumored science fiction megasite, filled with free stuff. I’ve been talking with Tor about this for some time, and I’m privy to all kinds of s33kr1t stuff I can’t mention, but man, if they pull off half of what they’ve [...]