How Not To Write

I just caught up with posts on Clarkesworld. There is a long essay over there about loving writing and hating being a writer by Rick Bowes. It’s a lengthy piece about the World Fantasy convention in Sarasota Springs. I particularly identified with this paragraph:
I Like Writing but Hate Being a Writer by [...]

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.

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 [...]

I haven’t visited Charlie Stross’ blog for awhile, but I picked up Halting State last week and thought I’d have a peek to see what he’s been up to… Below is a clip from a post on 2/1 that I found instructive for several reasons:
1. Nice overview of timeframes for budding authors to think [...]