How we work: Don DeLillo, author DeLillo works in two sessions at a typewriter, decreasingly keeps the evidence of the work (in the form of typed drafts), and focuses, atomically on sentence and paragraph construction:
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Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Media-Morphosis: How the Internet Will Devour, Transform, or Destroy Your Favorite Medium - http://www.internetevolution.com/documen...
On the other hand, for many kinds of books -- long-form narratives, for instance -- reading off a screen is a poor substitute for a cheap and easy-to-buy codex. Not because screen quality is insufficient (if it were, we wouldn't all spend every hour that God sends sitting in front of our computers), but because computers are damned distracting.
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"You aren’t what someone names you. You aren’t what you’ve done. You aren’t a diagnosis or a disease or a disorder. You aren’t how much money you have. You aren’t your test scores or your wins and losses. You are what you choose to do next."
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Dig through the clutter: 40 must-reads for extraordinary bloggers - Blog tips from Dutch Problogger Ernst-Jan Pfauth - http://dutchproblogger.com/2009...
Don’t you get tired of all those boring “How to be a better writer?”-posts. It’s the same thing all over again, “Have a unique voice”, “Love your commenters”, etcetera, etcetera. To help us all out, I’ve dug through the clutter and selected 36 posts that can help you become an original and all-round problogger.
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"California writers looking for a place to work on craft and/or business should join us over Presidents' Day Weekend at the 23rd Annual Southern California Writers Conference. Mention Marketing the Muse at registration for a $50.00 discount!"
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I think Steve Rubel might have posted this already in FriendFeed, but holy crap this is an in-depth digital marketing analysis. Recommended.
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"Exactly what J.C. Hutchins said above. This video is a perfect example of a "value-add." It justifies the excuse to market a book with content that's valuable in-and-of-itself. Publishers: learn what your product is. Hint: it's not bits and bytes."
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Mostly recovered from yet another allergy assault. Downing 1st cup of coffee. The novel awaits.