May 2011
27 posts
There are 3 addresses I know by heart:
- My own
- P Sherman
42 Wallaby Way
Sydney
- The Cupboard Under the Stairs
4 Privet Drive
Little Whinging
SurreyAbsolutely, yes.
Kindle-Proof Your Book in Seven Easy Steps →
themillions.com
Are these the measures we really have to take in order to avoid the e-book market? Or should we be embracing the new technology along with the physical book market? Interesting article.
“1) Watch everything, read everything, and especially read outside your subject — you should be importing, not recycling.
2) Use a wordprocessor… why do I feel this is not unnecessary advice here? It makes everything mutable. It’s better for the ego. And you can play games when all else fails.
3) Write. For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day. If for some reason, in those pre-portable days, I couldn’t get to a keyboard, I wrote hard the previous night and caught up the following day, and if it ever seemed that it was easy to do the average I upped the average. I also did a hell of a lot of editing afterwards but the point was there was something there to edit. I had a more than full-time job as well. I hate to say this, but most of the successful (well, okay… rich) authors I know seem to put ‘application’ around the top of the list of How-to-do-its. Tough but true.” —Terry Pratchett (via writingadvice)
2) Use a wordprocessor… why do I feel this is not unnecessary advice here? It makes everything mutable. It’s better for the ego. And you can play games when all else fails.
3) Write. For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day. If for some reason, in those pre-portable days, I couldn’t get to a keyboard, I wrote hard the previous night and caught up the following day, and if it ever seemed that it was easy to do the average I upped the average. I also did a hell of a lot of editing afterwards but the point was there was something there to edit. I had a more than full-time job as well. I hate to say this, but most of the successful (well, okay… rich) authors I know seem to put ‘application’ around the top of the list of How-to-do-its. Tough but true.” —Terry Pratchett (via writingadvice)
How To Care for Your Books: 5 Tips →
apartmenttherapy.com
While we’d rather see a book creatively reused than thrown in a landfill, many of our books are our most precious possessions and we would not want them to be destroyed. Here are some tips to help your books last longer.
Writer Wednesday.
Phrase Frequency Counter for Writers →
mediabistro.com
In a sprawling manuscript, it’s easy to forget how often you repeat your favorite phrases. Using the Phrase Frequency Counter online, you can actually track what phrases you abuse.
For instance, we used the online tool with a recent essay by author Sarah Palin. Turns out she used the phrase “big government” eight times in the 1,700-word piece of writing.
The website also offers a Word Frequency Counter to map your most overused words. In the same essay, Palin used the word “big” 18 times and the word “spending” 14 times. What words do you abuse in your writing?
Writer Wednesday.
Summer of 5's
My friend Steven and I planned a whole read-a-thon for this summer, hoping to read 5,000 pages as a play off of (500) Days of Summer.
That got him thinking, and now his plan is to do 5, 50, 500, and 5000 of one thing or another. So, of course, I am copying him. :)
Here are my goals to accomplish by the end of the summer:
- 5 short stories written
- 50 recipes made
- 500 minutes of exercise
- 5,000 pages read
And I’ve already started, technically! Reading is one of my favorite hobbies, I’m sure you know. ;)
Cheers to summer!
So many books...so little time. I need an alternate universe that I can escape to and just read.
