Archive for June, 2010

The Non-Universal RTF File Format

June 30, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Over the past year or so, I have switched from submitting my short stories via snail mail to email. That decision was driven by both economics and practicality. Being without a full time non-writing job for 16 months had forced me to reduce expenses everywhere to be able to live on my unemployment benefits. Fewer [...]

The Writer’s Workflow

June 27, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Note: This blog post originally appeared on 12 June 2008 for my personal website, and updated here with notes. Writing this past month [May 2008] became easier when I found my natural rhythm for the workflow. Since the project manager at my job told me to walk away from work at lunch time, I been [...]

A Dead Tree Traditionalist Among E-Readers

June 23, 2010 by · Comments Off
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The big story this week is the price war among the various e-readers. Barnes & Noble cut the price on their current Nook 3G + Wi-Fi e-reader to $199 from $259, and introduced a new Wifi-only version for $149. Then Amazon followed with a similar price reduction for the Kindle, dropping the price to $189. That [...]

Editing In A Creative Daze

June 20, 2010 by · Comments Off
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Note: This blog post originally appeared on 7 May 2008 for my personal website, and updated here with notes. When writing my first novel stalled out after ten pages last month [April 2008], I switched gears to finish editing my long neglected vampire novella. If I can’t finish a novella with a half-dozen characters, 18,000 words [...]

Adding A Blog to The Author Website

June 16, 2010 by · Comments Off
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When I set up my author website two years ago, I kept it very simple by not adding a blog. At the time, I had only one publication credit and didn’t have enough experience to make a writer-centric blog worthwhile. That was back then. Now that I have a long credit list and enough experience [...]