I have to recommend Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott. I found it excellent preparation for back to school, both for understanding my students and giving extra insight into the group dynamics of my co-workers. It’s also a handy guide for those who wish to market to […]
I didn’t take many photos at WorldCon. The panel discussions were non-stop. Honestly, I was having too much fun to worry about taking pictures. This panel on new media was packed. Somehow I managed to get an aisle seat, second from the front. I think Neil Gaiman drew the large crowd but I found the
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This progress meter says I should be aiming for 50 000 words to call my manuscript a novel. Online sources say new novelists should aim for 6K, 8K, 9K… WhateverK! An editor told me to aim for 120 000. I don’t know. Finishing is a moving target. You can get your own progress meter at
Yesterday, I got a lot of organizational work done on the computer and I blogged a book review. I wrote 1690 words of fiction, which represented me getting past a block. Today, I have to bypass the distractions and concentrate on my work-in-progress. In the evening, I will be meeting a Toronto fantasy author at
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To inform my current novel-in-progress, I went to all the vendors at WorldCon, requesting books of biological takeover and spores from outer space. Bios was one of the recommendations. There is a much more thorough review here, which you might want to look at, since I read Bios with impure motives. This is half-review, half encouragement
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If you like SF or issues of fair use for intellectual property, it’s likely you have read some of Doctorow’s opinion pieces online. If you haven’t, he has collected many of his previously published essays into book form, which is free to download. I bought an autographed, paper copy of @ontent at WorldCon. I’m old-fashioned
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From WorldCon I went into preparation mode for a weekend spent at the cottage with friends. I did some writing and read a book to review (more about that in a later post) but I haven’t felt like blogging about WorldCon. The experience was too overwhelming to sort out in a week. I got lost
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This is my current word count. It is not likely to climb much over the next six days but I will be getting a critique of the first 10 000 words on Saturday. Wish me good luck and go read some Science Fiction. It’s the genre that’s out to save the world – over and
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Progress Meter 42869 / 65000 words. 66% done! These days I’m trying to write more and blog less. WorldCon is on in less than a week!
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40009 / 65000 words. 62% done! To celebrate the rising word count, and to encourage myself to work a little faster, I decided to give myself a widget. I’m still a little disappointed with my daily word output this week but sometimes quality can’t be rushed. I’m edging up on a huge turning point in