Archive | December, 2009

Writing my Novel: Teching the Tech

A long while ago, John Scalzi wrote a blog called “Teching the Tech” that dealt with Ron Moore’s lack of scientific know-how when scripting Star Trek: The Next Generation and how that as he works on Stargate Universe, getting the science to be remotely plausible is a priority.  He says, I’m not going to say [...]

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Loving and Hating World of Warcraft’s Random Dungeon Finder

When it was introduced, World of Warcraft’s Random Dungeon Finder might have been the greatest feature that Blizzard introduced to the game. Even on high-population servers, finding a group for an Instance could be an hours-long chore that ended with hurt feelings and antisocial tendencies, but the dungeon finder removes much of the hassle.  And [...]

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Writing my Novel: John Scalzi Just Gave Me a Swift Kick in the Butt

Scalzi did so with his latest blog pointing out that the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency is now accepting unsolicited manuscripts from SF/F writers.  Even new, unpublished writers like me. Their typical submission policy says they want 50 pages of the manuscript to read, and their new call mentions 3 chapters.  Either way, I’m good to [...]

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Where are Ebooks in the Future of Publishing?

I want a Kindle for Christmas. If I don’t get a Kindle for Christmas, I plan on saving a few dollars here and there until I can afford one. There are to real reasons I want want a Kindle: 1.) I like reading new books and 2.) hardcover books are uncomfortable. I often buy my [...]

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Writing my Novel: Procrastination

Maybe I should have titled this series “I’m about to be Writing my Novel.”  That might have been more truthful. As it stands, since I started and got all gung-ho about finalizing the decision of which manuscript to finish, I haven’t written a single word of the actual novel’s text. But that’s okay, remember?  We [...]

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