Category Archives: Writing
Lulu’s view
From the press release: When it comes to books, there is a debate over which format is more popular — e-books or print editions. What many people fail to identify is the connection between the two, as the two formats tend to influence each other. According to self-publishing company Lulu.com, the number of print titles they produced for 2011 was around… (more…)
How Smashwords smashed PayPal’s erotica publishing restrictions
Fast Company has an interview with Mark Coker of Smashwords in which he discusses the recent moves by PayPal to force removal from sale of certain categories of erotica, and how public pressure from writers, readers, the press, and others was able to make the company (and the credit card companies behind it) back down. He also expresses his opinions on the agency pricing anti-trust lawsuits. Perhaps the… (more…)
Write like a bitch
(Re-posted with permission from J.L. Murray) Someone once told me I wrote like a man. Or, his exact words, “You write like a dude. Like Hemingway or some shit.” Obviously I didn’t take this guy seriously. But for some reason this sprang to mind not too long ago. I came upon one of those sites where you paste an excerpt and… (more…)
Jeff Bezos Letter to Shareholders
Dear reader, and perhaps fellow publisher on KDP, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has written a letter to Amazon’s shareholders, in which he talks about the innovation and future prospects of his company. From the letter: Kindle Direct Publishing has quickly taken on astonishing scale – more than a thousand KDP authors now each sell more than a thousand copies a month,… (more…)
Writer’s Café – screenplay
Dear reader and perhaps user of Writer’s Café, So far I have only displayed the magic of Writer’s Café for writing stories, books, novels and so forth. The software however is not limited to that. It is also designed to be a great help for writing plays and other scenarios. For this, there are several tools; the easiest of those… (more…)
Hilda 9. First draft is done.
What you see here, dear reader, are the final statistics of the first draft of Hilda’s 9th. About 5 minutes ago I wrote the last words (which, by the way, are “no response”.) Now it is time to send a bunch of text off to be edited and checked, and then I can continue reworking the children’s story. Never a… (more…)
Featured quote
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten – happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. – Brenda Ueland
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