- Let’s Try It One More Time: A Tale of Three Best-Sellers — some examples of bestselling novels that underwent extensive revision:
What impresses — and consoles me — about these over-the-top tales of revision behind successful writing is the commitment of these writers to push themselves and their willingness to jettison reams of copy in search of an acceptable version.
- Zanzjan on sequels:
The first tricksy thing is finding a balance of clueing in some of the past without making the book FEEL like a sequel….So, for those of you who write stuff that are discrete stories set in a single universe, how do you maintain that balance, or do you assiduously avoid letting works cross-pollinate? As a reader, what strategies of this sort makes you crazy?
Good comments in the, uh, comments.
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- Bayeux Tapestry. Animated. With a soundtrack.
- Photos of 300-400 calorie meals. Some of those don’t look too bad; some of them are ridiculous. A baked potato and fruit is not a meal (though I don’t consider baked potatoes food at all, so I might be biased). (Side note: the post doesn’t seem to be advocating that people only eat three of these meals a day, which would be crazy. It’s just a visual representation of x amount of food.)
- Some links (which I haven’t read) to info/debates about RSS feeds and copyright. This came out of a misunderstanding about a blog’s syndicated feed on LJ.
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- Who is Sick lets you enter a zip code and see if any of your neighbors have reported being ill. Kind of creepy. At least people have to voluntarily enter their symptoms.
- Better GMail adds some features to Gmail (Firefox extension)
- Writing Historical Fiction (mp3) is more about using details, but interesting.
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- Writers, Directors Fear ‘Sci-Fi’ Label Like an Attack From Mars — Anyone know if Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is any good, or just another depressing post-apocalyptic novel?
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- France has put its UFO files online
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What makes a writer a professional? – As in, do $4 keyword articles count, why do people write them, and shouldn’t companies want better quality articles and be willing to pay more?
Links to an interview with a guy (in the US) who writes the $4 articles.
The timing of this amused me. I recently signed up for a free account on the freelance bidding site Guru.com (I’m preparing to look for documentation assignments) and got a notification about a project to write 1000 articles for a grand total of $1000 to $2500. I don’t know if they got any bids; they certainly didn’t get mine.
- Missing Middle – An article in the Columbia Journalism Review wonders: Since all of the nation’s news networks and most of its top newspapers and magazines are based on the East Coast, “there’s no nationally distributed heartland perspective,†[said a journalism professor in Northwest Ohio]. If a network were based in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, or St. Louis, she asks, “what would its coverage look like?â€
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