A friend who saw the film The Social Network last week said she had one of those back-in-high-school nightmares afterward. You know the kind: you can't remember the way to class, haven’t studied for the Algebra test, and suddenly realize you're still wearing your pj's. You may be a successful fifty-something attorney like my friend, but you wake up feeling like a helpless adolescent, trapped in a maze of strange hallways, irate teachers, and jeering bullies.My friend isn’t alone in having that reaction to social media. A number of bloggers have...
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Friday, 25 March 2011
Actually, at this writing, it's 402. Thank you so much, new followers--as well as loyal, long-time blog friends--for making this little once-a-week Slow Blog successful. Over 600 hits yesterday! Every single reader is important to me, and I plan to visit all your blogs as soon as I can get to them. Welco...
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Nathan Bransford has spoken. He says it’s never too early for writers to start using social media. Perhaps one day we’ll all be issued Twitter accounts in the womb.Since Nathan is a Thought Leader in our industry (according to Klout) I have a feeling a lot of writers are scrambling around this weekend, trying to set up blogs.If you’re a non-geek who doesn’t have a clue where to begin, I wrote a post last December on How to Start a Blog that people have found useful..Here are some further dos and don’ts for creative writers who are thinking...
Sunday, 13 March 2011
It’s been quite a week. Let’s hope we’re done with disasters for a while. To my neighbors who got evacuated at 7 AM on Friday—and to the tens of thousands affected by the horrors in Japan—my heart goes out to you.I started this blog exactly two years ago today: March 13, 2009. I probably shouldn’t use the word “started.” It was more like I oozed into it. My expectations weren’t so much low as non-existent.It was a pretty abysmal time in my life. My publisher had gone under, leaving me out of print, unpaid, and stuck with an unpublishable third...
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Several readers have emailed me recently with questions I often ask myself:1) How can I tell if a new writing project is going to be marketable? 2) How do I stop bouncing from idea to idea, frittering away my precious writing time? 3) If I don’t know what to write, does that mean I’m not really a writer? A reader who calls himself evildemonspork—which I think shows a lot of promise right there—wrote this in an email: “I always start stories—creating grand worlds in my head…and then a new one pops in, and I feel compelled to write that...
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
The long-awaited new anthology from the Literary Lab debuts today. NOTES FROM UNDERGOUND is now available. It’s $10, either at amazon or through the Literary Lab or CreateSpace. All proceeds go to the Writers Emergency Relief Fund.. A REALLY important resource for writers. You'll be doing all sorts of good if you buy one. A bit more goes to them if you order through the Literary Lab--and there’s a 15% discount if you sign up for their...
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