Mar
30
The Muse of Simplicity
March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I wrote here about “digital fidgeting” recently and a clever friend at The Relaxed Writer replied to my post with a link to a blog post of her own featuring a fascinating tool for working in the era of the ubiquitous electronic box. The tool is called “WriteRoom” and I must say, it’s brilliant (dubbed [...]
Mar
27
M.J. Rose Answers Our Question
March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
We are asking a few author friends a question: How do you see the world changing from a writer’s point of view? Here is M.J. Rose‘s answer – “The models in books are changing, there is an e-volution and many find it scary but others of us find exciting and yes it will mean the [...]
Mar
25
The Lemmings We Are
March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Take the Kindle for example, or the cell phone, or Google Earth: Why is instant access to everything so desirable? Clearly it has to do with survival of the fittest: The food we are frantically gathering is information. As the pack animals we are, when we access the giant cooperative “mind” that emanates from the [...]
Mar
23
The Garden Blooms
March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Obama family is blooming. While President Obama makes $8,605,429 and counting on book deals so far, Michelle is planting her version of Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden on the south lawn – organic vegetables to be used in White House meals, from a garden that is visible from the street so that the masses will [...]
Mar
20
Words On A Platter
March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
There is no such beast as a reader who reads only blogs, ingesting absolutely no printed media. Likewise there are arguably no longer any readers who stick to printed media alone, at least not in the developed world. We are already media omnivores and so why bother struggling through these final pangs of the transition [...]
Mar
16
Procrastination Station
March 16, 2009 | 3 Comments
I tend to blog a lot about technology (and culture) as it relates to reading, but it took a conversation with my friend Marla, a “life coach for writers”, to put into words my concerns about technology as it relates to writing. I wanted to understand why I was not getting any actual writing done. [...]
Mar
13
Female Force
March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I have not been keeping us up on comic book news, I apologize. In the meantime, I could not avoid the hype surrounding Michelle Obama’s appearance in the Female Force comic series – the Michelle Obama comic is due to out in April. There has been so much regarding President Obama in the news, it’s [...]
Mar
11
Meme Madness
March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Of all the books known to man, Americans want to see “A Lion Called Christian” back in print? Really? You know what this says to me: It says that the internet is more influential than we imagined. The only reason this book is known by anyone is because a few months ago the lion, Christian, [...]
Mar
9
Six Word Memoirs
March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I’ve known about Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Memoirs for a while and I’ve created a few of them on the site. It’s a great idea and an easy way to start thinking about writing and remembering. Some people would argue that a memoir in six words is an insult to the genre, but I beg to [...]
Mar
6
Are Your Thumbs Quick Enough?
March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
You may at first glance think that this post is vaguely related to eBooks but it’s not(I promised I’d leave that subject alone for a while). The cell phone novel is a bizarre new publishing phenomenon that I had no idea existed until just now, and it is leading to the creation of actual books [...]