Today, for a change, a video:
Writerland: Reading Out Loud from Meghan Ward on Vimeo.
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There’s been a lot of talk on blogs lately about the pros and cons of self-publishing. Until now, self-publishing has been synonymous with vanity publishing, the idea being that there are no gate-keepers to self-publishing. All you need is some money and you can publish a book, no matter how crappy it is. Today, as [...] I tested nook today! And I was disappointed. I thought I wanted one for Christmas, but now I think I’ll wait to see what goodness the Apple Tablet brings. I do think we’ll all have e-readers eventually. But I also think they have a ways to go before they’ll really be able to compete with [...] I’ve been home with a cold the past couple of days, so here’s a fun editing quiz from the Times until I return tomorrow. When I’m editing, one of the most common mistakes I see is the absence or misplacement of the comma. People, put commas, in places they don’t belong and they leave commas out of places they do belong. There ARE rules for when, and when not, to use commas. Here they are: When to use a [...] 1. The Stopwatch Writers are notoriously undisciplined and, consequently, always looking for methods and gadgets to trick them into writing. One that I use is a stopwatch. At first I bought a physical stopwatch from a sporting goods store, but now I use a stopwatch widget on my computer. I set a number of hours [...] |
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