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I’m working this week! Really. But it’s that boring part where you just park in front of the computer and don’t get up until the job is done. Nothing much inspirational in that. I’m just standing my ground and refusing to yield even an inch of it. So, we turn to interesting links from around [...]
Some recent blog entries of interest: Act Green: Be Responsible with those old ink cartridges, computers, batteries, etc. From the Quilting world (My other passion!), this humorous look at a funeral procession for a snowman. Editor Stacy Whitman has a long posting on the differences in self-publishing and trade publishing and why self-publishing is so [...]
Wow! Thanks Sarah Miller for naming Revision Notes one of the Make My Day blogs! I’m thrilled. Hand On Chin, with Piercing Eyes: The Dreaded Author Photo is discussed with humor. The Cybils awards have a widget that lets you put the finalists on your blog automatically. The Cybils will be awarded next week, on [...]
While we partied in December, the last postings of 2007 had some gems. Here are some interesting posts from around the cyberworld. During her revision of Bones of Faerie, the first lesson Janni Simner learned is “there are lots of worlds out there; use them.” What else did she learn? Thinking with a Pencil What [...]
Having just done NaNoWriMo, Dori Butler muses about first drafts and her process of writing. Sara Holmes writes about time and writers. What songs does Janni Simner listen to while on revisions? Chynna encourages writers (especially women) to stop their self-sabotage. Wow! Book covers that pop.
Here’s a nice short video that explains RSS Feeds, the method that many now use to keep track of blogs that they read. Kinda fun way to explain things. Click here to subscribe to MY feed. Or, if you’re on LiveJournal, you can add my Feed to your Friends page with this URL: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/revisionnotes/
This American Life, the NPR radio program, has an interesting episode scheduled this week: HOW TO TALK TO KIDS “A raunchy comedian gets booked on a tour…of kids’ sleep-away camps. A precocious teenager revels in reading grown-ups’ Tarot cards until she is the bearer of really bad news. Plus, other stories of adults trying to [...]
Some interesting links: Alice Pope suggests provides links to information about agents for children’s literature. Janni Simner looks at drafts of a first paragraph. Have you seen the Google Earth Flight Simulator? Awesome.
The Twenty Worst Literary Agencies. (Thanks to Anastasia Suen’s blog.) Janni’s humorous take on The Joy of the Second Draft. I love looking at book covers and imagining how well each would sell. Well, here’s a flaming good one, complete with a slip cover. It’s always fascinating to see how well the visual captures the [...]
In a comment yesterday, Becki wrote: “Wanted to pass something on that I heard an author mention at a presentation the end of July. She was asked how she wrote–by hand, or computer. She said that she wrote by hand. She found that the computer interrupted the flow with grammar/spell checks. Everytime she stopped to [...]
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