Tweets

• RT @pkonoske: Book nerds rejoice! 'Just My Type: A Book About Fonts,' think 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' http://t.co/fCosMtL #
• Another reason to love #MailChimp OnStage (App for Collaborative Email design/review) will save me lots of time: http://ow.ly/6icdI #
• RT @theatlantic: What's your productivity secret — at work, at home, or in life? Tweet it to us with #HowIWork http://t.co/CCOu7gw #
• Uhh, Apple's employees tossing people's homes now?? The Plot (Sauce) Thickens: http://ow.ly/6kpLb #
• (I bought mine) RT @celtx: Save 50% on Celtx Script for iPad and iPhone. $4.99 – for a limited time. t.co/1A1Boye #
• (Book reviewers settling scores in print?) Death of the Book Review | Fast Company http://ow.ly/6kF5o #

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• Writer Gear: Literary-themed footwear (Catcher in the Rye, Scarlet Letter, others): http://ow.ly/69IbG #
• Hunter S. Thompson writes the ultimate job seeking letter (not): http://ow.ly/6bTMc #
• It's a spec TV script… a book… a script… a book (Lee Goldberg's latest work has taken an interesting, crooked path) http://ow.ly/6c0vF #
• A screenwriter's essay: What's it like to have your film flop at the box office? – Quora http://ow.ly/6ceDA #
• The secret lives of pronouns? (Serious word geek alert from Scientific American): http://ow.ly/6dU0D #
• Internet Outages from Hurricane Could Force People to Interact with Other People, Officials Warn « Borowitz Report http://ow.ly/6e6Vp #

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• Even super-rich Warren Bufftet thinks it's time to "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" NYTimes.com: http://ow.ly/63St4 #
• Fly fishing mystery novel ‘The Wind Knot’ Is Free eBook today at eBookNewser: http://ow.ly/64zvF #
• RT @tabcorral: New post: How Bloggers Can Shave 13 Hours – or More! – from Their Research Time This Year tabcorral.com/?p=2275 #
• Six free ebooks from WritersDigest.com (including Grammatically Correct and MFA in Creative Writing): http://ow.ly/64ANM (via @JaneFriedman) #
• The Daily Show (hilariously) discusses the things brick & mortar bookstores can do to survive: http://ow.ly/65zrO #
• Manufacturers of Downward Arrows Post Record Profits « Borowitz Report http://ow.ly/67LeR #
• Funny (short) narrative of a writer's meeting as it goes off the rails… http://ow.ly/680Mx #

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• Picking up where dead writers left off — The writers who keep popular characters alive: http://ow.ly/5Y9Vv #
• RT @rebeccakoconnor: Wow! #1 in free Kindle short stories!! One More Winter: A Short Story by Rebecca K. O'Connor http://t.co/L6dSKhI #
• Hilarious stuff: What a Missoula woman did when she suspected rental fraud (involves pot, orgy, a tiger and cocaine) http://ow.ly/5YTGf #
• Humorous baby boomer text shortcuts (including "NSR"=Need some roughage; "TXT L8R" = Can’t find reading glasses) http://is.gd/pT6CYj #
• Good news for writers: Survey Shows Publishing Expanded Since 2008 – NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/604Qv #

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• What if text editors were Lord of the Rings locations? http://is.gd/HJtuGz #emacs #textmate #vi #
• “If he actually gets beaten with the sex toy, that’s okay then!” One-liners from sci-fi writing workshop (Taos Toolbox): http://is.gd/7SyBBB #
• Wow — 92% of Newt Gingrich's Twitter Followers Are Fake http://ow.ly/5TDjU #
• More fictional fun from McSweeney's: The Writer of a Cat Food Commercial Confronts a Focus Group. http://ow.ly/5TDWg #
• A 6,239 dot-to-dot drawing of the Mona Lisa (talk about seeing spots): http://ow.ly/5Udm2 #
• We bring news of a *badly* needed online resource: How Many Energy Drinks Would It Take to Kill You? http://ow.ly/5Uj3c #
• How To Create an Ebook with OpenOffice.org | Wazi http://ow.ly/5VkJz #
• What copywriter doesn't love technobabble? (Is this the technobabble bible?): http://ow.ly/5WrAc #
• Third time's not the charm: Judge James Redden rejects plan for Columbia Basin dams and salmon for third time: http://ow.ly/5Wu3K #
• Funniest thing I've read recently: "An Open Letter to The Guy Who Puked Next to Me at the Heavy Metal Festival" http://ow.ly/5WD0j #

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• All you writers nostalgic for your old Commodore 64 (Amiga coming soon) — it's back, and you can buy it: http://ow.ly/5HhzO #
• The Death of Borders bookstore: "Yet another sign of yet another Publishing Apocalypse" http://ow.ly/5IElA #
• On taking the easy way out as a writer (Story Notes From Hell blog): http://t.co/CkGRQII #
• Blogging with… typewriters?! (The Typosphere…): http://channel-37.net/?p=1455 #

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• Write All Night Long (this Friday): Swamped with Words « The Gig http://ow.ly/5AYH0 #
• ♺ @BorowitzReport: 1961: Americans trying to win space race with Russians. 2011: Americans trying to keep up with the Kardashians. #
• Free template for #Celtx screenwriting/production software: The Series Development Bible (for episodic TV/webTV): http://ow.ly/5D36y #
• RT @writersdigest: "9 Things I Learned From Other Writers" http://tinyurl.com/6anzwx5 via author Margi Preus #
• Is the Internet making journalism better, or worse? (A debate): http://ow.ly/5DYce #
• Executive comment from the damned amusing Story Notes From Hell site: "We need a likeable axe murderer!" http://ow.ly/5DZk9 #
• The top 10 open source web fonts: http://ow.ly/5E7nh #
• Read as a kid, write as an adult: A Child's Fan Letter (by Lee Child, writer of Jack Reacher thrillers) http://ow.ly/5FHHO #
• Harlequin takes romance out of ebook publishing, offers authors a 15% 'Net' royalty on ebooks (shameful): http://ow.ly/5FPBJ #
• RT @jowyang: Let's start a flashmob: When the space shuttle returns, everyone dress up up in Ape outfits. #

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• The rise of the exclamation point (cursed thing!) — Exclamation Points and E-Mails: NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/5xnbg #
• It's summer, and therefore we're compelled to offer: Literary Greats In Their Bathing Suits http://ow.ly/5z3wA #
• First impression of Google+ network; I really like the Circles feature, which makes perfect sense to me. Cleaner interface than Facebook. #
• More shameful phone hacking news: Police probe deletion of emails by News of the World executive: http://ow.ly/5Aksc #

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• Pew survey say e-reader ownership doubled in six months (tablet sales are growing far slower): http://ow.ly/5rwAS #
• RT @leegoldberg: A new interview w/me about writing & @TheDeadManBooks via @ChandlerWrites – http://t.co/AWiqZt4 #
• RT @patriciamclinn: Direct answers=worthwhile RT @LeeGoldberg: New interview w/me about writing & @TheDeadManBooks – http://t.co/AWiqZt4 #
• Interview with a college teacher and the man who writes papers for his students for a fee… http://ow.ly/5rF5Q #
• Video editors hate Apple's latest: Apple offers refunds to upset Final Cut Pro X users, but "rage-quitting" exodus grows http://ow.ly/5suhG #
• MS Word feeling too soulless? Maybe it's time to restore that typewriter at the Basic Typewriter Restoration page: http://ow.ly/5sveM #
• Excellent screencast from a veteran screenwriter: Writing better dialogue | johnaugust.com http://ow.ly/5svos #
• Google launches its "Google+" social sharing site — Circles aspect could be very handy: http://ow.ly/5swrf #
• Are you an advertising or promotions manager? Forbes says those fields declined 32.7% last five years: http://ow.ly/5sz7s #

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• Remember all those automated spam blogs? Get ready for automatically created spam ebooks: http://ow.ly/5lqtD #
• Apple computer ignores all the social media babble, succeeds anyway… The Ad Contrarian: How Apple Does it http://ow.ly/5lUdt #
• RT @thejohnsoares: Google Notifying Webmasters To Update WordPress Blogs http://t.co/GjqJ7tY via @sengineland #
• Best Buy stores bullying small business owners over use of 'Geek' – WSJ.com http://ow.ly/5lUxe #
• Change is hard… “People Like You Are Killing Bookstores” « Sotto Voce. http://ow.ly/5mePU #
• NPR wants you to pick the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy Books of all time (I voted): http://ow.ly/5nUEa #
• Facebook fading in the USA just a little (lost more than 7 million active North American users in a month): http://ow.ly/5nZJ7 #
• Lunchtime? Better visit the Optimal Taco Ingredient Stacking chart (I'm not making this up): http://ow.ly/5o64Y #
• LibreOffice/OpenOffice users – upload your files to Google Docs in native format with this plug-in: http://ow.ly/5o67j #
• ♺ @boostctr: The Best Copywriting Blogs: @TheWordWell @marketingmiguel @mattambrose @ChandlerWrites @nickusborne: http://bit.ly/lYwluP #
• Your blog or website blocked in China (mine isn't, drat)? Great Firewall of China http://ow.ly/5pJqL #
• When Worlds Collide? (An insightful blog post written on a typewriter about a TV show mentioned on the radio. Really.) http://bit.ly/kmTsG0 #
• Some of the coolest spreadsheet-based productivity forms I've ever seen (including handy project Gantt chart/calender): http://ow.ly/5qBa0 #

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• RT @kqedscience: California Farms Earned Record Profits During Recent Drought http://ow.ly/5jig9 #
• From Our Online Irony Department: Internet Archive backs up digital books… on paper: http://ow.ly/5jwTo #
• Children's author drops f-bomb over late plane, airline calls cops, kicks him off: http://ow.ly/5jOHm #
• Great photoblog; pictures of the present laid over older photographs: Dear Photograph http://ow.ly/5ktDz #

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• RT @themefuse: Nice list: 33 ways to stay creative http://cot.ag/khIKe0 #
• Is your iPhone smarter than you? "Calling it Quitsies with iPhone Auto Correct" | The Hack Novelist http://ow.ly/5cdGZ #
• Feel like somebody's watching you? Facebook changes privacy settings without permission, enables facial recognition: http://ow.ly/5d0p9 #
• Amazon hires former uber-agent Laurence Kirshbaum to run its New York publishing operation: (halfway down story): http://ow.ly/5d7ld #
• Does re-targeting creep your customers out? (A call for a little customer respect): http://ow.ly/5dghU #
• RT @linux4business: Give LibreOffice Writer a minimalist makeover in 3 easy steps http://bit.ly/lwNOJb #
• Library of movie and TV scripts, outlines, shooting schedules (from screenwriter johnaugust.com) http://ow.ly/5flsH #

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