Posts tagged: Writing

• How to go viral and incite panic among the populace — all in the name of movie promotion: Flying People In New York http://t.co/VSC4r8KJ #
• Zuckerberg's "social mission" letter to would-be shareholders an utter load of crap: http://t.co/g9CO4ldw #
• RT @daryllang: We're hiring a copywriter at @Shutterstock! If interested, contact me (email, not Twitter) or apply here:… #

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• Question for sci-fi writers: Clarion or Taos Toolbox? (hint: the big differences seem to be novels & booze): http://t.co/NBzCE9sT #
• RT @thejohnsoares: RT @qualitywriting: My Favorite Productive Writers Posts of 2011 http://t.co/iXgRZVVX #
• RT @timoreilly: Does not speak well of Apple that they've spent over $100M suing Android manufacturers http://t.co/Giy0XDmh… #
• Every Thursday a new creative writing challenge for copywriters: http://t.co/AhWf2Yvc #
• GM sends $3 Billion media account offshore (buy American!) The Ad Contrarian: Ungratefulness Runs Deep http://t.co/8ugJrJJO #
• Monty Python cast getting together for a science fiction comedy? http://t.co/64HBiFqT #

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• Letter from Ansel Adams after time spent in the wilderness (after his nervous breakdown): I know what love is http://t.co/dln5xp6v #
• The Eighth Annual Tournament of Books (sponsored by two favs, Field Notes and Powells): http://t.co/mSQNzYCZ #
• This killer movie trailer (http://t.co/Cg69SFQa) was made by… teenagers (http://t.co/T6aU4FMW) using Canon DSLRs @celtx software #
• How to get @Celtx (and Komodo Edit) into the Ubuntu Applications menu: http://t.co/snMGfVVW #celtx #ubuntu #
• Awarded to the "author of the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review…" Hatchet Job of the Year http://t.co/ucLV7xTK #
• A working novelist weighs in on Apple's iBooks Author's (ahem) rapacious licensing agreement: http://t.co/r016xbI4 #

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• Measuring memory/speed impacts of WordPress plugins: http://t.co/C7RYnTAQ #
• Writers (including Nick Hornby) offer their reviews of the year's best screenplays (Variety): http://t.co/MFHZTAM2 #
• The Bestest, most brilliantest, jammed with awesomosity Yelp sendup ever of all time: Yelping with Cormac: http://t.co/aIJlxjy6 #
• RT @40kbooks: #Publishing E-Books Outsell Print For Majority Of Titles On USA Today Bestseller List http://t.co/U1Djlh0X #

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• "Sometime in the nineteen-eighties, reporters began covering politics like sports and entertainment" The New Yorker http://t.co/Yj4tMtXR #
• "Sometime in the nineteen-eighties, reporters began covering politics like sports and entertainment." http://t.co/LUPV8KZd #
• Is your corporate client a psychopath? (In fact, is that client company actively recruiting them?): The Independent http://t.co/lUTB19Fv #
• For people who take their punctuation *very* seriously: The Apostrophe Protection Society http://t.co/Xnns14vo #
• One-click conversion of web pages into Kindle, Epub eBooks: http://t.co/Ww9SQKdb #
• Stunning winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 – National Geographic http://t.co/HKrD11Rx #
• In case you missed it, today on "37 Minutes" Channel 37 tells your #sciencefiction horoscope: http://t.co/Unrx22zA #

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• Christ, still on tarmac in Hawaii after six hours of waiting. Feels like we're being held hostage by incompetents. #
• After six hours in terminal and two on plane, geniuses at United admitted plane wasn't going to fly. Happy New Years… #

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• The Year in Pictures: Part I – The Big Picture blog: http://t.co/WTmPFdAc #
• The 10 Awful Truths About Book Publishing | Out:think http://t.co/bjaxXDYV #
• The Big Picture blog's The year in Pictures: Part II: http://t.co/8X4lJ3Tq #
• eBook Sales up 131%, print books down 16%-18% (2010 to 2011 ytd) http://t.co/0b5GunLh #

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• "Send the copy to me… if you don’t hear back, think of what I would say and rewrite it." Clients From Hell http://t.co/MIcYKWj2 #
• Stunning images of the Lunar eclipse from The Big Picture – http://t.co/1o3PzT7o http://t.co/NnnFWyMq #
• RT @timoreilly: I'm embarrassed to see publishing competitors like Pearson and McGraw-Hill supporting #SOPA http://t.co/tuo0gwkg #
• The http://t.co/IUu7R6T4 "2011 — The Year in Books" post: http://t.co/iVgjhMax #
• The default for bloggers? Damnit, it's time for The Sarcastic Font http://t.co/oMnyplJd #
• Tips from five of the year's hottest new screenwriters: http://t.co/GEcQI2LY #
• Another plagiarized novel scandal — only this time the publisher seems to be playing dumb: http://t.co/40VsAQ9r #LenoreHart #
• Did publishers (and Apple) violate anti-trust when they raised ebook prices? http://t.co/3hj4RbeN #
• GoDaddy adding links to footers of its customers' websites to boost its own SEO (sleazy): Yoast http://t.co/MDvaDqg1 #

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• Unbelievable collection of images from a wild year — The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011: http://t.co/fdlhjfzh #
• Court says blogger not a journalist, ordered to pay $2.5 million in lawsuit: http://t.co/SI1k2Orm #
• The two worst sci-fi movies ever made? http://t.co/BajvsALV #

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• When Does a Writer Become a Writer? – The Atlantic http://t.co/h2NpoBuD #
• Spec Script Eitiquette: What NOT to do http://t.co/NxgVITtJ #
• Affordable, file-compatible MS Office clone (SoftMaker Office) ships latest version (I own Linux version): http://t.co/RzlNJbqO #
• Turns out your smartphone is tracking location, keystrokes, text messages, numbers dialed and encrypted web searches: http://t.co/PzhhY6Ut #
• Sci-fi author Charlie Stross argues the Big Six Publishers' insistence on DRM is handing the ebook market to Amazon: http://t.co/5tgOmAXT #
• RT @fadeinsoftware: Wondering why you should be using Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software? http://t.co/I1NIOV77 #
• Sci-fi writer Walter Jon Williams takes a grownup, non-childish, wholly reasonable approach to the Nebula Awards: http://t.co/kF0WYnSr #
• Here's a newspaper story you won't show to mom: on Twitpic http://t.co/7PnX7MVE #
• For clicky keyboard fiends: Das Keyboard: The mechanical keyboard that clicks: http://t.co/7uWc6bXn #
• Feel a whine coming on about how hard it is to write? This writer finished a bio of Dennis Hopper – using a chopstick: http://t.co/RzumoStH #
• Science fiction writers looking to hone their skills consider theTaos Toolbox — a two-week seminar: http://t.co/26k7k1zo #

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• I'm on a notebook tear, so here are a series of attractive notebooks from Minted Notebooks http://t.co/JpnWGX41 #
• A list of all the Online "Best of 2011" Book Lists http://t.co/07DCIlPk #
• Do You Know All 27 Letters of the Alphabet? http://t.co/1TOP6E9Z #
• The Best of the Worst Turkeys of Science Fiction: http://t.co/8Eb3QM8P #

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• You don't have to write what you know. You have to write what you *feel*: Graham Strong’s Novel Writing Blog http://t.co/5MLK1ifW #
• Finally! Google+ Pages Can Now Be Managed With Third-Party Apps http://t.co/rq7S1d2x #
• The Science Channel goes all writerly on us: Prophets of Science Fiction series: http://t.co/ecP4msGv #
• A whole bunch of reasons why I may never fly again: Sand Dollar Adventures http://t.co/b5gZolI1 #
• Stunning pictures! Some images from the National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 (The Big Picture) http://t.co/C5ZfSr5T #

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