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• Why Hasn’t Story Itself Changed with the Web? 9:00 am May 19, 2009
  Filed Under: Speculative Fiction, Top Post, Speculative Fiction,Writing Advice

  The structure and nature of short stories haven’t really changed in the digital age, as far as I can tell.  They’re still told the same way mostly, same perspectives, in roughly the same amount of time ( around 3-7000 words).  E-zines are for the most part  straight forward adaptations of the print magazine format, to [...]

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• How Taking Pictures This Past Winter Improved My Photography 9:00 am May 12, 2009
  Filed Under: Photography,How-to, Photography, Top Post

  Since I started getting serious about photography, I have followed a relatively predictable pattern. As soon as there has been snow on the ground, I have quit shooting for the year. I hate snow, I hate the cold, and I have never found winter to be an inspiring time for any of [...]

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• 4 Wonderful Tools for Writers in the Digital Era (That Aren’t Word Processors) 9:00 am May 11, 2009
  Filed Under: Recommended Media, Top Post, Speculative Fiction,Writing Advice

  As a designer, I’m always stumbling across useful resources and tools online, but for whatever reason, I find fewer tools that really exist to help make writers’ lives easier.  That doesn’t mean they aren’t out there.  It just means you have to dig a little deeper.  Today, I thought I would share some tools that [...]

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• 5 Lies Writers Believe About Editors 9:00 am May 7, 2009
  Filed Under: Speculative Fiction,SF Business, Speculative Fiction,SF Publishers, Speculative Fiction, Top Post, Speculative Fiction,Writing Advice

  At least in the science fiction community, there’s a lot of false community wisdom floating around about the editorial process.  Some of them may have been true once.  Some were probably invented to mess with the heads of noobs.   Some of them are carefully nutured lies, like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.   Well, no [...]

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• 5 Ways Photography Has Improved My Writing 9:00 am May 6, 2009
  Filed Under: My Writing, Photography, Top Post

  That seems like an unusual idea, doesn’t it?  That wielding a camera to capture single moments in time really has anything valuable to add to the process of writing stories?   But it has, I think.  Each time I pick up the camera, I think about writing, and each time I write, I think about [...]

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