Twitter is fast becoming a pimple on the backside of my social networking life. It’s always been an odd thing, under attack by spammers of the traditional sort as well as nontraditional. I block social media experts, SEO experts, and porn stars on a daily basis. They don’t care what I have to say, they […]
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5 More Ways for Writers to Market Themselves
There are two schools of thought on marketing and writing. Some think that marketing can lead to great success, or that marketing alone is responsible for the success. Dan Brown is someone I hear this accusation levied at from time to time. Others will argue that no amount of marketing will make a bad story […]
Why Hasn’t Story Itself Changed with the Web?
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 […]
10 Writers, Editors, Agents, and Interesting Parties to Follow on Twitter
Twitter is all the rage these days. I resisted it for more than a year, not seeing what purpose it had. But then it achieved critical mass in my community and I was on-board. Now I can’t remember what life was like before it. Combine micro-blogging with texting and instant messaging and you kind of […]