Month: July 2014

Keep it together

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If you work on multiple projects at once, organization is important. I use several Office products at the moment, and my patchwork system seems to be working. But I’ve been thinking about trying Scrivener. Haven’t made up my mind yet, but this post makes me think it might be worth trying.
Do you use it? Or something like it? What do you think?

How Scrivener Helped Me Organize All My Writing

http://lifehacker.com/how-scrivener-helped-me-organize-all-my-writing-1599446028?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

For your review

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I just saw J.K. Rowling’s new book in a bookstore the other day. I didn’t pick it up, but I might just to see if this review has merit.

J.K. Rowling’s New Novel Reveals What She Really Thinks of the Publishing Industry And it isn’t pretty | The Passive Voice | A Lawyer’s Thoughts on Authors, Self-Publishing and Traditional Publishing

http://www.thepassivevoice.com/06/2014/j-k-rowlings-new-novel-reveals-what-she-really-thinks-of-the-publishing-industry-and-it-isnt-pretty/

Speak clearly

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How many languages do your chracters comfortably speak or read? Imagine it’s only one. What happens when that character lands in a country where no one understands that language?
For some Central American immigrants to the US, it’s true today.
How does your character respond?

Language Barriers Pose Challenges For Mayan Migrant Children : Code Switch : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/07/01/326426927/language-barriers-pose-challenges-for-mayan-migrant-children?ft=3&f=1001

Based on a true story

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In my Writers as Readers book club, there are a few folks who write fiction and have said they don’t care to read non-fiction. I like to read both — going so far as to read things like the NASA report about the flawed Hubble telescope and court filings in some hacker cases. Geeky, I know. But I get a lot of story ideas from the non-fiction I read. (And the info made great conversation-starters when I met Cliff Stoll and Bruce Sterling.) Here’s one take on some of this year’s best non-fiction.

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 So Far – Flavorwire

http://flavorwire.com/464711/the-10-best-nonfiction-books-of-2014-so-far