(Slightly different format) if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter… Continue reading So you want to be a writer, Writing Thoughts by Dead writers, Charles Bukowski , #3(Words and audio)
Day: August 12, 2012
Just Do Something…
Let's change the game. Let's stop this concept of Occupying with misguided dissent, as in Occupy Wall-Street, because that seems, hypocritical. Think about it. Do we really want to be lined up in the same part of the dictionary as our two post nine-eleven wars? Just do something. Make your own job, form an idea and transform it… Continue reading Just Do Something…
haven’t read it yet, am now, but here you go society of writers.
We’ve written before about how complicated the process of lending an e-book is, and how much of this is a result of conflicting DRM locks and platforms, as well as a reluctance on the part of publishers to allow their books to be loaned. But authors can also be a roadblock when it comes to lending, and we’ve just had a classic example of how that can happen with the brouhaha over LendInk, a service that allowed readers to connect with others in order to share e-books. The site has effectively been put out of business by a virtual lynch mob of authors claiming it breached their rights, even though what it was doing was perfectly legal.
Much of the negative response to LendInk came about because of a series of misunderstandings about how the service worked, and also a lack of knowledge about how Amazon (s…
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