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Quora

January 17, 2012

If you haven’t checked out Quora yet, the best way I can describe it is as a web community at the corner of Wikipedia and crowdsourcing. It’s different than Wikipedia because it’s more a compendium of subjective knowledge (though reinforced by facts), built in the form of contributor questions and contributor answers. Arranged by topic, [...]

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Clarkesworld Article – Part 2

August 3, 2009

Long Before They Were Read: Speculative Fiction Book Editors Speak Out is now up. This is part 2 of the Roundtable interview I participated in for Clarkesworld Magazine. If you missed part one, you can find it in the July issue, here. Clarkesworld Magazine has the honor of having been nominated for the 2009 Semiprozine [...]

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Time Management Tools

June 29, 2009

Time tracking is essential for freelancers, and I’ve been doing a little exploring in the last couple months to find an effective time management system for myself. There are to-do list programs like Tracks that are free, and are very good for what they are, but I needed something with more of a stopwatch feature [...]

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Old Books, Online

January 5, 2009

Way, way back (or, at least, a long time ago as Internet history goes), there was Project Gutenberg. It began in 1971, with project founder Michael Hart typing in the Declaration of Independence, and slowly expanded to include other historical documents and out-of-copyright literature. In 1991, Project Gutenberg took its current form. Its initial goal [...]

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Sadistic tools

November 13, 2008

I don’t advocate this for a serious writing project (see: Kamikaze Mode, below), but as a tool for writing exercises, I think it’s brilliant. Meet Write or Die, a cruel and twisted little application that nudges you when you get distracted and stop typing. You set the delay interval, and you also choose your consequences, [...]

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One for the bookmark file

October 13, 2008

Last week was busy around here. I edited proofs for an anthology, finished up the last pass on one manuscript and received another. I also started making some holiday and business travel plans. I also ended up doing a little research and fact-checking on legal issues surrounding writing, and when I found this link I [...]

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A different kind of search engine

July 10, 2008

Sometimes if you don’t remember the title or author of a book, you can still find it by searching on the name of a character or a fictional city, but how do you find a book again if you only remember the plot? Allreaders.com has the answer: a search engine that allows you to find [...]

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