http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/ Posts for misc.writing.moderated Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:10:06 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/img/64.png 64 64 NNSeek http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/pay_mkt_clarkesworld_magazine_sf_f_h_0_10_wd_184446041t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/pay_mkt_clarkesworld_magazine_sf_f_h_0_10_wd_184446041t.html works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Each month, Clarkesworld
will publish two pieces of fiction, one solicited from an author with
one or more books published, and one chosen from the rolling open call
for submissions below.

"We are currently closed for submissions and will reopen September 20th.

"Clarkesworld is also accepting queries for non-fiction and art."

[...]

<http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/>

PAYS: $0.10/wd. FIRM word limit of 4K wds. Stories must be between 1K-4K
wds. Buys first world electronic rts, non-exclusive anthology rts, and
first print rts for signed/numbered/limited edition chapbooks.
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Sal

Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>

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]]> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:10:06 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/unpaid_clarkesword_needs_slush_readers_deadline_31_184445785t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/unpaid_clarkesword_needs_slush_readers_deadline_31_184445785t.html handle first pass reading of fiction submissions. Depending on their
speed, candidates should expect to work between five and ten hours per
week. Prior experience not required.

"This position is unpaid, but we will happily write letters of
recommendation or process internship paperwork as necessary. After one
month review period, readers are added to the staff listing and become
eligible to receive a free copy of Realms, the annual Clarkesworld
anthology."

[...]

"Slush readers cannot submit stories to Clarkesworld."

<http://clarkesworld.livejournal.com/>
<http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/>
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Sal

Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>

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]]> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:09:26 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/roger_rosenblatt_interview_with_amy_tan_at_the_chautauqua_183286361t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/roger_rosenblatt_interview_with_amy_tan_at_the_chautauqua_183286361t.html Institution on July 10, 2008. The interview is broken out in sections.
If you only want to hear Tan speak on "Writer's Memory" you can click
straight to the spot.

<http://fora.tv/2008/07/10/On_Writing_Amy_Tan_in_Conversation_with_Roger_Rosenbla...>

E.L. Doctorow on the Problematic Nature of Writing Novels
<http://fora.tv/2008/07/08/EL_Doctorow_on_the_Problematic_Nature_of_Writing_Novel...>

More about FORA.tv:
<http://www.towse.com/blogger/2008/08/foratv-videos-covering-todays-top.htm>

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Sal

Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>

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]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:26:23 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/sex_action_conflict_180254297t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/sex_action_conflict_180254297t.html RWA panel "Sex and the Single Title" and (as CJ Lyons -- who was on the
panel -- wrote in a post to the sistersincrime mailing list this
morning) is "a great summary of our conclusions/thoughts ... if you
struggle with writing sex scenes (how much, how often, which words, etc)
check it out."

<http://murderati.typepad.com/murderati/2008/08/sex-action-conf.html>

Check the comments tail for added crunchiness.

Murderati <http://murderati.typepad.com/murderati/> : 10 mystery writers
dedicated to Mysteries, Murder and Marketing.

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Sal

Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>

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]]> Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:55:12 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/finding_a_publisher_vs_self_publishing_and_how_much_174264921t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/finding_a_publisher_vs_self_publishing_and_how_much_174264921t.html proofreading and copyediting the manuscript for a non-fiction book he wrote
about a journey. He's looking for a publisher for the manuscript. In the
samples I read, I saw only a few minor copyedits I'd make.

Question #1: Is it worthwhile for this person to hire an editor to proofread
and do a few minor edits to his manuscript before he submits it to
publishers? It should look good before it's submitted, but it already looks
good. And if a publisher accepts it, an in-house editor will go through it
anyway.

Question #2: What are the pros and cons of self-publishing vs. finding a
publisher for a non-fiction book for armchair travellers? I'm thinking about
something like what trafford.com does.

Thanks for your help,
Lois

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]]> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:11:29 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/my_adventure_as_a_freelancer_172182361t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/my_adventure_as_a_freelancer_172182361t.html
In a crazy leap of faith, I have decided to become a freelance writer
to support myself, a college student, through the next three years of
my life. The first trick will be to get past these first two months,
and scrape up next semester's tuition using only my pen.

Come read http://www.theveilaway.com/blog">my blog, as I
continue the daily chronicle of my freelance adventures!

http://theveilaway.com/blog

Robert M.D. Minto

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]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:11:02 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/corpus_of_american_english_169491289t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/corpus_of_american_english_169491289t.html English, and it is freely available online. It contains more than 360
million words of text, including 20 million words each year from
1990-2007, and it is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular
magazines, newspapers, and academic texts (more information). The
corpus will also be updated at least twice each year from this point
on, and will therefore serve as a unique record of linguistic changes
in American English.

The interface allows you to search for exact words or phrases,
wildcards, lemmas, part of speech, or any combinations of these. You
can search for surrounding words (collocates) within a ten-word window
(e.g. all nouns somewhere near chain, all adjectives near woman, or all
verbs near key).

--
Dan Goodman
"I have always depended on the kindness of stranglers."
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Expire
Journal http://dsgood.livejournal.com
Futures http://clerkfuturist.wordpress.com
mirror 1: http://dsgood.insanejournal.com
mirror 2: http://dsgood.wordpress.com
Links http://del.icio.us/dsgood

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]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:25:02 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/artists_writers_notebooks_168760921t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.writing.moderated/artists_writers_notebooks_168760921t.html
MOLESKINE -- DETOUR: SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF ARTISTS' MOLESKINE NOTEBOOKS
<http://detour.moleskine.com/>

Intriguing what folks have done with their Moleskine notebooks.

Eric Hoffer used Boorum & Pease Memo Books, 4 1/2 x 7 1/4, 98 pages.
There are 131 notebooks in the archives, dating from 1949-1977. Hoffer
used his notebooks as places to stash his thoughts, which he would later
retrieve and craft into his published writings. In all, the Hoover
Institute, which holds the Hoffer archives, has seventy-five feet of
Hoffer work.

Paul Madonna uses yet another type of small notebook, sketchbook.

"I am an obsessive note-taker, carrying a book on me at all times. I
have a theory that we have only so much space available in our brains to
remember thoughts. A small percentage of ideas are realized, and if we
waste energy holding onto what may later turn out to be a trite idea, we
may have missed or forgotten the one of gold." he says.

He revisits his notebooks frequently looking for ideas for his work. In
his studio, he has a shelf holding all his notebooks since he began his
journey. All his drawings ... he can go back and find something he drew
three years ago and remember the angle of a gable or the detail on a
portico. Or he can go back to when he first started drawing faces and
see how he's changed. He can find snippets of conversation he's
overheard or ideas of something to draw. I look at his notebooks and
think, wow. This guy is really focussed on what he does. This guy has an
archive of thoughts and sketches that will feed his muse for a long long
time to come.

I always intend to keep a notebook that captures it all. I have a few
Moleskine notebooks that I've bought (because I like blank, bound books)
and which the younger nib has given me (accompanied by "Write, Mom!"
sorts of notes). I have stacks of blank notebooks and notebooks with two
pages of entries but otherwise blank.

I usually wind up, though, not with notebook entries but with
scatterings and scraps of paper with dates and notes and words I need to
look up, meanings known but not really, allusions known but not really,
quotes that appeal. ...

The scraps of paper are often the tab end of a full-page ad on
non-magazine stock. Know what I mean? You tear out the ad and there, at
the back end of the magazine, is a strip of paper stock about 3" wide
and the height of the magazine.

I sorted and stacked Monday for the FirstMonday meeting at my place that
night. I wound up with a large envelope (picked out of the daily mail,
'natch) filled with these scraps of paper. (And that's just the bits and
pieces lying around uncaged.) Later I'll re-copy them onto blank
notebook pages but ... where's the retrieval mechanism except for
thumbing through old notebooks?

When world famous author Sal dies, there will be some archive of what
made her tick besides the unreachable archives of what she wrote on a
computer and posted to the Web lo' these many years past. There will be
dozens of half-used notebooks where Sal started thinking about keeping
track of her thoughts and where she was and where she thought she was
going and then ...

Do you use a notebook to stash and store anything? Pictures? Notes?
Thoughts? Do you draw in your notebook? Have a grid that you adhere to?
Add color. Write lies?
--
Sal

Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>

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"After Dark is currently seeking non-fiction articles and essays which
reflect the general subject matter discussed on America’s largest
overnight radio program in history, "Coast to Coast AM." A list of past
guests and programs is listed on coasttocoastam.com."

PAYS: up to 20c/wd "for rights to publish in After Dark and to reprint
on the web or for other promotions relevant to the publication and the
radio program promotion. You will not otherwise publish the article for
a period of six months after its first publication in After Dark .
Payment is made upon publication only."

--
Sal

Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>

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