Some Good Reading for Writers

Post-Medium Publishing
by Paul Graham

Publishers of all types, from news to music, are unhappy that consumers won't pay for content anymore. At least, that's how they see it.

In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either.

Read the rest of this provocative essay at


http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html

Writing Fast Equals Writing Better
by Dean Wesley Smith

I received a number of responses about my last blog here about being a ghost writer. And almost every one of the letters to me mentioned an off-hand comment I made about being able to write a book under three weeks to be a good ghost writer. To be honest, that being odd just didn’t cross my mind.

So, the fine folks who run this blog thought it might be a good idea if I stuck my foot in it again and talked about how to write a book in under three weeks. Or under two weeks. Or even under one week.

Take a deep breath and stop laughing. You actually could do a full novel in a week if you needed to and I’ll show you how. And it just might turn out to be one of your best novels, and I’ll explain why also. ...

Read the rest at:

http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/meet-dean-wesley-smith

100 Most Beautiful Words
A scintillating, quintessential elixir

This felicitous list can be a bit esoteric, but in the end it's an exuberant and mellifluous efflorescence of language. See if you agree with the words that were judged most beautiful by "Dr.
Goodword" at alphaDictionary.com. Happy peregrinations...


http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/100_most_beautiful_words.html

Funny Publisher's Glossary

If you take this seriously, you're in big trouble--but if you don't, you're in even bigger trouble.


http://www.rightreading.com/publishing/publishing-glossary.htm