So after De asked for it, and I thought about it, and I read her post, I figured I knew what she was asking about with regard to descriptions. Then I wrote a post about that thing I thought she was asking about. I was, of course, wrong. But that’s okay! The post itself came [...]
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On Descriptions and Breathing
First of all, I’m not entirely convinced I should be writing about this, but De asked: @ChuckWendig @doycet I want one of you to write a couple of blog entries on DESCRIPTION, when how and why. I suck at it. So… Okay. Fine. I’ll say something. Now, to be clear, she asked about this awhile [...]
Quick Notes on the #FrankfurtTOC
The Frankfurt TOC (Tools of Change) conference took place today, as part of the Frankfurt Book Fair (going on this week). Like the TOC Conference earlier this year, FrankfurtTOC had a lot of folks there twittering the coolest ideas, giving a kind of stop-motion summary of the talks taking place. What follows are the posts [...]
Habituals Update
It’s been relatively quiet around Casa Testerman for the past week or so. There was a trip to Philadelphia, thick with unexciting wardrobe malfunctions, but otherwise I’m plugging along with writing, reading, and trying to get these damn habits locked in. Lemme sum up: Reading: It’s been a very good month for me as far [...]
Writing for (make believe) television: The Game!
I’ve been a bit periscope-down for the last week or so, but I thought I’d pop in for just a moment before my students show up and muse on a game I’m starting up this evening. I don’t normally talk about my gaming on this blog (saving that for Random Average), but in this case, [...]
The New Frontier of Indie Publishing has already been Mapped Out (on a Battlemat)
Before I get into this, I need to lay out a couple concepts that I’m referencing here. Concept One: The Long Tail “The Long Tail” describes the “niche” strategy of businesses like Amazon.com or Netflix which can be expressed – in my own words – as “sell many different products, in relatively small quantity, per [...]
Why all the indie-publishing posts, Doyce?
I’m being interviewed by another writing site in a few days (this one live, via Skype, with someone in Austrailia – it’s is SO COOL to live in the future), and they were kind enough to send me some of the questions they planned to ask, so I could get my thoughts in order. (Good [...]
