Scott Ashton over at WriteAboutDragons had a wonderful idea: as part of his Masters project in Instructional Technology, he’s posting lectures from a writing class taught by Brandon Sanderson at BYU. Hundreds, nay, thousands of people are following along week-by-week, as well as writing their own fiction and sharing it for critique.…

So it started out when I was editing a story that mentions Grape-Nuts, and like millions of others have, I wondered at the official product name for something that is neither grape nor nut. This led to the following Twitter outburst, which still may be in progress for all I know.…

How do you get better at self-promotion? Practice, practice, practice.

Along those lines, earlier this year I published Large Feline Collider on Lulu. It’s a quick read, it’s got great cover art from Puss in Boots, and it’s free–you should go download it now.…

Turns out my little brother was right, in a way. I am a liar. Fellow Viable Paradise alum Anaea Lay has been accumulating these hilarious whoppers, and now it’s my turn.

Check it out.

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August, where did you go?

The main fixture on my desk right now is a technology sandwich, my (now outdated) iPad under my (soon outdated) Kindle Fire, under my ailing 4-year-old iPhone. I actually won the iPad in a contest, but since beginning to study ASL, it’s come in handy.…

This sums up many of my thougts about by Word, or even OpenOffice is a terrible way to write long-form anything.

Link. (Though I don’t go this far.) Comments? Rebuttal?…