Sometimes I come across useful, interesting, our just plain cool pages, and these tend to accumulate in open tabs in my browser. Here’s hoping that writing about them is enough of a digestive process to close some out.

Get My FBI file which sounds interesting, but does asking for one put you on a list?…

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.…

My office, which is actually a spare bedroom, has a sliding door closet right next to where the desk is situated. As a result, there’s not a lot of wallspace on which to hang things. (I’ve tried taping things to the sliding door, but they get almost instantaneously shredded when the doors overlap).…

Some facts and figures from my 2012.

Goodreads: I read 115 books this year, for a grand total of 38,888 pages. Purely electronic books/magazines don’t add to the page count, nor to things only partially read (that is, abandoned) so the true figure is probably over 40k pages.…

Writers, if you use the site Duotrope, the time is at hand to get ready for some changes. They are switching to a paid format beginning Jan 1, which several others have written about.

What that means in practical terms is:

1. Go back up your data now.

I’ve been an ardent fan of hypertext for about as long as I can remember, even before I’d ever been exposed to the web.

I’ve had this Salon article on hyperfiction open in a browser tab for a full year, wanting to write about it.…