New modes of publishing are opening up the opportunity for telling stories as a series of episodes, rather than requiring every story be a book-length novel. While some stories are great as a single shot book, others would be great in episodic form. Is your story more suited to a book or a series?
Deviantart.com is running a very cool community story contest: http://techgnotic.deviantart.com/journal/Odyssey-Into-2012-272543956 Some day, when my stories have a following, I want to have a fan fic contest and run it something like this one! What fun!
Just finished launching a couple of sites for a corporate group with several companies. They’re all set up to maintain their own website via WordPress, so their sites may or may not look anything like these screenshots anymore. Ah, the joys of birthing websites just to immediately hand them over Read more…
Did a little graphic design the other day: the layout for a white paper presented by my clients at ModernIR, pioneers in investor relations technology. Measuring IR in Modern Markets – investor relations white paper Pretty cool stuff, if you’re into that sort of thing!
Well, last month (November 2011) I participated in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. It was my first time, although I’ve thought about doing it for the past couple of years. The bad news is that I didn’t reach the 50,000 word goal. I got about 2,000 words of actual story Read more…
Fun series for sci-fi fans: Prophets of Science Fiction on the Science Channel. Science fiction authors like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick are reviewed and discussed by Ridley Scott and fun people in various scientific fields. It’s been stimulating to revisit stories and authors I enjoyed growing Read more…