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Two links for you to taste test. One of my ongoing fascinations in the business world is with marketing, publicity, and those other means of grabbing people by the lower lip, stapling their eyelids open and going, “Look! Look here! No, not there! Here! Where I am!” Okay. Those might…

Be honest. Have you ever made your characters do something that no one in their right mind would ever conceive of doing, much less follow through with? Did you have them do it for the sake of furthering your plot, or just to act out a silly scene you thought…

Welcome back to the week, everyone. I hope everyone enjoyed the Super Bowl. Not a huge sports person, myself, but I think everyone uses the game as another good reason to just get together and have fun–can’t have too much of that. Anyways, I’m back to work, and for those…

Now this is intriguing. A Humument A visual-poetic book, where the artist has taken a Victorian novel (A Human Document, by W.H. Mallock, 1892) and has reworked it into a literary collage of visual gems, where each page is a self-contained message or poem. The first edition was seen “to…

If you’re looking for any neat marketing tools or ways to get word of your novel or writing endeavors spread throughout the known world, you might check out this nifty deal. Your face here It’s a cheap way to get a goodly stack of business cards printed up, all with…

It’s the end of the week. Brain has officially been set to Deep Fried. Lots of good work done. I woke up each morning, which is probably much less of a challenge than I make it seem. Several apartments seen with the girlfriend, with one really nice and cheap (cheap!)…

I don’t like to play poker much. I mean, I do, so long as I’m not actually betting the rent check on a hand. I’ve dabbled on ポーカースターズ otherwise known as Poker Stars which was OK, the benefit of online gambling is that you do feel more in control of…

Today’s link for worldbuilding resources comes at the bottom of this post, as the top two links are items that a) won’t take up as much of your time and b) deserve to be read, just for the sake of searching for your eyeballs later after they have fallen out…

I could come up with several uses for this: Rejection Letter Toilet Paper. (alternate site link) Let’s see. “Put rejection behind you. Print your old rejections on hearty facial-quality paper.”Takes a little fiddling with image size requirements, and might be a little pricey for some budgets. I think a writer…

Ever play SimCity or the thousands of its variations? SimZoo? SimRollerCoaster? Or my favorite, SimCubicle? Seems a lot of games are all about building things from the ground up, and then taking charge and doing…oh, anything from forming virtual relationships to building up an army and setting them to siege…