dotsamuelswan

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by dotsamuelswan 10y ago
Relevant article: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/bushido/
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by dotsamuelswan 10y ago
Don't wait for boredom before you check. For me, it's declaring something as priority for the day that otherwise wouldn't have made the cut at all. If I don't get to something, I put a line through it and write down what
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by dotsamuelswan 10y ago
After a single week of using a physical daily planner, I realized I'd accomplished more in the previous week than I had in the past 6 months. No looking back. Every Sunday I write down a single thing to accomplish for each day of the n
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by dotsamuelswan 10y ago
Could not possibly agree with OP more. I'm using a Field Notes 56-Week planner.
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by dotsamuelswan 10y ago
Grain of salt / what works for others won't work for you / etc. Don't leap back to school without carefully vetting whatever program has caught your attention. A lot of hoop jumping, and a lot of curriculum that's a
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by dotsamuelswan 10y ago
This tldr isn't very accurate. And the article isn't really that long. Worth the 20-something paragraphs of time. But, to offer a slightly better summary: Voltaire earned ~ half a million livres over about a year after discoveri
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by dotsamuelswan 11y ago
If you write every day, and you've been published at a pro-rate previously, you most likely have something near-publishable in your trunk. Obviously, the publisher needs to be discerning in what he actually buys. But if you're a w
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by dotsamuelswan 11y ago
It's certainly been getting better. I have no argument there.
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by dotsamuelswan 11y ago
If you're writing a lot, it's not a risk. You've got something sitting in a folder that you haven't touched in five years. Blow the dust off, polish the edges, and maybe you make a couple bucks. Lining up those SFWA duck
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by dotsamuelswan 11y ago
Your math is a little off, but you should seriously consider brushing up a bit and writing. SFF (and speculative fiction as a whole) has a diversity problem.
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by dotsamuelswan 11y ago
What's the plan for publishing? Number of pieces Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly? Selling them, or posting them free, etc. Threw your link in the "almost sfwa" submissions bucket for now, but certainly interested in heari
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by dotsamuelswan 11y ago
For a company that matches employees to employers, this is a pretty brilliant passive way of saying "Hey, look at how unexciting or terrible your job is, we can help!" Personally, I was neutral across the board. Instantly had me
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by dotsamuelswan 11y ago
This is a homonym, not an auto-antonym.
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by dotsamuelswan 11y ago
I see this more as "No, you're not taking it far enough. It's even more of that thing you said than how you said it," and less as an auto-antonym.
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by dotsamuelswan 11y ago
So, you think inability to focus is the cause of your interests running "hot and cold"? On medication (assuming some kind of CNS stimulant?) do you find that you're less prone to get excited about new things, and spend more t
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by dotsamuelswan 12y ago
I couldn't possibly argue with that.
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by dotsamuelswan 12y ago
Addicting can be used as a participle adjective. You'd be hard-pressed to find a style guide that says otherwise.
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by dotsamuelswan 12y ago
Same topic. Different Author. http://greglevenhagen.com/is-wpf-dead-no/
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by dotsamuelswan 14y ago
"Shirt Early. Shirt Often." This made me email myself a new password.