How much my novel cost me
Writing my first book got me into debt. To finish the next one, I had to become solvent
This is an amazing read for a lot of reasons,
for painting a reality to the insanity of Girls, who’s creator Gould sets up as sort of her foil;
for being an honest and well-written argument both for and against novel writing (as opposed to the quasi-mystical crap you’ll usually find);
and for being a sort of snapshot of the literate Millennial.
More than that, it’s fascinating as a sort of counter-narrative to the old stories from our parents: this is no fairy tale, you’re not special, sometimes getting by is more important than starving for the ideal.
Just finished Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
Just finished Old Man’s War by John Scalzi: Scalzi’s first novel, it came out in 2006 and so I missed it while I was focusing in on other stuff at the time. It’s a shame I hadn’t spotted it earlier. I picked this one up because of his novel Reds…
eBooks’ greatest obstacle is that they function like books
EBooks may be on the rise but they have a major flaw. Their greatest obstacle is that they function like paper books, but that’s not how we read. I don’t know why it is that most eBook reading software now insists on using a pages metaphor. We had been forced into a certain format by the requirements of the […]
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