By: John Spiller
This is a great post, Mr. Scalzi! John Spiller is an author, entrepreneur, consumer advocate, and corporate survivor. His shocking new book, The Ampersand Diaries: AT&T and the Life Lessons Learned...
View ArticleBy: Elizabeth Moon
Agreed. You’re a writer if you write for more reasons than “I can’t remember what to buy at the store if I don’t make a list” or “My boss said to write this memo.” You’re a professional if you’re paid...
View ArticleBy: Adocentyn
“I generally consider tech writers writers.” When I started out in tech writing (18 years ago or something like that) one of my colleagues insisted that he always put “writer” rather than “technical...
View ArticleBy: Marc Whipple
I am all for the freedom of association: in fact, I am so for it, that my level of “for it” would result in my being prosecuted by the DOJ if I tried to implement it. That being said, I have been...
View ArticleBy: GG
John: What do you use to learn the ukulele? I have trouble passing the first few learning steps from the method I got with the yuke. I would also like to recommend “Luky Yuke” to you, their songs...
View ArticleBy: Harper Jayne (@Harper_Jayne)
@Marc Whipple You said: “EBook self-publishing is the way of the future for people who might, in years gone by, have tried to make it onto the mid-lists.” I think it goes far deeper than that. I think...
View ArticleBy: Marc Whipple
@Harper Jayne: Indeed, indeed. One reason I didn’t try any harder to get my books into a publishing house was the royalty rates on KDP. By my extremely subjective calculations, I would have had to have...
View ArticleBy: drmeow
From a different perspective – research scientists write. Although we do not always get paid directly for our published work, we do get paid, in part, to write. That writing is part of a much larger...
View ArticleBy: PolkaDot
@drmeow Your post made me think, because I have the opposite situation. While I get paid to write, the things I do that matter at work are the ideas and connections that happen because I genuinely...
View ArticleBy: Adam Hughes
Fantastic Article, Thank-you! I really rather enjoyed reading it too. :)
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