2005-08-08
Into the Wordos
For six consecutive years, Wordos writing workshop in Eugene has sent one of their own to the Writers of the Future (WotF) workshop. To put this in context, WotF receives well over 10,000 entries per year -- the contest doesn't release the exact numbers -- and Wordos consistently gets at least one of the fifteen or so winning entries. I was in the Portland area last week for ...
2005-05-12
Remixing Spoken Words with Music
In this age of web services and expanding internet connectivity, remixing is taking on a new level of meaning. Small bits of information -- links, tags, images, syndicated blog entries -- travel the internet and are recombined, remixed, into new aggregates. Software is being remixed. Business models are being remixed. O'Reilly used remixes as a theme for their recent Emerging Technology conference, and they give a nice heads-up on ...
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2005-01-16
Writers of the Future
In honor of my upcoming book signings in Richmond, I thought I'd finally write a blog entry on the Writers of the Future (WotF) contest and what it was like to attend the WotF workshops. Last August, my short story The Plastic Soul of a Note won grand prize in the 20th Writers of the Future Contest.
For those not familiar with it, WotF is the premiere ...
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2004-12-31
Revisiting the Long Tail: Words
I read Chris Anderson’s the Long Tail a few months ago and kept nodding in agreement as I read point after point.1 If you haven’t read it, take a look.2 The Long Tail refers to the retail chart of sales vs. popularity, where the most popular titles sell in huge numbers and the sales figure drops asymptotically as you move out to the less ...
