30DC Day 13 – Blogger

www.thirtydaychallenge.com Caro shows you how to set up a Blogger blog. Find out more about the it here: www.thirtydaychallenge.com

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
Mark Twain

Random picks

  • Buy It or Skip It? The Narrow Corner
    The Narrow CornerBy Somerset Maugham Knopf Doubleday320pp., paper, $18.95The Narrow Corner is one of several out-of-print works by Somerset Maugham now reissued by Knopf Doubleday. The novel dates from 1932, and is better than a potboiler, but not radically so. It’s one of Maugham’s tales of the South Pacific: A doctor is offered passage on a boat, but a storm forces the ship into a remote island, where the men compete for the favours of a beautiful woman. Maugham’s dry, worldly tone makes the novel readable and undercuts the melodrama even as he’s creating it. Another reprinted Maugham in...
  • 5 Steps to Finding a Great Novel Editor Posted By : Zoe Carr
    So you have finally completed your novel and are looking for a novel editor or proofreader. Fantastic! This means that you want to publish your manuscript. And I assume that you're wise enough to know that getting the manuscript edited professionally is critical. However, I'll be the first to tell you that getting a great, experienced novel editor that will treat your manuscript with care is a difficult task. So I have created 5 steps to help you get started.
  • Apple's iPad and new iBooks app to 'go a little further' than Kindle
    On Wednesday, Steve Jobs confirmed the long-standing rumour about Apple's new tablet computer. Called iPad, it will play video, music and serve as an eReader, which Jobs announced will be called "iBooks". As this is our books blog, let's focus on the latter (for our tech reporter's full report visit FP).Looking poised to deliver a huge blow to Amazon's Kindle product, Jobs did have a word for Jeff Bezos's group: "Amazon’s done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the Kindle. We’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little further."...
  • Books :: UDP Goes Digital Reissue
    "Brooklyn indie poetry publisher Ugly Duckling Presse has turned to e-books as a means of re-issuing out-of-print poetry chapbooks, which has doubled readership for the books. The platform they’ve chosen — Issuu — has proven to be both robust and attractive, but also has complications in part because it is based on Flash." Read more about the e-re-issue on Publishing Perspectives.
  • George Saunders, Jonathan Ames, Ishmael Beah & others join Tuesday’s lineup
    Regular blogging will resume here later this month, with news about PEN America 11, our contributors appearing elsewhere, and other items of note. In the meantime, an update concerning “Reckoning with Torture: Memos & Testimonies from the 'War on Terror',” taking place Tuesday, October 13, at 7 pm, at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City.Jonathan Ames, K. Anthony Appiah, Ishmael Beah, David Cole, Nell Freudenberger, A.M. Homes, Susanna Moore, and George Saunders have joined the roster of readers that already included Matthew Alexander, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler,...

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Fast fact about writing

In some languages, as in English and French, the modern freezing of spelling has removed the writing more and more from pronunciation and has resulted in the need to teach spelling and the growth of fallacies like the "silent" letter (a letter is really either the symbol of a sound or it is unnecessary).