Jordan Lapp May 23rd, 2007
Hey guys,
Music to write by: “Renegades of Funk“ by Rage Against the Machine
There has been a lot of buzz around the blogosphere recently about Copyright, so I thought I’d throw a few of my own ideas into the mix.
Cory Doctorow recently issued a call for writers to write a reply to SF novelist Mark Helprin’s [...]
Jordan Lapp May 18th, 2007
Hey guys,
Music to write by: “Love in an Elevator“ by Aerosmith
So I finished The Neverending Story by Michael Ende*in record time on my vacation and found myself in O’Hare airport with nothing to read. The only thing even faintly sci-fi in the pitiful bookstore I visited was Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
I picked it up because [...]
Jordan Lapp May 7th, 2007
Hey guys,
It looks like “The Cons of Writing.com” post I wrote last week sparked some controversy with a reader. Originally, they commented on the post, but some of their concerns meritted further discussion, so I’ve posted it here.
Here is the comment in its entirety with my own comments in return.
>Writing.com only works because writers post [...]
Jordan Lapp April 23rd, 2007
Hey guys,
Music to write by: “Mother Mother“ by Tracy Bonham
So I thought that for IPSTD I’d truck out one of my old trunk stories. I wrote it about a year ago, and I’ve never even shopped it around. I have hopes of eventually rewriting it to make it saleable, but for now, here it is. [...]
Jordan Lapp April 22nd, 2007
Hey guys,
Music to write by: “Tomorrow“ by Silverchair
I started this blog because there was a lot of information out there for writers on how to write better, but very little on how to actually succeed as a writer. There are a lot of writers who already write well (you’re one of them, right?), but who [...]