Posts from — October 2008

Alchemy is a new intuitive digital art program that allows for quick sketching and shape-building. There’s many different options for how your shapes are formed: mirrored, lined, solid, skattered, and so on. You can even make shapes with microphone sounds. And the best part is, there is no undo button!

Great for an idea pad to then paint over in Photoshop, or for making complex shapes for Photoshop or Painter brushes.

http://al.chemy.org/

Digital artist Android Jones demonstrating Alchemy:

(for a better resolution, watch on the Alchemy site)

Advanced Fiction Writing By far the most useful site I’ve found. Randy Ingermanson is famous for his Snowflake Method (which you’ll find here) but more importantly, visit his blog. There are daily interactive conversations going on everything from how to write a scene to how to get an agent.

Holly Lisle Fantasy writer Holly Lisle shares her wealth of knowlegde and experience in several dozen great articles.

Hatrack Orson Scott Card’s website, with great writing articles and an even greater ongoing writing workshop.

SFWA Resource Page Many great articles and resources.

Where the Map Ends Writer and Editor Jeff Gerke’s megaportal. Most useful is the Tip of the Week section.

Ursula K. LeGuin Science Fiction and Fantasy writer LeGuin’s personal site has a small collection of writing gems.

NaNoWriMo Contest, adrenaline shot, megaportal, forums.

Writer Beware Know who you’re dealing with.

Writing.com The biggest megaportal I’ve found. 

My Writing Mentor Blog by writer Tricia Goyer with quotes and useful tips.

Do something because you like it, not because you think someone somewhere will like it.

Pretty words do not a story make.

Dig deeper than what everyone else has done 50,000 times before. Use what’s old and make it new. [Read more →]

Ever want to pull your hair out at all the contradictions in writing advice floating around out there? 

Check out my new Squidoo lens, “The Non-Rules of Fiction Writing,” in which I explain some of the common writing “rule” misconceptions and make a case to debunk them.

It’s frustrating to code a page that looks great in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari, but has odd quirks in Internet Explorer. IE versions 7 and up have done much to fix these compatibility issues, but bugs still remain. And, while many users have upgraded to newer browsers, a significant portion of total webusers still use IE 6 and earlier.

So what’s a coder to do?

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