Here’s what I use as writing tools for both my fiction and non-fiction world. But yes, it’s quite possible to perch a laptop on your knees and create a modern masterpiece with a simple text editor. Heck, it’s possible to do it with a pencil and paper too. But who’d want to?
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It's Been Ten Long Months
I took a deep breath the other day, raised my head from the stacks of to-do lists I hadn’t done, looked at my white board and sighed. Ten months has passed since I updated this fiction blog.
But I Have A Great Reason
For many reasons, the non-fiction writing that has supported me for decades was no longer profitable. Running under a magazine-format it generated tens of thousands of views a day and delivered Adsense income. Or, it used to. Without going into details of “why” this happened, let me report that traffic was up over 30% and income was down by 30%. This is not a sustainable model no matter what your business.
I had to change the income model and that meant a ton of work.
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Arthur C. Clarke Predicts The iPad
If you’re a science fiction fan at all, you’ve heard of Arthur C. Clarke and if you’ve read him, you know how prescient he was when it came to technological developments. A few of them are listed here on the BBC site. But one that wasn’t listed there was this quote from 2001 (the book)
I don’t know about you, but this sounds pretty much like an iPad to me. It’s from Arthur C. Clarke’s, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, copyright 1968 and based on the screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Clarke.
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