'Safe'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
It this better?
Beating Swords into Solar Panels, and Other Ways to Avert Climate Apocalypse: An American Response to Global Warming Beyond Market Tinkering
Clean Energy, not Dirty Wars, and Other Ways to Avert Climate Apocalypse: An American Response to Global Warming Beyond Market Tinkering
Windmills, not Weapons, and Other Ways to Avert Climate Apocalypse: An American Response to Global Warming Beyond Market Tinkering
I like stealth bombers into solar panels. That would catch my eye on the shelf.
I agree. Have now included that. I'm going to send at least those 4, and let the editor choose or tinker with them. Along with any brilliant ideas that I or anyone come up with between now and noon (Pacific Time) tomorrow.
That sounds good.
xposted from Literary by request
Random Stephen King quote from Danse Macabre for consideration:
I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams or childhood trauma-that becoming a writer (or a painter, actor, director, dancer, and so on) is a direct result of conscious will. Of course there has to be some talent involved, but talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force-a force so great that the knife is not really cutting at all but bludgeoning and breaking (and after two or three of these gargantuan swipes it may succeed in breaking itself . . . which may be what happened to such disparate writers as Ross Lockridge and Robert E. Howard). Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle. No writer, painter, or actor-no artist-is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty big ones; the name we give to the artist with the big knife is "genius"), and we hone with varying degrees of zeal and aptitude.
Putting it here because it seems the most appropriate, but much, much committee ~ma Typo!
Miss a few days, and miss the title game. Eh, what the hell.
Eco-Quality and Economic Inequality: A Dollars and Sensical Approach to Solving the Climate Crisis.
We need more writey games...
...and of course, much success-ma to Typo!
Found a link to a wonderful column from NYT, In Defense of Purple Prose
I feel energized after reading it. Exuberance and joy doesn't show up often enough in the stuff I read.
wrod. not that I can concentrate enough to write lately anyway..I have lots of ideas but they're not The One, you know...it's easy to get called away from them.