Google adds an algorithm to screen out content farms, which may push them towards needing better writing and therefore out of the business of paying writers between $0 and $5 an article [link]
Wouldn't it be pretty to think so?
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
'Potential'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Ginger - Jun 27, 2011 7:16:37 pm PDT #4449 of 6690
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
hippocampus - Jul 01, 2011 3:44:23 am PDT #4450 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
So it looks like I'm going here in October - [link] - which is very cool, and I'm excited, but now my brain is doing the OMGNooo!NewPeople dance. I'm sure I'll calm down before then right? Also, I'm starting to doubt that that story I sold is ever going to come out (been a few months, haven't heard about edits), and I'm thinking it was all a cruel joke plotted by monkeys, or the trees. It is possible that I am still jittery from all the allergy steroids and could just chill. A lot.
Volans - Jul 01, 2011 4:50:46 am PDT #4451 of 6690
move out and draw fire
Oh cool, Sox!
I refer to their Evil Overlord lists a lot.
Gudanov - Jul 01, 2011 6:20:50 am PDT #4452 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I'm four chapters away from the first draft of Cog. Maybe I'll have time this long weekend to do a chapter or (dare I dream) two.
Toddson - Jul 01, 2011 6:31:49 am PDT #4453 of 6690
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Sox, are you planning to attend The Girl Cooties Theory of Literature?
hippocampus - Jul 01, 2011 6:51:05 am PDT #4454 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
See, I'm more likely to throw down the Bechdel Test when this subject comes up. Which, I am sure, will make me insanely popular.
Toddson - Jul 01, 2011 10:28:04 am PDT #4455 of 6690
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
eee! I was visiting the Smart Bitches Trashy Books and they had a video at the RWA literacy signing and GUESS WHO shows up! (for those who can't stand the suspense, it's our own Barb - with a shot of her lovely book cover)
Gudanov - Jul 03, 2011 6:14:13 pm PDT #4456 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I'm now in chapter 28 of Cog. The ending is getting ever so close.
Gudanov - Jul 07, 2011 5:50:40 am PDT #4457 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I'm still slogging through chapter 28. Not really stuck, just haven't had that much time and last night I decided to fix some of the known typos in the first 27 chapters. I wouldn't call it revision, just fixing really bad typos. Still very much a rough draft.
Gudanov - Jul 08, 2011 5:04:40 am PDT #4458 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I finished a section in chapter 28. I'm a good writing session from being done with it. Then the final two chapters. I'll overshoot my wordcount goal, but that's good as I'm sure to lose words in editing.