Today's post is about the perils of Google Translate, and if you have a groan-making story, do come share it.

The general series is called writer hacks, so if you've got a nifty time saver or shortcut or an app that all writers must know about, here's the place to bring 'em out!

superversive on the language of modern fantasy. One part that got me thinking was 'novelistic' as opposed to 'cinematic.'

Catherine Butler, who is a writer as well as an academic and a critic, published this article about authors as critics of their own work, and critical authority at large.
Authors of fiction have traditionally occupied an ambiguous critical position. They are often assumed to have special expertise regarding their own work, yet their very intimacy ( Read more... )

I really enjoyed this interview with Kate Elliott.

I've been putting in some serious time in waiting rooms of late, as I drive family members around, making me grateful for my Sony, onto which I've loaded a ton of freebie stuff off the Sony classics site. I swap between treasures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and stuff up in the early twentieth century, works that have fallen out of ( Read more... )

" . . . nothing is more salient . . . today than the revolution taking place in the position and outlook of women--taking place much more deeply in the quiet than even the noise on the surface demonstrates--so we may very well yet see the female elbow itself, kept in increasing activity by the play of the pen, smash with final resonance the window ( Read more... )

la_marquise_de_ linked to some rules offered by well-known writers. Some I disagree with, others are funny, or thought provoking ( Read more... )