All the SF/F writers on lj know what I'm talking about. Everyone else will just have to try to keep up from context...

So the whole "To give it away or not to give it away" palaver. All the discussion of Gresham's Law and what-all. The non-fungible-ness of books. Let's try to sum it up quickly:

( edited for cut-tag. Sorry! )

First, lemme talk about how I've gotten quite a bit (for me) of writing done in this past week. I've been working on finishing a long-delayed short story while the next new scene in Book 2 percolates. (It's one of those dark, gritty kind of scenes that requires mental preparation lest it (a) wig me out too much, or (b) come off as melodramatic and ( Read more... )