What did you blog about today?

[DZara]

Here's the next one of this week's story...

Zaragoza Stories: To the Slaughter, Part Four

 

[Jo Zebedee]

@Quellist wrote a fab guest blog for me this week on what it's like to collaborate on a project. I've never done that (although I once threatened to, and asked @alchemist if he'd like to work with me on an alien invasion story. An hour later, I pulled the offer and greedily kept the idea to myself. ) and was interested to know what the process would be like.

Apparently, coffee is required.

JoZebwrites: Collaboration, the good, the bad and the ugly

 

[The Big Peat]

So I decided to a book review. With extra funny pics and gifs. Well, I found them funny. You've been warned.

Review of Eddings' Pawn of Prophecy

 

[Cathbad]

"Darganau: Autobiography of a Dragon", Part V is up!

 

[DZara]

So, so busy today - advising and financial aid and registration - oh my!

So here's the next to last installment of this story:

Zaragoza Stories: To the Slaughter, Part Five

 

[thaddeus6th]

Ways to drop dead in the medieval world: Thaddeus the Sixth: Everyday Medieval Terrors

 

[AnyaKimlin]

Remind me not to post after a couple of glasses of wine again. (I know, I know blog writing basics 101 but it had been a day of stupid things going wrong. So when Mum poured the glass... I said just the one in the style of Mrs Wembley). Twenty Million Reasons has had a major edit!
CHAPTER FOUR PART TWO: TWENTY MILLION REASONS

 

[Nick B]

@Quellist wrote a fab guest blog for me this week on what it's like to collaborate on a project. I've never done that (although I once threatened to, and asked @alchemist if he'd like to work with me on an alien invasion story. An hour later, I pulled the offer and greedily kept the idea to myself. ) and was interested to know what the process would be like.

Apparently, coffee is required.

JoZebwrites: Collaboration, the good, the bad and the ugly

Yes, coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.

 

[Juliana]

Wow, everyone has been busy! Have spent the last half-hour catching up. Nice work, everyone.

@thaddeus6th That was really interesting.
@The Big Peat Fab review. I especially liked the Molly Weasley-McGonagall bit. And I like gifs.

 

[Chris Guillory]

@Jo Zebedee and @Quellist that was a good one!

 

[Cathbad]

@Jo Zebedee and @Quellist that was a good one!

Agreed!

 

[Gonk the Insane]

So I decided to a book review. With extra funny pics and gifs.

Doom metal on ketamine?

 

[DZara]

Last one for this week (whew!)

Zaragoza Stories - To the Slaughter, Part Six

 

[The Big Peat]

Wow, everyone has been busy! Have spent the last half-hour catching up. Nice work, everyone.

@thaddeus6th That was really interesting.
@The Big Peat Fab review. I especially liked the Molly Weasley-McGonagall bit. And I like gifs.

Doom metal on ketamine?

Thank you both Guess I have to do the rest of the series now... darn!

And thanks to Quellist and Jo for a very good piece on collaboration, had to spread that one round a bit.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Thank you both Guess I have to do the rest of the series now... darn!

And thanks to Quellist and Jo for a very good piece on collaboration, had to spread that one round a bit.

Thanks, Peat - it's getting good hits, so nice one, Quellist!

I wanted to talk about something I've only been exposed to recently and that I think sff are very far behind on and that's accessing traditional arts funding. So many writers I know rely on this to keep writing, and it's accepted as a part of being a writer - yet no one here, or anywhere else I knock around, has ever mentioned it. So, here's a bit of food for thought:

JoZebwrites: Funding your writing

 

[Juliana]

Very interesting, Jo. Like academic funding... My parents are both university professors and rely heavily on research grants to supplement their income; same principle.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Very interesting, Jo. Like academic funding... My parents are both university professors and rely heavily on research grants to supplement their income; same principle.

Yes, exactly the same. Arts don't pay - if our societies want to have arts. What I didn't say in the article and might go back and edit it is that the funding really supports trad publishing. They often won't pay publishing costs and they want evidence of artistic background and expect that to include traditionally published stuff.

 

[millymollymo]

What I personally refer to as a milestone post - or - things that I'm doing and/or involved in: Events and Happenings

 

[Cathbad]

Darganau: Autobiography of a Dragon, Part VI is now up!

 

[Gary Compton]

I talk about me, me, me, me!

The Fourth Reich – Head of the Snake | Gary Compton