I consume and am an occasional creator of content, I like hearing what other creators have learned.
This is my collection point for them and other related writing links for my own reference and any others who may benefit from it.

• The Only Good and True Writing Word™
• A sad truism for Writing as a career
• Writers can be jerks, including to themselves
• Writing as Microcosm of our (un)civilization Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Writing Is Magic
• Building Context (vs Context Collapse)
• Wasting Time and Materials in the Service of Joy

• Writing Excuses
• I Should Be Writing
• Ditch Diggers, aka Ditch Butlers. About being a pro writer.

• Connecting and community building via blogging
• Patterns in Explanations
• Filling in knowledge gaps
• Asking good Questions to Learn, Part 1 & Part 2
• What is Expertise?
• Where Emotion and Contracts collide: A tale of writing a story for a friend.
• Blogging Myths
• In many cases, Asking is the real Politeness

• Getting your content out there when There is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott
• The raw edge of CopyRight Law and your lack of rights
• 10 Big Myths about copyright
• Video of an event on maintaining your followers, incedentally from the perspective of sustainablity, while introduced in Spanished, bulk is in English. Back To The Future Of The Internet
• Many online communities have to deal with 'problem people/bots' we call Trolls. Best is to not feed them, though some shots can be made before blocking them. One can diss them with the off hand "oh, he|she|they are just a farmboy|gal|bot" with a link to this FastTrack comic.

• For a good Shakespearian insult.
• Maintaining a Style, or sets of.
• Extending the Firefox spellcheck (and LanguageTool if installed), I use a bookmarked bit of javascript that activates the form spell checker, but for the static pages as well. Just put the following string in the 'location' field of a bookmark:
  javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';%20document.designMode='on';%20void%200
• At what ever scope of creating, maintain a Leadership journal
• Dealing with Writer's block
• “Productive Procrastination”
• Getting feedback on a work in progress is valuable. How one programmer riffed off of Write Useful Books Help This Book text tool to create a feedback tool for her graphics
• All skills start with the basics of just trying, and along the way some may say there is waste, but that is just the cost of growing a skill to create. Learning to Waste Materials and Time in the Service of Joy
• You can export/convert your local content to epub+ with Calibre, and export some a growing amount of FanFict with FicHub.

Where Size matters, I use the Hugo Award categories as follows:
- Novel, over 40,000 words
- Novella, between 17,500 and 40,000 words
- Novelette, between 7,500 and 17,500 words
- Short, less than 7,500 words
The Canadian Aurora Awards use the same definition, with Novella and Novelette being one blended category (for now)

• TV Tropes Wiki aka 'Code reuse', intentional or otherwise.
• Are they are swarming us? Mormons & Starships: Why so many?
• LDS influence of Brandon Sanderson's magic systems, and a 'warning' about the addiction of reading his works.
• For those with Pen fixations, the other side.

Last updated 2025-01-14

This collection by Andy Konecny

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