writing
We now return you to our regularly-scheduled career.
Just finished reading one of Dean’s blog posts:
http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?p=5822
and had the reaction “Oh yeah! That’s what I was going to do.”
So hopefully I can get back into the groove this week.
By the way, for those of you who gave me your email address along with a request, I have lost one of the spiral binders I used for recording these tbings, so please email me if it seems I’m neglecting you.
Important Message from Cory Doctorow
http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2011/11/cory-doctorow-its-time-to-stop-talking-about-copyright/
And remember, I am recommending this as a creator of copyrighted content.
Immature technology
The NVidia card I bought to render my fractals with CUDA technology works amazingly fast. An average fractal which previously took 2 hours to render now can take 15 minutes.
Theoretically.
Unfortunately this is immature technology, and so the CUDA renderers are so buggy that more often than not I’ll get a picture full of fuzzy blobs. That would be great if the fractal was supposed to be full of fuzzy blobs, but unfortunately it’s supposed to be dragons or Rorschach-esque bilateral figures or leaves or some such.
Just having the card, though, speeds up a render significantly. Instead of two and a half hours, sometimes I only have to wait one and a half hours. That’s still a thousand-word wait time, so stories and fractals are still coexisting nicely.
Thanks, Christy Evans
Thanks, Chris, for posting the guest blog on Data Security for Authors:
Kristine Rusch’s Freelancer’s Guide
RT @KristineRusch: This week’s Freelancer’s Guide is about networking. So I am networking to tell you about it.
RT @christinafyork: Christy Ev…
RT @christinafyork: Christy Evans Mystery http://bit.ly/dgVxeM Cover for LEAD PIPE CINCH out 4/6 thx 2 cover artist http://bit.ly/b4bRMu
Stupid writing advice (and a few good pieces)
RT @sfwa: The Guardian asked 28 writers what their 10 Rules of Writing Fiction were. http://is.gd/8RpiW
I found some of those writing rules laughably stupid. But I marked the few breathlessly good ones for long, hard study.
It is The Wall.
It is The Wall. And we must climb it now.
Listening to LTUE symposium pa…
Listening to LTUE symposium panel about blogging, so I thought I’d catch up on my own.
Brandon Sanderson at LTUE
I’m at the LTUE symposium. I recommend looking up and reading Brandon Sanderson’s keynote address.
Fractals