Carolyn Nicita » writing

We now return you to our regularly-scheduled career.

Carolyn Nicita — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:13:15 +0000

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

Carolyn Nicita — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:04:03 +0000

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

Carolyn Nicita — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:40:20 +0000

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

Carolyn Nicita — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:31:00 +0000

Thanks, Chris, for posting the guest blog on Data Security for Authors:

http://christy-evans-mystery.blogspot.com/

Kristine Rusch’s Freelancer’s Guide

Carolyn Nicita — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:05:45 +0000

RT @KristineRusch: This week’s Freelancer’s Guide is about networking. So I am networking to tell you about it.

http://www.kriswrites.com

RT @christinafyork: Christy Ev…

Carolyn Nicita — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:00:05 +0000

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)

Carolyn Nicita — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:47:07 +0000

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.

Carolyn Nicita — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:31:39 +0000

It is The Wall. And we must climb it now.

Listening to LTUE symposium pa…

Carolyn Nicita — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:52:36 +0000

Listening to LTUE symposium panel about blogging, so I thought I’d catch up on my own.

Brandon Sanderson at LTUE

Carolyn Nicita — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:45:44 +0000

I’m at the LTUE symposium. I recommend looking up and reading Brandon Sanderson’s keynote address.