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Publishing Spotted: How Do You Unplug Your Writing from the Internet?

segundo121.jpgHow do you write on your computer without distractions?

Bud Parr has some excellent advice about how to avoid checking your email and Googling sports scores while writing furiously. His essay Writing in (Computer) Isolation contains a simple way to turn your computer into a word processor program with a dictionary. 

In these days of print-on-demand publication, promotion can become an unhappy burden for any self-supporting writer. Bookseller Chick has some advice for the freelance, self-employed publicist, explaining how to build an online press kit--complete with plenty of links.

Ed Champion picks a fight with Stephen King's thoughts about Harry Potter, part of Bat Segundo's tireless quest to convince book reviewers (however famous) to provide specific examples in their arguments about novels: "But if King cannot offer examples from the text as to why Rowling’s voices work and if he must stick to Bart Simpson-style observations (to claim that the books 'grew as they went along' is to simply observe the rising page count across the volumes) when he has about 1,800 words to rant, then he is clearly not the guy to fulminate on the subject."

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

 


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