Hello and Welcome to another Writerly Round-Up Post.
The following articles or blog posts showed up in my email or on social media during the week ending on 27 April. As always, if you see something you’d like me to include, email me.
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Writerly Round-Up
Tips on How to Read Your Own Work Objectively
“How can a writer learn to read her own writing from a reader’s eyes/brain/comprehension?” she asked. “When I reread my work–it’s me –how I write. I’d like to be able to reread it and go ‘You’re doing the same thing. Change this or that.’ Maybe I’m looking for a magical way to reread my work.”
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Writerly Round-Up (21 – 27 April)
The Great Amazon Page Count Mystery
By Andrew Rhomberg
How Amazon pays authors for work included in Kindle Unlimited (KU) made headlines across the inter-webs recently. Ann Christy’s post “KU Scammers on KU – What’s Going On” even made it on to the homepage ofHacker News. The discussion raises many interesting questions about what reading data Amazon collects and how Amazon uses reader analytics.
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SHOOT TO KILL OR TO WOUND? HERE’S THE ANSWER
Lee Loftland
Police officers are taught/trained to stop a threat to human life. U.S. police officers are not soldiers and criminals are not enemy combatants. Contrary to the belief of some people, U.S. streets are not battlefields where cops shoot first and ask questions later. It cannot and does not work that way.
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365 Daily Book Marketing Tips series
Sandra Beckwith
Identify 1 to 3 key messages from your book to share in media and other interviews.
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Writerly Round-Up
The Writer’s Forensics Blog
FORENSIC COMMENTS FOR WRITERS FROM D. P. LYLE, MD
Guest Blogger: Lisa Black: Everything Old Is New Again
(Lisa Black just released a new title and I am seeing her in guest posts everywhere. Well done Lisa.)
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
My character, Cleveland forensic specialist Maggie Gardner, is unrealistic in one respect—she still spends a lot of time at her microscope looking at tiny bits of trace evidence, hairs, fibers, paint, and glass.
No one does that any more. Well, maybe Abby on NCIS, but she’s the most unrealistic forensic person on screen, even though she’s so cute we don’t care.
Sure, on old episodes of Dragnet you can see some nerdy guy in a lab coat explain how these pollen spores are only found in one quadrant of the city, but that art had already died before I started in forensics in 1994. We got spoiled by DNA, by ‘absolutely yes’ or ‘absolutely no’ answers. No one wanted to hear that this red nylon was ‘consistent with’ the suspect’s shirt, because they wouldn’t be hearing how many red nylon shirts were manufactured, how many were sold in this area, and while we’re at it let’s hack into Macy’s sales figures and find out who they were sold to. Unlike television, forensic labs do not have databases of all this information and would probably be violating a few important laws if they did. Nope, ‘consistent with’ was all you got. Take it or leave it.
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Facebook: The World’s Largest Bookstore?
By Jason Illian
A month or so ago, Facebook reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2015, and let’s just say they crushed the ball. Knocked the cover off. Pointed to the bleachers and then hit it out of the park.The big moneymaker was its burgeoning video ad business. Facebook states that people are watching 100 million hours of video per day on its social platform. More than 500 million people watch Facebook video every day. Just let that sink in. Facebook isn’t simply a video discovery platform; it’s becoming the video discovery platform. And it’s still growing.
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2 responses to “Writerly Round-Up (21 – 27 April)”
Enjoyed the article on reading your own work. Thank you!
I could spend my whole week happily looking for these articles.
I’m glad you liked Reading Your Own Work.