Kempton Mooney Less Profundity, More Secundity

Galleycat points out an interesting bit of math:

“[W]hat the publishers should be most concerned about, is the fact that a library of 2,500 books can be downloaded in a matter of hours. E-books are small files and 2,500 of them can be packed into a single download (Torrent) that’s only about 3.4GB. If you set [...]

Came across a great site called DRAFT today that contians pdfs of revised manuscripts. One that has been catching a lot of attention is the first page to David Foster Wallace’s INFINITE JEST. A nice coincidence as I start the revision of my latest project. I’ll be interested to comb through te site a little [...]

Found an interesting article on net worth on Forbes recently. The article gives a formula for calculating the amount of the US population with a given net worth. I grabbed the most recent US population (307mm), and created a table below of the percent of Americans with a net worth over a million. The scale [...]

Yesterday I completed the first draft of my most recent writing project, the story of an apartment building. The piece is a pastiche/homage to Graham Greene, drawing from many of his novels, sources he drew from, and sources who drew on him. In a way I think it is similar to Bohemian Rhapsody, as it [...]

Aristotle’s notion of unity in effect is basicaly a story should be about one thing. The one thing is “what the hero is trying to get.” This works because the audience only cares about what is going to happen next.
Obeyed strictly, it is difficult because it needs a good plot. Not bad plots filled [...]

Here’s a clear example of how twitter can help a book’s sales:
When Something Beginning With became available again as part of the Friday Project’s “Library of Lost Books”, publisher Scott Pack blogged about it on The Bookseller site, and Sarah Salway blogged about how lucky she felt to get a second chance.
Then author Neil Gaiman [...]