Copyright Gargoyle
When is it OK to rip off copyrighted material? It all depends on the ambiguity of fair use. Difficult to define, but you know it when you see it. Here are some examples of fair use, as far …
Category: My Questionable Point of View
Look into the Abyss
I had a dream that SOPA would pass and the freedom to regulate would prevail.
I had a dream that my two grown children, living in my basement and the spare bedroom, would one day surf …
Kate Winslet Naked
I only watch movies when Kate Winslet is naked. The first movie I saw was Titanic, then I saw Holy Smoke and Quills. I didn’t watch many movies for the next five years. I did watch Eternal …
Guldukat’s Taxes Will Increase under the Deep Space 9-9-9 Plan
Our current economic crisis calls for bold action to launch the economy and America into a rapidly accelerating and expanding universe of growth and greatness. The Deep Space 9-9-9 Plan…
A change of pace from catastrophic fiction to catastrophic Halloween costumes.
Yog-Sothoth Costume and other Costumes Heralding My Doom
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I’ve often undertaken an ambitious fiction project with multiple themes and layers of meaning, the next Moby Dick, that …
So you’re waist-deep in a creative writing degree, when your half-baked plan to be a literary wonder stalls. Perhaps, you should have been a technical writer. People keep saying that technical writers are always in demand. Technical writing would certainly …
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10.26.11 , In
My Questionable Point of View , by
Unpublished Guy
What Books Remain after Borders Liquidation?
With the liquidation and imminent demise of Borders Group, the streets of literary virtue are drenched with the blood of pedestrian interests. The buildings of communal story-telling burn with the fires of online isolation. …
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07.31.11 , In
My Questionable Point of View , by
Unpublished Guy
Publishing in a Bad Economy – Milk, Internet Gambling, Cannibalism
The economy is still rough out there. Keeping yourself fed while you churn out fiction stories for publication can be a difficult task. Here are five tips to generate …
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06.20.11 , In
My Questionable Point of View , by
Unpublished Guy
#9 Do – Send editors an assortment of thank you chocolates and convections,
even if they have rejected your manuscript.
- Don’t edit at all. Grammar rules stifle the imagination.
- Do – In your correspondence with editors, let them know that
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07.28.10 , In
My Questionable Point of View , by
Unpublished Guy
You hate the book, but you keep reading and reading.
You must make it through to the end. Why do you do that?
Aaron Wong (Don’t know Aaron? Neither do I. I’m afraid I am …
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03.28.10 , In
My Questionable Point of View , by
Unpublished Guy
