Archive for June, 2011



Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Blog Recommendation: The Passive Voice

I don’t remember how I first found The Passive Voice but I’m glad I did. It’s a blog written by an ex-lawyer that gives both writing insight and (most valuable to me) some insight into contracts and legal rights. Bear in mind that you should always hire appropriate legal advice when you need it and I recommend having someone review each contract you take, but I’ve picked up some valuable information from reading The Passive Voice.

Subscribe to the Passive Guy’s blog and read it consistently. Click on this link (goes directly to the posts flagged “contract”) and educate yourself on how various contract clauses work. You won’t be sorry!

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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Heinlein’s Business Rules

While getting things back on track and working on my (two) steampunk stories, I came across a great reminder to myself. These are business rules penned by Robert Heinlein, one of the first science fiction authors I read while growing up and they hit me where it hurt – in my tendency to procrastinate.

His rules go simply:

1) You must write.
2) You must finish what you write.
3) You must not rewrite unless to editorial demand.
4) You must mail your work to someone who can buy it.
5) You must keep the work in the mail until someone buys it.

Time to put my eye back on the prize and get to WORK.

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