A Plague of Chicken is now up over at Mindflights. Enjoy!
the trouble with electronic media
June 4, 2009 5 Comments
… is that it’s addictive (I’ll watch/surf over to/play five more minutes/one last site/one more level) and before you know it three hours have gone by and it’s past midnight and you’re still watching Battlestar Galactica and your eyes feel like they’ve been sandpapered and all that lost time is just ashes in your mouth.
Or maybe I’m the only one who gets overloaded on the Internet/TV and end up feeling bad about wasting my time afterwards.
I still go back for more, though. Ugh. I never feel this way when I do something else self-indulgent, like tinkering with a story or crocheting or drawing or playing the piano. Or even reading. It’s just lots of screen-time that does it.
I’m glad we don’t have any TV, but we just got a gift subscription to Netflix *tremble*.
Time to write revise. I need to balance unproductivity with something useful. *grin*
linkatopia
June 2, 2009 Leave a Comment
The Random I-Have-Too-Many-Tabs-Open Edition:
Blast from the Past: Apparently, they’re remaking “V”. I have fond memories of the time my sister and I convinced our mom to let us have the TV in our room so we could watch “V” episodes at 1 am. It must’ve been during summer vacation, because I can’t imagine Mom agreeing to it otherwise! It looks a little cheesy (giant face in the sky, oy!), but I’ll watch it anyway, for nostalgia’s sake.
Is Kindle the New Publishing Frontier? JA Konrath experiments. And elaborates. Interesting discussions in the comments. I’m with the commenter who fears that the Kindle store might get flooded with self-pubbed books of ahhh…. dubious quality, thereby burning out the readership and lowering the effectiveness of this strategy. Yeah, I’m a skeptic, but then I don’t own a Kindle. I’ve never seen one in person… er, gadget, even.
In a Creative Rut? Come join me, and wallow. Or else, try these tips for breaking out of it.
Look at these sweet watercolor sheep. They’ll look really nice next to the black-and-white spotted cows the kids made last week.
