Tag: Captain Awesome von Awesomesauce
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Insight. Powerful Powerful Insight
Some people like “How To” books. They buy “How to be a better ____” books over and over again when to me they so often repeat the same information or contradict one another. Sometimes they read like the person read the other book and decided to do his best “this isn’t really plagiarism” impersonation. Needless…
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Slingshots
As weapons go, I did not have many growing up. I wasn’t allowed toy guns or squirt guns because my mom was certain I was going to go around squirting my neighbors or pretending to shoot my neighbors. All that meant was I borrowed my neighbors squirt guns and squirted my neighbors that way. It’s…
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Collaboration!
I will admit that I’m not a fan of collaboration. But I realized today that it’s not a matter of not being a fan of collaboration, it’s just that collaboration has never been presented to me in a fashion that I particularly cared for. But then I got linked to a video of Joseph Gordon-Levitt…
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Bravado
The scenes I have the most trouble writing are men posturing. I blame fantasy for this. It is one of the most used scenes in classic fantasy when two alpha males begin barking at each other and bumping chests. It also reads like the stereotypical nerd living in his parents’ basement writing the hero he…
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One of the Two Books
Did you watch the HBO mini-series “The Pacific?” I don’t think it was written as well as “Band of Brothers,” but then it had the unfortunate luck to come out after that huge hit, so it had to make sure it was decidedly something else. The special features are damn cool and the show is…
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NPH Poll
Despite all the snow, I have been wicked busy at work. I have a number of half-finished posts, none of which I am in the mood to finish now. Instead…A POLL! Okay, not with the regular poll widget because it messes with my site design. Really, I should have said…A QUESTION! Or…A PROMPT! BEST NIEL…
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The Easiest Way to Give
So you lost your job and you haven’t had an interview in months but you still splurged on presents for the kids because you can’t stand to think of them crying in front of the tree. You think to yourself, I don’t have any money to give to a charity. Well, Nathan Bransford is holding…
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I Love My Company
The formula I always say for meeting colleagues in the publishing industry is to take the decade of a person’s age (I’m 33, so 3), subtract 1, and that’s the number of publishers that person has worked for. It’s amazing how accurate that formula is. Publishing is incredibly incestuous in its hiring practices, we list…