Nate

I read the Scalzi post a couple days ago, but I don't agree with him. For one, how is it a bad deal for fanfiction writers? Currently when you write ...

Getting rid of dramatic / lyrical / narrative sounds good, and keeping the satire category sounds good as well. With non-fiction, we still have the "Articles" category. I could add ...

Aye, it used to cost points to post in the Storybook area, and that was a spectacular failure. That was back sometime in 2008 when the Storybook forums were far ...

I thought this was really interesting: Amazon To Allow Writers To Sell Fan Fiction By Jason Boog on May 22, 2013 11:58 AM Amazon Publishing has reached out to fan ...

I came across this at Writer Beware while doing the Morning Round-up for Writing Gooder: Just over a year ago, I wrote about a new French law that, under the ...

If I have to pick somewhere I haven't been before, I'd love to go to Greenland. Where would *you* like to go, Nate? ;) You didn't tell us! I'm kind ...

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Is YA really a genre though? I always just regarded it as an easy way for bookstores to organize books by intended demographic. On YWS, everything is technically YA.

Those ideas are great, Carina! Since you took the time to write up all that, I'll try to respond to everything there: Portfolio "All" tab Good idea, and simple to ...

You should check out the Fiverr blog. I remember reading one post there some time ago about a guy who had managed to make thousands of dollars a month on ...

I've looked at Fiverr in the past, but as a programmer, I concluded the time investment vs. the money received just wasn't worth it for me. It astonishes me that ...

I think this could work. We had one member do this previously and it went very well. The trick is keeping people interested. To do this, constantly engage with the ...

This topic makes me laugh, although I still maintained it was rigged ;) Congrats to Areida and Dono!

A new study has come out essentially saying that the Internet and smartphones and digital multimedia is making people dumb: Do you agree? Does YWS, Facebook, Tumblr, make you dumb?

That e-books make up a fifth of all books sold didn't really surprise me. Just speaking for me, I've been buying a lot more books since I got a Kindle. ...