February 2010

How Kurt Vonnegut defined social media:
connection precedes communication*

by Bill Wren on February 26, 2010

There are loads of books and gazillions of web sites and blogs on social media. You could spend the rest of your life reading about it – the data, the theories, the what-have-you. But if you really want to understand social media you can cut to the chase and read just one guy: Kurt Vonnegut. [...]

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When do you post and why?

by Bill Wren on February 25, 2010

This is a quick little post that is primarily questions. For instance, if you schedule your blog posts, when do you schedule them for? I ask this because I’m in the Atlantic time zone. Many people are in the Eastern time zone and many in the other zones all the way to the Pacific. Of [...]

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A follow-up bonus writing rule

by Bill Wren on February 23, 2010

I had a bonus rule, number #11, included in yesterday’s post, Ten off-the-cuff writing rules. I deleted it because I started trying to explain my meaning and realized it should be a separate post. Here is that rule: #11 For marketing purposes, you may wish to refer to yourself as a business writer, a fiction writer, a [...]

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Ten off-the-cuff writing rules

by Bill Wren on February 22, 2010

I began this list last Thursday. I finished it off Saturday morning. Surprisingly, on Saturday I also came across Ten rules for writing fiction. It seems I wasn’t alone in putting together a list. (Those writers, by the way, are much better than I am so their lists should carry a good deal more weight [...]

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Books that have influenced me

by Bill Wren on February 20, 2010

I’ve just quickly created a page of books that have influenced me. In fact, while it’s page name is “Books” the secondary headline is Books that have influenced me. It’s a short list — just five. I think of all of them as related to writing though only one is specifically about writing. Most are [...]

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