Joe Konrath recently posted
the utopian version of a kindle's future, complete with advertisements that don't bug anyone. A reader countered with
the dystopian version from gnu.
While I was out of touch, Camille Cannon Eide over at
Extreme Keyboarding was a finalist in the Mt Hermon/Zondervan First Novel Competition, and signed with a literary agent. Her novel is currently under Extreme Rewrite, which explains her absence from the blog. Get it done and get back, please!
Julie Weathers parades her perfectionism with a philosophy writers can all salute in her
iChapters post. Do each chapter so well the readers would pay for that chapter and want the next. Okay, I also think you have to complete enough story arcs (ie novels) that the readers can get a chance to fall in love with
you rather than just your beautiful stories. But that's my business background overpowering the artist. It's still an awesome sentiment.
But please remember to print out your "permission to write crap" certificate over at Absolute Write, or you may never finish anything you write.