tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post2047578828730850295..comments2024-03-24T17:06:47.135-04:00Comments on Story Bones: About the writingSteve Buchheithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-90550820037326768542009-06-25T00:04:38.643-04:002009-06-25T00:04:38.643-04:00Elizabeth, yep, I tend to see the same names. Some...Elizabeth, yep, I tend to see the same names. Some good new sites I've found through Jay Lake and Matt Staggs link salad posts. <br /><br />Some of the new places I have to admit, I've seen that advice before, so I tend not to link to it myself. Maybe I should change that philosophy.Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-26862112307773235812009-06-24T23:37:16.100-04:002009-06-24T23:37:16.100-04:00When I first joined LJ in 2003, some friends gave ...When I first joined LJ in 2003, some friends gave me names of people to follow, who were new to me. But now when I see links about writing or publishing, it's the same people over and over again. <br /><br />If new people are talking about writing (and they must be out there), where do we find them? Has the blogosphere just gotten so large that it's harder to track things down?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-69667019202614883292009-06-24T08:18:42.798-04:002009-06-24T08:18:42.798-04:00I think you're spot on there Mer. I do see a l...I think you're spot on there Mer. I do see a lot more about writing on more "professionally" produced sites (and that does include sites that have made the move to go off the LJ or Blogger domains, even though the underlining technologies are the same).Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-82028455149624999022009-06-23T21:40:55.280-04:002009-06-23T21:40:55.280-04:00I wonder if it's something like... there was ...I wonder if it's something like... there was this critical mass of writers at a certain point in their careers coming to blogging all at once in 2003-2007 or so, and wanting to share what they knew. We've gotten a lot of received wisdom from them, and <i>only recently</i> have I seen challenges to those bits--Greg Van Eekhout talking about short stories being beneficial/not beneficial as a route to a career, and various take-downs of the "write every day, butt inna chair" school of thought. <br /><br />Plus, there's been some level of professionalization of that content: it's showing up more on professionally produced websites, or subscription websites (you liked to a Tor.com; I've seen some in the IROSF). Blogging, maybe, has passed its useful peak as a method of dissemination of this information? It's largely been disseminated, and there can be only fine-tuning? The Jay Lakes and Elizabeth Bears of the world (the ones who appear to learn something significant about craft by jawing about it on the page) are actually few and far between, but there was this weird convergeance? We've actually got too many writing blogs, and no one can mine all of them anymore, because we want to keep an eye on the ones who rose to early prominence, and the new people saying stuff are too easily ignored?<br /><br />I really don't know.Mernoreply@blogger.com