- Blog post: http://t.co/5Kk9UaapnY – Tweets for the week of 05-04-2013 00:00:27, 2013-05-12
- @jimduckett Well, you seemed like a man of obvious taste and discernment. in reply to jimduckett 22:56:50, 2013-05-14
- I interview alternate history author @LauraSAndersen over at the blog of the Association for Mormon Letters: http://t.co/GgypjWQ2hC 13:58:49, 2013-05-15
Tweets for the week of 05-11-2013
Tweets for the week of 05-04-2013
- RT @davidfarland: Happy Star Wars Day! Help us #HelpBen, son of a Star Wars author. Ben has brain trauma: http://t.co/4Sl1lxD9rA #maythefou… 19:11:55, 2013-05-04
- Blog post: http://t.co/O8scAJReRt – Tweets for the week of 04-27-2013 23:59:08, 2013-05-04
- Watch our wedding video, complete with trumpet fanfare, robot ring-bearer & helicopters: http://t.co/FcDvkEmBWT 09:04:53, 2013-05-06
- Sometimes my brain wants to pronounce "misled" to rhyme with "fizzled." 13:30:58, 2013-05-07
- @daviddlevine Hmm. Does MS Word have a word weight function? in reply to daviddlevine 13:37:45, 2013-05-07
Tweets for the week of 04-27-2013
- Blog post: http://t.co/rsle7KjKLU – Tweets for the week of 04-20-2013 00:00:44, 2013-04-28
- RT @trevso_electric: I want to defend a penguin in court just so I can say, "Your Honor. My client is clearly not a flight risk." 15:59:20, 2013-04-29
- @LeahCypess It's not really that difficult. Email me your manuscript and I can do it in under 2 minutes. in reply to LeahCypess 11:03:38, 2013-05-01
- @LeahCypess It would take me longer to explain than to do it. in reply to LeahCypess 11:04:01, 2013-05-01
- @EricDSnider Suprisingly, you don't see a distinction between a headline writer's mistake and official corporate policy. in reply to EricDSnider 12:17:15, 2013-05-01
- @EricDSnider If Fox really didn't see a distinction, they wouldn't include the word "legally" in the article's first sentence. in reply to EricDSnider 12:18:08, 2013-05-01
- @EmaPen Congrats! in reply to EmaPen 13:25:11, 2013-05-01
- @ericbdavies @EricDSnider My mistake. But this Fox story's correct: http://t.co/aNy2uZ3pVc so I think it's headline mistake, not Fox policy. in reply to ericbdavies 15:06:20, 2013-05-01
- Blog post: http://t.co/h6hCfe6VxE – Manuscript Tip: How to replace underlining with italics in Microsoft Word 18:25:32, 2013-05-01
- @PeterAhlstrom @stacylwhitman By force of habit, I use two spaces. But if I know an editor prefers one, I'll happily make the switch. in reply to PeterAhlstrom 22:34:29, 2013-05-01
- Blog post: http://t.co/MYgsQZE3Oh – Ender's World is out 07:27:46, 2013-05-02
- RT @crossedgenres: Unidentified Funny Objects 2 has 8 hours to raise the last $2000 for their @kickstarter! Please help them out: http://t.… 11:00:45, 2013-05-02
- @scatteredjules @amberargyle Following people before Twitter was invented was called "stalking." in reply to scatteredjules 17:09:29, 2013-05-02
- @darylwriterguy I hope it involves the line "Ah, darn you! Gosh darn you all to heck!" in reply to darylwriterguy 17:13:14, 2013-05-02
Ender’s World is out
The anthology of essays about Ender’s Game I talked about here is now available. My essay is titled “How It Should Have Ended,” and you can read the beginning over on the SmartPop Books website.
Here’s the table of contents:
- Introduction: Ender’s World – Orson Scott Card
- How It Should Have Ended – Eric James Stone
- The Monster’s Heart – John Brown
- The Cost of Breaking the Rules – Mary Robinette Kowal
- Winning and Losing in Ender’s Game – Hilari Bell
- Parallax Regained – David Lubar, Alison S. Myers
- Mirror, Mirror – Alethea Kontis
- Size Matters – Janis Ian
- Rethinking the Child Hero – Aaron Johnston
- A Teenless World – Mette Ivie Harrison
- Ender on Leadership – Colonel Tom Ruby
- Ender Wiggin, USMC – John F. Schmitt
- The Price of Our Inheritance – Neal Shusterman
- If the Formics Love Their Children Too – Ken Scholes
- Ender’s Game: A Guide to Life – Matt Nix
I reread Ender’s Game for just before writing my essay, and was struck again by what a brilliant book it is. Obviously, it has really struck a chord with the reading public — last year, 27 years after it first came out, it was the #1 best-selling science fiction book of the year (in print). If you haven’t read it in a while (or ever) I recommend reading it — and then reading Ender’s World to get some interesting perspectives on it.
Manuscript Tip: How to replace underlining with italics in Microsoft Word
For years, standard manuscript format has held that italics should be indicated by underlining. So many writers are used to underlining in their manuscripts. But some editors and agents now prefer to have real italics instead of underlines. Fortunately, it is possible to use Microsoft Word’s search and replace tool to make the change. I offered to do this for a friend earlier today, and she emailed me her novel manuscript. Two minutes later, I emailed the manuscript back with all the underlines changed to italics — and that included download and upload time. But I can’t do that for everyone, so I figured I’d explain the process, step by step. It looks like a lot of steps, but it’s really not that difficult, and it should all make sense when you look at it.
- Open the “Find and Replace” dialog (Ctrl-H)
- Click on the “More” button
- Click in the “Find what:” box
- Click on the “Format” button
- Choose “Font…”
- From the “Underline style:” pulldown, choose the single thin line
- Click “OK”
- Under the “Find what:” line, it should now show “Format: Underline”
- Click in the “Replace with:” box
- Click on the “Format” button
- Choose “Font…”
- From the “Underline style:” pulldown, choose “(none)”
- In the “Font style:” list, choose “Italic”
- Click “OK”
- Under the “Replace with:” line, it should now show “Format: Font: Italic, No underline”
- Click the “Replace All” button
- All your underlined words should now be italicized words with no underlining.
Tweets for the week of 04-20-2013
- @ferretthimself When did we decide Eric Rudolph's not a terrorist? His Wikipedia page calls him one. The FBI called him one. I call him one. in reply to ferretthimself 08:42:47, 2013-04-20
- Hulu invited me to take a survey that could take up to 15 minutes. First question was my age. After I said 46, survey was over. 09:25:20, 2013-04-20
- @JulieCFrost I don't know. It's possible they were looking for 65+, just as it's possible Abraham Lincoln was a time-traveling android. in reply to JulieCFrost 09:36:40, 2013-04-20
- Blog post: http://t.co/D9JFEglvyT – Tweets for the week of 04-13-2013 23:59:50, 2013-04-20
- Mormons in the news: Samurai sword-wielding Mormon bishop comes to aid of woman being attacked http://t.co/FtCxosztVM 09:52:20, 2013-04-24
Tweets for the week of 04-13-2013
- Blog post: http://t.co/ogwZSndxa7 – Tweets for the week of 04-06-2013 23:59:05, 2013-04-13
- My 1000th Twitter follower is Writers of the Future winner @kodiakjulian, whom I enjoyed meeting last week at the WOTF workshop. 20:11:20, 2013-04-16
- @mat_johnson
@AbrahamHanover If a right-winger did it, sit back and watch all your liberal friends blame "conservative rhetoric," etc. in reply to mat_johnson 12:00:22, 2013-04-17 - @AaronWJohnston @MaryRobinette Yes, I'd seen that a few days ago. Didn't know they were doing the audiobook until then. in reply to AaronWJohnston 12:10:20, 2013-04-17
- My latest post at the blog of the Association for Mormon Letters is about "A Memory of Mars": http://t.co/WESAN82Vcj 15:20:42, 2013-04-17
- @amberargyle Before. in reply to amberargyle 17:10:15, 2013-04-17
- RT @IMAO_: Well, at least it's nice the suspect is someone we can all come together hating: guys who wear baseball caps backwards. 16:42:02, 2013-04-18
- RT @saladinahmed: One second we're all 'You're DEAD, old media! Your reportage is so slow!' The next it's 'Don't rush to publish! Be rig … 08:22:08, 2013-04-19
- I re-read @tchernabyelo's "The Box of Beautiful Things" a few days ago. It's as good as I remembered it being. http://t.co/gTClfp3D6S 12:41:23, 2013-04-19
- @TKosmatka I didn't know you'd expanded "The Prophet of Flores" into a novel. Cool. in reply to TKosmatka 15:24:30, 2013-04-19
- RT @IMAO_: I hope the new Superman movie has his origin story in it because I'm really curious what that is. 15:28:28, 2013-04-19
Tweets for the week of 04-06-2013
- Blog post: http://t.co/NH8WnPrU2v – Tweets for the week of 03-30-2013 23:59:21, 2013-04-06
- For some reason, @amazon no longer seems to consider standard Utah grid-type addresses (e.g., 142 W 1300 S) to be valid. #Annoying 07:27:15, 2013-04-09
- Solution: add Street at the end. @amazon then suggests the address you wanted to enter in the 1st place but it wouldn't let you. in reply to EricJamesStone 07:31:23, 2013-04-09
Tweets for the week of 03-30-2013
- Blog post: http://t.co/L0MmNLkZHA – Tweets for the week of 03-23-2013 23:59:30, 2013-03-30
- Smart Pop Books featured a quote from my essay in ENDER'S WORLD: http://t.co/fsrZ2NTZZc 19:38:34, 2013-04-04
- Darci took me indoor skydiving at I Fly Utah. It was a blast! 15:42:31, 2013-04-05
Tweets for the week of 03-23-2013
- Blog post: http://t.co/OJGi8SdoDZ – Tweets for the week of 03-16-2013 23:59:47, 2013-03-23
- @HelBell @NewYorker Have you queried to make sure they have it? I had one at 331 days that they lost & told me to resend. in reply to HelBell 10:38:44, 2013-03-24
- @aliettedb Don't know if this has been mentioned, but Lwaxana and Deanna Troi from ST:TNG. in reply to aliettedb 14:06:34, 2013-03-24
- RT @howardtayler: This might rub a lot of people the wrong way, but if your Facebook or Twitter handle says "Author" in it, you're tryin … 13:16:01, 2013-03-26
- @EricDSnider Trying to decide between "I am shocked, shocked to find you don't own it" & "Guess you won't be able to play it, Eric." in reply to EricDSnider 17:23:02, 2013-03-26
- @rachelswirsky @jakedfw @kyliu99 So opposing the supplanting of old publishing models by new ones would be antidisestablishmentarianism. in reply to rachelswirsky 16:47:19, 2013-03-27
