Comments on: And So We See The Future https://booksquare.com/and-so-we-see-the-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=and-so-we-see-the-future Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Thu, 03 Mar 2005 05:20:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/and-so-we-see-the-future/#comment-36427 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 05:19:40 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/03/02/1048/#comment-36427 Interesting comments. I admit to being uncomfortable with the idea of platform. I write fiction — exactly how much platform is required to make stuff up? On the other hand, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how writers represent themselves online, especially via their blogs. Blogs are the latest thing in a long line of things that effect catching editor or agent attention. They are different in that they reach so many so fast.

I think there will be at least one Gertrude Stein. I hope that anyway.

And thanks for the reality check, Astro Girl! You totally messed with my delight in overblown phrases and metaphor !

]]> By: Steve Clackson https://booksquare.com/and-so-we-see-the-future/#comment-36091 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:44:25 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/03/02/1048/#comment-36091 While Blogs may be the new literary cafe and maybe not as squalid as Hemingway’s small apartment on rue du Cardinal Lemoine. I doubt we will find many Ezra Pounds’ or Gertrude Steins’ wafting between our tables as we finish our “colorless liquids or Cafe Crèmes.”
I can see us now reminiscing about past blogs as if they were road trips with F. Scott sharing experiences of rooms with no sights or sounds other than the hum of our hard drive and our monitors staring back at us.

]]> By: Brenda Coulter https://booksquare.com/and-so-we-see-the-future/#comment-36085 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:08:34 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/03/02/1048/#comment-36085 Sorry, I can’t help myself. Somebody needs to tell the guy that stars are not made from “superheated gases”. They’re formed when nebulae (clouds) of mostly hydrogen are disturbed (say by a collision with another nebula) and begin to rotate. It is only when the cloud collapses in on itself and begins to rotate faster that the gas heats up.

Yours for truth in cosmology,
An Astro-nerd

P.S. Yeah, okay, I’ll go read the article now.

]]> By: David Thayer https://booksquare.com/and-so-we-see-the-future/#comment-36081 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:01:17 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/03/02/1048/#comment-36081 Mr. Curtis foresees the day when we can all be platformed, branded, and be like Jose.

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