The Published Author » fiction http://www.thepublishedauthor.com Get Published and Get Noticed Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:49:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Future of Writing http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/book-marketing/the-future-of-writing http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/book-marketing/the-future-of-writing#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:59 +0000 admin http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/book-marketing/the-future-of-writing David Artsmith  -  Social networks are in essence a place to tell a story. Its your tale, the story of your life shared with friends and family. Twitter is a way of giving status updates about your daily life, and facebook is a more complex way of doing the same thing.

The next step in using these social networks is to tell not a real story, but to document the life of a fictional character. Through the use of status updates, pictures, videos, and blog posts, you can actually record the day to day life activities of someone that you made up.

You can also take this a step further, such as the community RolePages has done.com, or on some of the groups found on Bebo or Facebook, where everyone involved is a fictional character. This gives you a new opportunity as a creator of fiction, endowing you with the ability to add a multimedia masterpiece to the story of your character, making them more real and dimensional than they could be on flat 2d paper.

The potential here is that your story doesn’t have to be static, living only on the page and in your head. Instead you can breathe life into it, allowing it to grow naturally, nurtured by a whole group of people rather than just the efforts of a single author.

The problem of course is that you don’t own this story anymore. It becomes a community project, equally owned by everyone who participates. The result of this is that you don’t have complete control over the outcome. You have some influence, depending on your contributions, but the final story is a chaotic mishmash of random input from every person that participates.

Social networking represents the cutting edge in fictional storytelling. It's a community event, a combination of talents in a living moment working together to tell a story. Its still young, but its on its way to making a real mark in the world of fiction.

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]]> http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/book-marketing/the-future-of-writing/feed 0 How to Get Published 4 http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/get-published/how-to-get-published-4-2 http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/get-published/how-to-get-published-4-2#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:44:23 +0000 admin http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/get-published/how-to-get-published-4-2 how to publpublish a book; Legitimate publishers, self-publishing, POD-print on demand, ebooks

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]]> http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/get-published/how-to-get-published-3/feed 0 How to Write & Publish a Non Fiction Book : Tips on Creating a Marketing Plan for Your Non-Fiction Book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-tips-on-creating-a-marketing-plan-for-your-non-fiction-book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-tips-on-creating-a-marketing-plan-for-your-non-fiction-book#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:42:34 +0000 admin http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-tips-on-creating-a-marketing-plan-for-your-non-fiction-book How to create a marketing plan for your non-fiction book in this free video guide to self-publishing for first-time authors.

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]]> http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-tips-on-creating-a-marketing-plan-for-your-non-fiction-book/feed 1 How to Write & Publish a Non Fiction Book : Importance of an Elevator Pitch for Your Non-Fiction Book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-importance-of-an-elevator-pitch-for-your-non-fiction-book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-importance-of-an-elevator-pitch-for-your-non-fiction-book#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:40:28 +0000 admin http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-importance-of-an-elevator-pitch-for-your-non-fiction-book Learn the importance of the elevator pitch, or being able to explain your non-fiction book in one sentence, in this free video guide for first-time authors.

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]]> http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-importance-of-an-elevator-pitch-for-your-non-fiction-book/feed 0 How to Write & Publish a Non Fiction Book : Writing the Proposal for a Non-Fiction Book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/how-to-publish/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-writing-the-proposal-for-a-non-fiction-book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/how-to-publish/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-writing-the-proposal-for-a-non-fiction-book#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:40:22 +0000 admin http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/how-to-publish/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-writing-the-proposal-for-a-non-fiction-book Learn how to plan your non-fiction book proposal, with tips for writing it out, in this free video guide for first-time authors.

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]]> http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/how-to-publish/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-writing-the-proposal-for-a-non-fiction-book/feed 1 Rêve de la Chambre Rouge http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publishing-house/reve-de-la-chambre-rouge http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publishing-house/reve-de-la-chambre-rouge#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:38:40 +0000 admin http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publishing-house/reve-de-la-chambre-rouge 　　Produced by Chu Bang Fu Studio(www.cbflabs.com). Original from “the dream of the red chamber” by Cao Xueqin. Chu Bong-Foo was born in 1937 in Hubei province in China. In the 1960s, Chu wanted to go to Brazil and immerse himself in the culture. While there, he also studied composition in the Masters Program of the Bahia University School of Music.
　　An opportunity arose in the 1970s that called for him to apply his various talents to organize investors in a major agricultural project in Brazil. This venture did not turn out as planned. Bankrupt, destitute, and unable to return to Taiwan, Chu encountered a hippy group that represented the best aspects of that movement; their monastic practices, rejection of material civilization, and pursuit of the truth attracted him.
　　At 36 years old, he ended up in the largest publishing house in Brazil. Aware of the extensive delays for printing Chinese books, the speed for publishing a book written with the roman alphabet astounded him. From the time the author submitted the draft to the publishing house for editing, printing and available for shipping, it only took twelve hours. He thought that if books in China could be processed as efficiently, Chinese could save their culture from inundation by Western influences.
　　In 1973, perceiving the role computers would play in the future, he knew Chinese characters must be rendered completely compatible with the machine of the next era. Based on his research, he then developed the Cang Jie method to allow the input of Chinese characters on a computer. For this work, he earned the title of “Father of Chinese Computing”.
　　In the late 1980s, he and his longtime collaborator Ms. Shen Hung Lien started a company in Shenzhen, China, and led a team of local engineers to develop an integrated software system (an operating system together with the major applications for office automation) that was more efficient and powerful than the yet to be released Chinese Windows by Microsoft.
　　Upon his return to Taiwan in 1991, a group of students inspired by his autobiography joined him in his research. He hoped to develop the local Chinese software market against the impending threat of Microsoft. Discouraged by the domination of the Taiwan IT industry by foreign elements insensitive to the needs of Chinese culture, Chu and his team took refuge from the commercial world and retreated to the mountainside of southeastern Taiwan to continue their research into Chinese culture and software during much of the 1990s.
　　In 1998, the Hong Kong publicly listed company Culturecom Holdings approached Chu and asked him to become a part of their group to design a blueprint for the IT development of China. Chu accepted and together with his researchers moved to Macau where they established the “CBF Labs”. Since then, they have been engaged in the design and development of cutting-edge software and hardware solutions (Chinese language operating systems with Linux, character generators, systems on chips, e-books, voice and character recognition programs, E-town, Farmers’ Network, Chinese character driven multimedia platform, etc) for the Chinese IT market. These works promise to serve as a model for IT throughout the lesser developed world.
　　Throughout his travels in China, Taiwan, and Macau, Chu has created research facilities that promote the goals of human spiritual refinement while at the same time creating technology products beneficial to mankind. A visitor to the facilities in Macau where Chu resides with his team will notice the quiet, but vibrant nature of their “cyber-ashram-like” atmosphere and the great dedication and austerity of the members of the facility. It exemplifies the group principles5 and work ethics expounded by the author.
　　One axiom has recurred throughout his life and work: meld theory and practice. A modern renaissance figure who has integrated Eastern and Western traditions, he arrived at the ideas contained throughout his works by way of quiet contemplation and practical action. This is why, unlike other philosophers, he has continuously tested his conclusions in the practical world, whether through software design, technology, science, literature, filmmaking, art, music, or education.
　　Now,Master Chu is doing research about mass-production 3D software system and he wants to produce thousands of animation works with Chinese Culture spirit. Do you believe it ? Lets wait to see.

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]]> http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publishing-house/reve-de-la-chambre-rouge/feed 0 How to Write & Publish a Non Fiction Book : Why You Should Not Use a Vanity Press for Your Non-Fiction Book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-why-you-should-not-use-a-vanity-press-for-your-non-fiction-book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-why-you-should-not-use-a-vanity-press-for-your-non-fiction-book#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:38:33 +0000 admin http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-why-you-should-not-use-a-vanity-press-for-your-non-fiction-book Learn why not to publish your non-fiction book with a vanity press in this free video guide to self-publishing.

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]]> http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-why-you-should-not-use-a-vanity-press-for-your-non-fiction-book/feed 0 Venustodon! – First Spaceship on Venus (1962) w/ Mastodon http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-a-book/venustodon-first-spaceship-on-venus-1962-w-mastodon http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-a-book/venustodon-first-spaceship-on-venus-1962-w-mastodon#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:52:26 +0000 admin http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-a-book/venustodon-first-spaceship-on-venus-1962-w-mastodon Mash-up! Music from Mastodon’s debut album Remission, song Trilobite.

The movie is the 1962 East German sci-fi thriller ‘First Spaceship on Venus’ or ‘Der Schweigende Stern’. Based on one of the novels by recently passed Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. The novel’s title is “Astronauci” (The Astonauts) and was written in 1951. Because of its heavy socialist realists overtone Lem in his late years forbade the publishing houses to publish this book again. For information about Stanislaw Lem see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem

First Spaceship on Venus
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]]> http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-a-book/venustodon-first-spaceship-on-venus-1962-w-mastodon/feed 4 How to Write & Publish a Non Fiction Book : Using Print on Demand Services for Your Non-Fiction Book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-using-print-on-demand-services-for-your-non-fiction-book http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-using-print-on-demand-services-for-your-non-fiction-book#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:28:34 +0000 admin http://www.thepublishedauthor.com/publish-your-book/how-to-write-publish-a-non-fiction-book-using-print-on-demand-services-for-your-non-fiction-book Get advice on using a print-on-demand publisher to print your non-fiction book in this free video guide for first-time authors.

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