Scribtotum
Scribtotum
scrihb-tote-um (Noun): A portmanteau combining the words “scribe” (writer) and “totum” (roughly Latin for “the whole thing”). Borrowed / adapted from the word “factotum” (one who does all kinds of work) to mean “one who writes on a variety of subjects.”
I strive to offer my experiences as an independent creator from the perspective of a veteran beginner. As I like to say, it’s not my first rodeo, but the horses and bulls… and the clowns… keep changing!
So, whenever I can teach or share, I write an article for this blog, Scribtotum.
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Scribtotum Article Archive
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What is the author's responsibility to readers in terms of so-called offensive material?- If you're a fiction writer or storyteller of any stripe, I strongly, strongly encourage you to subscribe to the podcast feed for the Public Radio International program Selected Shorts. Every week, you get one to three short stories read by professional actors (names you know and names you don't; all excellent.) This is top-flight stuff,…
- Whew. I'm back in the coffeehouse where I write in the morning before going to work. It's in a town right next to Ontario, California, where the Podcast and New Media Expo was held. Ontario might be down the road, but the PNME, the Residence Inn, the Doubletree, the Marriott, Spires, Marie Callendar's, and Stater…
- Matthew Wayne Selznick attends Dragon*Con, America's largest multimedia genre convention and expo, in Atlanta, Georgia August 31st through September 3rd, 2007. Matt will be a featured guest on eight panels: Podcasting for Promotion Are you a writer, musician, game designer, or trying to promote your brand or grow an audience? Learn the tricks to get…
- So, Balticon 41 is over, and I'm on my way home. On an airplane, actually, having just taken off from Cleveland. I'll be in Las Vegas in three hours or so, then, a few hours after that, Ontario, and up the hill to home. It should be midnight by the time I hit the sack.…
Eulogizing Tower Records a little... by which I mean, "use the demise of the record store chain to reflect on my own formative years..."- Matthew Wayne Selznick is part of a festival of local authors at the Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Victorville, California on Saturday, June 24th from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Matt will sign copies of his first book, Brave Men Run - A Novel of the Sovereign Era, read from the book, and discuss the…
- I'm very pleased to announce that the Brave Men Run Podcast has been... nominated to tbe nominated... in the Best Storytelling category of the first Podcast Peer Awards.
- Tried to do some writing today... I like to blast a scene per weekday if at all possible, which usually means a thousand to fifteen hundred words, sometimes more, sometimes less. Today, it barely happened.
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