International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day! by in Uncategorized / April 23rd, 2007
Today is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, whereupon people of a creative nature release their works to the world without restraints. It’s a response to Howard Hendrix’s (VP of SFWA) rant about how (among other things), writers who give their works away for free are scabs, killing the profession of writing. I can see why he thinks that, but he’s wrong. Meh. What can ya do?
Sadly, I have no works that I can release publicly that aren’t already free for general consumption. I seriously debated putting the first six chapters of The Vector up here (since they’re actually edited and read to read), but then I considered the fact that I tend to re-write the start of a story when I get to the end, and I don’t want evidence of my indecisiveness on the web.
So instead, I shall point you to the Pig book and the Crow book, and the forthcoming (in a broad sense) Panda book, and otherwise just commit that The Vector will indeed be a free (as in beer and speech) novel when it’s done, regardless of what other distribution methods are also employed.
If you’re a writer, release something, you technopeasant wretch!
Tags: free culture, pixel-stained technopeasant
April 27th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
I consider it an opportunity lost that you didn’t release “Ode to ber”, which I will now publish here without your consent. On your own blog. Which is your own intellectual property, anyway. HA!
Ode to ber
Amzangi ber, that taste so swet,
it mdae my vision blurr
I once was lost, btu now im found,
but were? Well I’m not srue.
–MCM, 1994-ish
(any mis-misspellings are, of course, my own fault.)
April 27th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
I revoke your right to republish my fantastical poetry! Forsooth!
And now I present, under a CC-SA license, my fantastical poetry.
Ode to ber
Amzangi ber, that taste so swet,
it mdae my vision blurr
I once was lost, btu now im found,
but were? Well I’m not srue.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
And furthermore, any misspellings are still your fault
April 28th, 2007 at 9:23 am
It’s not the misspellings one must worry about — it’s the mis-misspellings.
I may have invented a few of my own over the years, but I think the important ones are all still there. If you still have the original, do share.