the word studio notebook

I'm a freelance writer, designer, and game developer. My name is Will Hindmarch, and this is a casual notebook I keep on the web.
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Haiku Year: The Book

This is my 500th post at Tumblr.

At little over 100 of my posts to date were taken up by my Haiku Year project, in which I wrote a haiku a day for a little over three months. As I prepare to try the project again, I’ve collected 105 poems into a little chapbook, along with a few short articles about the project. This little book, also called Haiku Year, collects every poem from my tumblelog, a few bonus haiku from the project. I offer it here for you to (a) buy, as a little pocket-sized paperback book, or (b) to download for free. Do either of those things at Lulu.

If you download the book, I’ll have no way of knowing that you did. So, if you do, please leave a comment on this post at my blog, letting me know that you chose to download it and, maybe, read some of it.

This is an experiment, after all, to see how many people might actually choose to get their hands on it (and what percentage of those people choose to pay for it in some way). So, if you do, I’d appreciate you raising your hand so I can count you as a download.

Thanks for your time.

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“ And Wil Wheaton went the sanest possible route with his Sunken Treasure and Memories of the Future, and just found someone crazy to do all the layout. (C’mon, it’s Wil — I shouldn’t have to tell you to buy his books, you should already have them.) ”

Ariana Osborne, on laying out books for publishing through Lulu

I am that “someone crazy.” Buy Wil’s books.

"But I do not think that the average reader—no matter how happy he or she is with their voluminous digital libraries on their diminutive screens—will be satisfied to never have access to a true literary artifact, something tangible that connects them to a favorite author. It makes perfect sense that larger printed works violate both our economic and our evolving green sensibilities, but small artifacts of the author may remain a necessity, if only a psychological one." 

“In Praise of the Lowly Chapbook,” by Bryce Milligan.

Let’s hope.

How To Write A Novel 

Eleven authors tell the WSJ how they do it.

“ The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn’t talk about it. She does her work. ”

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. My business partner recommends this book highly, but I’m still on the fence about it’s self-helpy qualities.

A book that Sara bound by hand, collecting some of the stories I saved from Ficlets, which is scheduled to be executed today. I gathered these and laid them out with comments and notes as part of a larger project which will probably never come together. We sent this book to a friend as a Christmas gift, but the PDF of the interior may yet be made available elsewhere. Soon we should see the launch of Ficly — successor.

A book that Sara bound by hand, collecting some of the stories I saved from Ficlets, which is scheduled to be executed today. I gathered these and laid them out with comments and notes as part of a larger project which will probably never come together. We sent this book to a friend as a Christmas gift, but the PDF of the interior may yet be made available elsewhere.

Soon we should see the launch of Ficly — successor.

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