I linked to something similar to this a while ago but these Writers' Rooms are just fun to look at. I guess it's part of my productivity obsession (more with people who are than actually being so) in that I love to see the rooms where people do their work, the books surrounding all the people who write write write. Can you be a good writer without being surrounded by good books? Can you be a good writer without reading a lot of good books?

I hope that when the web expires into some other form of world-connected media form, the people that made it great by being a gem of a find amidst all the dross are remembered in some manner. For example, a perfect source of inspiration and envy for me was Matt Rossi and I wonder constantly where he is.

Unfortunately, I believe this is the kind of bad writing I would do if I ever decided to put the keyboard down and... uh... pick the keyboard (a different keyboard, OK?) up. Even more unfortunate would be the fact that I would not make nearly as much money as Mr. Brown. P.S. I am the fifth person who has not read the book. I counted.

Hey ! Another person doing those miniature short story things I call vignettes but they call them Gee Willikers.

I used to write something I called "vignettes", ultra-short stories on the back of postcards that I sent to friends. They were often stream of consciousness and sometimes reflected the card they were on. I don't send postcards any more but this Ficlets could be a repository for these streams.

I like this Death City alot. It's a fictional blog set in a city beset by a plague that the government is denying is happening. Think of it as Toronto's SARS summer gone all wrong. I just hope the writing is up to the task.

Yay! I like having a place to regularly read the blogless Sarah Hepola.

Slowlydownward is the site of the person who did the artwork on Thom Yorke's The Eraser but also does little writing bits, kind of like the pieces of writing I used to do called vignettes.

Note: Finish reading this short story.

I really like the idea behind One Sentence, "True stories, told in one sentence".

Oh great, I have traded a cold for insomnia. So after 3.5 hours of sleep I awake to spend time reading Miss Snark, the literary agent. Oh to be as brutally honest about interacting with the public. Maybe I need a retail blog?

I like this Whatever: Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don't Want to Work at Writing. The point that stands out for me is the "Try to write well every single time you write". At some point in my writing/noodling I stopped using point form for ideas and started writing sentences again. Now do I write this blog well?

OK, it has been years since I truly diddled with writing fantasy stories but these BioWare contests for Neverwinter Nights make me want to write something. It also makes me want to installed that never before played copy I have on my shelf.

Even worse than guys sitting at home pretending they are elf maidens is guys sitting at home pretending they are authors.

The Fray was the first web based project that I thought would go somewhere, right after I discovered you could do interesting things with a website. Nice to know it's still going tres strong.