The second entry in my diary of life behind the scenes in a Kickstarter campaign. The first entry recounted being attacked by bots as soon as the campaign started. Now read on… On the second day of the campaign, whose total was actually falling farther and farther from its goal as the fake bot […]
I’m going to try something a bit different for this Kickstarter campaign–I’m going to write a campaign diary, something more personal and (I hope) more interesting and entertaining than the usual series of pleading appeals. And I’m going to start with literally the first ten minutes of the campaign, and a robot. Or ten. I […]
The background When the trailblazing Australian anthropologist Piers Kelly, the Indiana Jones of the minority writing system, began researching one of the many written forms of the Hmong languages of southeast Asia, he discovered something unusual and fascinating. Yes, as you’d expect, their writing mostly consisted of symbols we’d call “characters” or “glyphs” […]
My new book By Hand is already prompting such fascinating discussions–the term “crusade” has been bandied about–that I’ve decided to launch the By Hand Book Club (BHBC). It will build on the amazing success of the online Writing Beyond Writing Book Club, which arose out of the launch of Writing Beyond Writing and continued on […]
