And, we’re back! After a perilous dip in green dots yesterday, our best agent made a daring run into the heavily-guarded Green Dot Factory and secured more than enough luminous orbs to get the cable modem back up and operational. Excelsior!
(That, or I came home and it was working again, without my doing anything. Whichever.)
Anyway! Today I have three fabulous links for you, and they are available…right…now!
First up is a post from Zen Habits called How I Changed My Life, In Four Lines. It starts with this:
Changing your life can seem an incredibly tough and complicated thing, especially if you’ve failed a great number of times (like I did), found it too hard, and resigned yourself to not changing. But I found a way to change.
I’m not sold on everything he recommends, but his basic four steps seem very sound.
Next, have you heard of Booktrack? They do soundtracks for books. What is this sorcery? Would you want a soundtrack for your book – and would you be willing to pay for a book-specific soundtrack like they offer, versus just jamming to your own mp3 collection?
Finally, Veronica Roth talks about how indecisiveness can hurt your revision. I’ve seen this happen in my own work, and Ms. Roth speaks the truth.
That’s a wrap. Have a stupendous weekend!
Brian D. Buckley 
What didn’t sold you in the zen habits article? Curious…
MAN! The internet is reading my mind again! Booktracks? I had this idea where they should make e-books more interactive. Like with moving pictures along side the text (small animations or maybe entire cut scenes like in Final Fantasy games!) AND a soundtrack composed specifically for said book.
Or if that’s too expensive, use a program that allows the reader to set up their own playlist using their own music collection and be able to program which song to play for which type of scene (exciting scenes, sad scenes, etc).
Guess it’s not such an original idea lol.
In the zen habits post he says he “gave up goals.” I’m not saying he’s necessarily wrong, but it would take some more convincing to bring me around to that kind of thinking.
I know what you mean about the Internet reading your mind though! I thought of the idea for Omegle (randomly pairs you with an anonymous stranger to chat) like two weeks before the actual site was launched. How crazy is that?