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Starting today I will be inserting a 'break' into longer posts. To read the complete post, you have to click "Read More >>" when it appears at the bottom.

Please note that I don't track 'clicks' or generate ad revenue from this blog and don't currently have any plans to do so in the near future. I'm just trying to do some housekeeping and keep the main page from being so long that you have to scroll to reach the next post.

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Scott

Welcome New Readers!

We have newcomers! Welcome and well-met. These are the current Standard Operating Procedures for Pages to Type. Please review the SOP's before reading further...

• This is a "novel blog" which is not really novel, but it is about a novel (sometimes) and the novelist who is writing it (mostly).
• If you should get any novelty in your eye, flush with water and seek medical help immediately.
• Safety goggles or Cokebottle nerd glasses should be worn at all times. The thicker the frames & lenses, the more at home you might feel. (You don't have to be a booknerd to enjoy this blog, but it wouldn't hurt...)
• Nothing found herein should be construed as the entire view of the author or anyone else living, dead or existing in an indeterminate state caused by fluctuations in space and/or time.

If we haven't met IRL, I'm Scott. I live on an island in Puget Sound with my wife (aka "The Engineer") and our two spoiled cats. This blog updates when something occurs to me that won't fit into what I'm supposed to be focusing on, which means almost every day. Because of my background as both a writer and a bookseller, these tend to focus on the changes our literary culture is enduring as it transitions from ink to electrons. This blog exists because I need someplace to warehouse the overflow of ideas that occur to me as I write other things. If I put it here, I know where it is and can keep an eye on it. Please feel free to feed the ideas. One can never feed an idea too much, they're happier when they're plump. Comment, subscribe, repost (please backlink) and feel free to expand, dispute or otherwise use anything here as a springboard to your own ideas. This is a community. WARNING: Improper application of "Pages to Type" may cause excessive coffee drinking, insomnia, Post-it notes on the bathroom mirror and the urge to write deep into the early morning hours Welcome!

Welcome to Pages to Type

We have newcomers! Welcome and well-met. These are the current Standard Operating Procedures for Pages to Type. Please review the SOP's before reading further...

• This is a "novel blog" which is not really novel, but it is about a novel (sometimes) and the novelist who is writing it (mostly).
• Safety goggles or Cokebottle nerd glasses should be worn at all times. The thicker the frames & lenses, the better.
• If you should get any novelty in your eye, flush with water and seek medical help immediately.
• Nothing found herein should be construed as the entire view of the author or anyone else living, dead or existing in an indeterminate state caused by fluctuations in space and time.
• This is where I warehouse the overflow of ideas that occur to me as I write other things. If I put it here, I know where it is and can keep an eye on it.
• Please feel free to feed the ideas. One can never feed an idea too much, they're happier when they're plump.
• WARNING: Improper application may cause excessive coffee drinking, insomnia, Post-it notes on the bathroom mirror and the urge to type into the wee hours of the morning.

Read at your own risk. If we haven't met IRL, I'm Scott. I am a Pacific Northwest Writer, which means I live on an island in Puget Sound with my wife and two spoiled cats. I have one novel in circulation seeking publication and/or representation and another on the thumbdrive waiting for me to get back to it. This blog updates almost every day (unless I'm participating in a blog challenge such as BEDA.) and focuses on writing and the changes our literary culture is enduring as it transitions from ink to electrons. My passions are writing, reading, coffee, art and gardening, but what fascinates me most is the ever-changing intersections of writing and technology. The "Blog as Novel" phenomenon, the evolution of self-publishing as the 'Summer Stock' of the big publishing houses and the revival of short-form fiction on the internet are all topics I cover here at Pages to Type. I write historical fiction and mysteries, so there's always going to be an element of historical perspective in everything I post here as well. Blog Update I've added the Twitter gadget. I resisted Twitter for quite awhile, but so many of my friends are micro-blogging now I had to get an account to keep up with them. It's an exercise in brevity, a muscle writers could always stand to exercise...

Welcome!

Disclaimer

This is the blog of Scott W. Perkins, novelist, artist and bibliophile. These virtual pages will help my far-flung friends and those interested in my writing career keep track of me. They will also give me something to do with the things that occur to me to write down, but don't fit into whatever book I am writing.

I will periodically empty the "Wish I'd Known That Yesterday" box on my desk for you, discuss interviewing and research techniques as well as other tricks of the trade. I hope that this helps someone out there who isn't blessed with such a full box of hardwon lessons to learn from. Please, have some of mine.

Before reading further, please read our "Terms of Use" found below.

The word "Novel" appears in the subtitle as a noun, not an adjective. I am a novelist. That is not to say the things I write here will not be new or even novel. Novelty is in the eye of the beholder.

Safety goggles or really nerdy glasses should be worn at all times. If you should get any novelty in your eye, flush with water and seek medical help immediately.

Nothing found herein should be construed as the entire view of the author or anyone else living, dead or existing in an indeterminate state caused by fluctuations in space and time.

Daily application of these blog posts to your writing habits or lifestyle may cause excessive coffee drinking, insomnia, Post-it notes on the bathroom mirror and the urge to type into the wee hours of the morning.

Read at your own risk.

Welcome and well met! I encourage my readers to comment thoughtfully as it occurs to you. At its best, a blog can be a conversation and a community. At its worst, a blog is someone shouting down a well.