(Roller derby or the Internet flashing by? Photo by the highly recommended Jeremy Tolbert)
Today, a focus on your Public Booklife, or career, and on Friday, your Private Booklife, or personal creativity, with a book covers post for kicks on Thursday…
More than two thousand years ago, the strategist Sun Tzu wrote that the warrior skilled in indirect warfare is as inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, as unending as rivers and streams, and passes away only to return like the four seasons. Curiously enough, these classic lines could as easily describe the relationship between you and the Internet, given how quickly a writer must adjust to and take advantage of opportunities. It also reflects the ephemeral quality of the Internet. Because of the vast amount of information and opinion posted every single day, every hour, every minute—supplanting the information posted a minute, an hour, a day before—you need to be fluid and flexible while retaining inner calm and balance.
(Sun Tzu, thinkin’ about book publishing)
