Just some links today
I'm heads-down on getting the next Casefile of Jay Moriarty story finished, so I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to the newsletter this week.
This Week's Links
What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs
There's been a lot of confusion over the last few months among writers — especially fanfiction writers — over content restrictions on Google Docs and whether they can ban you for writing smut. Google has not offered any clear verdict on the matter.
This is the fundamental problem of relying heavily on services controlled by third parties, like Google. By handing over all the hard stuff (hosting, admin, etc.), you also hand these companies leverage they can exercise for any reason they want, at any time they want.
Such is the bold vision of Guy Dupont, a developer whose recent entry into the Boston Stupid Shit Nobody Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon was the most sacrilegious gag I've ever seen: He added microtransactions into Doom earlier this month. That's the original, 1993 Doom. Can he ever be forgiven? No.
Ohio State commencement speaker says he got help from psychedelics while writing speech
My problem, as someone who enjoys writing fiction about dumb bullshit, is that it's getting difficult to keep up with the baseline dumb bullshit that is reality.
Also, I watched the Mean Girls musical movie over the weekend. It wasn't very good.
-K
