Author: hmelton

I’m of the opinion that putting samples of my works out on the Internet is a net gain.  Of course, there are gotcha’s. Google Books is the biggest known instance of a search engine company scanning books and putting parts of them out for people to sample, plus whole books in some cases.  But there… Continue reading Book Scans and Search Engines

I’m still playing. Here are a few more things I’ve learned. About 5000 words is the best length for a long note.  Longer than that still works fine, but if you leave the note and come back to it, then scrolling to the bottom takes too long.  Also, if you’re doing editing on the iPhone,… Continue reading More on iPhone Writing

Having read several articles about the Japanese craze for cell phone novels, I thought I’d see how well the iPhone stacks up as a writing instrument. This isn’t too strange for me. I’ve written novels on a Newton before. But those were just first drafts and were heavily edited on my laptop later. This is… Continue reading An iPhone Novel? It’s do-able.