Looking back, the proto-“Machine” and Jerry Pournelle

One of the things I like about Facebook is that it dredges up past posts and references to you.  Buzz Dixon posted this back in 2013, an earlier version of “The Machine”.  As you can see, I’ve been refining this for a while.

 

####

1) Create an output goal (a story a week, or a story every other week.  Or a thousand words)

2) Read 10 X what you write.

3) Read one level “up” from your writing goal.

4)Keep your stories circulating in the mail

5) Don’t try a novel until you’ve sold ten short sto...