PragProWriMo - Write a Technical Book this November

[gmcerveny]

http://pragprog.com/magazines/2011-10/up-front

[egypturnash]

Hmm. I just started playing with a comic about "Miss Fussyspider", who likes to organize and sort things; a friend suggested that it could be a tutorial on different sort algos... and then I see this. HMMM.

Wonder if they'd want a comic-book introduction to sorts. I always see the PragProg line as being a bit more hardcore than that but you NEVER KNOW.

[rumblestrut]

I did it two years ago. When I was done, I shopped it around. No one was interested.

Even still, it was totally worth it.

[spatten → rumblestrut]

You should self-publish it and see what happens.

If you already have a PDF that looks good, Lulu is a good choice (http://lulu.com). If not, check out my startup, Leanpub: http://leanpub.com.

[kd0amg → rumblestrut]

What was it about?

[mindcrime]

Interesting. I'm tempted to take a stab at turning my Integrating Grails With The Real World talk into a book for PragProWriMo. Not sure if I can justify taking time away from working on my startup project though. sigh Too much to do, never enough time...

[gmcerveny]

Contemplating an iOS / sound book for this. Anyone else participating this year?

[DanBC → gmcerveny]

I'm not participating, but I've been working on some how to's for some minor linuxes.

I need a good style guide, and recommendations for technical writing books.

[bphogan → DanBC]

I recommend these:

On Writing Well - http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti...

The Artful Edit - http://www.amazon.com/Artful-Edit-Practice-Editing-Yourself/...

[stevelosh → gmcerveny]

I hadn't heard of this until now, but the last chunk of work I have left for http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/ seems like it will just happen to fall in November, so I guess I will be!

[bphogan]

I'll be participating in the forums, encouraging folks, and giving writing tips throughout the month. Would love to see some of you awesome HN folks join in the fun.

[FuzzyDunlop]

Think I'll give this a go. Already had some stuff in mind about basic PHP security for beginners, so I may as well see how it goes on paper.

[softbuilder]

Someone forgot to set up their twitter account. @pragprowrimo doesn't exist yet.

[stevelosh → softbuilder]

Huh? https://twitter.com/#!/pragprowrimo exists, and has tweets over a year old.

[softbuilder → stevelosh]

You're right! That is bizarre. I copied and pasted from the article and checked twice before commenting. It 404'd. I did the same thing just now and it worked fine, as you say.