Monday Cup Of Links #20 - Bringing the Internet to India, Burnouts, Publishing Trends, and biting coins
Happy Monday!
This past week has been a bit insane as far as nCoronavirus is concerned. In Wuhan, they are requarantining cured patients, after some of them tested positive after being pronounced cured, and now, Iran has at least 43 patients, 8 of whom died. No new cases have been detected in the Bay area though, which is heartening.
I’m 3350 words into India House, and added a 1000 words to San Francisco Serial. I’m doing 500 words a day, and this pace is much more sustainable than me trying to hit 4000 words on a single night and burning out. India House is easier to write, because the incidents are already there. The challenging part is fictionalizing it from the perspective of my narrator, and tying it all together in a coherent narrative instead of it being a string of incidents.
Onto our links!
How is publishing changing? What are the latest trends? This link has ten of them. Audiobooks are going to grow in popularity, and you will need to invest in ads, as organic reach is going to go down. And email lists are going to get more valuable. Thanks, Mia.
How the Internet arrived in India. An excerpt from Telecom Man, a book by Brijendra Syngal, who used to be the head of VSNL, India’s international long distance communication services utility.
ICYMI here’s Episode 2 of Anandamath. It’s an interesting, and slightly difficult book to narrate. I’m trying to keep the context and spirit of the author and translation as much as possible while making it more narration-friendly and easier to understand without a glossary or footnotes, and I’m enjoying learning how to narrate, record and edit.
New breakthroughs in the study of the Harappan civilization. This is an area of history that has had a lot of rapid and impactful breakthroughs in the past couple of decades, and these findings haven’t yet made it to mainstream knowledge. This long article summarizes what we know about the civilization, along with plenty of context of the findings, and nice high-quality pictures of the excavations.
Burnoutindex.org. A site where you can calculate how burned out you are at your job.
GIF of the week: Anti-theft mechanism.