Monday 23rd April is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day
You've probably seen this already. If not, read it and boggle.

In honour of Dr Hendrix, I am declaring Monday 23rd April International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. On this day, everyone who wants to should give away professional quality work online. It doesn't matter if it's a novel, a story or a poem, it doesn't matter if it's already been published or if it hasn't, the point is it should be disseminated online to celebrate our technopeasanthood.

Whatever you're posting should go on your own site. I'll make a post here on the day and people can post links in comments to whatever they're putting up on. If you are a member of SFWA, or SFWA qualified but not a member (like me) you get extra pixel-spattered points for doing this. If other people want to collect the links too, that would be really cool. Please disseminate this information widely.

I'm thinking of putting up my odd Rebirth of Pan novel. I'm also thinking of putting up The Prize in the Game which is OOP. The only reason not to is the effort of HTMLing -- would people read ascii text? I'm also hoping to make an effort to prod rysmiel and zorinth to get the rest of my poetry onto my web page this week.

Ideas, useful refinements, volunteers, cheers, hisses?

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	pixel-stained filmmaker agingeri 2007-04-22 06:20 pm UTC (link)
	It's not really all that professional, but I've decided to post Wholesale Souls, Inc., my first (77-minute) feature film for free viewing tomorrow. www.EXGfilms.com (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2007-04-22 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	Jo: It's only semi-pro at best, but I there's fiction from my zine Electric Velocipede online. In fact, all of issue number nine (featuring Hal Duncan, Anna Tambour, Jay Caselberg, Neil Williamson, and more) is online at: http://www.electricvelocipede.com/htm/issue_nine.htm People are certainly free to go over an enjoy it. Hope you're doing well. John Klima (Reply to this)

	fireriven 2007-04-22 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	I'm giving away icons. And poetry. Yeah, probably poetry. (Reply to this)

	Mine are up. michaelcanfield 2007-04-23 02:02 am UTC (link)
	Two stories: "Peas and Carrots" originally published in Realms of Fantasy, Feb 2005 and "Think of a Pink Ship" never before published. http://blog.michaelcanfield.net/2007/04/technopleasantries.html (Reply to this)

	naomikritzer 2007-04-23 04:08 am UTC (link)
	I put up a short story called "Masks," plus linked to some of my other stuff online. (Jo, if you've never read "Faust's SASE," you're in the target audience.) http://naomikritzer.livejournal.com/153361.html (Reply to this)

	austin_dern 2007-04-23 04:22 am UTC (link)
	I'm waiting yet for the royalties on my mathematics textbook to make me rich, but I've also been fiddling around writing what are meant to be humorous pieces weekly for the past couple months, so I put up a special non-Friday one for this event. I think it's at least in striking range of professional, as defined by being the correct word count. (Reply to this)

	rdansky 2007-04-23 05:50 am UTC (link)
	"Ooh, Dennis, there's some lovely pixels down here..." Apologies for being late to the party, but my story "Long Evening Out", originally published in _Stillwaters Journal_, is up and available at http://www.richarddansky.com/writing.htm (Reply to this)

	ewillett 2007-04-23 06:38 am UTC (link)
	In honour of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, I (a member of SFWA) have posted the entire text of my out-of-print YA SF novel Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star on my website here. Just for fun, I've made PDF and Mobipocket versions available for downloading, too. Whee! I feel so...liberated! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Free poem/song (Anonymous) 2007-04-23 06:44 am UTC (link)
	Nice! Check out the short poem/song by Greg Brownderville here (http://lukeduncan.com/2007/04/22/brownderville-reads-part-1/). -Luke (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Langford site stuff ansible.myopenid.com 2007-04-23 07:39 am UTC (link)
	Here's an assortment of Technopeasant Day material as promised ... http://ansible.co.uk/misc/ipstw-day.html (http://ansible.co.uk/misc/ipstw-day.html) Dave Langford (Reply to this)

	Done! raeputtputt 2007-04-23 07:44 am UTC (link)
	I have posted my little offering to the TechnoPeasant Gods: http://puttputtproductions.com/blogetary/2007/04/22/happy-technopeasant-day/ Happy Technopeasant Day! (Reply to this)

	jmatonak 2007-04-23 09:21 am UTC (link)
	My story: Scrivener (Reply to this)

	Technopeasant Day red_mike_yog 2007-04-23 10:56 am UTC (link)
	Our story, "The Queen's Mirror," is up and free to read at http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/L_queenmirror.htm (While you're there, check out "The Last Real New Yorker in the World," and many more fine stories.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Technopeasant Day red_mike_yog 2007-04-26 01:45 pm UTC (link)
	That was so much fun I did it again: On Suivi Point (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Apple Island wordwitch 2007-04-23 01:13 pm UTC (link)
	Since it's finished, and all: http://wordwitch.livejournal.com/6470.html (Reply to this)

	davidwellington 2007-04-23 01:40 pm UTC (link)
	I've posted the first chapter of my new online serial, "Plague Zone" at: http://brokentype.com/pz/ There'll be new chapters every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It's a story about a city overtaken by zombies and a man who wants to find just one of them... for very personal reasons. Take that, HVH! (Reply to this)

	the free stuff girluknow 2007-04-23 01:47 pm UTC (link)
	There already is a huge, oh huge amount of "professional quality" work already being given away for free online in the form of brilliantly written fan fiction. But the more, the merrier. :) (Reply to this)

	mariadkins 2007-04-23 01:50 pm UTC (link)
	Durn. I don't really have anything I could slap up this year, but next year, I'm all over this - with fair warning. ;) (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	mariadkins 2007-04-23 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	Duh. I didn't htink of posting up a poem...:rushes to website: (Reply to this) (Parent)

(no subject) - mariadkins, 2007-04-23 02:07 pm UTC (Expand)

	chipmunk_planet 2007-04-23 02:24 pm UTC (link)
	Just posted: RoboLand Enjoy. (Reply to this)

	Posted... lizard_sf 2007-04-23 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	I have posted gaming material not owned by any publisher, but which would have been published (i.e, of professional quality) if page counts or marketing plans had allowed. Check it out at my xanga site. (http://www.xanga.com/lizard_sf) (Reply to this)

	mamadeb 2007-04-23 03:26 pm UTC (link)
	My only professional writing is non-fiction. I'm giving away a food essay. (Reply to this)

	stefanie_bean 2007-04-23 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not a commercial sci-fi writer, but in the spirit of PSTDay, I thought I'd put up a chapter of something I'm working on here, on my own LJ. Thanks for the opportunity to post a link. (Reply to this)

Communion of Dreams (Anonymous) 2007-04-23 03:57 pm UTC (link)

The attitude that posting content to the web is somehow damaging to an author strikes me as very old-fashioned. Following the example of Doctorow and many others, I made the decision to post the entirety of my novel Communion of Dreams (http://www.communionofdreams.com) in January, and have had over 2200 downloads since getting the site up and running late that month. Bottom line to me is that people are reading it - and having that many people downloading the book shows that there is a market for it. Jim Downey (Reply to this)

	gardnerhill 2007-04-23 04:09 pm UTC (link)
	This is my entry -- when all else fails, I can whack out a sonnet! (Of course I have 20-30 short stories on cinder blocks all over my front yard, all getting worked on at the same time...) (Reply to this)

	ithiliana 2007-04-23 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	Have posted in my own LJ! Poetry and fantasy. http://ithiliana.livejournal.com/692976.html (Not an SFWA member, but if I can get that vampire novel published, maybe then! (Reply to this)

	Poetry geckogrrl.wordpress.com 2007-04-23 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	I love this idea! Here are a couple of my own poems. http://geckogrrl.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/give-your-art-away-day/ Katie D. (Reply to this)

	Staining with Pixels distantcity 2007-04-23 06:45 pm UTC (link)
	I believe in this sharing, so I've put up my short story, "The Weight of Boys." SteamPowered Blog (Reply to this)

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