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NaNoWriMo 2017 – Day 3

Published November 4, 2017

1290 words today.  Started late again.  Long day.  I was tired and I was writing about theatre and representation in other media and it’s probably too heavy a subject to be writing about on a Friday night after a long week.  I struggled to get to 1290 and after a couple of hours, I figured it wasn’t going to get any better.  I decided to be OK with today’s output, get some rest, do what I have to do tomorrow, and then come back strong again in the afternoon or evening.  In previous years, I might have decided I had to get past 2000 words, as I had the past couple of days, or at least to 1667.  But this time around, I let myself off the hook for the night.  NaNo isn’t a sprint and it’s perfectly fine to have leaner days behind the word processor.  I can make up for today down the line, should I need to.  Hey, I should be a writing coach. Read More

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NaNoWriMo 2017 – Day 1

Published November 1, 2017

I was not planning on doing NaNoWriMo this year, but I got talked into it.  I’m working on a few plays right now, with more I want to work on once I get some drafts done of the ones I’m already working on, so writing a novel this month wasn’t in the plans.  But, since my writing outside of my drama has been suffering some lately, I let myself be persuaded to participate. Read More

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Godspeed, AIM (or, what AOL could have been)

Published October 6, 2017
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AOL was not the Internet.  In the early days, the late 80’s and early 90’s, they sold it to you as such, but it wasn’t.  You could get access to Usenet, and eventually to the larger Internet, but that’s another story.  Still, using the online service could be a fun experience and perhaps no part of the service outside of the iconic “You’ve Got Mail” sound was more popular than IM.  Before there were Twitter followers and Facebook “friends,” if you were on AOL, you had your buddy list.  Unless you used IRC or ICQ, bulletin boards, or some type of instant chat via a Unix system, chances are, you used AOL.  If you weren’t a techie, you almost certainly used AOL. Read More

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Editing Family

Published June 1, 2017

I went full-speed ahead with a yes when my sister asked me to look at her book-in-progress. Or, to say it more accurately, we did not ourselves settle on a specific word to describe what I would be doing. I figured I’d do what I usually do in these situations, some mix of proofreading, copy editing, line editing, and maybe rewriting a thing here or two (though at this stage, it was pointless, since she’ll be doing a lot of rewriting herself). It’s what I often do when I look at something for someone, depending on my relationship with the person, when we haven’t agreed upon exactly what I’m doing. Since it was my sister, I thought I’d try to just be as helpful as I could be. Read More

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