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Next time you’re listening to an audio medium (such as the radio or a podcast), listen to how the person speaks rather than just what they’re saying. Much like “he said” as a dialogue signifier, there are certain sounds that go along with actual words that our brain just ignores. The inhalation at the beginning…
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Up until 2006, you could look at me while at work and never know that I had a tattoo. Of course, at that time, I had eight tattoos. The only one that was ever visible was the one on the back of my neck and only then if I wore a shirt without a collar.…
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Streaming Netflix over my Xbox (really, it seems that’s the only thing I use my Xbox Live account for any more1 2), I watched a miniseries with Daniel Craig called Archangel. Though I think I may have seen the ending before, the rest of it was quite interesting. Especially the first two episodes. General premise…
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Conservative blowhard commentators often accuse this or that media of being liberal (depending on which media they want to accuse at that particular moment). While I feel the following is true about any medium, I am speaking today about print publishing so will keep this opinion only there. I don’t think publishing is liberal. I…
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Whether you love the smell of paper books or not, digital distribution will be the primary means of accessing text-based media within your lifetime. Three years ago I was in a meeting of department heads and vice presidents and all the people that make decisions on things. We were discussing the company’s ebook strategy. Three…
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My wife and I were passing through Greeley Park a number of years back during a summer art fair. Painters, photographers, and home jewelers displayed their wares. This was back at a time when my then-employer continued to promise me an office. When I passed a small photograph that I absolutely loved and it was…
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This has been a reading week. I finished JULIET1. I’m almost half-way through CRYOBURN. I’ve finished the first disc of ARABIAN NIGHTS. I keep taking my Eee PC to work because I feel the need to write, but when I think of what to write next, it’s not clicking. I know what I need to…
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1. One work in progress (WIP) at a time a. A work may be suspended to revise a draft of a previously completed manuscript or edit galleys of a manuscript being published b. A work may be abandoned if it is not salvageable and a new WIP begun i. If an abandoned WIP is resumed,…