It’s only natural, as the year winds down, to look back at the past 12 months and take stock of what I’ve accomplished.
The first half of the year was a blur, as I moved out of my apartment in the city to a condo in the suburbs. I’ve spent the rest of the year adjusting [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Year In Review
Posted in writing on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How To Make A Bad Impression
Posted in self-promotion, shopdropping, writing on December 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There’s an article in today’s New York Times about shopdropping, or reverse-shoplifting. It’s described as “surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out.” There’s a picture of a T-Shirt that features three revolutionaries ( Karl Marx, Mikhail Bakunin and Che Guevara) wearing Santa hats. The point being the commercialization of radical [...]
Off Like A Shot
Posted in writing on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Or not.
As I started typing the changes that I made to my manuscript, I ran into a familiar problem in the very first paragraph. Namely, I don’t like it. While revising my first novel, I must have re-worked the opening sentence or paragraph a couple dozen times. I finally got it to the point where [...]
To Conform Or Not To Conform?
Posted in writing on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I finished marking up my 2nd novel on Friday night. I can finally fire up the word processor and begin making the changes.
I’m wondering, though, about something only peripherally related to this project. Does it matter which word processor I use? At work I (like most of the world) am forced to used Microsoft Word, [...]
