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Increasing Your Vocabulary

Read the NYTimes, learn the occasional new word: Continue reading

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Wednesday, Some Late Thoughts

I’ve been watching the videos from James Patterson’s Masterclass. You might have seen the ads for it whizzing around everywhere you look, like Facebook and the like. I don’t think I’ve read anything by him but I was willing to … Continue reading

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What are they doing with their hands?

Oh the research we do*. (And this is why I donate to Wikipedia) Continue reading

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BBEdit, You’re the Best!

I’m flailing around trying to get this scene, this important plot point done in my NaNoWriMo story. I have a pretty clear idea, ok, really just a pretty fuzzy idea of what’s going to happen and it’s not going very … Continue reading

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Careful what you sign up for…

…lest someone start off a scholarly reporting with a paragraph like this about you.

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