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About that? Yeah, not so much.

Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Tags: Writing

That “Analyze Your Writing” meme that’s been going on and that I participated in turned out to be a scam, designed to drive the traffic of new writers toward a self-publishing business. Ah, well. I knew that having a writing style similar to Margaret Atwood’s was just too good to be true.* *Just for the [...]

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Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Watch this video: I won’t belabor Louis CK’s point here. He’s right, after all. I have a cell phone more powerful than any other electronic gadget I’ve ever owned, but I get impatient with it when it takes more than a second to render an image on the screen. Seriously, we need to keep these [...]

This entry was posted on Friday, July 16th, 2010 at 12:34 and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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You write like a girl

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Tags: Writing

Apparently I write like Margaret Atwood. Here’s my proof: I write like Margaret Atwood It’s kind of peculiar. Not that I don’t like Margaret Atwood (though of her novels I’ve only read The Handmaid’s Tale), but… Well, it just seems like all of these “what is your writing style” tests, based on my blog entries [...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 14:48 and is filed under Writing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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Various Updates

Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Tags: Writing

I keep forgetting that I have this blog. Well, no, it’s not that I forget about it; it’s more like, in this world of Twitter and Facebook, it’s much easier to just post 140 characters and forget about it. Blogging seems like so much more work. So here’s some updates. First, before I get to [...]

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