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Taking the Plunge

June 5, 2010
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Some weeks ago, while reading Bit Literacy, I decided to teach myself touch typing with the Dvorak keyboard layout. Because I am 1) impatient and 2) constantly pressed for time at work (hence, my decision to switch), I’ve been taking things slow: practicing drills for an hour here and there, a few times a week, [...]

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Are You Treating the Problem or the Symptoms?

June 3, 2010
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My Facebook friends know all about my recent computer woes. They started when my computer started acting funny. Applications kept crashing. Restarting took several minutes, not seconds – an eternity by Mac standards. My keyboard sporadically stopped working. At my wit’s end, I tried to wipe my hard drive and start afresh. (This was after [...]

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Coping with Curveballs

June 1, 2010
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“Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” Apparently, John Lennon was one of the many great minds credited with voicing this fact, which has been replaying in my mind for the past three weeks – minus the one week I spent at Folly Beach near Charleston, S.C.

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A Little Help from My Friends

April 26, 2010
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The writing life requires a certain amount of self-starting. After all, unless we’re writing for class or a client, who cares whether we finish writing that poem, novel, script, or whatever? Our friends and loved ones do. Because they care about us. And they know that our writing matters to us – even when we’re [...]

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Discipline Meets Creativity

April 23, 2010
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Writing is a creative process, a form of artistic expression. Granted, some endeavors are more so than others, but you get the picture. The whole creativity thing sometimes stymies my writing because I feel like brilliant words should flow from my pen in an inspired stream. They don’t. Just yesterday, in fact, I was telling [...]

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