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Jun.28.2011
How To Read Your Old TweetsBy Jason Boog
Many of the writers, editors and publishing professionals in the audience have been churning out tweets for years. However, it is very difficult to search, track and archive this massive collection of your writing.
Using the amazing tool TweetScan, you can...
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Mar.24.2011
The radish seedlings poked their heads through the soil in one of the square foot gardens this morning. I was admiring them, and the lettuce and broccoli when three robins swooped into our side yard. One of the robins cocked his head and the Jackson Five version of Rockin’ Robin popped into my head...
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Jan.17.2011
I come not to bury tweets, but to praise them. Okay, my apologies to William Shakespeare! But while I often make great sport of the younger set for being addicted to smart phones, ruining Sesame Street's coherence, and seriously asking "now what's wrong with 'refudiate,'" I'm actually...
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Oct.29.2010
Upon occasion, whilst editing, I get to enjoy my own brilliance. I do so fully.
Sometimes characters must tell other characters what was already described by the narrator. Try to avoid repetition.
I managed to end a chapter with the command "Dog Up!" It fills me with good cheer.
I...
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Oct.12.2010
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Seven pages removed. Humour talk and some games with Louie-the-dog. It was fun. Lightened the mood. Killed the plot.
I am now folding the remnants of the previous chapter into the current one. While excising much of it. Broken...
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Sep.28.2010
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Another word to put on the 'scratch out' list (delete list, I suppose). "Some" - really, what a marshmallow word.
Alas, the conversation of the two principles is too humourous. They one-up each other at the expense of the plot...
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Sep.25.2010
I have not actually edited a novel for over three years. I think I might be rusty. Or, I am just damned thorough.
I just got to use the word "egress", which I guess I never used before. So military sounding. I've earned a meal.
"He reaches down toward Louie to pat his head."...
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Sep.24.2010
First sentence and I remove "roughly" and then, the accursed "then". Getting rid of adverbs outpaces adjectives.
A line of dialogue just made me laugh out loud. No wonder I like these guys. And-yes- Louie-the-dog raised his head.
Laff-out-loud dialogue followed by whole...
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Apr.09.2010
J. P. Sartre & J. Goebbels drink ape-piss tea in fetid bistro, wondering if they might’ve done differently without a walleye, a club foot
Swore by Stalin, mollified Hitler, Che & Chamberlain bake together in a low-temperature oven: damned if you do & damned if you don’t
Those who...
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Feb.19.2010
There are no animals. Seeing balcony railings, park benches, window ledges in the Great Metropolis, everyone aches at the memory of birds
Montezuma stuffs tacos for throngs at Taco Bell, wearing flayed skin of Cortés, the rest of whom waits hopelessly nearby for golden fries
On tube, “The Genghis...
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