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February 23, 2010
- Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Everyone knows the saying and knows it's called "Murphy's Law," but does anyone know how it came about? It started in aerospace engineering when using a human, specifically Murphy's unnamed assistant, in a crash test. What Edward Murphy actually said was that if there was a way for his assistant to make a mistake he would. In conversation later ...
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February 17, 2010
- I sent out a query letter to a magazine announcing my new novel. The editor actually called all the way to Hawaii and thanked me for the best typo she'd ever seen! A couple years ago, I began taking nutritional supplements that have done wonders for my health. Even my fingernails, which normally never grew past the quick, now extend a quarter inch past my fingertips. It's a great sign that the ...
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November 5, 2009
- Please, I’m not perfect. I don’t claim to be a fiction editor. I have worked editing nonfiction, but NF is a completely different animal. I have a scientist’s eye. I zoom in on patterns, and look for things falling outside the norm. I created this list because these are issues I address everyday in comment boxes on writing websites. I hope it helps. The examples are pulled from my ...
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August 16, 2009
- More and more often I read books that I don't think have been really proofread very well. Nearly every book no matter the publisher (big, established. small, or independent) has typos of some sort. Whether it is missing quotation marks, commas, mis-chosen words/misspelled words, or some other issue of this nature, I notice them. It may be that books have always had this many errors, but it ...
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July 8, 2009
- During a recent visit with my sister, which always ends up meandering down memory lane, we remembered, both fondly and not so much, living together in Boston as we looked for jobs. This was (way) back when we didn’t have Internet access, and we actually looked for work in the classifieds and sent out real, paper resumes and cover letters. She had just graduated from college, I was finishing my ...
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March 2, 2009
- It has become ever more apparent that sometimes no matter what we say it will be the wrong thing. Perhaps the few words we write are too few, maybe they are too much but ultimately a few little letters strung together into the most rudimentary of sentences can end in a whole lot of trouble.Many famous authors have found this out for themselves without my tiny and completely underwhelming ...
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