Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. You can comment here or there.

I’ve recently got­ten back into the dis­ci­pline of doing morn­ing pages, some­thing that’s a vital part of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. It’s a great way to clear your men­tal caches each morn­ing and pre­pare to write some­thing more mean­ing­ful. Tra­di­tion­ally, one ( Read more... )

Plinky asked, “If you could be an editor for any magazine, which would you choose?”


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Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. You can comment here or there.

First, a ran­dom thought:
“I didn’t know how much I cared about hav­ing a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.” Nina Toten­berg
And now, the actual content:
Plinky asked, “If you could be an edi­tor for any mag­a­zine, which would you choose?”


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Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. You can comment here or there.

First, a ran­dom thought:
“The machine has got to be accepted, but it is prob­a­bly bet­ter to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudg­ingly and sus­pi­ciously. Like a drug, the machine is use­ful, dan­ger­ous, and habit-​​forming. The oftener one sur­ren­ders to ( Read more... )

I’m more and more tempted to write some fiction again. It’s been years since I did that. I’m good with characters and environment, but not so good with plot. I don’t like to write about negative things, or nasty people, which is rather problematic when you need to have conflict.

I know part of it is reading books and thinking, “Damn, I could do ( Read more... )

Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.

I’m more and more tempted to write some fiction again. It’s been years since I did that. I’m good with characters and environment, but not so good with plot. I don’t like to write about negative things, or nasty people, which is rather problematic when you need to have ( Read more... )

Lillian, another Blog365 participant, tagged me for this meme. I don’t think I’ve ever been tagged for anything before!

Here are the rules:

1. Write the title to your own memoir using exactly six words.
2. Post it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who tagged you.
4. Tag five other bloggers.

The first thing that comes to mind is “Yes, I’d Do It All Again.” How ( Read more... )

That’s pretty much my opinion today. Blah. Blah blah blah. I couldn’t wake up enough to drive safely, so I missed an appointment that will take months to reschedule.

For every assignment we do in the tech writing course I’m taking, we turn in a rough draft and receive two peer reviews and feedback from the instructor before doing the final draft. I ( Read more... )

I’m working on my final project for the technical writing course, which is a comparison of cohousing developments to single-family and more traditional multi-family housing. I’m finding it difficult to find any of the books I want to use as references in the library (school or two counties). Do any of you who are local happen to have books on the ( Read more... )

I finally got the grades from the first technical writing assignment I turned in last week, and the peer reviews I did on two of my classmates’ rough drafts. I got full points for all of them!

I was worried about one of the peer reviews because the person chose to do a set of instructions for starting to cross-stitch. I know too much about that ( Read more... )