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Georgia’s Senator Zell Miller once said, “I’ve got more guns than I need but not as many as I want.” I know the feeling. I have more books than shelf space, but I still want more. My home office is also our library, and it is overflowing with books I’m unlikely ever to re-read or [...]

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I have rediscovered the joy of writing with pen and paper rather than typing. Earlier this year I started hand-writing letters and recently I’ve begun hand-writing in a journal each night. I’ve even written and revised short fiction with pen in hand rather than at the keyboard. There is something soothing about it. The sound [...]

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I came back from the conference fired up and ready to write. Yet I have devoted about 30 minutes to actually writing this week. And it wasn’t a very productive 30 minutes. This happens after every conference I attend. It takes about a week to recover from the excitement and to catch up on all [...]

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I attended the Florida Writers Association conference this weekend. It was a very good conference. Kudos to all the volunteers and faculty who worked so hard to make it a success. Thursday was the Master Class with Margie Lawson on “Empowering Characters’ Emotions,” with an overview of her EDITS System for analyzing manuscripts. I’d taken [...]

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Like so many people in the IT industry, I fell into my career almost by accident. We like fiddling around with computers and discover that someone will pay us to do it. I started out as a lab tech at USF, then got into network administration and engineering. Technical writing for a software company came [...]

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