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Trusty little netbook worked great for writing in hospital — get one if you can

Gary — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:26:51 +0000

That trusty little netbook I bought a few months ago paid off last week as an excellent writing tool during a couple of days I spent in the hospital. No, I wasn’t sick. But my wife was.

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Trusty little netbook worked great for writing in hospital — get one if you can

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Trusty little netbook worked great for writing in hospital — get one if you can

When it comes to computers — backup, backup, backup

Gary — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:29:57 +0000

I’ll bet you’ve heard this advice more than a few times: Always backup the data on your computer in case of hard drive failure, fried motherboards, or whatever might destroy it all.

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When it comes to computers — backup, backup, backup

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Got the netbook, here’s my initial review

Gary — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:23:21 +0000

Not long ago, I wrote an article here about netbooks and my plan to buy a netbook. I did buy one. Here’s my initial reaction to using the one I bought.

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Got the netbook, here’s my initial review

Do you take ascorbic acid or Vitamin C? What chemicals do you swallow daily?

Gary — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:00:28 +0000

Jargon, which I’ve written about several times before, comes in many varieties. Yesterday’s physical exam was a real lesson about how NOT to use jargon we writers can learn from.

When the nurse updated my medical information before the exam, he looked at information from my visit nine months ago and asked questions like, “Are you still taking ascorbic acid? How about the Loratadine?” (He named a number of other supplements and over-the-counter stuff I swallow daily. Everything from Vitamin D to HGH supplements were fair game. No, I don’t take HGH supplements, but that would have been more understandable to me than another he did ask about — omeprazole, the medical ingredient in Prilosec.)

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Do you take ascorbic acid or Vitamin C? What chemicals do you swallow daily?

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Those of us without health insurance appreciate ‘sliding fee’ clinics

Gary — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:38:10 +0000

On a personal note, I’ve mentioned several times that I am not able to afford health insurance. The good news is, we have a very well-equipped, HUGE “sliding fee” clinic here that I qualify for — and yesterday was sort of Reckoning Day for my generally inactive, slovenly lifestyle: I had a checkup at said clinic, with special concerns about my blood pressure.

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Those of us without health insurance appreciate ‘sliding fee’ clinics

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Those of us without health insurance appreciate ‘sliding fee’ clinics

How do you support your writing habit? What’s your ‘day job’?

Gary — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:51:50 +0000

How do you support your writing habit? Are you fortunate enough to be able to make a living writing full-time? Or do you rely on some sort of “day job” to pay the bills and write when you are able to fit it into a busy life?

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How do you support your writing habit? What’s your ‘day job’?

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Establish your writing priorities; restablish them when you stray

Gary — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:10:00 +0000

I have to confess that I’ve spent most of my writing life in a sort of tension between “wannabe” and “gottabe.” I’ve always told myself I want to be successful as a novelist. But most of my writing life has been taken up with writing I’ve had to do in order to pay the bills.

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Establish your writing priorities; restablish them when you stray

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Personal note — why such divisions among temp agencies?

Gary — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:31:36 +0000

From time to time, I still hit the temp agencies looking for part-time or temporary work. (We all gotta eat and pay the bills, don’t we?) One of the odd things I see about most of these agencies is the way they are divided into such specialties.

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Personal note — why such divisions among temp agencies?

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Personal note — why such divisions among temp agencies?

Mini-vacation may really improve your writing perspective

Gary — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:11:35 +0000

If you’re more dedicated as a writer than I — and you undoubtedly are — you probably put in lots of hours at the computer most days, tap, tap, tapping away at the old keyboard, adding words to your great works. Over the weeks and months, those words build up and your great works reach various stages of completion, maybe even publication.

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Mini-vacation may really improve your writing perspective

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Mini-vacation may really improve your writing perspective

Most writers have a love of words, all sorts of words

Gary — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:21:03 +0000

Most writers I know who have had any success getting published, or who blog regularly or otherwise self-publish, have a great love of words, all sorts of words.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about idioms and how they make language colorful and interesting, as well as difficult to learn.

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Most writers have a love of words, all sorts of words

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Most writers have a love of words, all sorts of words