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Tag: research

  • IWSG Post

    I’m taking a tap-out today. My head is in a less than awesome space. So we shall answer this month’s hot, HOT, SIZZLING HOT IWSG 1st Wednesday prompt: How has being a writer changed your experience as a reader? Badly, sad to say. I’m very detail-oriented by nature. I may have ranted about that in…

  • An IWSG Post – CYA

    Despite my… ah… current creative difficulties, I have actually been trying to work on other things related to the writing gig. I’ve been doing research on random things like history and tactics and occasionally some business consideration will pop up somewhere that makes me think “Hmmm, I should think about that.” A post I read…

  • Security

    So… I’ve run into a number of people I want to punch in the face lately. People who are frightening lax about electronic security. People who I normally associate with common sense, people who I generally think of as being well-grounded, are, for some reason dumber than a box of hair about this stuff. It…

  • Beta Readers

    I’m trying to find beta-readers. I’m also trying to find critquers who actually critique, understand the genre, and don’t try to force changes. One candidate has been sorta helpful. The rest have been less than. Going to friends and family has been more like this: “Oh my God! It is so cute to watch Katty…

  • A new year, a new list

    Of course everyone has their resolution list. Do this, stop doing that, be better, go here, save there, etcetera ad nauseum. So I thought I’d let you in on mine.     BWAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! Ohhhh… ouch. Ohhh, I think I pulled something… I’ve got to stop telling jokes like that. I’ll give myself a hernia if…

  • I Need Clean Undies…

    I hope this is a joke or something… Maybe something that truly exposes what kind of a luddite I really am? Hopefully?   See, my fear is that if it works there, who else will pick it up?