Friday. It's Not Just Thursday Anymore
Paticus has an entry for the "Old Man and the Apple" thing we were doing right here. I like this one because there are obvious sounds in it that really point to more story available. That's win.We were mistaken when we assumed the issues in Washington were about Health care and jobs and the economy and stuff. It turns out that's not what anything is about. I swore the ongoing debate and discussion was about stuff to help the country. I was wrong. What all this has been about the last year+ is the mid-term elections and either retaining or reclaiming the White House. None of this has anything to do with you or me. What was I thinking?What I want to hear now is all my libertarian friends sort-of border-line rationalize the Austin lunatic pilot crashing into the IRS office down there. I'm not looking for your feedback here. But instead - I've got an idea - go explain your views to the people he hurt and the family who lost one of their own. Tell them about your philosophical filter on this and the IRS, not me. K? Thanx.I have a meeting for our 40th high school reunion shindig tomorrow. For the complete outsider who out of 500 people in my class I really only hung out occasionally with maybe 2 on a good day, I have no idea how this has now happened to me twice in 10 years. But hey SLIGO? People are already talking about wanting you to MC. Contact me soon!!Those of you who are fans of MrsRW - if she hasn't contacted you on Facebook or through your regular email chitchat with her - she just got back from holding a seminar in Dallas, was in San Diego for a week two weeks ago and finished her work at the Mayo Clinic (and then changed jobs again) last month. Yes. I married well. What? I am actually MrMrsRW now. :-)I AM going to make a review of the MacSpeech Dictate speech-to-text device I've been using for my fiction stuff in the near future (don't worry, it's a Mac version of the PC product which a lot of folks think is even better). It has its quirks but it has also opened up a whole new style of getting the writing done. You may be interested in how it changes the creative process. More to come on that.All I got.
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I've often thought it would be much better if I could write exactly how I speak. There would probably be a few too many "uh"s and "like"s thrown in, but I almost always look at the words that I type and say "Well, that's not how I wanted to say it at all".
So yeah...interested in your take on how this thing changed your writing process.
I need something that enables me to speak as well as I write with the benefit of time to edit.
(This comment would have been much funnier if the strikethrough tag was supported, FWIW.)
um...uh...well...um...
I'm 1042 words into my Old Man and the Apple story. Who knows when I'll find time to finish it though. :-(
I tried to start my old man/ apple story, and stared and stared - and then stopped. 15 minutes well spent?!
I'll try again.
I need one of those contraptions for speaking/ writing. I talk much better than I write. Unless I'm writing a carefully worded "Eff you!" to someone - because there, I excel. :)
R.W.- Thanks for the kind words, and for issuing the challenge!
if i had a machine that typed as i spoke, the print would be very small, faint, hard to read, and wouldnt contain readily recognizable D's, G's, L's, Z's, or S's.
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