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Friday Night Epiphany

April 3, 2009

I’ve just spent a week working on an article. I’ve written nine drafts, tens of thousands of words (I’m too afraid to even calculate the actual number), and for seven days—from first cup of coffee to last cup of tea or gin—have arranged and rearranged, struggling to find that missing word or transition or element [...]

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Stupid is as stupid does. Ish.

March 26, 2009

Life and work and writing have forced me to pause on the breast beatings about my mom and the continuation of the story of the story that I’m working on—but something I read this morning has prompted me to interrupt for a sidebar.
Every now and then I check in at Alyson B. Stanfield’s Art Biz [...]

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Foresight; or, How not to choose a username

March 16, 2009

name |nām|
noun
a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to
• someone or something regarded as existing merely as a word and lacking substance or reality
A name is a powerful tool. To name a thing is to identify it, and to choose a name is [...]

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