Writing Collecting your freelance money 30 Jun 20135 May 2023 When we start out working as writers, most of us think that means we're going to spend our time writing. It can come as a shock when we find ourselves…
Random Stuff… Schedules and meta-blogging 26 Jun 20135 May 2023 Ever since I split my blog in two, creating this blog and Tea With Gary, I have tried to keep the writing-related items here and the tea-related items there. Yesterday,…
Captioning The Start of Online Captioning (realtime text transmission) 1 Jun 20135 May 2023 Closed captioning has been a part of television broadcasting for several decades. For pre-recorded shows, the captions can be added in a studio, carefully typed, proofed, and formatted. In the…
Articles… Online Medical Information for Patients: Where Quality Beats Quantity 1 May 20135 May 2023 I have been pretty lucky as a freelance writer. There have been very few times that I haven't been paid for my work. In one of those cases, I was…
Books Small Business and the Marketplace Fairness Act 24 Apr 20135 May 2023 If you listen to the scary emails being sent by massive online businesses like eBay, I should be panicking right now. They say that the "Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013"…
Articles The History of the Kilt 22 Apr 20131 Feb 2026 Time to pull another fun one from the archives! This article first appeared in issue #81 (November 2011) of Renaissance magazine. None of the photos here appeared in the magazine;…
Writing Finding buried treasure — that you buried! 13 Apr 20135 May 2023 It's a rather surreal experience. Here I am, going through a bunch of my writing archives looking for a book proposal template, and I stumble upon an old proposal from…
Books Censorship Talk at the Forum for Provocative Issues 8 Apr 20131 Feb 2026 Book burning in Nazi Germany. Click on image for description at "The History Place." The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution seems very straightforward when it says "Congress shall make…
Books BookLamp and the Book Genome Project 5 Apr 20131 Feb 2023 I was perusing BookRiot yesterday and came across a post entitled "12 Alternatives to Goodreads." This is a hot topic since the announcement that Amazon is acquiring Goodreads, and I…
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