Writing Rolling the Dice: Sacrificing style guides for clarity 17 Jan 20121 Feb 2023 UPDATE 2022: The issue of multiple acceptable spellings came up again, this time in a resume. Am I a copyeditor or a copy editor? If you have a question about…
Books Book Review: “Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure” by Craig Lancaster 1 Dec 20111 Feb 2023 You know those books of short stories where every one of them has a character that overcomes a major crisis, and the story ends with puppies and rainbows? This isn't…
Writing Facebook: A tool for journalists? 7 Nov 20115 May 2023 Ask anyone what Facebook is, and they're likely to give the same short, sweet answer: it's a social networking site. Indeed, that's its primary use for me these days (once…
Writing Rat Poison: Benjamin the Bookstore Cat disapproves — and so do I 3 Nov 20115 May 2020 About a year ago, Red Lodge Books adopted an adorable cat named Benjamin. He started his life as an alley cat, and was adopted by another business in town. When…
Writing Book Review: Writing with Pictures 26 Oct 20111 Feb 2023 I've finally finished reading the book that I won at the SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators) conference in Los Angeles a couple of months ago. Well, technically…
Writing Autumn in Montana 25 Oct 201118 Aug 2013 We now depart from our regularly-scheduled commentary on reading and writing for a photographic interlude. Fall is probably my favorite season here in Montana, and I went outside a couple…
Science & Technology Treadmills, books, e-books, magazines, and apps 19 Oct 201130 Jan 2023 We have a treadmill at home. A fine treadmill, but with a major design flaw (from my perspective): the book holder. I'm a pretty big guy, and at 6 feet,…
Tea Mitosis complete, cytokinesis in progress 11 Oct 20115 May 2020 Once upon a time, I had a blog. I talked about all kinds of stuff on that blog, but mostly books, writing, and tea. Over time, I found that the…
Writing Book Review: Wheel of Time #1, The Eye of the World vs Lord of the Rings 1 Oct 201118 Aug 2013 I'm a little behind the times here. The 13th book of Robert Jordan's epic (yes, "epic") Wheel of Time saga is hitting paperback next week, and I'm just getting around…
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