Wahooooooo! I just turned in my final story edits to Stacy and David. The due date was November 1. The 3rd actually. The book clocks in around 177,000 words. Wow. This last set of story edits led to some great changes. Not huge ones, but nice touches. I had to rewrite part of this battle
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Saw it this morning in the distance as the sun rose. Alas, my #$!#$ camera is a pile of junk. The pictures it took were crap. Just crap. So imagine the peach rain. And then imagine me hucking the piece of trash in the garbage and getting something that works.
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What makes someone gifted? Raw talent? Sure. An apptitutde for something always helps. But it appears it’s not enough. True expertise takes work. And those trying to help (i.e. parents, teachers, coaches) can hinder if they give the wrong kind of praise. I wanted to share three articles reporting the results of a number of interesing
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The bee. We slather its delicious vomit on bread and muffins. We send colonies out to pollinate our crops. Now Colin Henderson and his University of Montana colleagues have partnered up with bees to “locate buried land mines” and do it more quickly and thorougly than any dog. “We can survey in one day what
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I enjoyed Joss Whedon’s movie Serenity as well as many of the TV episodes of Firefly which featured the same characters and world. So when I saw Whedon had put up another movie called Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and made it available over the internet, I had to watch it. And then watch it again, and
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