2004-04-30
A recent, and very long-winded, thread on rec.arts.sf.composition about wysiwyg vs editors/formatters for fiction authors coincided with a blog posting by some high-ranking Microsoft manager who's worked on Word for a long time. And that combination unchained the reminiscing beast in me...
2004-04-26
Pamela Dean used to frequent the rec.arts.sf.composition newsgroup with some regularity some time ago, and any number of times she has helped other people with issues with pacing in their work. Which she's very well equipped to do, since she's a master in that art herself.
I've planted a fig in the front garden, a very little fig, no more than a branch. A figlet, so to speak... And it's getting its first leaflets.
2004-04-19
I've never much believed that there's much difference between 'real life' and 'internet life', but one difference there is -- 'internet life' isn't necessary real-time, and 'real life' is, and that means it can interrupt anything ongoing.