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Daylight Saving

It's that time again: tonight at 2 a.m., set your clocks back to 1 a.m. I meant to send out...

Jed

October 26, 2002
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Not just writing advice

I seem to have been in a mood to Dispense Advice these past few days. Odd. But there's more to...

Jed

October 25, 2002
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Close reading

There are two parts of my editorial duties that I think might make useful exercises for writers; they provide an...

Jed

October 25, 2002
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Cover letters

Teresa Nielsen Hayden has an entertaining piece on cover letters, bad and good. Note that the Onion article she links...

Jed

October 24, 2002
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Title giveaway

Titles are hard. However, this does not mean that the title of your story should provide information that doesn't appear...

Jed

October 23, 2002
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Fictional hangers

Ha—too good to be true. A boingboing reader reveals that Miles Kington, the author of the coat-hanger court-case pieces, is...

Jed

October 22, 2002
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Obsolescence

We all know that software rapidly becomes obsolete. But what about the word software? Specifically, in the post-capitalist economy, will...

Jed

October 22, 2002
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Hangers-on

The Independent reports on the case of a British man accused of stealing more than 40,000 coat hangers from hotels....

Jed

October 22, 2002
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Workshop

That previous entry was going to be a brief note about the game and a brief note about today's workshop...

Jed

October 20, 2002
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Game over

I could spend the next few hours writing about how the game went last night, but I still have six...

Jed

October 20, 2002
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Ecce Eco echo

Elliott forwards this from Umberto Eco in today's New York Times: "The problem with the Internet is that it gives...

Jed

October 19, 2002
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Scary ad

"Yahoo! DSL: Internet that logs onto you." Eep! Run away! My brain is enough of a mess without the whole...

Jed

October 19, 2002
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