Writer Vinnie Wilhelm wrote the following in a correspondence with me in Sept. 2008:
“But questions of identity are ultimately ancillary to the work: they go away in the end, and the work has to succeed or fail on its own terms.”
- Vinnie Wilhelm
On writing better–Kurt Vonnegut
This is an excerpt from his book of essays Palm [...]
Black people – what gives? Why you gotta be like that?
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I don’t like the way a lot of blacks act. That’s the crux of it. And I don’t dislike a group of people because of their “skin color”. ‘Tis their behaviour more than anything else. And no, I’m not down on them because of their [...]
Opendiary – “OD” – first got me in to web writing. I hadn’t even heard the term “blog” when I began posting entries in a little text editor not unlike that of WordPress. Opendiary’s front page has a “roll” much like WordPress, of the latest entries. Of course, its settings allow you to keep what [...]
9/5/08 Seasons Shift
from Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805). Wilhelm Tell.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Herdsman (on the mountains)
Air.—Variation of the Ranz des Vaches
Farewell, ye green meadows,
Farewell, sunny shore,
The herdsman must leave you,
The summer is o’er.
We go to the hills, but you’ll see us again,
When the cuckoo calls, and the merry birds sing,
When the flowers bloom afresh [...]
New from MadCap Software, Inc.
MadCap has come out with four new apps – lord i have this feeling that I’m gonna be out of date very shortly with my technical writing/Tech. Com. knowledge accrued over the last year during my CRT program at the University of Washington.
MadCap Blaze looked particularly interesting; worth checking out. The [...]
