Why Books?

“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” – Cormac McCarthy I complain a

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One Space or Two?

There’s a discussion over at the ywriter forums about whether to use one period or two after a sentence. IMHO, one space is correct for manuscripts. The two spaces came

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How Do You Begin?

“I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.” – Moliere, from The Ridiculous Precieuses My quest to fall in love with a new book

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Mac Envy

I learned to word process in 1987 on Word Perfect 4.1 for DOS. PC logic lives deep in my bones. But today, for the first time in twenty years, I

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When All Else Fails . . .

. . . get more software. While my attempts to use various types of software to write my book have not been completely productive, according to the recent New York

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