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Heart in Turmoil: A Poem from 1996
In digging through some old notebooks, I came across a stack of free-form poetry that I wrote when I was in college. For an engineering student, they possess emotion that is so unusual for an engineer. (What is wrong with the world? An engineer revealing emotion?) I thought I would share just one of those poems now. I hope you like it.
Friendship: A Poem from 1997
In digging through some old notebooks, I came across a stack of free-form poetry that I wrote when I was in college. For an engineering student, they possess emotion that is so unusual for an engineer. (What is wrong with the world? An engineer revealing emotion?) I thought I would share just one of those poems now. I hope you like it.
The Rabbit (Deleted Scene)
I started writing this epic high fantasy series back in 2008. And today, that thing is still in the metaphorical drawer. It’s not that the story isn’t any good, but I’ve been having too much fun writing thrillers. I will turn may attention back to it one day, but not anytime soon.
However, when editing the thing back in the day, I removed a scene (the one that follows) because it didn’t add value to the story. It doesn’t matter how well written a scene is, if it doesn’t add value, it has to go. The scene itself can not be recycled (rewritten into another story). The elements of the scene and the characters associated are so intertwined with the events that happen in the first book in my high fantasy series. While the backstory behind the scene has found its way into another book, this chapter will never see the light of day again, except on this blog. It’s a beloved scene, one that makes me cry every time I read it. Perhaps others who read it will understand why I love the scene so much.
I’m a gluten for punishment. Autocorrect is a Beast!
Have you ever written a message on your favorite social media site only to have autocorrect kick in? You might have carefully selected the perfect word, but autocorrect thinks it knows better, changing that word out for something that is completely wrong. But it’s not just on social media that autocorrect misbehaves. Sometimes, it decides to have a field day within MS Word and other word-processing programs too.
BUT, how many times have you actually just misspelled something but blamed autocorrect? Be honest. You know you’ve done it at least once or twice.
Today, I thought I’d pay homage to some of the masterpiece moments of autocorrect and just plain bad spelling.
Aspiring Writer: The Sequel
In a post last year, I spoke about the term aspiring writer and how it’s a term that I dislike. Back then, I had this wonderful circular argument about how if you write, then you are a writer — no aspiring about it. Regardless, I still see an insane number of people who insist on calling themselves aspiring writers.
Back when that original post first came out, someone had commented on one of my Facebook discussion groups that the term writer referred to a person who was paid to write.
To be fair, the term applies to people who want to make a career out of writing. Writer is a professional term.
You have no idea how much my skin crawls at this concept. Clearly, my arguments using the definitions in Merrian-Webster were insufficient to get my point across. Perhaps the Oxford English Dictionary might sway the ideas. So here goes.
When Did Touch Become Non-tactile?
It weird how an experience with an iPhone and an alarm can make one think. When exactly did touch become non-tactile?