HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!
Wishing you all the very best in 2015.
Resolutions? There are many I should make. I have this habit of looking back each year to see if I kept them. Usually I don't keep them. The main reason isn't that they are too optimistic or unreachable. Changing priorities turn me off one road onto another.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Friday, December 26, 2014
What Resolutions for the New Year?
Starting to review the year for myself. Looking back before deciding goals always adds a bit of reality.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Writing
My writing has taken a back seat for awhile, but still doing freewrites daily to keep the practice and habit. Five hundred words is my target. Some days it is very difficult to even write five hundred words -- even nonsense. I like to think that those days are the most helpful with keeping the ease of a daily write.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
One Great Way to Write Short Stories
ONE GREAT WAY TO WRITE SHORT STORIES by Ben Nyberg shows a way to write a short story.
What interested me is his view on writers. Are writers made or are they born? Perhaps a little of both. Here are a couple of quotes from that book:
What interested me is his view on writers. Are writers made or are they born? Perhaps a little of both. Here are a couple of quotes from that book:
- "...writing a story requires knowing technique. If you don't have that, no amount of heart or mind will make your stories work. If you do, you can write effective, even publishable stories, even if your creative gift isn't huge."
- "...what you are learning is the technical skill to make the most of whatever storytelling gift you have, to write the best stories you can."
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Chromebook
I feel I have joined the computer age. Even though I have been using personal computers since my first Apple in 1979, the feeling that the computer age had left me behind overcame me with the purchase of a Chromebook.
Chromebooks are inexpensive laptops that run Chrome OS. They update automatically and are considered virus safe. They run almost everything through the cloud. I'm not really sure what the cloud is but it seems to me to be a virtual server. It is a place where documents and programs can be stored and used.
The Chromebook works well surfing the net. My problem arose when I wanted to print out a page. I couldn't do it. It prints only from the cloud. I may have been able to save the page to a memory chip and physically take it to another computer with a printer attached, but I didn't try that.
Today I started the set up of a home wireless network through a personal hotspot. After several hours yesterday with tech support, I managed to get the hotspot up and some data paid for. Today I connected another computer to it. It was a breeze to do.
Chromebooks are inexpensive laptops that run Chrome OS. They update automatically and are considered virus safe. They run almost everything through the cloud. I'm not really sure what the cloud is but it seems to me to be a virtual server. It is a place where documents and programs can be stored and used.
The Chromebook works well surfing the net. My problem arose when I wanted to print out a page. I couldn't do it. It prints only from the cloud. I may have been able to save the page to a memory chip and physically take it to another computer with a printer attached, but I didn't try that.
Today I started the set up of a home wireless network through a personal hotspot. After several hours yesterday with tech support, I managed to get the hotspot up and some data paid for. Today I connected another computer to it. It was a breeze to do.
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