<http://www.kansascity.com/703/story/641986.html>
<http://www.spellingbee.com/>

I've created a web-site that contains bits of my life story and my
poetry. If you like poetry, please visit my site. Let me know what
you think. Thanks and enjoy.. http://waitingtowakeup.com

As much as you guys hate Ray, claiming he had a 14 year old girl in
his home and insinuating he might've been doing something
reprehensible with her is far worse than his insinuations that two
newsgroup participants were having an extra-marital sexual affair.

Same deal -- real people could be hurt by this who don't deserve to
be.

Hate Ray all you want -- he behaves childishly and despicably -- but
your insinuations make me ill. Yeah, yeah, you don't give a fuck
about how I feel, but maybe you should give fucks about yourselves.

Got proof? Real proof? Post it here. Otherwise, you're about as
slimy as he can be.

"Being a self-employed writer is not a lifestyle that suits everyone. In
fact, there are a lot of misconceptions about what the job entails. I've
been doing it full-time for over six years now, so while I can't claim
an encyclopedic knowledge I can at least give you a brain dump of my
personal perspective on it.

"Firstly, forget the romance of the writer's lifestyle and the aesthetic
beauty of having a Vocation that calls you to create High Art and lends
you total creative control. That's all guff. Any depiction of the way
novelists live and work that you see in the popular media is wrong. It's
romanticized clap-trap. Here's the skinny:"

[...]

<http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/01/the_writers_lifestyle.html>

Full Credits

Client: European Union
Agency: Media Consulta, Berlin
Agency Producer: Till Dreier
Producer: Matt Buels,
Tim Nunn,
Camilla Wilson
Director: Roderick Fenske
Production: Hungry Man, UK

<http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=aad86add>

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN29285431

Isn't it against some law or treaty to put potentially suicidal people
into uniform?

I could be wrong on this. Just asking.

Writing Advice from Neil Gaiman
<http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/05/you-put-your-right-hand-rear-leg-in.html>

"The second draft is where the fun is. In a first draft, you get to
explode. The objective (at least for me) is to get it down on paper,
somehow. Battle through the laziness and the not-enough-time and the
this-is-rubbish and everything else, and just get it written. Whatever
it takes."

[...]

"And then, on the second and subsequent drafts, you do four things. 1)
You fix the things that didn't work as best you can (if you don't like
the climactic Rock City scene in American Gods, trust me, the first
draft was so much worse). 2) You reinforce the themes, whether they were
there from the beginning or whether they grew like Topsy on the way. You
take out the stuff that undercuts those themes. 3) You worry about the
title. 4) At some point in the revision process you will probably need
to remind yourself that you could keep polishing it infinitely, that
perfection is not an attribute of humankind, and really, shouldn't you
get on with the next thing now?"

Here are some of the interesting bits and selected pieces of what
Skipper wrote misc.writing saying:

A shame. Try four days, next. Then eight. Keep up that doubling and
you'll be cured in no time.

snap puppy snap

Crosscut egg plant breaded and seasoned with cajun goodies then pan
fried and drained on paper towels. Catfish filets, similarly breaded
and seasoned with salt and pepper, then also pan fried and allowed to
drain before serving still hot hot hot.

We washed it down with a Texas dry white that could have passed for
the best supermarket grog in town. It had a cork, however, which set
it apart from the cheapest of the cheap.

For added fiber we had a semi-brittle green bean salad with sliced
almonds blended in some kind of tasty, onion dressing that I think had
Paul Newman's name on it. Raisons could be sprinkled over if
desired. Very good.

Dessert was oranges and strawberries sliced together and sprinkled
with Splenda.

I'm signing off now. We need some rain pretty bad; and I need to
spray paint my lawn so it will look good for the weekend. Everyone
post well, and don't worry about Scott McClelland's tell-all book. As
soon as the Left has used him as much as it can, he will be discarded
like a used diaper--which pretty well describes him to start with.
Then he will have zero friends--same as poor old rino. Whoop!