From the monthly archives:

December 2007

2007 in Review

31 December 2007

This past year was an interesting one for me – interesting, in this context, being good.
Fahim and I worked on freelance writing projects together. We wrote sales brochures, company profiles, software user manuals, proposals, and more. We cleaned up web copy from bad Chinese to [...]

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Collaborative Writing Tools

30 December 2007

I did a lot of collaborative writing this past year with my husband, Fahim, including freelance writing work and editing for a magazine, and here are two of the tools we found exceptionally helpful.

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Buh-bye, Avast!

19 December 2007

So, remember how I installed Avast! antivirus software a few days ago? I’m ditching it. I’m returning to AVG Free.
Why, you ask, am I mimicking Fahim’s ongoing (yes, yes, still ongoing) juggling of anti-virus software? I’m not, exactly – I’m returning to what is, for me, tried [...]

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On writing and awards

18 December 2007

I’ve been debating whether or not to post about this for the past few days.
On the one hand, I find it interesting that Norman Mailer posthumously received an award for Bad Sex in Fiction (if you’re a prude or under 18, don’t click that link).
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Who was the best commenter…

16 December 2007

during the blog commenting blitz?
web surveys – Take Our Poll
The poll ends on the 19th, so vote early!
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On the nature of viruses and anti-virus software

15 December 2007

In yesterday’s post, I talked about my latest adventure with three different anti-virus solutions. I mentioned that Avast caught a virus that neither AVG nor NIS 2008 did. Does this, in and of itself, mean that Avast is better at catching viruses than either AVG or NIS 2008? No, it doesn’t.
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Anti-Virus Software

14 December 2007

Fahim is constantly trying out different software. The last couple or so weeks, he’s been on an anti-virus/firewall binge. He uninstalled whatever he was using at the time, installed a new one. Tried that for a day or three, found something he didn’t like, uninstalled that one, installed a new one. [...]

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On Editing

13 December 2007

Editing is necessary to polish a work into excellence. First drafts, for the majority of writers, are not ready for publication – there are usually logic problems, inconsistencies, spelling errors, and so on, and all of this needs to be fixed as much as possible before a manuscript is ready to [...]

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Terry Pratchett News

13 December 2007

From Paul Kidby’s site, there’s sad news about Terry Pratchett.
I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to [...]

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12-year old writer publishes second book

12 December 2007

I found this article rather interesting. It’s about a young girl, Libby Rees, who was nine when she wrote her first book, a self-help book about coping with sad situations, prompted by her parent’s separation.
She’s now publishing her second book at twelve, which seems to be about [...]

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