When I started working at EDS, one of the thing I was kind of amazed at was how many people were using this website to try to meet people. The site was OKCupid.com. A dating site which completely bucks the match.com trend and allows people to use the site free of charge. I think it…Continue readingOK Cupid
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Romantic Involvements in Writing
After having one of those romantic dreams last night (you know the ones), I began thinking about romantic involvements in the book that I’m working on. I currently don’t have plans on having a romantic involvement in my story, yet it seems to me that this is almost all of what writing is about. I’m not sure I like that, and maybe I leave that out just to try to buck the trend, but then I feel like I may be endangering myself with a large segment of my possible readership.Continue readingRomantic Involvements in Writing
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Goals of 2009
I know it is a bit of a cliche to set goals with the new year, but it does offer me a chance to set things to work towards. This year, I am going to set myself some really generic goals as you will see, but all of them I think are fairly attainable and…Continue readingGoals of 2009
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Christmas Unwrap ’08
As is the usual case with my family and me, I did not get all my presents until New Years. Which IMHO is overall a better gift giving time anyway. Combine two holidays in one, avoid shopping rush and get shopping discounts. What could be better? At any rate, it was a fairly decent year…Continue readingChristmas Unwrap ’08
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Organizing Sections in Writing
Early on in my writing, I had the notion that I had to write in the order that it would appear in the book. Therefor, if I was thinking about how section C would work and had some great ideas, I wouldn’t write them down until I could get sections A and B down. I…Continue readingOrganizing Sections in Writing
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Christmas has Begun
For me and my family, Chrsitmas isn’t entirely beginning with Thanksgiving, it really begins when the Tree goes up. This weekend we finally put a tree up, and it was a brand new fake tree.Continue readingChristmas has Begun