Books are magic
Writing a book takes tremendous effort. Ernest Hemingway is often quoted as saying that to write all you need do is sit at a typewriter and bleed. According to Steve Paul, writing at The Hemingway Society website, there is no substantive evidence that Hemingway is the source of that quote. I think most of the … Continue reading What Authors Say about My Work
Who could be upset about slipping and rolling down a hill backwards on such a beautiful day?
I help authors write books by collaboratively editing their manuscripts. Some people call this developmental editing. However, when an author doesn't have the time or the writing skills, I do more of the heavy lifting. I bring a variety of techniques to my work, including developmental editing, line editing, rewriting, research, and ghostwriting. The way … Continue reading How I Edit: Let’s Collaborate
By Valley2city — Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12061409 I always wondered how it would start. I remember reading somewhere that these things start quietly. Looking at old newsreels, it didn’t seem to start quietly in Germany. I remember seeing large crowds of people listening to an impassioned Hitler speak, even scream, and responding with the Nazi … Continue reading This Is How It Starts
Aerial view of Washing Square Village, Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8493062User Experience Can Bring Out Our Best Or Our Worst “Fuck off!” I shouted as I whipped around and looked the other driver in the eye. He shouted back at me, “So it’s going to be that kind of day, is it?” It’s going to be that … Continue reading Humane in New York
Last year I wrote about why booking too far in advance can be dangerous for your business, and this concept of margin so eloquently captures what I had recognized had been my problem: I was so booked up with clients. Last year I wrote about why booking too far in advance can be dangerous … Continue reading Look deep into nature
https://soundcloud.com/mat-the-bat/feelin-the-dark-nature Last year I wrote about why booking too far in advance can be dangerous for your business, and this concept of margin so eloquently captures what I had recognized had been my problem: I was so booked up with clientsDigital audio technologies in the 2010s are used in the recording, manipulation, mass-production, and distribution … Continue reading An Embed Post Type
"Orders are nobody can see the Great Oz! Not nobody, not nohow!" from The Wizard of Oz, 1939 "Dorothy was right though." Arctic Monkeys, "Old Yellow Bricks," Favourite Worst Nightmare, 2007
Quotation from Rabbi Hillel I could look at his bloodied face for only a second or two. These images stick with me, and Omran’s now lives with the images of a naked Vietnamese girl running toward me and the foot of a German soldier coming down on the head of a baby, still alive, lying on … Continue reading On Children with Bloodied Faces
I dropped the kid off at summer school. By the time I got to the light at the intersection, I was coughing so hard I had to catch my breath. I took a sip of water before the light turned green. Better. Thinking, I decided to call the body shop and have the damages from … Continue reading I’m Drivin’ A Truck