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How To Start a Freelance Career

Image via Wikipedia Work at Home and Earn an Excellent Income Imagine being able to work from your own home, doing a job you love, and getting paid handsomely for doing it. Wouldn’t that be great? Well, the good news is that this is not just a fantasy. It is a prospect that is well [...]

National Novel Writing Month Kick-Off

It’s that time of year! November is National Novel Writing Month. Time to kick yourself in the butt and get that novel out come hell or high water. Tonight you get to write for an Extra hour, and then on Thanksgiving weekend get a couple of extra days off to get caught up. What Are [...]

Quick Links

Just a couple of quick links I’ve been collecting. I got to get back outside and Weed-whack the jungle in between showers. 4 Tips to Improve Naration- A nice primer on re-writing and cleaning up your fiction PigPog’s Improving Writing page- Lots of useful links Make a Manuscript Template- Using Word to create a template [...]

Site of the Week: Hulu

The big problem with the internet is that it seems like it’s designed to make you feel like an idiot on purpose. I don’t mean the fact that every question you post on Yahoo!Answers is answered by some snotty 12-year-old. I don’t mean that every time you try to do research you have your choice [...]

First Impressions of Hardy Heron

I installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron on the wife’s AMD 64 last night and have been playing around with it all day. Now, Lorie can cause a computer to stop working by looking at it and is afraid to go Window-less completely. But the new Vista Laptop blows. Several of her favorite older programs don’t work. [...]

Guilty Pleasures:Cryptonomicon

Shortly before my brother John left to serve in Iraq, I lent him my copy of Neal Stephenson’sCryptonomicon. He was about the fifth person I lent the book to. No one, And I mean No one I’ve lent it to has wanted to finish it. I figured between downtime and subject matter, He’d be the [...]