Recently in Writing Category

I usually write 3,500 words a day for publication, six days a week.  That daily effort averages out to a million words a year.  Those writing numbers are numbing and they don't include the daily grind of writing emails or crafting shopping lists or the rare, luxuriant, instance of love letter making. 

For the longest time, I had problems with writing. I would start writing and keep writing and writing until I absolutely could not think of anything else to write. The next day, I would sit down to write again and I still had nothing to write. I would just sit there staring at what I had already written and would have no clue how to continue.

This morning, I was editing a file in Google Docs, when I was asked by the Google Spellcheck -- if I meant "CUNT" instead of "CUNY" -- and that was quite a wild wake up call at 4:30am.

If mega-author Dan Brown can't protect his hardcopy books from the digital pirates -- what hope is there for the rest of us in this new dawning of stealing books for profit?

There is something terribly wrong with the new batch file upload feature of Google Docs that was introduced this week.  For two, solid, days, I've been trying to upload all my local doc files to Google Docs so I might live safely -- and solely -- in "the could" but it isn't working as you can see in the screenshot below.  Error after error after error was presented as Google Docs choked on the uploading of simple Word document files.  What a sour and bitter disappointment!

I was walking home from the train this evening and I heard a woman speaking with someone on her mobile phone. She was talking about some restaurant and how much she enjoyed their food. She then proclaimed that they had absolutely delicious "fill-ehh mean-yawn." I shuddered right there on the street. A complete and full ripple through my body. I was completely and utterly disgusted. What is wrong with me?

Imagine writing without writing words, without writing letters. Somehow getting out your thoughts without a coherent system of letters that can be easily recognized and understood by passers-by. Most people do this kind of writing without intending to just about every time their pens run a bit dry and they want to get them going again. Go to any stationary store and walk over to the pen section and you will find that there are scratch pads that are full of such writing.