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Maybe It Finally Is Time For Microsoft Word To Die (and painfully) - The Writer UndergroundThe Writer Underground
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Maybe It Finally Is Time For Microsoft Word To Die (and painfully). October 15, 2013,. Uber-science fiction author Charlie Stross unloads beautifully on the brain-eating zombie that is Microsoft Word, and I feel privileged to see it happen:. I hate Microsoft Word. I want Microsoft Word to die. I hate Microsoft Word with a burning, fiery passion. I hate Microsoft Word the way Winston Smith hated Big Brother. Our reasons are, alarmingly, not dissimilar …. It is, however, very good at generating memos.
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The Latest Way To Make Money Freelancing: Writing From Someone Else's Heart - The Writer UndergroundThe Writer Underground
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The Latest Way To Make Money Freelancing: Writing From Someone Else’s Heart. June 22, 2015,. A long time ago, I gave a best-man speech at my little brother’s wedding. I spent a lot of time working on it and I was going through a Garrison Keillor phase, so I badly wanted to achieve a folksy-yet-sophisticated humor — along with Keillor’s deep, resonant, empathetic delivery. Still, the speech was a success. There were many compliments. Courtesy the NY Times):. Toast whisperers, as they may be called, are a ...
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Today’s Useful Free Thing: The Quick and Dirty Guide To Freelance Writing. March 9, 2015,. Scott Carney’s a working journalist who is asking some tough questions about the rates paid to freelance journalists (. The case for $20 per word. Are you Pitching to a Silo or to a Market. What Hollywood can teach Magazine Writers. He covers similar ideas in this Pacific Standard interview. The good news is he’s written a short — and wholly free —. Quick and Dirty Guide to Freelance Writing. Guide would benefit fr...
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Caffeine's the Cure. October 23, 2006,. Facing a succession of deadlines? If you’ve got a schedule you can meet only with the help of enormous quantities of caffeine, this helpful Web site will let you know exactly how much you can ingest before it kills you on the spot. With listings of many different beverages, the site helpfully calculated that I can drink. 62045 cans of Barqâ s Root Beer. Before my heart stops and I start walking towards the bright light. Tags]caffeine, root beer, deadlines[/tags].
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The Classics Never Fail - The Writer UndergroundThe Writer Underground
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The Classics Never Fail. March 20, 2015,. Every generation is tasked with reinventing the world they live in (including, but not limited to, politics, drinking, and sex). We see this play out in the marketing world, where “Old Skool” is more an epithet than description. Yet clearly, the Old Ways still work (almost every time). Witness the Trojan Horse:. Happy Friday, Tom Chandler. Posted in Underground Entertainment. And tagged trojan horse. March 20, 2015, 3:37 pm. March 20, 2015, 3:44 pm. Working Write...
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Yet Another Reason To Hug Your Notebook Today - The Writer UndergroundThe Writer Underground
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Yet Another Reason To Hug Your Notebook Today. July 14, 2015,. I assumed it was because I’m firmly in the “You kids get off my lawn” phase of my career, but after a dalliance with a keyboard, I found I still prefer to write interview notes by hand. It seems I’m not the crank I thought I was. A study by Princeton psychology graduate student Pam Mueller suggests writing lecture notes by hand results in better recall and comprehension of the material. Now I know why. Perhaps this is what the UndergroundR...
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Nick Hornby Watch (or, Media Worth Reading as Judged by a Hornby Fanboy) - The Writer UndergroundThe Writer Underground
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Nick Hornby Watch (or, Media Worth Reading as Judged by a Hornby Fanboy). March 2, 2015,. My “Nick Hornby” Google Alert used to trigger a couple times per month; these days Hornby’s hot, and I’m overwhelmed by the flood of interviews. And because this blog is the online home of an unrepentant Hornby Fanboy, I’m saving you the heartbreak of wading through the pile of shallow, unreflective interviews with Nick (note the first-name basis). Instead, I’m pointing you towards two winners. He also tells us how ...
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"It's good not to recognize one's own failures" (A short, amusing interview with Garrison Keillor) - The Writer UndergroundThe Writer Underground
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8220;It’s good not to recognize one’s own failures” (A short, amusing interview with Garrison Keillor). March 11, 2015,. This from a recent interview of Underground Fav writer Garrison Keillor. You seem to me to be the consummate raconteur you write short, long, funny, poignant, magazine- and newspaper-style … and then of course for radio as well as for print. Is versatility something you had to cultivate over the years, or does it just come naturally to you? You can read the entire interview here. How t...
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The Atlantic Helps You Declare Podcast Bankruptcy for 2015. January 19, 2016,. And these days, there are a lot of. But I don’t sit through an hourlong commute. I can’t write. Listen to someone talk. And while I’m hiking in the woods, I’m not plugging in a set of earbuds. Simply put, I like a lot more podcasts than I can listen to. If you’re about to declare podcast bankruptcy for 2015,. Put together a list of the 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015. Keep writing (and listening), Tom Chandler. Chris Hughes, ...
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Why You Should Take a Hard Look at Your Freelance Business Every Year - The Writer UndergroundThe Writer Underground
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Why You Should Take a Hard Look at Your Freelance Business Every Year. January 7, 2015,. Every year I urge freelance copywriters to invest a day evaluating the prior year’s numbers — and explore what would make them happiest in the new year. The goal is to avoid drift by making purposeful choices. You want to grow your career in the right direction (if you’re going to fail, you might as well fail up). Typically, I focus on numbers. Were your revenues an improvement over your prior year? My goals in 2015?