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Quick survey question: Who likes outlines?

5-31-07 (Photo credit: chrismaverick) Something I’ve been thinking about lately (there’s backstory that has to do with a Composition Theory class I’m taking, but I know no one cares, so I’ll skip that). When you’re writing something, do you use outlines? If so, how formal of an outline? If you…

12-6-09

Day 1213 of 365 4 lyf. A little shamless plea for attention never hurt anyone, right? Actually, I totally stole this idea from Ms Morgan who made her own shamless plea a while back. So since she gave me the idea, you should totally go friend her too. Anyway, and most importantly, I haven’t plugged…

12-31-08

Day 873 of 365 Again. Steph and I spent a quiet New Years at home this year playing games and watching the ball drop on TV and sharing a bottle of champagne. Not the most exciting way to ring in the year maybe, but you can’t beat the company. And it was damn cold outside,…

10-18-08

Day 799 of 365 Again. Many years ago, when I was a young man, I decided to make a nice big list of things that I should do before I died. I’m about half-way through it, which is pretty good, but lately I’ve felt like I should be stepping it up a bit. Today, my…

9-2-08

Day 753 of 365 Again. You know, in 752 days, I don’t think I ever got around to doing one of these before. Crazy, huh? First day back at work after a long weekend is always rough. I was exhausted when I got home. Exhausted and sore. I spent the entire 3 day weekend soaking…

9-5-06

Day 25 of 365 days. I actually had a couple photoshoppy ideas that I thought I might try today but then I got interested in doing some work on my novel instead. So instead this is me at work on that. Tess makes her second appearance in this project as my proofreader. 365 days