Editing Reality

Posted on 16 March 2008 by Lise Mendel

I’ve just finished listening to Micah Dubinko’s Editing Reality at podiobooks. It’s a nice idea for a podcast – Mr. Dubinko had written the story for NaNoWriMo, and it needed editing. He read the book aloud, red pen in hand, and podcast the sections asking for feedback. Along with each section he spoke about editing advice and methods from a number of sources (Strunk & White, The First Five Pages and Self Editing for Fiction Writers were the three he referred to most often), and he asked for feedback from the listeners.

I enjoyed the story, and reccommend it (spoilers behind cut) Continue reading →

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What it’s all about

Posted on 16 January 2008 by scooterbird

Back from the Left Coast, which I will get into later. In the meantime, it occurred to me that I hadn’t let anyone know of the particulars regarding the Hidden Message.

Previously, I’d written all my thoughts in my LiveJournal, which served very well for a number of years. Over the last few months, a number of things changed concerning this arrangement. The first was the launch of my own podcast. The Secret Frequency, as it’s called, focuses primarily on my politics and my work in the Green Party, but it does also fulfill one of the needs that I had in starting my LJ: I wanted my own radio show, in effect…a soapbox where I could sound off on my ideas. There was also the nonsense that LJ has forayed into – from the Great Strikethrough through the sale to SUP, all with a profound lack of attention to customer service, verging on at times an outright disdain for bloggers and their content and privacy. I didn’t feel comfortable blogging there any more…I wished to be more in control of my words and how they were read, be more sure of the sanctity of my content, and be treated as a customer rather than a commodity. Continue reading →

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I am WordPress (and So Can You!)

Posted on 9 January 2008 by scooterbird

Welcome to my new home, away from the madness that is LiveJournal. For that page, at least for the time being, sea hear. It will take a bit of time before I’m comfortable with posting here and not referring directly to what has been my Interwebs home for a long period of time, but I did feel it necessary to take this step following some of the rotten customer service and response LJ was beginning to be known for.

I’ll go into more detail later about what I will be doing here on the Hidden Message. Suffice to say, it’s the beginning of a new paradigm for me, and I hope you’ll care enough about what I have to write that it will be that way for you, too.

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