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• Excising redundant dialogue, or, there’s a reason Chatty Cathy is not the world’s best-selling doll

  
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  Last time, I eased our discussion of self-editing for pace toward that graveyard of many a promising manuscript submission and contest entry, problematic dialogue. Through the subtle means of showering you with example after example, I sought to nudge you, gently, into an appreciation of just how annoying redundant, ...
  5 days ago

• Am I hallucinating, or is the screen going wavy again?

  
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  Did any of you sharp-eyed self-editors happen to catch the really, really subtle test of your conceptual editing skills cleverly concealed in yesterday’s post ? Nobody left a comment about it, so I assume nobody noticed. Or perhaps those who did were merely too kind to point it out. Any guesses? If your hand ...
  1 week ago

• Let’s hear it one more time! (Or maybe not.)

  
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  Did my odd mid-week hiatus leave you wondering if I had slipped off for some holiday merry-making? No such luck; just swamped with work. That, and being comatose with depression over some recent news, international, national, and personal. I doubt 2009 is a year I shall remember fondly. Or that writers in general ...
  1 week ago

• What was that again? Or, I did not know it then, but a Gila monster was about to come of a clear blue sky and change my life forever

  
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  I passed through two different airports today, my friends — more travel on behalf of the Grumpy Relative, who continues to ail, alas — so I can state with authority that metal detectors in at least two states are cranked up farm far past normal levels of scrutiny. How do I know? Because in both airports, rows of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Democracy & Elitism 3: burning down the straw man, and who are these out-of-touch “liberal elites,” anyway?

  
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  Let’s begin with a quick trivia question. What legislator’s Top 20 donor list includes the following? Blackstone Group (Financial Services) Bain Capital FPL Group (Energy) DLA Piper (Corporate law firm, representing Global 1,000 and Fortune 500 companies) Kindred Healthcare Beacon Capital ...
  2 weeks ago

• Democracy & Elitism 2: performance elitism vs privilege elitism, and why the difference matters

  
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  Part two in a series. “Elite” hasn’t always been an epithet. In fact, if we consider what the dictionary has to say about it, it still signifies something potentially worthy. Potentially. For instance: e·lit·ism or é·lit·ism (-ltzm, -l-) n. 1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain ...
  3 weeks ago

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