In my previous post I alluded to my background as a writer for local newspapers. Those publications served rural northwest Georgia. One of my editors shared some advice years ago that stuck with me; that reporters should write everything as if they’re explaining to a sixth-grader. It is crucial for everyone to understand the complexities …
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Put "Something" There
After professing my allegiance to Path Finder during a conversation about TotalFinder on Twitter, Mike Alsup said: While it’s not speedy command line magic and isn’t limited to Path Finder, but it’s possible to automount remote WebDAV drives at login and they’ll be waiting for you to put whatever you would like in there. The …
Tags are the new Category
Providing easy access to my blog history is an important service to provide for to my readers. I am changing how I do things on this blog and want to announce a change on Carrying Stones for the six or seven readers who stumble into my trap each week. You may not realize this, but …
Email with Textmate
TextMate surprised me again this week when I discovered I could send email directly from my favorite text editor with the same keyboard shortcut as “Send Mail” in Apple’s Mail.app, which as you know is Cmd-Shift-D. Bliss! Because you know that means, right? Of course you do. It greases the wheels for me to write …
Flying
I needed a kick in the pants and began writing recently at 501words.com. The site provides a word every day and challenges writers to get at least 501 words down on the page. Yesterday, the word of the day was “flying.” I’m not sure where my words came from, but I was kind of proud …
Hate Gets Us Nowhere
Humorist Mark Twain said, “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it,” but I think he would have preferred to serve up a round of verbal sparring instead of displays of physical violence like the recent shooting in Arizona. If you support this country that is led by …
Are These Filter Words Weakening Your Fiction?
I had never heard of “Filter Words” before reading this article by a writer who had never heard of filter words. Filtering filter words strengthens writing: Are These Filter Words Weakening Your Fiction?: What Do Filter Words Look Like? Let’s imagine a character in your novel is walking down a street during peak hour. You …
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Top, Bottom, or Scattered?
I agree with John Gruber’s (@gruber) blog post from July 2007 on the topic of formatting responses to email. I love this part: Daring Fireball: On Top: Does it take more time to edit the portions of quoted text included in your reply? Yes. So does spell-checking and proofreading. It also takes time to shower …
Lessons Learned From Oklahoma City – Bill Clinton
President Clinton wrote about the lessons America could have learned in the wake of Timothy McVeigh’s terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Op-Ed Contributor – Lessons Learned From Oklahoma City – NYTimes.com: Criticism is part of the lifeblood of democracy. No one is right all the time. But we …
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Downtown Ringgold
Ringgold attorney McCracken Poston took this photo of downtown Ringgold on the morning of January 10, 2011.