Category Archives: organizing writing

Word Count Out of Control!

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

I’ve reached 64,000 words with many more road trips and subjects to explain before my August deadline. I can easily see the word count going to 80,000. But my contract calls for 50,000 to 60,000. There is no way my … Continue reading →

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Informed Delivery by The US Postal Service

Posted on December 17, 2018 by

Informed Delivery is a USPS service (external link) that e-mails you when letter-sized mail or packages are going to be arriving soon. I think it may be only first-class letters but any package should trigger an e-mail. Quite an interesting … Continue reading →

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Turning the Organizational Corner: Inside Baseball

Posted on October 12, 2018 by

With nine months to deadline I have turned the corner on writing my book and I can clearly see how it will finish. And that it will finish. There’s an American saying: inside baseball. It means discussing obscure details that … Continue reading →

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