by Hyram Voltage | Sep 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
There are no hard fast rules for punctuation in the written American English language. If there were we would not need the Chicago Manual of Style, the Associated Press Stylebook, the Modern Language Association (MLA) Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, or... by Hyram Voltage | Sep 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
I missed a blog update Monday morning. I’ve been busy. Sunday, the day I would have written the blog was packed. The Saturday before I helped a very sick friend. It was hot and muggy. Several of us spent all day packing and moving stuff. Hot sweaty work.We got... by Hyram Voltage | Sep 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Terror? I thought the whole idea was to get your book read. Well, last weekend, August 31 through Sep 4, I attended the CoKoCon in Phoenix, AZ. It’s a great little con and I like little cons. Phoenix was also hot, but some of the rooms were so cold that only the... by Hyram Voltage | Aug 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
I had planned to contact an editor this week. It took me a day to find the link to the editor I had found earlier and wanted to try. Note to self; I got to get more organized. The next day I had to get ready for a writers/critique group meeting. So most of the day was... by Hyram Voltage | Aug 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
I took a vacation to attend a radio conference in Wichita, Kansas. I went with my friend from high school, we’ve been doing this for decades. I drove from the coast of California to Kansas city, MO, then to Wichita, KS. Over 4100 miles and used close to 100... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
I just read a blog where the author of the blog said that editing is fun for her and should be fun for you. Someone should lock this person up, for their own good and ours. Writing can be fun. You enter a world where things happen, it’s not boring and if it is... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Writing can be lonely. It’s just you and your thoughts. Those thoughts can be a world or a universe full of people, but they are all in your head. The other day I was barreling down the highway on the way to a meeting of my critique group. John Tesh was... by Hyram Voltage | Jul 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
What does a Roomba and a writer have in common? Something that is way out of a writers comfort zone, advertising. In a ZDNet article dated June 15, 2018 Colin Barker mentioned that in 2003 the iRobot company built 250,000 robots. After black Friday 2003 they still had... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
This weekend I participated, with a group of fellow amateur radio operators, in an event called Field Day. Field Day is where you take your emergency equipment out and contact other amateur operators using that equipment. To increase emergency preparedness points are... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
I recently read an article titled Looking For Ideas In All the Wrong Places. I was disappointed. This article did give you places to look, but only three or four tired examples. The article mentioned a writer using Jane Austin’s Emma for the foundation of Fast Times...