Good things can happen when you ask others.
Last week I had an out-of-the-box idea for an issue of the magazine.
To confirm I was on track, I ran my thought past two people whose judgment I valued. As expected, they affirmed my idea.
But they went beyond that. They each suggested I expand my idea to something that would take considerably more work, but also … Continue reading
And other writers own theirs.
At the start of the new year, several accounts reported how many works of literature had just passed into the public domain.
After nearly a century of ownership by the authors and their heirs, such works as Agatha Christie’s The Murder on the Links, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and the Golden Lion, and the song “Yes! We Have No Bananas” became … Continue reading
What if your computer were lost?
The other evening, after backing up the day’s work onto my flash drive, I realized it had been a week since I’d backed up my files onto my external hard drive. I should know better. You can’t have too many backups.
Decades ago, a co-worked told me a wildfire had once claimed his magazine’s office. In those days, before desktop … Continue reading