“The truth is dancers and musicians live in two different worlds.” For academic writers, the Rule of 200. Writing 200 words/day is rather like writing for 15 minutes/day — it sets an objective, emotionally neutral goal. Getting that first draft squeezed out is most important; quality can be layered in later. Also, this raises the [...]
Tagged poetryHere are two bookmarklets I use every day. (Bookmarklets, you ask? What are they? More here.) The beautiful thing about bookmarklets is they should work from within IE, Firefox, Safari, or any web browser that lets you put a bookmark in its Links bar. Because I read lots of articles and blogs online, I click [...]
Tagged Email, geekingout, GmailFor the last couple of months, I’ve had an incredibly annoying problem in Firefox, when entering text into text boxes: the cursor would disappear, the text box would appear to lock up, and I’d have to click inside the text box to resume typing. Often, too, I’d hit the Backspace key and this would jump [...]
I’ve enjoyed having VMWare Fusion on my MacBook, as it’s made the transition from a PC to a Mac easier. Also, since I now have only the MacBook, I’m able to easily duplicate what I had on the old PC and to edit work documents on my copy of Microsoft Office. But I hit a [...]
Tagged macbook, VMware FusionFirst in a (no doubt about it) ongoing series. When I had to do my first literature review, and my first big grad school paper, last fall, I asked my mentor, The Indomitable Cassidy, for her advice. Here’s what she said: I actually like starting with a “haphazard search,” but I prefer to start in [...]
Tagged literature review, research papers, TheAdjectivalCassidy, Writing