Posted on 01/21/2018 12:08:06 PM PST by mairdie
I will have to resist sending you text that I have written so you can look it over....I could use the help, but it’s such bad form. Like asking a buddy to help you move your stuff to a new apartment....groan!
I promise I will never do it.... I have refrained for doing that to Jeff and I know he’s grateful...lol
Although I did ask him to send me some stuff of his so I could look over an early draft. But it’s always perfect, he’s an English major and a tech guy...he knows what he is doing.
There is a publisher interested in getting some books from me... a place called Elsevier, but I’m also considering self-publishing on Amazon. They would be low-volume technical/medical treatises...not very exciting stuff. I figure I could create a website to place updates and corrections.
I’m a bit bored and looking for something useful to be doing, I just sit in front of the computer these days offering advice on various forums....and making up funny images to post :-)
I also have a small encrypted data communications device designed, about 15$ ea to manufacture...but I have been advised not to do it by some security guys I trust so that’s up in the air.
Don’t send many pages and you’re always welcome to send me text to read. Be warned. I will tell you exactly what I think. Politely, but truthfully.
When I first started out writing fiction in 1984, I was helped by a large number of women. They read for me and one of them even sent me a single-space, one page list of the rules of grammar I evidently didn’t know. I loved it. I still violated every rule she gave me, but I want to know when I’m violating and what I’m violating.
I get sent books pre-publication by various people for various reasons and I will sometimes go through the whole book, but not usually. Elsevier is a WONDERFUL place to publish. Self publishing is fun, too.
You couldn’t possibly hurt my feelings re my writing, quite frankly, I stink!
A combination of years of scribbling medical notes for researchers and technical booklets for hardware geeks to read....very poor practice for development of a good writing skill-set.
Do you know how to use PGP?
To send secure documents.
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