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Chris, having gone through this ourselves when we ...

2012-02-20T22:11:47.370-06:00

Chris, having gone through this ourselves when we retired Crossed Genres Magazine in December, I really do understand, and I'm looking forward to seeing how you reincarnate. You've done some terrific work with M-Brane and Kay & I have been very happy to have you as a comrade-in-arms (comrade-in-words?). Be proud of what you've accomplished, with and without help - you've earned it.

Great to see another issue on the way. Been too lo...

2012-02-20T10:38:24.602-06:00

Great to see another issue on the way. Been too long!

"Mysteriously compelling"? You're nu...

2012-02-19T23:47:01.448-06:00

"Mysteriously compelling"? You're nutters! ;)

Great Blog!! That was amazing. Your thought proces...

2012-01-13T04:29:26.240-06:00

Great Blog!! That was amazing. Your thought processing is wonderful. The way you tell the thing is awesome. You are really a master.

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Great things are worth waiting for.

2011-11-21T20:30:20.904-06:00

Great things are worth waiting for.

Contents would be useful?

2011-09-09T05:15:13.937-05:00

Contents would be useful?

Nice blog! great to found.. HR Templates

GIVE ME FOOD!

2011-07-01T22:08:18.680-05:00

GIVE ME FOOD!

As if I ever need to point that out ;)

2011-06-07T20:17:05.770-05:00

As if I ever need to point that out ;)

Yours is a little bit bigger!

2011-06-07T19:25:03.606-05:00

Yours is a little bit bigger!

I am writing on behalf of Ben Wood. Ben has recen...

2011-05-20T03:38:22.400-05:00

I am writing on behalf of Ben Wood.
Ben has recently started his own fiction story site called Army of Puppets.
http://www.armyofpuppets.com

I know, right? Not a single comment until now! I t...

2011-03-02T18:09:08.783-06:00

I know, right? Not a single comment until now! I think people don't quite know what to make of me when I post something like this. Is he being funny, or has he gone completely crazy? Maybe best to say nothing and wait and see what happens?

Your suggestion is quite interesting and maybe even brilliant. Perhaps I could enlist Perry Mason in the "solicitor general" role, presenting the government's case (my expectation of outcome) to the new court.

No comments? I thought this was hilarious, Christo...

2011-03-02T15:55:16.068-06:00

No comments? I thought this was hilarious, Christopher. I know he's a bit out of the realm, but maybe the TV incarnation of Perry Mason might be of some use as well? He didn't advertise his personal sympathies, but he's unsurpassed for his legal expertise and unflappable calm. Idiots beware.
Thanks for the post!

So I've been a two-spacer more or less my enti...

2011-02-13T21:15:36.159-06:00

So I've been a two-spacer more or less my entire life. In recent years, moved more toward fonts like Courier and Georgia; realized my work looked jacked up and couldn't figure out why. Then someone brought this whole deal to my attention, and things changed. Looks so much better now.

That said, I do agree with your position here. Edit > Find > Replace is my friend, and frankly I'd have never thought to seek out individual spaces with that function, so you just wound up as my new hero, Chris. Mazel tov.

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What Rick said! I actually did taking typing in s...

2011-02-07T00:53:33.280-06:00

What Rick said! I actually did taking typing in school (because I thought it would be a good way to meet chicks and an easy A... ah, I was half right) and I am a two-spacer all the way. And I underline for emphasis. All this is what I think of as 'standard manuscript format', however outmoded some of it may be. On the good side, I've realized the wisdom of writing everything in txt instead of a particular word processor format, so if I do have to put a story into some picky modification of standard, it's the same amount of work.

What _can_ be irksome (and that's my shorthand to myself when writing in txt that I want to underline a word, lol) is having to create two, three, four different versions of a story to meet convoluted standards for various markets.

If someone has put their work into something that seems like a reasonable interpretation of 'standard format'... I'm happy over at FU. :)

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Agreed, Rick. I think I started being a typer in ...

2011-02-06T00:09:40.748-06:00

Agreed, Rick. I think I started being a typer in 1983, on a manual which I always for some reason liked better than the electric that I got in 1988. But I was never instructed in how to type, never took the class in school or had anyone tell me how to do it. But I knew the two-space rule anyway and always used it. But I somehow quit doing that without being told. I don't really care about it much at all because the presence of that second space is not that noticeable in print in proportional fonts anyway. But I have adapted to the over-the-top insistence that all two-spacing MUST DIE with my find/replace routine when I edit M-Brane.

I learned to type in 1978. Two spaces after a per...

2011-02-05T23:54:17.316-06:00

I learned to type in 1978. Two spaces after a period is so ingrained I don't think about it. If I have to think about putting only one space after the period, I can't write because I'm not thinking about story. The writer's job is to write, the editor's job is to edit.

Indeed, Karen. Some people need to chill. Ed, you...

2011-02-05T23:15:04.934-06:00

Indeed, Karen. Some people need to chill.

Ed, your stuff is generally so good that I know that I will probably not reject it after one or two pages, so before I even start reading it, I convert it into a style easier on my eyes ;)

Good thing Chris is reasonable. Everything I'...

2011-02-05T22:06:35.209-06:00

Good thing Chris is reasonable. Everything I've submitted to him has been in two-spaced Helvetica. (Sans serif fonts make edits/revision much easier for me. Maybe the fact my manuscript doesn't look like a book frees me to blow it up when necessary.)

I'm happy to be educated that standards have changed since they taught us the two-space thing in school, but it's hard to give that Slate article much gravity when it reads like paid trolling.

The voice of reason! I work for a publisher and ou...

2011-02-05T20:49:43.422-06:00

The voice of reason! I work for a publisher and our typesetting software is set to compress all multiple word spaces into one.

Some people need to chill.

John, I'd agree that he wasn't brilliant e...

2011-01-27T00:25:06.767-06:00

John, I'd agree that he wasn't brilliant every single time. No one is. Indeed, since I originally posted this topic, I have read a bunch more Sturgeon stories and there are certainly a bunch of weaker entries. But what is undeniable is that he was writing at a higher level than most of his peers, particularly in the 1950s-early 60s period. What's less certain now is what he has as a lasting legacy. So many readers who love the genre and so many writers who are probably in one way or another among his descendants don't even know his work. And that's a shame because he was a serious craftsman in an age and in a genre when and where so many dudes thought all they had to do was "tell a story."

Late, I know, but I regard Sturgeon quite highly. ...

2011-01-26T08:41:05.030-06:00

Late, I know, but I regard Sturgeon quite highly. "Bianca's hands" is a lovely short story. In fact, I think I need to reread some Sturgeon now.

I was disappointed in the ten-volume collection not because Sturgeon wasn't brilliant--he often was--but because I don't need the non-brilliant things. And of brilliance, I think he only had four or five books work--which is four or five books more than I have produced.

Congrats! Glad to be a part of it.

2011-01-21T21:43:05.189-06:00

Congrats! Glad to be a part of it.

Congratulations on Year Two!!

2011-01-20T21:31:35.752-06:00

Congratulations on Year Two!!

;) Congrats to two wonderful years, and on to th...

2011-01-20T14:31:16.011-06:00

;)

Congrats to two wonderful years, and on to the next!