Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes if we change one little word to another littler word, the message is received. I write this post from a local coffee shop. I have been coming to this local coffee shop to viewing the Internet and write various things for about ten years. Every now and then, one of the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Please hire some editors in your business. They are need in many more ways than most persons expect. This is a post about editors—the human variety who read and change what others write. First, we have editors who collect writings from a variety of persons and combine them into one writing. Their […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Part 2 of 2 blogs on writing about…of course I write about what don’t I know. How else would I ever learn anything? This one doesn’t make as much sense as part 1 did. How can I write about something that I don’t know. Well… First, I learn. Second, I write. Or […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Part 1 of 2 blogs on writing about…of course I write about what I know. That is what is in my head. One write adage is, “Write about what you know.” Of course. This is a no brainer, right? What else would I write about. Let’s see, nuclear physics. That is something […]

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by Dwayne Phillips How do you do something everyday for ten years? You do it everyday (for ten years). Every morning, with very few exceptions, I sit and view the news on the Internet. I make notes in a weblog. See here and here. Recently, I noted that I had done this for ten years. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Someone who had a big influence on my life has passed away. “The Mote in God’s Eye.” Star Wars was in theaters, and everyone was enthralled. The science fiction community tried to fit in with Luke, Han, and the rest, often in vain. Every science fiction commentator had their own list of, […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Can’t think of anything to write about? Back to freshman English. It was one of the first classes I took in college. I took it the summer after high school graduation. It was a writing class, I guess it was called English Composition or something. We had a great teacher for this […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The basic steps I have used to writing a professional, non-fiction book and having it published. I have written about half-a-dozen professional non-fiction books. The counting is a bit fuzzy when you include a second edition or two here and there. These were published by the IEEE and other publishers of such […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Some of the best-written pieces were done “on the spur of the moment” at a writing event. That includes week-long events and one-hour events. The summary above is true in my experience. I have read pieces written in five-minute exercises, “Okay, everyone write. I will ring the bell in five minutes or […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Yet another group of needless words and the search for the actual verb. I recently read something and felt my skin crawl at the same time. Something was amiss. Sigh, go back, read it again. We are requesting that you give blah blah blah. Okay, what’s wrong? This is another version of […]

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