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13 Mar 2011
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Wisdom for the day ...
13 Mar 2011 07:55 amThis just jumped off the screen at me, so I throw it out to y'all.
Via Book View Cafe Blog.
... now I began the long process of comprehending that what is so vivid in your head doesn’t automatically zap into the reader’s head. That phrases like Her eyes flashed with scorn did not, in fact, shoot into the reader’s mind the image of my heroine’s wary tilt to her head, the tightly crossed arms, her bitten thumbnail, her threadbare summer gown and the wisps of hair straggling onto her forehead, the smooth black glinting blue in the morning sun. I saw that. The reader just got a common phrase signaling sexual tension. If she was reading just for a story of sexual tension that would eventually resolve with a happy meeting of minds (and lips), then it didn’t matter if she didn’t see the complete picture. But if I wanted her to see the picture–if I wanted her to remember my heroine as distinct from all the other heroines whose eyes flash scorn–then I had to disassemble the movie, and rebuild it on the page as text, image by image, noun by noun, verb by verb.
Via Book View Cafe Blog.
One step forward, one step back
13 Mar 2011 11:49 amFinally broke down and pulled my G15 keyboard to clean it. Yes, beard hair does collect under the keys.
The main reason I did it was to try and get the "L" key to recognize repeated keystrokes better; it was to the point that I had to take a full beat between the two L's in words like llama. The step forward is that it's better, but still not as responsive as the other keys.
The step back is the LCD is now dead; the constant flexing of the flat printed-copper-on-plastic ribbon cable rendered it brittle enough to snap across when I opened up the keyboard. That means I've lost my handy little clock.
So, yes, one step forward and one step back.
The main reason I did it was to try and get the "L" key to recognize repeated keystrokes better; it was to the point that I had to take a full beat between the two L's in words like llama. The step forward is that it's better, but still not as responsive as the other keys.
The step back is the LCD is now dead; the constant flexing of the flat printed-copper-on-plastic ribbon cable rendered it brittle enough to snap across when I opened up the keyboard. That means I've lost my handy little clock.
So, yes, one step forward and one step back.
One step forward, one step back
13 Mar 2011 11:49 amFinally broke down and pulled my G15 keyboard to clean it. Yes, beard hair does collect under the keys.
The main reason I did it was to try and get the "L" key to recognize repeated keystrokes better; it was to the point that I had to take a full beat between the two L's in words like llama. The step forward is that it's better, but still not as responsive as the other keys.
The step back is the LCD is now dead; the constant flexing of the flat printed-copper-on-plastic ribbon cable rendered it brittle enough to snap across when I open up the keyboard. That means I've lost my handy little clock.
So, yes, one step forward and one step back.
The main reason I did it was to try and get the "L" key to recognize repeated keystrokes better; it was to the point that I had to take a full beat between the two L's in words like llama. The step forward is that it's better, but still not as responsive as the other keys.
The step back is the LCD is now dead; the constant flexing of the flat printed-copper-on-plastic ribbon cable rendered it brittle enough to snap across when I open up the keyboard. That means I've lost my handy little clock.
So, yes, one step forward and one step back.