Everything is about me
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pjthompsonStartling new study of the day: So, on the radio today I heard the findings of a new study conducted by S. Mark Young of USC and Dr. Drew Pinsky of...Dr. Drew's Loveline on Narcissism and Celebrity. This study comes to the shocking conclusion that celebrities...wait for it...tend to be more narcissistic than other people. Not only that, narcissists are attracted to showbiz! Wowie zowie and gee willikers! I wonder how much money they spent on that study?
Writingness of the day: I started the groan-and-cut rewrite of Shivery Bones yesterday, going through and cutting prepositional phrases and other kinds of unnecessary verbiage. I made every sentence and every word work for its living, and even cut a couple of more paragraphs I didn't think worked hard enough. I cut 3 pages from chapter one. Okay, so only about one and a half pages of that was actual cutting. I realized that the reason I was getting three different word counts on the same file, depending on which computer I used, was probably because the Word template was corrupted. I'd been using a heavy-duty research publication template--which was overkill. For my ms. I really only need three modified styles: Normal, Heading 1, and Indented text. So I created a new stripped-down template and as I finish the changes in the old ms., reassigned everything to Normal and moved it into the new template. That alone cut two pages. (This is, after all, part of what I do for a living, so I should have thought of this sooner.) I have faith in Word's ability to do something totally bizarre and mess this up again, especially in documents over fifty pages, but I'm hoping this makes a crucial difference.
Yeah, I know. All this is fascinating.
Quote of the day:
"It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible."
—George W. Foote, 1850-1915
I've also seen this as "the proud boast of woman that she," but I couldn't find a source I trusted (i.e., not a quotes page) that listed it, so I'm going to have to go on faith with this one.
Disclaimer for the Quote of the Day:
These quotes do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, The Universe or its subsidiaries, Leonard Maltin, Siegfried and Roy, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. However, they frequently reflect the views of the Cottingsley Fairies.
ETA: THIS JUST IN! New study shows that shelves hold things up!
Writingness of the day: I started the groan-and-cut rewrite of Shivery Bones yesterday, going through and cutting prepositional phrases and other kinds of unnecessary verbiage. I made every sentence and every word work for its living, and even cut a couple of more paragraphs I didn't think worked hard enough. I cut 3 pages from chapter one. Okay, so only about one and a half pages of that was actual cutting. I realized that the reason I was getting three different word counts on the same file, depending on which computer I used, was probably because the Word template was corrupted. I'd been using a heavy-duty research publication template--which was overkill. For my ms. I really only need three modified styles: Normal, Heading 1, and Indented text. So I created a new stripped-down template and as I finish the changes in the old ms., reassigned everything to Normal and moved it into the new template. That alone cut two pages. (This is, after all, part of what I do for a living, so I should have thought of this sooner.) I have faith in Word's ability to do something totally bizarre and mess this up again, especially in documents over fifty pages, but I'm hoping this makes a crucial difference.
Yeah, I know. All this is fascinating.
Quote of the day:
"It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible."
—George W. Foote, 1850-1915
I've also seen this as "the proud boast of woman that she," but I couldn't find a source I trusted (i.e., not a quotes page) that listed it, so I'm going to have to go on faith with this one.
Disclaimer for the Quote of the Day:
These quotes do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, The Universe or its subsidiaries, Leonard Maltin, Siegfried and Roy, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. However, they frequently reflect the views of the Cottingsley Fairies.
ETA: THIS JUST IN! New study shows that shelves hold things up!
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Date: 2006-09-07 02:54 am (UTC)Crazy talk. Nothin' but crazy talk.
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