October 16, 2011

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  1. I feel your pain on the digital storage front. My current laptop has a 640 GB drive and I now have perhaps 100 GB left. I'm shopping for a 2x2 TB RAID external for my archives.

    When my wife began graduate school, we bought a Mac through the student bookstore discount program (first post typewriter machine). With a substantial up charge for a larger drive, I remember we felt like we were living large with a 250 MB hard drive. My Canon 60D comes in around 6 MB per JPG.

    Technology marches on...

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  2. I've been sitting on a few letters for far too long. With all the house-related things going on and juggling a few clients needed copy editing, I've been swamped! Hopefully I'll be able to hammer out a few letters tonight - and one should be for you!

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  3. We've resigned ourselves to 'killing our darlings' IN-CAMERA, before the download. If it's not something we want to print and share, it has to go.
    That's the only way we prevent our poor old PC from going under.

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  4. I often reply to letters soon after receiving them, in order to ride the wave of enthusiasm created by finding them in my mailbox.

    But now I am in the unique position of having quite a few letters to respond to (including yours) -- a very nice feeling, actually! -- so I'd better GET BUSY before the craziness of NaNoWriMo begins.

    I imagine that I won't be hearing back from my correspondents involved with Nano until after the holidays!!

    By the way, what typewriter did you use for this post? Really nice, clean typeface! Do I smell a Selectric? ;-)

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  5. Yeah, I ride the "wave" twice. Once when I first get the mail and then a second time when I reread the letter before replying (usually a week or so after I receive it).

    You may be amazed at what a working writer will do to procrastinate. An unanswered letter is always a good excuse to not work on one's novel:)

    Yes, this is my Selectric with the Strikethrough-envied Artisan fontball!

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  6. The sad thing is that I mostly take the photos, resize them and then drop 'em on my external HDD (1.5 TB). And never take another look at most of them.

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