…why aren’t you posting very much this week?
Because I’m on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, getting reading to be one of the instructors for this year’s Viable Paradise Writer’s Workshop. The workshop is a great deal of fun, but it’s also a great deal of work — it takes up not just time, but mental processing power.
For your amusement, though, have a nice rant about MS Word from science fiction writer Charlie Stross. I’m a WordPerfect fan myself (they will take away my Reveal Codes window when they pry it from my cold dead fingers), but I use Word for my editing work because just about everybody else uses it; either that, or they use some obscure personal favorite and export the files to Word when they want to share them. I don’t think anybody really likes Word; at best, they feel about Word the way I feel about Windows computers . . . they do what I want, and nobody expects me to be in love with them. (Say bad things about Windows, and nobody cares. Say bad things about the Mac interface, and the Mac users make sad puppy eyes at you because you’re being mean.)
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