I’ll start with our personal use of Kindle’s Personal Documents. My husband prefers to read and store important manuals and technical documents on his Kindle. If they exist on the web as word processing or PDF files, they normally can be sent successfully to Kindle. I use the personal document feature to send chapters of […]
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It’s not necessary to have ingredients on hand to start writing a novel. Unlike scratch cooking, you concoct most everything that goes into it and make up the recipe as you go along. Planning my current story began with a brief image from a dream that I recorded in a notebook some time ago. The
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One day, thinking a character in my books might have to clean a slop jar (chamber pot), I googled “clean a slop jar” and found a wonderful publication scanned by Google Books. The name of the publication is Wide Awake by Charles Trowbridge Pratt and the (or “of the”) Chautauqua Young Folks’ Reading Union, published
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