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Archive for March 2003

a fable, from uwebdev

Posted on 3/14/2003

In the early days of automotive manufacturing one manufacturer produced a car with square wheels.
Cars were a novelty back then. Not everybody had one. Some people thought the square-wheeled cars were a lemon, but the people that used it back then really didn’t care. The roads were very rough and if it got you […]

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zing!

Posted on 3/11/2003

heard today: “that must be fun, playing solitare without any aces.”

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found while cleaning

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Squirrel
an exclamation point
on the white page of snow.
-Joy Bennett
http://tinywords.com

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back to the future

Posted on 3/10/2003

I turned off the radio (KUOW, online) where they were talking about Bush and the war, to listen to the copy of Nevermind that I checked out of the library last week.
I’d actually forgotten how freaking catchy that album is. I never owned it, but so much was on the radio back […]

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tired…

Posted on 3/3/2003

weekdays suck.
okay, maybe that’s a little extreme. but still, some nights, when I get home, I just feel like I’m living my life in little circles.
time to do some writing, I guess.

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scenecards

Posted on 3/1/2003

I just got off the phone with my friend Kat (who, alas, doesn’t have a blog); she’s taking a writing class at the UW extension, which she’s really enjoying, and she shared this technique for writing, or rather for organizing writing.
first, you break your piece (novella or novel) into scenes. then you create a […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.