[stylist] reading my story...sorta

[Angela fowler]

Jim, you've got more patients than I do. I'd never have gotten past the
first paragraph doing it that way. 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of James Canaday M.A. N6YR
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 8:37 PM
To: NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] reading my story...sorta

dear Listers,
I wanted to share an experience.  my mother isn't very technical.  I sent
her as a file attachment the story I submitted for the division contest, of
course with instructions to delete it once she had read it.
she called this past weekend because she couldn't open the attached file,
but wanted to read my story.  she asked me to read it to her.  I don't have
it in braille, don't have an embosser attached to this computer.
so to read it I had to go through it with jaws and repeat it to her.  not
the best way to read a story.  going through it that way did identify for me
a couple of errors I should have corrected before I was done with it.  it
has five occurrances of "duffelbag" but one of them is "duffel [space] bag."
reading it that way I also noticed I had a little to much of sentences
beginning with "and," a habit of mine.

it was also remarkably tiring to read this3000-word story that  way.
and, Tami, look down at my sig if you haven't noticed!
jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS
  


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