[stylist] reading my story...sorta

[James Canaday M.A. N6YR]

well,
it was for mom.  hand got tired holding down the ctrl-key too!
jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 11:02 PM 4/20/2009, you wrote:
>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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