[stylist] reading my story...sorta

[Judith Bron]

James, There are other ways of sending your mother your story.
1.  Select it all.  Copy it to clipboard.  Paste it into an email.
2.  Open the story on your computer.  Hit the alt key.  arrow down to send 
to.  Hit enter.  Your story will now be open in an email form.  Address it 
and send it on its way.  Judith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Canaday M.A. N6YR" <n6yr at sunflower.com>
To: "NFBnet Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:36 PM
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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