[stylist] reading my story...sorta

[James Canaday M.A. N6YR]

Judith,
certainly I knew I could do that, and offered to do that, but my 
mother just asked me to read it to her.

the point of my previous e-mail was that in the process of this very 
strange way of reading I found a couple errors.
jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 06:26 AM 4/21/2009, you wrote:
>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
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>
>>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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