[stylist] reading my story...sorta
James Canaday M.A. N6YR
n6yr at sunflower.com
Wed Apr 22 04:36:11 UTC 2009
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
>
>
>>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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