[stylist] {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Research

[Tessa]

Hi Chris,
Great ideas. Yes I know what you mean about it being easier on us then it 
was 20 years ago. I used to buy old hard cover books at the Salvation army 
thrift store and write my stories on their pages using slate and styless. I 
switched to magazine paper later on but it's near unreadable now LOL.
I love my note taker as braille paper costs a fortune and takes up way too 
much room, not to mention that I'm a terrible speller/grammarian and at 
least this way I can correct after the fact without wasting paper.
Yes, sometimes you just have to look around ask questions, Oddly enough my 
math teacher was a bomber pilot, not sure what he flew though.
My laptop is definitely antiquated and slow which makes some  pages take 
forever to load. But I asked on facebook if anyone could tell me how to use 
a satelite phone and someone sent me a link to a promotional video. Another 
friend actually has one I'd like to get hands on, while a friend brought me 
a pistol so I could see just what it felt like, heavier than I expected. So 
you just never know what you can learn if you ask.
Tessa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Kuell via stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] {Spam?} Re: {Spam?} Research


: Hey Tessa,
:
: Sorry I didn't get to your email sooner, but actually, you research much 
the
: same way I do. It takes time and effort and often searching using various
: terms, but I always think about how much easier it is for us today than 
for
: blind writers 25 or more years ago.
:
: One additional thought. In my first (unpublished) novel, one of my
: characters was a WWII vet--more specifically, a bombadier on a B-17 
bomber,
: and I wanted to describe a mission. This is hard because I'm totally 
blind,
: and don't have access to such a plane. But, what I found was a blog by the
: daughter of exactly the guy I needed (she transcribed his diaries and all
: the info she could find about his mates, his missions, etc...). So, I
: contacted her and asked her to ask her father some questions for me, which
: she was happy to do. It didn't give me all the detail I would have liked,
: but it sure helped, especially with things like the temperature (the plane
: had no heat, so it was very cold on missions).
:
: Anyway, good luck.
:
: Chris
:
:
: -----Original Message-----
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:
: Thank you all for your suggestions, apparently I just wasn't making my
: google searches specific enough.
: I definitely appreciate the suggestions and advice.
: Tessa
:
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