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OK, so I'm a little late. Forgive me, I've got a looming deadline next
week, and haven't kept up on my digest. But I couldn't resist this survey,
it's great. My responses:
Most-used reference books:
---At work: Newton's Telecom Dictionary (it's a great read even if you
don't have a word to look up, honest!)
---At home: Roget's Thesaurus. Nothing online can beat this baby.
Kind(s) of writing I do:
---during the day: software manuals, single-sourced for online help and PDF
documentation. (and lots of email, of course)
---evenings and weekends: fiction, both short and long; an occasional foray
into the Bulwer-Lytton contest, which I've never won; occasional articles
on astrology and tarot for local periodicals.
I'm definitely a cat person, but just last week I realized I must have a
dog. Am I going through a phase, or finally finding myself?
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion
is that they don't stifle enough of them."
--Flannery O'Connor
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