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Track The Value Of A Writer’s Time

Track The Value Of A Writer’s Time

Track The Value Of A Writer’s Time “There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.”–E.B. White

Time Management Without A Magical Device

Time Management Without A Magical Device

Time Management Without A Magical Device On June 13, 1980, and interesting little movie called The Girl, The Gold Watch, And Everything debuted. It was based on a book of the same name by John D. MacDonald. The basic plot is a man (Robert Hays) inherits a watch from his uncle. The girl (Pam Dawber) enters his life around the same time and they begin to fall in love. To make things interesting, a gang of criminals keeps trying to…

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Talent As Kipling And Discipline As Flaubert

Talent As Kipling And Discipline As Flaubert

First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then there must be the conception of what it can be and absolute conscience as unchanging as the standard meter in Paris, to prevent faking. Then the writer must be intelligent and disinterested and above all he must survive. Try to get all these in one person and have him come through all the influences that press on a…

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Daylight Savings Time

Daylight Savings Time

Daylight Savings Time Parts of the world just experienced daylight savings time; I sure miss that extra hour of sleep. Thank you William Willet. Or was it George Hudson. It might have even been Benjamin Franklin who first suggested this travesty against dreamers. While Mr. Franklin is the one who first coined the phrase “Early to bed and early to rise…,” he never actually tried to implement the idea. It looks like old Ben is off the hook. In 1895,…

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