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INSERT INTO `wp_comments` VALUES (2,68,'Sylvia Howe','sylvia@wordsmeanbusiness.net','http://sylviahowe.com','79.64.39.224','2010-04-10 08:10:17','2010-04-10 07:10:17','Various things \n1 an introduction \n \nI interviewed you some years ago for a local paper and since then have much enjoyed reading your books and wait for each one to come out. \n \n2  Scrivener \nI am using Scrivener to write something myself now, and wondered if I could ask you how one changes the title of a scrivener project? I can export it to Word and change the title but am stuck on doing this in Scrivener itself. Probably v easy but ... \n \n3 Thank you for recommendations of software. And you have prompted me (although you say you don&#039;t go for it yourself) to readopt paper and i shall start a diary. \nAnything to keep me at it, which like every writer says, is the hardest thing.  A friend has &#039;PRESS ON&#039; written and stuck on his computer and I am right with him! \n \nenjoy your blog - just discovered it.  I have started one myself about general thoughts, rather than writing specifically. ',0,'1','','',0,0),(3,68,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-10 08:14:28','2010-04-10 07:14:28','Hi Sylvia. You really need to go to the Scrivener forum for support. I can&#039;t do that here I&#039;m afraid. But if you mean the name of the file then you do it the same way you do for everything else on the Mac. Either save it under a different name or change the name in the Finder. \n \nBut really - the Scrivener forum is a great place, and full of people who know this software a lot better than I do. Glad you\re enjoying the books! ',0,'1','','',2,0),(4,68,'Thorir Bjornsson','thorir.bjornsson@verizon.net','','98.111.130.129','2010-04-12 20:34:04','2010-04-12 19:34:04','Thanks for your lists of writing tools. I am curious how Evernote might compare with Together. Using Evernote on iPhone and Mac , so far at least, looks promising to me. I agree DevonThink is too complicated. ',0,'1','','',0,0),(5,68,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-12 21:01:38','2010-04-12 20:01:38','Evernote and Together are very different. Evernote is more rudimentary but has a web interface too. And it works on both iPhone and Android phones among other things. I find it much more useful. I also found Together starter to get a bit slow after a while but that may just be me. ',0,'1','','',4,0),(14,23,'MattH','matt@matthurst.net','http://www.matthurst.net','80.6.112.138','2010-04-02 15:30:13','2010-04-02 14:30:13','There are loads of more-or-less battered Courieresque free fonts knocking about on the Net, many of which I&#039;ve grabbed. As a screenwriter (and you should *see* the amount of font fetishism on screenwriting forums), Courier&#039;s mandatory for screenplays but fiddling with fonts for the copious amount of treatmenting and synopsising I do is always a great procrastination tool.  Even so, I&#039;ve managed to use Courier 10BT for scripts. It&#039;s a bit heavier than Courier New, and non proportional. \n \nMy default in Scriv at the moment is Lucida Typewriter, which is sans and based on one of those Selectricish typewriter fonts. ',0,'1','','',0,0),(15,23,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-02 15:39:37','2010-04-02 14:39:37','Final Draft comes with its own version of Courier which actually I find rather more usable than the standard OS X one. Has italics too, which is of course shocking. ',0,'1','','',14,0),(16,23,'MattH','matt@matthurst.net','http://www.matthurst.net','80.6.112.138','2010-04-02 15:41:53','2010-04-02 14:41:53','There are tons of fonts here... <a href=\"http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=113&amp;page=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=113&amp;page=...</a> ',0,'1','','',0,0),(17,23,'Grady','glucas@mac.com','http://grady@gradylucas.com','24.174.62.122','2010-04-02 15:48:44','2010-04-02 14:48:44','I prefer mono-spaced typewriter style fonts. Let&#039;s me focus on the words instead of the style of the words. ',0,'1','','',0,0),(18,23,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-02 15:54:57','2010-04-02 14:54:57','Me too for writing. For revising in the final stages though... I do something different. Will post about it here next week. ',0,'1','','',17,0),(19,23,'Alan Schmitt','alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org','http://alan.petitepomme.net/','82.244.58.105','2010-04-24 22:49:03','2010-04-24 21:49:03','Thanks for pointing this font out, it looks great. I&#039;ve just tried it in Writeroom (with a black on grey color scheme) and it&#039;s really nice. \n \nI have a small question. I found it for free on some site (which seemed perfectly legit), and I was wondering how a font could both be sold and be offered for free. (I can give the site name if you want.) ',0,'1','','',0,0),(56,606,'Jacqueline Renshaw','paulandjacqui@btopenworld.com','','86.151.217.79','2009-08-29 10:31:41','2009-08-29 09:31:41','I ordered this book from Amazon some time ago.  However, I have just been informed that it is no longer available.  Is this correct, and why?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(57,606,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.168.160.112','2009-08-29 11:02:04','2009-08-29 10:02:04','This book isn\'t released until October 2nd so it wouldn\'t be available now. Perhaps you ordered an older import edition of Lucifer\'s Shadow which would be difficult to get? Amazon should certainly be able to ship a copy on release.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(58,606,'sylvia walker','sylviawalker@btopenworld.com','','81.105.212.96','2009-09-19 13:00:52','2009-09-19 12:00:52','Can\'t wait for the new book. I didn\'t read the original because I only discovered your books  last year through a friend and have devoured everything since. Am currently reading a library copy of Dante\'s Numbers. I am an Ian Rankin but your books have the added interest of being based in Italy, my favourite country. You bring it to life and I feel I am there in Rome or Venice....I wonder if you could set your next novel in Ferrara which as you will  know has a very interesting history? thank you so much for giving me so much pleasure.\nSylvia',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(59,606,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.159.146.39','2009-09-19 13:30:01','2009-09-19 12:30:01','Hi Sylvia. Pleased you\'re enjoying the books. I\'m afraid Italy is so full of amazing locations I have to be selective - Rome is pretty much the focus of the next two books. The crew may wander a little after that but not far.\nBest wishes\nDavid Hewson',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(60,606,'sylvia','sylviawalker@btopenworld.com','','86.25.233.231','2009-09-21 16:27:23','2009-09-21 15:27:23','It\'s so exciting  to see a place you know through the eyes of a good writer. I read The Lizard\'s Bite while I was staying with a friend in Ferrara and hoped you might move on to set  future mysteries in places like Verona maybe linking them to Shakespeare\'s characters but I understand the appeal of Rome which I have visited  several times. I was very happy to spend a week there on my own last year visiting Ostia Antica for the first time and seeing everything with new eyes.  I am so glad to hear there are other books in the pipeline.  Many thanks for sharing your imagination and skills with us,  Sylvia',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(65,687,'Finding Your Writing Process | Deborah Sutton &#8211; Writing Out Loud','','http://www.writingoutloud.co.uk/wpblog/writingrambles/finding-your-writing-process','193.202.110.111','2010-04-05 09:34:11','2010-04-05 08:34:11','[...] bought a mac so I could use it), and which I now use for all my writing, the diary system used by David Hewson, and the notebook used by Antony [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(118,968,'Keith Raffel','keith@keithraffel.com','http://www.keithraffel.com','75.35.2.212','2009-10-10 20:28:55','2009-10-10 19:28:55','Thank you, David!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(119,968,'Joe Moore','joe@joe-moore.com','http://www.joe-moore.com','70.156.165.133','2009-10-10 22:25:30','2009-10-10 21:25:30','David, we owe you a debt of gratitude. Your vision and innovation have proven unique. It\'s been a pleasure serving on the board with you, and I\'m glad to call you my friend, a friendship that probably would not have come about without ITW. Thank you from all of us at International Thriller Writers.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(120,968,'Leslie','lesliemcneill@gmail.com','','209.204.144.47','2009-10-11 05:56:48','2009-10-11 04:56:48','Thanks to you also, David, for dispensing your own brand of support to fledgling writers, from advice on approach and tools to words of encouragement or a gentle push in the right direction, always appropriate to the situation and always moving the writer in question forward, towards completion. You are modeling the behavior you praise in your peers, opening the door and welcoming the wide-eyed beginners into the room. As one of the beneficiaries, I can say with certainty you’ve helped me… and I am now confident that I will have the book in hand to demonstrate the results! I hope that one day I am able to share what I’ve learned on my journey with a new flock of aspiring writers, opening the door as generously to them and helping them understand they really can do what they think is impossible.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(190,1370,'Next Read','','http://twitter.com/nextread','217.151.97.97','2009-10-27 19:17:02','2009-10-28 00:17:02','I&#039;ve not read the comments on the Burke piece though did read the article. My view from the amateur review that I am (student newspaper, small press poetry mag, blog), is that reviews should give some idea of the book itself and what to expect from reading it and then say how well that was achieved. That&#039;s easier with a book that&#039;s good but not awe making as you can make points that reflect what went well and what didn&#039;t. I must admit that as I don&#039;t commissioned I rarely get the problem were I have to review a book I loath. And I guess that if you&#039;re getting paid to put words out about something you hate why not be snarky. You didn&#039;t like it so why would someone else? I&#039;m a bit gentler than that though I have been known to blast a few novels that had me so enraged I really had to vent. As I reviewer I want to love the novel and say good things and say people should be it. When they manage to be good not great that&#039;s OK. But if they disappoint... snakiness comes in from the sense of wasted time and emotion especially if it&#039;s down to a miskey between expectations and what you actually experience. That experience could be technical - like poor writing or more emotional like characters doing things aren&#039;t within what they should be doing. But then I guess in the end that if you want to take notice of reviewers you have to look at the reviewer as a whole and see what else they&#039;ve said about other books and if you share their opinions of them before accepting what they say about your own work.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(191,1370,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-10-27 21:26:24','2009-10-28 02:26:24','Professional authors expect and can handle bad reviews. We all get them. It&#039;s when they&#039;re personal, vindictive and sometimes just downright inaccurate that you start to think... hang on, I spent a year writing this book and someone who&#039;s just skimmed through it has decided to invalidate that chunk of my life?Most reviewers are responsible. Some want to make a name for themselves by slagging off other people. I don&#039;t think this tensions will go away but it needs to be aired and I&#039;m glad Alafair did that.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(196,1380,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-10-28 12:32:43','2009-10-28 17:32:43','I speak English good.And American even better. And I hope you&#039;ve borrowed lots of Americanisms like \"rodeo\" and \"burrito\" and \"lasso\" and \"entrepreneur.\" :)',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(197,1380,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-10-28 12:35:08','2009-10-28 17:35:08','Didn&#039;t George Bush once say, &#039;The French don&#039;t know the meaning of the word \"entrepreneur\"?&#039; Or is that an urban myth? Either way - I like it.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(198,1380,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-10-28 12:37:44','2009-10-28 17:37:44','That was one of W&#039;s many, many interesting comments.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(203,1394,'Mike Cane','','http://twitter.com/mikecane','67.250.108.21','2009-10-29 17:25:27','2009-10-29 22:25:27','Hang on to your hat.  They also want us to junk every TV we have and buy ones that will be 3D.  I haven&#039;t even moved from SD.  Crap in HD is still ... crap.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(204,1394,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-10-29 17:30:35','2009-10-29 22:30:35','Nice analysis. I&#039;m not sold on 3D and certainly not the way Hollyweird seems to be getting set for it.Just today I was listening to an interview on NPR with Margaret Atwood and she said that one problems with films was how literal they are--what you see is what you get--unlike, say, in a book, where things can be more \"suggestive.\" And 3D strikes me as being even more literal.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(205,1394,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-10-29 17:28:37','2009-10-29 22:28:37','This came in after I wrote that piece.<a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/6455635/3D---the-future-of-television.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector...</a>Are there really people out there who think sitting at home watching rubbish 3D TV with GLASSES ON is entertainment? Well a few. Please tell me it’s a few. Please.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(206,1394,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','72.14.220.159','2009-10-30 19:28:21','2009-10-31 00:28:21','In principal I agree with Margaret Atwood. Movie are literal and, crucially,they move at their pace, not that of the reader. You can&#039;t choose how youreceive them as you can with a book. That said movies can spark theimagination in a kind of literary way. Or they can be just plainentertainment in a way books can&#039;t. I just know Avatar will be neither.2009/10/29 Disqus &lt;&gt;',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(207,1456,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-10-29 23:16:08','2009-10-30 04:16:08','Don&#039;t get me started. The HP might have some great stuff, but its business model (ie., don&#039;t pay writers) makes me want to take Arianna Huffington out behind the barn and beat her with a shovel.The only Yakoff Smirnoff I know of is a Russian comedian who was kind of big in the &#039;80s. Which still doesn&#039;t make sense.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(208,1456,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-10-30 07:14:12','2009-10-30 12:14:12','I didn&#039;t know HP doesn&#039;t pay writers. Or that that counts as a &#039;new business model&#039;. Do the accountants, ad staff, web people, PAs and everyone else work for free too (I assume Arianna does given she&#039;s married to a billionaire)? If not it sounds like a very old model to me. One better called vanity publishing. Mind you I wouldn&#039;t have paid Craig Newmark one penny for this article.It baffles me that, at a time when decent, skilled articulate journalists everywhere are in danger of losing their jobs, the future of the media is supposedly being mapped out by people who lack the single core facility of all journalism, namely the ability to communicate ideas clearly and succinctly to the general public.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(209,1456,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-10-30 09:58:52','2009-10-30 14:58:52','<a href=\"http://news.cnet.com/8301-13508_3-9785908-19.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13508_3-9785908-19.html</a>I&#039;m not sure being stiffed by your publisher is a new business  model either. :)',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(210,1456,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-10-30 10:43:00','2009-10-30 15:43:00','Can&#039;t remember whether it was Boswell or Johnson who said something along the lines, &#039;Only a fool writes for free&#039;.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(211,1456,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-10-30 11:57:16','2009-10-30 16:57:16','\"Only a block writes except for money,\" or something along those lines. I&#039;m not sure if it was Boswell or Johnson.Time Magazine did a piece on Huffington in the last year or so and at least one journalism source pointed out that most of her news stuff is re-worked from other sources and he rather directly said he thought it was only a matter of time before someone got sued for plagiarism.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(212,1456,'Danisidhe','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','','202.239.195.217','2009-11-01 16:14:52','2009-11-01 21:14:52','Hi David,I found the article well written and insightful. Perhaps I can help:The phrase \"...is the new black\" means \"...is the latest trend/must-have item\" and I believe it has been in use long enough for it to be well known by the majority of his audience and for them to be able to extrapolate what he means with ease.  What he posits is that the general public now wonders exactly where we can go for news which is as objective as possible and well curated (I&#039;m sorry, I love the term - see below) and I think it would be tough to argue credibly against that.On the phrase \"news curation\", the paragraph before the one you quoted at length began: \"Many of us feel that professional news curation, editing, failed us deeply.\" So there you go, he explains that, for the most part, he means &#039;editing&#039;. However, he doesn&#039;t simply use the word \"editing\" is because his entire premise is that the selection of what is put at the forefront of our news services (for which &#039;news curation&#039; is an excellent term i.e., curation requires the selection of the most appropriate pieces to highlight from a collection of items) will be performed not only professional editors but rather by a mix of editors and populist \"audience participation.\" I think most of us would agree that he should not have referred to the &#039;audience participation&#039; as &#039;editing&#039;. At the moment, the selection balance is rather heavily on the side of the audience (sometimes entirely) and he was arguing for more editing, something which I would DEARLY love to see. I&#039;m tired of the online front page of my newspaper being littered with celebrity births, diets and anything titillating because that&#039;s what my fellow readers have clicked on most.  I hope that helped :)',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(213,1456,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-01 16:26:37','2009-11-01 21:26:37','Thanks for commentingI&#039;m well aware that &#039;...is the new black&#039; is used that awfully cliched way. But it&#039;s only meaningful if the subject has some relevance to the cliché. Trust is something established media have always sought to establish. There&#039;s nothing new there. That&#039;s why US newspapers have employed fact checkers for decades. Without that relevance &#039;trust is the new black&#039; simply becomes one more buzzphrase to join a million meaningless others. I can&#039;t agree that news curation is an excellent term if few people outside the small, cognoscenti audience for which this article was written, actually understand what it means. If he means editing he should say editing. Journalism is about clarity. I have to say you&#039;re the first person who&#039;s read this piece who seems to know what it means, which says it all for me.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(214,1456,'Danisidhe','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','','202.239.195.217','2009-11-01 16:54:40','2009-11-01 21:54:40','But that&#039;s the thing: trust is at an all-time low, fact-checkers are rarely used now, if they are it is for legal purposes only - this IS new and needs to be addressed. As for &#039;news curation&#039; being a phrase for the cognoscenti, the article is not high-brow in anyway whatsoever.  I had never heard the term before and it was clear to me even before he explained what he meant - which he did. Again, he did not mean &#039;editing&#039; only - perhaps you skipped most of myparagraph on that? Perhaps you did the same when reading his article - got annoyed by the \"new black\" line and then just skimmed?  I don&#039;t know how one would write with a view to how people will perceive an article if they skim it lightly.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(215,1456,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-01 17:02:14','2009-11-01 22:02:14','Sadly I did read the article, painful and cryptic as it was. I don&#039;t think there&#039;s much mileage in making this point about clarity over and over again. We have enough words to communicate clearly already without being subjected to needless impenetrable jargon. I&#039;m glad you understood. As I said - you&#039;re the only person I&#039;ve met who did.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(216,1456,'Danisidhe','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','','202.239.195.217','2009-11-01 17:09:08','2009-11-01 22:09:08','hehe Hey it&#039;s your blog, if you want to say I&#039;m part of the cognoscenti I guess I&#039;ll have to live with it :) Besides I enjoy your tweets too much to piss you off LOL',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(217,1409,'Rick','rick@rickchesler.com','','98.150.248.168','2009-10-30 08:38:19','2009-10-30 13:38:19','Really good article. Not the usual first-time author fluff piece.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(218,1409,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-10-30 10:03:35','2009-10-30 15:03:35','Nice. A rather different POV from the JA Konrath model. You do an awful lot of promotion/travel, though. Is that just because that&#039;s where you are in your career?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(219,1409,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-10-30 10:09:15','2009-10-30 15:09:15','I&#039;ve done a lot of travel these last couple of years and hope to cut down next. Mainly that&#039;s been because I have to support a lot of different publishers in different languages. And it&#039;s to do with the career stage too. Mostly I go to festivals though, not book stores. Festivals and conventions generally speaking are worthwhile - should have emphasised that more perhaps. It varies from country to country. Book store events are just about alive in the US I guess. Pretty much moribund in Europe in any meaningful way. Festivals on the other hand seem to be going from strength to strength here.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(220,1409,'jonathanhayes','jaze@echonyc.com','','66.65.124.205','2009-10-30 12:43:36','2009-10-30 17:43:36','Excellent, excellent advice, David.Where has *this post* been? I coulda used it a year or so ago...',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(221,1409,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-10-30 12:49:51','2009-10-30 17:49:51','Only wrote it last night Jonathan - sorry!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(222,1409,'Bob Mayer','bob@bobmayer.org','http://www.bobmayer.org/','24.16.200.4','2009-10-30 16:16:42','2009-10-30 21:16:42','All true and lessons learned the hard way.  Don&#039;t do it the hard way.  Believe it if you&#039;re a new author.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(223,1409,'Tina Murray','tina@tinamurrayauthor.com','','67.239.5.127','2009-11-01 03:25:49','2009-11-01 08:25:49','I&#039;m feeling my way through the process.  It&#039;s good to know that I&#039;m not the first first-time author to come down the proverbial pike.  Thanks for the advice!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(224,1266,'Michael','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','92.233.200.42','2009-10-30 17:41:05','2009-10-30 22:41:05','Stephen King wrote a TERRIFIC short story called &#039;N&#039; in his new collection, Just After Midnight.  It&#039;s a homage to Lovecraft and deals with our perception of realities.Here&#039;s a WONDERFUL video interview with King talking about it: <a href=\"http://www.simonandschuster.com/multimedia?video=28234768001\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.simonandschuster.com/multimedia?vide...</a>and here is the animated  version of the story:<a href=\"http://www.simonandschuster.com/multimedia?video=1683793388\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.simonandschuster.com/multimedia?vide...</a>I bought the three books of Lovecraft, but it was so hard to read.   Still when you listen to it (radio 7 broadcast them regularly) it&#039;s the nearest thing to being transported...',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(225,1533,'robynls','rlsmith@robalsmith.id.au','','122.106.162.155','2009-11-02 07:01:09','2009-11-02 12:01:09','I have really enjoyed reading this entry to learn more about your writing process. It will give me another reason to go back and read your books again while I wait for the next one as I have not really been aware of the switching POV. It all happens so seamlessly that it is invisible. I also wish that my students would read what you said about proof reading your work. It would make the marking that I am faced with over the next couple of weeks a little more palatable.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(226,1533,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-02 07:54:47','2009-11-02 12:54:47','&#039;Invisible&#039; is what it&#039;s all about. I think it was Orwell who said something along the lines that, if you notice the writing, something&#039;s wrong. I hope I&#039;m not being the magician giving away tricks here! As for proof reading - bear in mind I&#039;m proofing something that&#039;s been through an editor already. So a lot of the gremlins have gone. I am reading more for sense and obvious glitches. I find it hard to proof read my own work, particularly soon after reading it. Another post some time...',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(227,1533,'Dawn Herring','journalwriter@sbcglobal.net','http://www.journalwriter.blogspot.com/','209.30.176.176','2009-11-03 23:15:35','2009-11-04 04:15:35','I agree with your assessment of multiple viewpoints adding texture to the story. When I have a number of characters in the story, I find it easier to have multiple points of view so the reader can get a taste of how different characters respond to the same issue or person. It gives the reader a clearer picture of that character&#039;s dimensional view.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(228,1556,'Michael','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','92.233.200.42','2009-11-03 20:55:21','2009-11-04 01:55:21','Ooh, I love &#039;what-actually-happened&#039; stories--flashman, for example.  That would make a great audiobook.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(229,1487,'AdamChristopher','adam@adamchristopher.co.uk','','62.254.11.8','2009-11-03 08:30:46','2009-11-03 13:30:46','Not sure I quite agree with some of your points.You say, \"Writing the wrong words is worse than writing no words at all. Sooner or later you will, one hopes, realise they’re the wrong words and have to go back and unwrite them, taking out any other wrong words you wrote as a result of that initial false turning. This is a desperate waste of time and energy. There is no point in chasing targets for the sake of it.\"There is a saying, that you can&#039;t fix an empty page. When I interviewed New York Times Bestselling author Scott Sigler, he talked about \"getting the clay on the wheel\". You need something there first before you can start to shape your masterpiece. You mustn&#039;t worry about throwing stuff away if it doesn&#039;t work, but sometimes you don&#039;t know it doesn&#039;t work until you&#039;ve got it all down. That&#039;s part of the process. If you write a 100,000-word first draft, and end up rewriting 50,000 words of it, that&#039;s not a waste of time at all. By saying that a writer has wasted their time on those bad 50,000 words in the first place, you&#039;re instilling the fear - the fear that what they&#039;re writing isn&#039;t good enough, that everyone else is better than them, that they need to try harder, that maybe they aren&#039;t cut out to be a writer after all.The first draft is allowed to suck. Get the clay on the wheel. You can&#039;t fix an empty page.Pretty simple rules I think.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(230,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-03 08:37:39','2009-11-03 13:37:39','I&#039;m not trying to instil any fear here. Of course a first draft is a first draft. But there&#039;s a difference between producing words that can be turned into something and producing words that can&#039;t. Writing for the sake of it is, in my view, likely to produce the latter, and waste time when you realise it has to come out, not least because one false turning is likely to lead to others. But that&#039;s just my opinion.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(231,1487,'AdamChristopher','adam@adamchristopher.co.uk','','62.254.11.8','2009-11-03 08:46:10','2009-11-03 13:46:10','Yes, that I agree with. Punching a keyboard until your computer dings at 2000 words is a waste of time. I do think a lot of people take that approach to Nano, and achieve vast daily wordcounts just for the sake of wordcounts, and at the end of the month have something completely unreadable.I guess what I&#039;m saying is that you should focus on getting the words down, by try your damnedest to make them the best you have. And then you can fix it later, but it&#039;s important not to worry about at the first draft. If you&#039;re doing your best and trying your hardest and sweating bullets over the first run, then chances are you&#039;ll have something in good shape that you can fix on the second, third, fourth drafts.That still might mean you need to delete 50% of what you slaved over, but only because you&#039;re replacing the good stuff with something better.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(232,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-03 08:51:38','2009-11-03 13:51:38','Just to be clear... the advice above was NOT aimed at people aiming to produce something for Nano..... &#039;Nanowrimo apart, word counts are illusory in many ways.&#039;',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(233,1487,'ivan007','','http://blog.ivanpope.com/','86.168.198.173','2009-11-03 10:46:15','2009-11-03 15:46:15','I also write in Scrivener and love it -  mostly.I think word counts are only important in this way: you have to keep moving forward, you have to move the narrative on. In order to know if you are doing this, you have to measure something and words is what you measure. The worst thing I find is to notice that the book has just sort of stopped. Then there is a problem. If it stops it means it&#039;s not moving forward. If it&#039;s not moving forward it might mean that I&#039;ve lost the plot, or lost interest, or that it&#039;s ended, of course.So I set a mor or less random book total and just write in that direction, trying to keep it moving, even when I&#039;m deep back in what I&#039;ve already written.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(234,1487,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-11-03 13:43:52','2009-11-03 18:43:52','Ultimately for me it&#039;s more important that I actually write SOMETHING on a work in progress, particularly since I&#039;m buried in nonfiction writing gigs that pay my bills at the moment. I aim for 5 pages (double-spaced, so I guess I&#039;m waiting to read your thoughts on that), but understand that by now, one good page will do if that&#039;s what I have time for.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(235,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-03 14:29:41','2009-11-03 19:29:41','Have you tried writing in single or 1.5 line spacing, Mark? If you did, what did you think?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(236,1487,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-11-03 14:36:04','2009-11-03 19:36:04','For nonfiction of all lengths I typically write single-spaced. Never really tried it for fiction except fairly recently for a short story. I guess it more closely approximates what a book would look like.Page counts for fiction have been driving me nuts for some time. I used to use Times New Roman 12-point and knew that double-spaced, I basically aimed at a 400-page manuscript. But I switched over to Courier 12-point and now I&#039;m not completely sure about page count, but I guess it&#039;s closer to 500 pages for 100,000 words. The word count is more what I&#039;m aiming at, I suppose. It is in fiction (where I&#039;m often paid per word anyway).',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(237,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-03 14:38:29','2009-11-03 19:38:29','Thanks for the feedback. Will attempt to set down my thoughts on this shortly. The problems you mention seem to me very common.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(238,1487,'jenniholbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','','66.66.94.198','2009-11-03 16:03:59','2009-11-03 21:03:59','I love the idea of a National Novel Writing Month.  However, am not overly fond of the concept of trying to write 50K in a month.  I did it once.  And amazingly enough, that book is published.  Though, not after basically deleting most of it and starting over.  What I had was one hell of an outline for a really good story.Someone started the idea of NaNoRevisMo -- basically revise your manuscript in a month.  This me likes.  This is what me is doing for the month of November.  But honestly, it was a timing thing.I try not to get hung up on word count or page count.  I think in terms of scenes.  Goals generally are to write a scene or two a day, depending on the day.  Sometimes more.  The biggest thing I like about NaNo is the celebration of writing novels and the idea is to finish one, so, off I go to write. Later dude.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(239,1487,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-03 16:14:58','2009-11-03 21:14:58','Thank you Dudetta. I like the buzz around Nanowrimo too but I have to say the idea of banging out 50k words in a month is a bit terrifying.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(240,1586,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-11-04 13:53:04','2009-11-04 18:53:04','I tend to write lean anyway. Some editors apparently feel too lean. For my particular type of book (at the moment), fast-paced, edgy thrillers with the main character pretty much battling the clock, lean is good. It&#039;s a balancing act, but I think your way probably makes sense, at least if you can add material in and still make it be organic. That&#039;s probably the trick.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(241,1586,'royjudd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','80.189.124.65','2009-11-07 18:02:08','2009-11-07 23:02:08','Thank you David. Your blog is fast becoming an episodic masterclass for aspiring fiction writers, and I for one am very grateful.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(242,1605,'Jen','jenniferbee@gmail.com','http://jbrubacher.blogspot.com/','86.140.166.127','2009-11-05 11:11:53','2009-11-05 16:11:53','\"People write double spaced because they’re told that’s what professionals do.\"I write double spaced because single spaced looks like a great lump of black squiggles.  The fact that there are more words on the page doesn&#039;t mean I can spot anything with more ease.  I like the idea of picking a style that suits whoever is writing, and it&#039;s good to point out that nothing must be done just because someone says so.   But I think it&#039;s a bit odd to believe that it&#039;s *only* old-fashionedness that supports double spacing.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(243,1605,'SteveSparshott','steve@sparshott.org','','87.194.56.172','2009-11-05 12:32:20','2009-11-05 17:32:20','I always write in Scrivener&#039;s full screen mode too, for the obvious reason- no distractions. When I read your suggestion regarding fonts and spacing, adjusting them so the formatting essentially becomes invisible, I thought \"Nice idea\", then realised I do just that instinctively. Font and size, anyway; I&#039;ll now experiment with spacing. Yes, I know, I should be writing.Full screen mode also had an unexpected benefit recently; I was trying to include some BBC BASIC (&#039;80s computer language) and set Scrivener up to recreate the look of the BBC Micro display. It worked beautifully! <a href=\"http://readgetwellsoon.com/post/215475015/ive-been-writing-in-mid-80s-bbc-basic-this\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://readgetwellsoon.com/post/215475015/ive-b...</a>',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(244,1605,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-05 12:36:50','2009-11-05 17:36:50','Thanks for the BBC basic Steve. I don&#039;t think I&#039;ll sleep tonight!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(245,1605,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-05 12:37:15','2009-11-05 17:37:15','As I said I find single spacing too tight so I write in 1.5 lines. Still see an awful lot more than double spacing.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(246,1605,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-11-05 15:04:20','2009-11-05 20:04:20','A key thing here might actually be: do what works for you.I know I&#039;ve successfully used Time New Roman 12-point for years, double-spaced, then switched to Courier just because some people think it makes a difference. What it mostly did was confuse me as to where I was in terms of my project&#039;s length. TNR also does some funky things to curly quotes, etc., in Word that disappears entirely in Courier, but I seriously doubt it makes a difference in the end.Maybe I&#039;ll try my current WIPs in 1.5 or 1.0. I do most of my nonfiction in 1.0.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(247,1605,'Clinton Keith','clintonnkeith@hotmail.com','','24.30.128.138','2009-11-05 14:56:18','2009-11-05 19:56:18','Agreed.  I write in 1.2 and print in double when I take some pages down to the coffee shop to edit.  That&#039;s what works for me.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(248,1605,'Michael','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','217.28.34.132','2009-11-05 15:38:37','2009-11-05 20:38:37','A couple of blogs ago, you mentioned that, \"It’s desperately important to let a narrative run to its natural length. The length dictated by the rhythm of the narrative.\"Rhythm of Narrative?  This sounds desperately useful!  Perhaps you could expand on this at some point, too.Thanks,',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(249,1605,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-05 15:43:25','2009-11-05 20:43:25','Maybe Michael. In simple terms I mean a story should end when it gets to the end, not have its life prolonged or shortened by the writer&#039;s verbosity or lack of time. Will try and write something when I have a moment. It&#039;s suddenly got very busy around here so it may be a while.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(250,1686,'jenniholbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','','66.66.94.198','2009-11-09 16:53:03','2009-11-09 21:53:03','The more I write, the more I find out about myself as a writer.  I started not knowing anything and fumbled my way through my first book.  As I learned and studied the craft (and poked around inside you head and others) I learned some things that helped me become a better writer.I like to know how I think the book will end.  Key word here is \"think\".  My endings generally mirror my beginnings in some way.  So, I sort of know where my book is driving toward based on goal and conflict of my protag and the inciting incident.  This kind of sets up the dark moment and the climactic scene.  I outline what I \"think\" are my plot points, my emotional journey, and anything else I think I know about my book (which includes backstory).For me, I have to be open to all the possibilities as I write.  I learn things about my characters that I didn&#039;t know along the way.  Things develop.  Plot thickens.I have done a bigger outline for current WIP than I have with any other project.  However, I&#039;m well into my first revision and things will change.  I need the outline, but I can&#039;t be married to it.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(251,1686,'donaldhounam','dhounam@gmail.com','','91.104.54.42','2009-11-10 21:45:59','2009-11-11 02:45:59','I&#039;m curious then, David... how much use do you find Scrivener&#039;s corkboard? Can you seriously use it as a basic structuring tool, or is it merely a means of shuffling things around now and again...',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(252,1686,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.159.145.142','2009-11-10 21:50:42','2009-11-11 02:50:42','I had never met a corkboard until I started talking to American writers. In Europe they&#039;re pretty much unknown (as far as I&#039;m aware). The honest answer is: to begin with I hated it. Now, if I&#039;m rolling into a part of the book where I&#039;m trying to choreograph scenes, then I will use it, as you say, for shuffling things around visually. Nothing more than that. I don&#039;t think it&#039;s a silver bullet.This may be of use if you haven&#039;t seen it.<a href=\"http://www.davidhewson.com/2009/10/scrivener-and-the-mosaic-of-writing/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.davidhewson.com/2009/10/scrivener-an...</a>',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(290,1960,'Giovanni','gizeta99@gmail.com','','79.20.128.117','2009-11-16 19:49:25','2009-11-17 00:49:25','Hi David, my name is Giovanni, I&#039;m following your site with great interest - I live in Milano (Milan), perhaps are you planning to go for some book event about your novels in Milan too? thanks',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(291,1960,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.150.111.96','2009-11-16 21:11:56','2009-11-17 02:11:56','I&#039;d love to find an excuse to come back to Milano, Giovanni. Years since I was there and my agent is based there too. But no plans at the moment -- perhaps when the new Italian edition is out in May. What book stores would you recommend for an event - in English or Italian?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(292,1960,'Giovanni','gizeta99@gmail.com','','79.37.189.107','2009-11-17 22:28:06','2009-11-18 03:28:06','There are nice big bookstores, regularly doing events (books, music and so) - Feltrinelli and Mondadori in piazza Duomo, for example - also the Fnac (the big French chain bookstores, present in Italy too) just five minutes from Piazza Duomo - and there is also a little group of writers, journalists and thriller/noir fans called \"milanonera\" - they run twice a week book events about thrillers, noir, \"gialli\" in a pretty nice bookstore owned by Mursia publishing house - just near a subway stop (helpful in Milano - and maybe not only in Milano...); and if you should ever plan to write a thriller set in Milano (I know, less charming than Venice, less history than Rome - and less known to Brit/American readers, except for the fashion and a Prime minister...) hey, it would be great!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(293,1960,'Theodora Wayte','','http://twitter.com/Theodora8','62.56.88.148','2009-11-24 18:57:13','2009-11-24 23:57:13','Venice in January, how lovely. I hope you evening goes well. What a treat, for you and they.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(294,1960,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','209.85.218.223','2009-11-27 21:54:39','2009-11-28 02:54:39','Hi Giovanni. In fact I won&#039;t have time to get to Florence or Milan on thistrip. But I hope I will be able to get there later in the year when the newbook is out in Italian. My publisher Fanucci hopes to be able to arrangethis. Hope so..Regards,David2009/11/16 Disqus &lt;&gt;',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(295,1985,'Soul_Est','soul.est.soul.est@gmail.com','','99.234.199.245','2009-11-17 13:47:53','2009-11-17 13:47:53','Glad to hear that the issue was resolved in such a short timeframe and as well as it was done.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(338,2077,'markterry','markterry@charter.net','','66.227.150.98','2009-11-20 22:16:43','2009-11-21 03:16:43','Movies help the various cities&#039; economies, no doubt. There&#039;s been a lot in the news here in the Detroit area because the state government essentially killed taxes for the film industry, so filmmakers are flocking to Michigan. It brings in a fair amount of work and since filmmaking requires a fair amount of skilled trades like carpenters and electricians, etc., Detroit and the local areas have plenty of people with those skills. Of course, not surprisingly, there&#039;s a fair amount of controversy in the state legislature over the taxation with a number of politicians wanting to start taxing the industry. That will, I&#039;m sure, result in the filmmakers flocking back to Canada or wherever the dollar will buy them cheap labor, or to whatever state will give them a tax break.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(375,2244,'John Laudun','jlaudun@mac.com','http://johnlaudun.org/','130.70.138.207','2009-11-30 15:33:19','2009-11-30 20:33:19','Thanks for sharing your experiment. My only question is where did you find that lovely, understated notebook theme?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(376,2244,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.237.141','2009-11-30 15:35:18','2009-11-30 20:35:18','It&#039;s all explained in this article on the site. It&#039;s a standard WP theme. I just got it by searching on &#039;diary&#039;. I am using this for my private diary on the new book - and loving it I have to say. There are some extra tweaks one can make that effectively turn it into a desktop app. <a href=\"http://davidhewson.net/?p=37\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://davidhewson.net/?p=37</a>',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(377,2244,'ptrader','ptrader@charter.net','','75.204.75.125','2009-11-30 18:51:11','2009-11-30 23:51:11','If you use Wordpress MU (Multi-User), you could set up separate blogs for each manuscript.  Just thinking ahead...',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(378,2244,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','209.85.218.223','2009-11-30 20:59:38','2009-12-01 01:59:38','Yes, that&#039;s a future option. From what I read Wordpress 3 and MU will mergewhich would be wonderful for this?2009/11/30 Disqus &lt;&gt;',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(379,2244,'Ben','quillaja@hotmail.com','http://www.quillaja.net/','61.208.183.235','2009-11-30 23:59:31','2009-12-01 04:59:31','While I agree that this is an interesting, useful, and novel use of wordpress, I don&#039;t see any major advantages of using this compared to something like Evernote, Google Notebook, or (the upcoming) OneNote Online. I&#039;m not sure how much granularity these give you in terms of access control, but Google Notebook has sharing of at the notebook level, publishing to public web pages, etc. It also allows commenting and tagging on notebook entries.Google Notebook, however, has the disadvantages of requiring a google account, and (I believe) being dropped from active development. Also, I suppose WP has the advantage of greater customization.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(380,2244,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.237.141','2009-12-01 06:50:13','2009-12-01 11:50:13','I use Evernote. While it is good in many ways it&#039;s a nightmare for organising complex data (why they refuse to implement hierarchical folders is beyond me) and simply can&#039;t handle a diary function well. Google Notebook is pretty much dead. OneNote Online doesn&#039;t exist. This runs on anything - Mac, Windows or Linux and can also be accessed through any online reader and as an app through something like Prism or Fluid.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(381,2244,'Ben','quillaja@hotmail.com','http://www.quillaja.net/','61.208.183.235','2009-12-01 10:08:52','2009-12-01 15:08:52','I see. I pretty much figured it was something like that. Thanks for replying. =)',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(382,2244,'Helen South','drawsketch.guide@about.com','http://drawsketch.about.com','124.179.26.33','2010-03-24 01:29:12','2010-03-24 01:29:12','Thank you so much for sharing this, and the detailed how-to. I have had my own domain name sitting idle for a while; installed Wordpress but did nothing with it.\n\nI\'ve been looking for a solution to my million files full of notes and ideas on two computers and half a dozen USB sticks. I didn\'t want to go with Evernote or any other of the online ones that have or may introduce advertising, and I find most Wikis rather limited.\n\nThe host I use is only $50 a year - it\'s peanuts really for a secure server with plenty of space.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(405,1791,'Audio Books','cscoggins@dmemedia.com','http://digitalaudiobooks.co.uk/','99.59.137.174','2010-06-17 15:25:13','2010-06-17 14:25:13','Love seeing the international interest in audio books :) ',0,'1','','',0,0),(427,2435,'Michael','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','92.233.200.42','2009-12-23 18:31:33','2009-12-23 23:31:33','Nice layout.Thanks for all the writing blogs, David.Have a great new year.Look forward to reading your new books &#039;n&#039; blogs.Michael',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(428,2435,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.172.184.23','2009-12-23 21:29:00','2009-12-24 02:29:00','Thanks Michael - glad my ramblings proved useful! Happy New Year!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(546,2519,'Ruth','xxx_36@yahoo.com','','70.23.242.193','2010-03-30 21:03:29','2010-03-30 20:03:29','IMO the real reason people feel free to steal books is that there is very little respect for writers and writing so our product is devalued and viewed as more or less worthless.  How many times have you heard someone say s/he could write a book if only s/he had the time?  And how many think because they can write a memo or business letter, they can write a book, too?  \"Anyone can do it\"  is a fairly common attitude.\n\nScreenwriters are the bottom of the LA totem pole even tho movies wouldn\'t exist without them/us.  Remember the old joke about the blonde actress who was so dumb she slept with the writer?  Or the early Hollywood mogul who called the writers \"Schmucks with Underwoods\"  (Underwood was a brand of typewriter in the days way before computers.)\n\nOf the experience of a friend of mine, a bestselling novelist.  She was sitting in her editor\'s office when the publisher came in, complained about some difficulty with a writer and said -- and I quote -- \"This would be a great business without the writers.\"\n\nAll this, even tho the craving for a story seems hard wired in the human species starting in earliest childhood...\"Tell me a story —\" a need seemingly almost as necessary as food and water.',0,'1','','',0,0),(580,2462,'Michael Baker','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','92.233.200.42','2010-04-07 03:40:01','2010-04-07 02:40:01','Hi David, \n \nI have just read Jane Friedman&rsquo;s article on Perfectionism vs. Progress: When Is Good Good Enough?,  <a href=\"http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/2010/03/29/PerfectionismVsProgressWhenIsGoodGoodEnough.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/2010/03/29/...</a> . \n \nThere is feedback, of course, although it takes many months each time; and the argument that what is important is engaging the reader&rsquo;s sympathy with the character, maintaining conflict and suspense from the start.  Nevertheless, there is still a split between those who are overly confident (possibly deluded) their writing is good enough, and those for whom &lsquo;good enough&rsquo; is a mirage, always beyond their reach. \n \nBut I would be interested to read your view on when good prose is good enough. \n \nRegards, \nMichael ',0,'1','','',0,0),(581,2462,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-07 08:13:20','2010-04-07 07:13:20','I think that&#039;s the kind of thing I&#039;m not going to write about here. I&#039;m not trying to give writing lessons as such. I&#039;m simply trying to document the way I work so that people can see it and take any indicators from it if they wish. \n \nSome of the ideas you see people writing about are so distant and intangible for me I&#039;m not much sure I understand than myself. Or want to. ',0,'1','','',580,0),(602,2614,'tempo dulu','ngabenbali@gmail.com','http://al-terity.blogspot.com/','202.158.10.97','2010-05-10 04:19:45','2010-05-10 03:19:45','David, nice piece but this problem won\'t go away. People don\'t like to pay for things and that\'s why we have \"free\" TV (paid for by ads). Realistically, the future is ebooks with ads i think - something like google ads, perhaps?  Ebooks have no publishing costs and if they were sold at lower prices, perhaps that would induce sales? Anyway, don\'t worry -most people still prefer a good old paperback - paid for - or perhaps borrowed from the library!',0,'1','','',0,0),(603,2614,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.5.21.213','2010-05-10 09:00:43','2010-05-10 08:00:43','Ebooks have no publishing costs? What about the costs of editing, marketing, paying authors, paying for computer systems and designers then giving a cut to your distributors and retailers? As I\'ve already said the belief that something is free because it\'s digital is just plain wrong. Books in the UK are cheaper than they\'ve ever been. People don\'t steal them because they\'re too expensive. They steal them because they want them for free - and they can get away with it.',0,'1','','',602,0),(613,2603,'Michael','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','92.233.200.42','2010-01-12 10:31:57','2010-01-12 15:31:57','what a brilliant compare site.I got a shuffle 1gb when i subscribed to audible a few years ago (part of an offer they don&#039;t do any more).  And since then, I&#039;ve been waiting for apple (stingy buggers that they are) to up the storage.  All I need is audible format.  I think apple are brilliant at marketing and product appearance, but not terribly generous with the specs.  A bit like Sony with their laptops (never again!).A Zune looks quite good.  Got nothing against Microsoft, personally.   As long as the company&#039;s a big name and won&#039;t vanish tomorrow, I&#039;ll go with them.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(614,2603,'Gerald Hornsby','epublishing.uk@gmail.com','http://geraldandannie.com/wpmu/ebooks/','92.24.27.23','2010-01-12 22:57:31','2010-01-13 03:57:31','Interesting discussion. I think I&#039;d be with you, but I do love all things Apple, and I use generic MP3 albums (mostly ripped from our own existing CDs) which are imported into iTunes.And I&#039;m in total agreement with you about the Kindle. The built-in WiFi and 3G (to remove the need for a sync computer) is a cute idea by Amazon. But no, I wouldn&#039;t buy a piece of kit that ties me to one media outlet. A bit like buying a TV that only gets BBC1.The real question on the future of ebook readers is (IMO) will they continue to be single-use products? The buying public needs to decide whether they want something that electronically emulates a tree book, or whether they want an all-singing, all-dancing multimedia device. The latter would allow ebooks to develop into media-rich applications (if that&#039;s what we want). But do I need yet another multi-function device to carry around with me. I already have iPhone and MacBook. What would I do with an iSlate (or anything similar)?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(643,2744,'Hildegard Lawhorn','Weigold@4planbee.com','http://www.4planbee.com','188.60.95.12','2010-04-25 17:01:17','2010-04-25 16:01:17','Nice article, I must say I never read one thing that summed it up so well. One thing like this should be scan once in a very while, to remind us of some essential concepts.',0,'1','','',0,0),(682,2856,'Tiggy','bobunbun22@yahoo.com','','204.128.192.3','2010-02-02 18:11:20','2010-02-02 23:11:20','I just found your blog a few days ago and having been a reader of your for a while now, I wanted to say that I truly enjoy your writings here.  They are thoughtful and and like your entry today, inspire more thought.  Thank you for your writing - not only is it interesting - I learn from it as well (and sometimes, I learn a little bit more about myself).  Thanks again.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(683,2860,'curtisbeaird','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.22.238.19','2010-02-04 06:45:32','2010-02-04 11:45:32','\"They did it for you and for me.\"They always do don&#039;t they? And, today on this side of the pond we call them \"contractors\" with jazzy  names like Black Water  that morphed into Xe Services LLC. when, well what they do caught more attention than, well, you know.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(684,2873,'walterellis','ellis.walter@gmail.com','','74.73.224.81','2010-02-04 18:27:10','2010-02-04 23:27:10','Absolutely. My own upcoming novel, Traffic, is set in western France among the semi-detached, dislocated English community of the Vendée. Among themselves, expats from the UK often use the American-introduced term \"Brits\". But to the French, we are, and always will be, \"les anglais\". As it happens, I am Irish and my wife is American. But our French neighbours, whom we have known for eleven years, invariably refer to us as \"anglais\". Even when I remind them of our actual nati0nalities, they are unimpressed. \"Ah, oui – Irlandais, Americaine ... anglais!\"  Perhaps if I spoke Irish and my wife habitually conversed in Navajo, we might escape the blanket description. Failing that, we are what they say we are. Time to send a gunboat.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(685,2873,'Suzanne Whitby','suzanne@suzannewhitby.com','http://www.suzannewhitby.com/','128.138.41.35','2010-02-05 16:19:50','2010-02-05 21:19:50','Dear Mr Hewson, (I think \"Dear David\" sounds better in a blog, but after some agonising, settled for the more formal form of address!)How funny that someone would get upset about that!  When I was living in Austria, they always referred to my UK passport as an \"Englische Reisepass \" or English Passport and sometimes a \"Britische Reisepass \" or British Passport.  Never a \"UK Passport\" - the words exist, I support, but it&#039;s such an unwieldy phrase that I&#039;ve never heard it.I&#039;m not a huge fan of thillers in general, but I am a bit addicted to your novels and I think that part of the reason is that when I \"hear\" the characters speaking when I read their words, they are believable because they use expressions that ordinary, everyday people use.  It would be such a shame if your characters lost their humanity and started using carefully considered, politically  correct language that just would fit with the personalities that you have created!Best wishes,Suzanne',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(686,2873,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','93.37.139.247','2010-02-05 23:36:22','2010-02-06 04:36:22','Hi Suzanne. No chance of that happening. In fact I talked about this very subject with Mark Lawson in last night&#039;s radio interview (which I haven&#039;t heard so I don&#039;t know if it got in or not). People should speak as people. Italians don&#039;t speak with an Italian accent. They speak Italian. So it seems to me obvious that when I write them in English they speak English. Would be odd to do otherwise.Ps. Dear David is fine. Whenever I hear people talking about &#039;Mr Hewson&#039; I always think they must be referring to my dad.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(687,2873,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','93.37.139.247','2010-02-05 23:38:14','2010-02-06 04:38:14','I suspect non-English speakers think of the &#039;English&#039; world - possibly with good reason. Got to be honest I once asked an Italian cop if he knew what a UK passport was and he hadn&#039;t a clue. It was an &#039;English&#039; one.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(688,2873,'Spiros','spirosd@gmail.com','','193.254.223.141','2010-02-10 13:46:24','2010-02-10 18:46:24','groan...Authenticity &gt; political correctness.  Regardless of what the language cops around the world think.You&#039;ve obviously studied the words/phrases used by your characters and that&#039;s a big part of what makes a novel so authentic.  And in the same way some hypersensitive types get all up in arms over politically correct terms, I get even more wound up when I read things I know are false. Here in Greece you rarely even hear the term \"United Kingdom\".  It&#039;s always \"England\" or \"Britain\".  If I read a novel where a Greek cop said \"United Kingdom passport\", I&#039;d immediately feel cheated, because I would know the author didn&#039;t bother to research basic speech characteristics.Cheers,',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(689,2872,'Marshall Buckley','mb@marshallbuckley.com','http://www.marshallbuckley.com/','194.201.64.90','2010-02-08 11:13:20','2010-02-08 16:13:20','Well said, David, and I couldn&#039;t agree more.Is there anything worse than sitting at the keyboard, because you \"have to\", only to find the words just don&#039;t want to come?For me, I try to write most days, but never panic about it. As you say, if the story is there, it will wait.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(690,2872,'Katherine May','katherinemay@me.com','http://www.katherinemay.co.uk/','87.82.147.34','2010-02-08 12:23:24','2010-02-08 17:23:24','I completely agree, David - not only is it impossible to write every day due to other commitments, but I&#039;d dispute that it&#039;s even desirable. Sometimes, you just need to mull things over for a few days, and you can return to your writing with much more verve &amp; direction afterwards. I get increasingly weary with people who are selling one method of writing as the only way it can be done - they&#039;re rarely successful authors themselves.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(691,2872,'Dianne Emley','dianne@dianneemley.com','http://dianneemley.com/','63.197.173.86','2010-02-08 16:57:49','2010-02-08 21:57:49','I agree with you, David. Take a break and come back stronger. I try to hold to a Mon-Fri routine as well.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(692,2872,'Kelly Boyer Sagert','kbsagert@aol.com','http://www.kbsagert.com/','64.12.116.11','2010-02-08 17:14:21','2010-02-08 22:14:21','I write every day, but that&#039;s because I take on too much work and that&#039;s the only way that I can get it done.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(693,2888,'Philip','philipcasey@dublin.ie','http://www.philipcasey.com/','87.232.37.43','2010-02-08 19:48:21','2010-02-09 00:48:21','Excellent idea. I don&#039;t know why anyone with their own website would use sites like Flickr.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(694,2893,'Rosalind Adam','rosalind.kathryn@googlemail.com','http://rosalindadam.blogspot.com/','86.128.187.156','2010-02-09 17:01:30','2010-02-09 22:01:30','A wonderful reminder of the best holiday my husband and myself have ever had - summer 2009. Thank you for the nostalgia.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(695,2904,'curtisbeaird','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.22.247.48','2010-02-09 22:51:59','2010-02-10 03:51:59','You want a real horror story? Probably not. But here goes. Big Mac controls tons of potato farming in the U.S. No surprise.    But, the pesticide used, when applied, is so toxic no one is allowed in the fields for four days.Little wonder that many farmers do not eat the spuds they sell to Big Mac. You better watch&#039;em with both eyes.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(696,2898,'doolols','epublishing.uk@gmail.com','','84.13.175.125','2010-02-10 15:09:34','2010-02-10 20:09:34','There&#039;s something about waiting on or for public transport. Some of the best things I&#039;ve written recently have been when on or waiting for trains. I wish I knew why. Maybe it&#039;s lack of external stimulation that gets the mind working?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(697,2898,'curtisbeaird','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.22.247.48','2010-02-11 06:37:06','2010-02-11 11:37:06','A friend of mine said it this way, \" ideas show up like a little kid with his hands in his pockets.\"',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(698,2907,'jonathanhayes','jaze@echonyc.com','','72.225.240.235','2010-02-10 22:09:41','2010-02-11 03:09:41','There&#039;s a horse butcher&#039;s around the corner from my flat in Paris, but I have a feeling it won&#039;t be there much longer; indeed, I don&#039;t remember noticing it when I was there in December.I&#039;ve eaten horse once, with a bunch of chef&#039;s in Tokyo. Of course it was the deep end of the equine culinary experience: horse sashimi. But I ate it, and survived it. I didn&#039;t like it or dislike it - I didn&#039;t feel I could have an opinion beyond my unhappiness at eating a chunk of raw Dobbin. Indeed, I suppose at some level, I&#039;m a poor gastronome, since I get a bit squeamish about eating even something like rabbit, which I perceive as cat-like.As far as the ethics go, I&#039;m with you, particularly with the pork thing; pigs are said to be smarter than dogs. And beyond the cruelty issue, there&#039;s the issue of the environment. But I don&#039;t want to go down that road, just in case Tom Caine is monitoring this thread...',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(699,2907,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','209.85.218.211','2010-02-10 22:12:21','2010-02-11 03:12:21','I have to say the environmental argument for eating less meat seems quiteconvincing, though probably not to you-know-who. I will eat rabbit though -one way of getting back at the little monsters for the damage they wreak onmy veg patch. And good wild rabbit, cooked on a charcoal grill after it&#039;sbeen marinated in olive oil, garlic and some herbs, is pretty astonishing.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(700,2907,'Björn Friðgeir','bjorn@undo.com','http://bjorn.undo.com/','88.151.49.140','2010-02-11 09:00:54','2010-02-11 14:00:54','Coming from a country with a long standing (but a very odd and on-off history) of eating horse, I personally don&#039;t have a problem with it.I can fully sympathise with either viewpoint of  &#039;I love horses, I would never eat them&#039; and your &#039;I have reservations about all meat&#039;People who&#039;ll happily eat any factory-raised animal but have problems with eating horse, now those I don&#039;t listen to at all.Personally I have certain reservations about raising conditions of meat providing animals, and up here any horse would certainly have had a better life before ending up on a plate than any chicken or pig. Not a big fan of horse meat, but it&#039;s not bad food.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(701,2907,'Tiggy','bobunbun22@yahoo.com','','204.128.192.4','2010-02-12 22:32:50','2010-02-13 03:32:50','I took that same picture of the Macelleria in the Rialto last year - I thought it was interesting yet bordering ion the offensive.  I live in an equestrian area here in Los Angeles and really couldn&#039;t imagine eating one.  There was an intersting exchange I had with a butcher a few doors down fom the Macelleria.  There were these rabbits hanging up all skinned except for a patch of fur on their little bald butts.  He explained to me that he kept the patch of fur on the rabbit so atht his customers knew they weren&#039;t cats.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(702,2914,'curtisbeaird','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.28.37.198','2010-02-12 18:35:11','2010-02-12 23:35:11','Excellent photograph. It is way past being simply a picture.   Gotta be careful though. One that strong edges us toward the \" a picture is worth a thousand words.\"  We don&#039;t want that.  :-)',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(703,2914,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-03-02 09:25:06','2010-03-02 09:25:06','I\'ll second curtisbeard\'s praise for the photograph - fantastic! And very nicely post-processed!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(704,2914,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-02 09:26:28','2010-03-02 09:26:28','Post processed? Oh no. I don\'t understand that stuff. This is how my Ricoh CX 2 shoots things naturally when it\'s set to old-fashioned b/w mode.\nAll the ones below are straight out of the camera\nhttp://davidhewson.com/photos/index.php?album=venice1\nhttp://davidhewson.com/photos/index.php?album=Feb+9\nhttp://davidhewson.com/photos/index.php?album=venice-jan-2010',0,'post-trashed','','',703,0),(705,2914,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-03-02 09:31:49','2010-03-02 09:31:49','Speedy response!\n\nIt\'s pretty contrasty, which I think is v. effective for internet viewing.\n\nI came back to correct an odd typo - I referred to \"curtisbeard\" as \"Ian\" - I think that, in my current bleary state, I somehow conflated \"curtisbeard\" with Ian Curtis, the singer for Joy Division.',0,'post-trashed','','',704,0),(706,2914,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-02 09:35:48','2010-03-02 09:35:48','The Ricoh has a special b/w high contrast mode which I find fantastic for night time pix (and day ones too). At night I just hit the timer and place the camera on a table which is how I took this one.\nhttp://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/cx/cx2/features3.html\nJoy Division mistake easily made which is why I put the comment editing plugin on here!',0,'post-trashed','','',705,0),(707,2914,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-03-02 09:49:56','2010-03-02 09:49:56','Having signed up to Disqus just to follow your blog, I see you\'ve abandoned it!\n\nThere\'s no longer any response notification system for an answered blog post now? A good feature, that, I think.',0,'post-trashed','','',706,0),(708,2914,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-02 09:58:59','2010-03-02 09:58:59','I removed Disqus because it has a big bug on Wordpress - if the post time of an advance post changes Disqus sticks to the original post date breaking all the links horribly. They know about this and say they will fix it. When they do I\'ll bring it back if everything works OK. This system has the benefit that you can edit your comment without having to log in or anything (for 15 minutes). Lots of people complained about Disqus being a bit of a hassle; no one else has complained about it going. Swings and roundabouts.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(709,2921,'curtisbeaird','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','174.131.23.138','2010-02-16 20:14:28','2010-02-17 01:14:28','I&#039;m thinking the work ethic that underlies virtually every post you offer here is one major reason you publish while more than a few are still asking questions about how it is done and wishing.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(719,2975,'Andrew Willoughby','aviya15@mac.com','','65.88.88.174','2010-02-26 18:25:07','2010-02-26 18:25:07','David,\nI\'ve long enjoyed reading your blog. You offer such interesting, clear and practical insights.\nCongratulations on the blog\'s new look - I think it\'s excellent. Clean. Simple. And, best of all, it evokes the genesis of writing for many of us: the quarto lined pad - this is very connective.\nBest regards,\nAndrew | Melbourne, Australia.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(720,2975,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-02-26 18:28:28','2010-02-26 18:28:28','Thanks Andrew - that was the feeling I was hoping to evoke. Been a bit lax on the posts this week because of travel. Normal service will be resumed shortly!',0,'post-trashed','','',719,0),(721,2975,'Gerald','epublishing.uk@gmail.com','http://geraldandannie.com/wpmu/ebooks/','89.243.72.220','2010-02-26 21:50:12','2010-02-26 21:50:12','Hi David\nIt\'s a lovely clean style, and a cute design. It\'s a shame that the use of the serifed font makes it a bit more difficult to read.\nBut the content is the main thing, and as ever, it\'s interesting and thought-provoking.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(722,2975,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-02-26 21:52:08','2010-02-26 21:52:08','Oh dear... must be my age. But I find serif fonts easier to read than most sans ones. Or perhaps just bias - I worked on The Times for quite a while and got used to thinking serifs were the thing to use.',0,'post-trashed','','',721,0),(723,2975,'Marshall Buckley','mb@marshallbuckley.com','http://www.marshallbuckley.com','86.14.217.186','2010-02-26 22:08:26','2010-02-26 22:08:26','I always understood that serif fonts were easier than sans serif as (especially for those like me who have astigmatism) the serif guides the eye more easily.\n\nAnd I tend to agree.\nBut.. I think you have the font size set too small; it does not render terribly clearly on my screen, which I think is why others have complained it is harder to read.\nWithout checking, I\'m guessing it\'s 10 point - accessibility recommendations usually call for 12 point for real clarity. Is it worth trying that?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(724,2975,'Rob','rob@thefictiondesk.com','http://www.thefictiondesk.com','93.40.179.32','2010-02-26 22:08:41','2010-02-26 22:08:41','I did think it was odd to use a serif font for the main text. I wasn\'t sure whether it\'s because it\'s actually a bad idea, or because it\'s unusual. I definitely prefer serif in printed text, but on screen I\'m not so sure... it does fit the design, though. Would it be easier to read if it was a couple of pixels larger?',0,'post-trashed','','',722,0),(725,2975,'Jane Travers','janemtravers@gmail.com','http://www.janetravers.com','109.79.195.227','2010-02-26 22:11:21','2010-02-26 22:11:21','David, I\'m sorry to say that I agree with Gerald on the legibility of the font. I like a serif font on paper, but on screen I find it nigh impossible to read. It could be the size of the font, or it could be that my vision is still a bit off since a migraine a couple of days ago; but I\'m sure it\'s probably the same for many other people as well.\n\nI do like the lined page, though.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(726,2975,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-02-26 22:15:49','2010-02-26 22:15:49','It just got bigger! Off to bed now - will see what the consensus is in the morning',0,'post-trashed','','',725,0),(727,2975,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-02-26 22:16:14','2010-02-26 22:16:14','14 pt - just gone up to 16 pt - this was how the template came. Easy enough to juggle with...',0,'post-trashed','','',723,0),(728,2975,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-02-26 22:21:03','2010-02-26 22:21:03','PS - er - your blog is in a serif font!',0,'post-trashed','','',726,0),(729,2975,'Marshall Buckley','mb@marshallbuckley.com','http://www.marshallbuckley.com','86.14.217.186','2010-02-26 22:21:10','2010-02-26 22:21:10','Still a touch small, I\'d say. I\'d go up a couple more sizes - to 20 pt, perhaps.',0,'post-trashed','','',727,0),(730,2975,'curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.22.244.31','2010-02-27 07:24:48','2010-02-27 07:24:48','It Looks good from here. I always enjoy your posts. Your photography is also excellent. I hope that is not lost with the new formate.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(731,2975,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.22.244.31','2010-02-27 07:30:40','2010-02-27 07:30:40','Scratch the last sentence in my earlier post. Looking around for about two seconds answered that question.',0,'post-trashed','','',730,0),(732,2975,'Gerald','epublishing.uk@gmail.com','http://geraldandannie.com/wpmu/ebooks/','89.243.72.220','2010-02-28 02:23:15','2010-02-28 02:23:15','Hi again, David\nSerifed fonts are easier to read - on paper. The general consensus is that for screen reading, non-serifed are easier and quicker to read. However, your tweak to up the size has made a big difference, IMO. FWIW. (TMA) I thought it was my new glasses.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(739,3018,'Michael E Baker','','http://www.facebook.com/michaelebaker','206.217.192.253','2010-02-27 12:58:06','2010-02-27 12:58:06','Nice Look.  The Death in Seville is a lovely stylish, oppressive feel to it.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(740,3018,'Linwood Barclay','linwoodbarclay@mac.com','http://www.linwoodbarclay.com','24.141.119.157','2010-02-27 13:19:46','2010-02-27 13:19:46','I have font envy. Gorgeous covers.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(741,3018,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-02-27 13:21:55','2010-02-27 13:21:55','Thank you Linwood! From what I\'ve heard about the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list for tomorrow I suspect I\'m about to have sales envy.',0,'post-trashed','','',740,0),(742,3018,'Gerald','epublishing.uk@gmail.com','http://geraldandannie.com/wpmu/ebooks/','89.243.72.220','2010-02-28 02:18:54','2010-02-28 02:18:54','They are very good. I like the \'look and feel\', and The Blue Demon is particularly stunning.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(752,3076,'Sheila Quigley','','http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000082441117','206.217.192.253','2010-03-04 08:36:51','2010-03-04 08:36:51','Brilliant David. And great answer from Louise. Had me laughing.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(753,3076,'Gio Clairval','gioclair@yahoo.fr','http://gioclairval.blogspot.com/','88.189.229.225','2010-03-04 10:42:29','2010-03-04 10:42:29','Great post! I almost choked with laughter. People with spiders in their heads haunt the emails, and Twitter is another crazy place for nutties. The web is an arena for them. They aren\'t more numerous than in the general population (statistics!), but they are louder and more persistent.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(754,3076,'Louise Ure','louiseure@aol.com','http://www.louiseure.com','71.131.181.194','2010-03-04 16:06:08','2010-03-04 16:06:08','Glad you spotted that blog post, David. He is a gold-plated nutter, isn\'t he? But I still feel like I need to wash my computer screen to get the cooties off it.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(755,3076,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-04 16:07:46','2010-03-04 16:07:46','You responded with commendable grace and dignity, Louise. I am even more in awe of you. See you in San Francisco in October m\'dear!',0,'post-trashed','','',754,0),(756,3086,'ianf','velorg@gmail.com','','80.216.123.255','2010-03-09 09:20:41','2010-03-09 09:20:41','You didn\'t find it distrurbing/ significant that Blair allowed himself to be put on the cover with HALF A BRAIN missing?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(757,3086,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-09 09:21:21','2010-03-09 09:21:21','Excellent point!',0,'post-trashed','','',756,0),(758,3060,'Ian','semi.dweller@googlemail.com','http://southlondonbook.blogspot.com','86.26.107.108','2010-03-05 08:57:25','2010-03-05 08:57:25','I can see your point. Compared to the price of other leisure activities (going to the cinema, glass of wine etc) books are astonishingly good value. Equally, the level to which they\'re discounted probably doesn\'t serve too much of a point (if you want to buy and read a book, the marginal difference between £4 and £8 probably isn\'t that much to you). In the mind of the public (at least this member) there\'s probably a tipping point, probably around the £10 marker for a paperback, and £20 for a hardback, where if the price is above this it\'ll lead to a moment\'s pause - not out of affordability, or questioning value, but just expectations built up by decades of book buying.\n\nWhat would be interesting would be a candid comment from a publisher on what the price elasticity of book demand is. Does halving price really lead to doubling of sales? I, for one, would be surprised.\n\nI fear the decrease in book prices we\'ve seen over time reflect a perception on the part of large retailers that books are pretty disposable items, not part of the core business, that can be heavily discounted below economic viability to be loss leaders encouraging more baked bean sales.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(759,3060,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-05 09:02:48','2010-03-05 09:02:48','That comment would be interesting - but I doubt we\'ll see it. This seems to be part of a complex issue that affects many aspects of the writing business. The recent Macmillan-Amazon spat was, it seems to an outsider, partly a struggle to decide who sets the selling price of a book -- the retails or the publisher?\nI\'m also always impressed by the number of lively independent book stores in Holland when I go there. When I asked my Dutch publisher why this was he said straight away: \'Price maintenance.\' If I recall correctly no books can be discounted by law until one year after publication. Sounds draconian. Seems to make for healthy book stores for the devoted readers - and one year later everything moves to the supermarkets.',0,'post-trashed','','',758,0),(760,3060,'Linda Lee','doublelnz@hotmail.com','','121.72.208.177','2010-03-05 09:16:21','2010-03-05 09:16:21','I work in a bookstore in New Zealand, and the price of books here is high.  New release Trade paperback $40, \"A\" format paperback $25-$29.  Hardbacks anywhere from $55 to $70.  I work in an Independent store and we constantly have to try and match the Chains and discount stores.  Often at no margin or a loss.  People still read...we sell remainered books by the hundreds (bought from the UK as it happens).  Someone must be making a lot of money somewhere as the difference in cost for us, from a new release to a discounted title (and often only a year old) is about 90%',0,'post-trashed','','',759,0),(761,3060,'Tiggy','bobunbun22@yahoo.com','','204.128.192.4','2010-03-05 17:16:21','2010-03-05 17:16:21','Here in the US the pre-order price for City of Fear aka Blue Demon (why are titles different from continent to continent?) is appx $16.50 on Amazon, Barnes &amp;Noble and like bookseller sites. Paperback prices of the backcatalog of Hewson titles are appx $8.00. Compared to purchasing a DVD, I think it\'s a great value on the return.  I know I\'ve read books numerous times and if the writing is good, I can get something new from it each time.   I failed to mention that the pre-order price on the Kindle version of City of Fear/Blue Demon  is $15.00  - though I will always be inclined toward the feeling of having a REAL book in my hand and being able to feel the paper...the smell of the pages...it all add to the experience of reading.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(762,3060,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-05 17:23:34','2010-03-05 17:23:34','Prices in the UK and US seem pretty much in line these days, though I suspect some UK supermarkets are forcing down some prices below those in the US. The contrast with other countries is sometimes quite startling.\nTitles often differ from country to country in different languages. The Blue Demon/City of Fear is the first book I\'ve had where the title is different in the US. Simple answer: my US publisher preferred that title.',0,'post-trashed','','',761,0),(763,3101,'Rob','rob@thefictiondesk.com','http://www.thefictiondesk.com','93.40.188.17','2010-03-08 08:15:33','2010-03-08 08:15:33','Interesting post.\n\nAnother difference is that, whether you\'re listening to a downloaded album or a CD, once you hit the play button, it\'s exactly the same experience (if you want it to be). So the more accessible and versatile format has a huge advantage, and (in terms of immediate user experience) no real disadvantage. That\'s just not the case with physical books and ebooks.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(764,3101,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-08 14:25:05','2010-03-08 14:25:05','While on this subject I ought to mention a story in today\'s Guardian which estimates UK ISPs could soon be earning £200 million a year from music downloads based on a £6.49 a month subscription fee. Nowhere does the article mention anything about what this might earn artists.\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/08/bpi-isps-music-downloads',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(765,3101,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/','67.250.108.21','2010-03-08 16:59:41','2010-03-08 16:59:41','Weird.  I just got done doing this post minutes ago, before seeing yours.\n\nMacmillan CEO John Sargent: He’s Correct!\nhttp://ipadtest.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/macmillan-ceo-john-sargent-hes-correct/',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(766,3101,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-08 17:01:20','2010-03-08 17:01:20','He is indeed correct - and a good post, Mike.\nInteresting related story here too - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/08/npd_home_streaming/',0,'post-trashed','','',765,0),(767,3102,'Boris Starling','','http://www.facebook.com/boris.starling','206.217.192.253','2010-03-09 08:38:22','2010-03-09 08:38:22','Do you know the (perhaps apocryphal) story about the guy who wrote a book with a main character called \'David\'? When he finished the first draft, he decided \'David\' didn\'t really suit his hero, and called him \'Jeff\' instead. A quick find and replace, and off it went to the editor. Editor loved it, but was slightly bemused by the reference on p174 to Michelangelo\'s \'Jeff\'....',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(768,3102,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-09 09:18:09','2010-03-09 09:18:09','Been there, done that. Search and replace can be VERY dangerous. The trick is always to tick the box \'Whole words only\' so that the same characters aren\'t replaced mid-word. Not that this would have helped in the instance above...',0,'post-trashed','','',767,0),(769,3132,'Michael Baker','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','','92.233.200.42','2010-03-11 09:27:35','2010-03-11 09:27:35','It\'s your sound common-sense world view that keeps me coming back.  You must have northern blood in you.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(770,3143,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-03-11 18:55:14','2010-03-11 18:55:14','I have no pity for them.\n\nW.C. Fields: Never give a sucker an even break.  (And: You can\'t cheat an honest man.)',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(771,3138,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.mikegerrard.com','71.214.178.84','2010-03-12 16:51:41','2010-03-12 16:51:41','I\'m with you, David. I cannot work to music, even the unobtrusive classical music that many writers seem to favour. But the interruptions of the kind you mention are no problem. The proof of the pudding for you is that you can Tweet several times a day, go onto Facebook, write a blog AND produce 3-4,000 words of the novel. That\'s all that matters.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(772,3152,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','94.116.157.59','2010-03-13 09:59:49','2010-03-13 09:59:49','Seven minutes, and not one mention of learning to touch type. Self evident I suppose. Good blog...',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(773,3152,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-13 10:08:45','2010-03-13 10:08:45','Can\'t touch type. My typing lesson happened when I was 17 and given  a trial as a reporter on the Scarborough Evening News. The news editor led me to a desk and said, \'That\'s a typewriter. If you can\'t use it by the end of the week you won\'t get a job.\'',0,'post-trashed','','',772,0),(774,3152,'Roisin McAuley','roisinmcauley@ntlworld.com','','82.0.211.59','2010-03-13 10:43:41','2010-03-13 10:43:41','Great blog. Perfect example of its subject.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(775,3152,'Josa Young','josayoung@gmail.com','http://www.oneappletasted.co.uk','86.11.77.144','2010-03-13 16:44:43','2010-03-13 16:44:43','I like the idea of centring a thriller around this starting point: \'If you ever find me putting up a post entitled something like ‘Six Golden Rules That Can Improve Your Characterisation and Help You Write A Better Thriller’ then please come round and kill me — you have my permission.\'',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(776,3152,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.18.89.255','2010-03-14 19:46:36','2010-03-14 19:46:36','‘Six Golden Rules That Can Improve Your Characterization and Help You Write A Better Thriller’\n\nI\'ve noticed that some writers\' blogs are taking the shape of direct mail pieces from back in the day. I kid you not. \"They\" have discovered what worked on paper then  works  now while masquerading as a blog.  The key to these things is ask for the sale about ever three inches of copy.\n\n So, I guess you won\'t  be handing out the \" Seven Secrets of .... or \" Five Steps to.....\" either?   How about \" What the Pros Know but Won\'t Tell You.\"?    I guess not. :-)',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(777,3152,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-15 11:17:31','2010-03-15 11:17:31','You guessed correctly!',0,'post-trashed','','',776,0),(778,3159,'Brian','brian@clik4music.com','','80.47.65.167','2010-03-13 13:34:44','2010-03-13 13:34:44','The UK has been systematically plundered by the advantaged via the class system. Some deliberate, some accidental. The results:\n- worst teen pregnancy incidence in Europe\n- worst teen travellers for drunkenness and thuggery in Europe\nBut those \'traits\' of the modern British teen reflect:\n- worst adult travellers for drunkenness and thuggery in Europe\n- worst violence on and off the pitch in football in Europe\nThe British have a long history of war, conquest and being invaded. Modern British DNA is the amalgam of warriors and mercenaries, still very tribal.\n\nThe \'morality\' of Britain is not modern or enlightened. The social structure is:\n- isolated family groups in competition with each oher\n- isolated communities in competition with each other\n- warring government departments in fights for funds\n\nIn short, Britain is not mature or adult enough to administer family or community therapy or reparation. If it was we wouldn\'t even be having this discussion.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(779,3159,'kimbofo','kimforrester@gmail.com','http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters','86.186.121.148','2010-03-13 14:12:35','2010-03-13 14:12:35','Excellent post.\nAbout 10 years ago I read Blake Morrison\'s \"As If\", a book about the Bulger case, and his views largely concur with Atkinson\'s. His book should be compulsory reading for everyone working in child services, policing, government etc.\nI can also highly recommend Gitta Sereny\'s \"The Case of Mary Bell\" for the very same reasons.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(780,3159,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-13 18:58:18','2010-03-13 18:58:18','And I well remember the vitriol Gitta Sereny had to put up with for writing that book. People loathe any suggestion that the responsibility for these things might in some way lie with us.',0,'post-trashed','','',779,0),(781,3159,'Essie','sarah@foxlink.co.uk','http://Virtualvictorian.blogspot.com','91.106.35.30','2010-03-13 19:06:50','2010-03-13 19:06:50','A well argued post - but what do we do? Should these boys have been removed from their families at an earlier stage when, undoubtedly, a great deal of the psychological damage was done...when they had already been \'programmed\'. And, without a crystal ball, how can we takes such preventive measures without tearing families apart?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(782,3159,'paul in kirkland','surfmonkey89@gmail.com','','24.16.37.198','2010-03-13 19:44:40','2010-03-13 19:44:40','\"He’s no soft liberal. He, like me, believes in punishment when punishment is merited, and when it offers society as a whole some benefit in the end.\"\n\nI don\'t get this. What liberal doesn\'t believe in punishment when it\'s merited, or if it offer society as a whole some benefit.\n\nI\'ve never met anyone that has said they wouldn\'t punish people under any circumstance. Seems like you\'re painting with an awfully broad brush.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(783,3159,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-13 20:32:15','2010-03-13 20:32:15','I don\'t have any great answers. But I think that when we know the present system is wrong it\'s right to point that out.',0,'post-trashed','','',781,0),(784,3159,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-13 20:36:58','2010-03-13 20:36:58','I think you may be from the US, Paul, where the word \'liberal\' is used in the most extraordinary way as a general insult. It\'s not used that way in the UK. What I meant was that the person I contacted would never have regarded himself as someone \'soft on crime\'. But he still believed the present system wasn\'t working.\nThere are people who feel that there\'s no place for punishment at all in situations like this, and actually I have some sympathy with them. In this case the two boys responsible were punished very severely and clearly, in at least one case, it simply didn\'t work. The kid would have been better off being put under the care of a very skilled foster parent who had excellent professional support. But the crime was so horrific that society demanded retribution, which is understandable on one level but ultimately hasn\'t been for best for anyone.\nPersonally I probably count as a liberal, with a small \'l\', on both side of the Atlantic.',0,'post-trashed','','',782,0),(785,3159,'Michaelbcn','mctokyo2006@gmail.com','','80.102.175.238','2010-03-15 19:34:07','2010-03-15 19:34:07','What a great post. Lucid and to the point. As your quote says, children are not born bad (although I would counter that they are born good in the sense of without hate and any of the motivations to wrong others). If a child commits a heinous crime against another, he is simply reacting to the way he has been treated - i.e. without love - and to the kinds of behaviour and ways of communicating anger that he has been shown by adults around him. Any act he commits is not one he is guilty of, it is the adults that are bringing him up who are guilty.\nAs to the solution, who knows but as you say if future generations are to be free of such crimes, locking up children is surely not the way forward.\nEducation, education, education - and not in the narrow sense defined by the State\'s \"targets\".',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(786,3154,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.18.89.255','2010-03-15 18:16:38','2010-03-15 18:16:38','Thank you. Reminded me of a DeMott\'s review in The New York Times Book Review of Frederick Buechner\'s \" Godric\"\n\n\"..... (FB) goes at the task with intelligent intensity and a fine readiness to invent what history doesn\'t supply.\"',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(787,3154,'Books Fiction','FlashTechnicseddie@kchat.org','http://booksfiction.org','91.74.229.251','2010-04-11 01:54:46','2010-04-11 00:54:46','great, thanks - I love fiction tutorials and posts.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(788,3148,'Helen Hollick','author@helenhollick.net','http://www.helenhollick.net','86.180.205.62','2010-03-16 12:29:21','2010-03-16 12:29:21','very interesting and highly useful - thank you for sharing',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(789,3148,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.mikegerrard.com','71.214.178.84','2010-03-16 16:55:23','2010-03-16 16:55:23','Yes, enjoyed reading it, as ever. Have you blogged anywhere about your Book Journal - what goes in it, do you keep one for each book, what kind of book, or is it part of the software you use?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(790,3148,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-16 17:23:22','2010-03-16 17:23:22','If you just hover over the header at the top of the page you can search for book diary and stuff. Also there\'s an archive page on the right too. Quite a few posts mention this.',0,'post-trashed','','',789,0),(791,3148,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-03-17 03:30:24','2010-03-17 03:30:24','Great stuff. Thank you for doing this. I would like you to know your efforts are appreciated.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(792,3169,'MJ Rose','Mjroseauthor@aol.com','','166.137.139.7','2010-03-17 11:53:49','2010-03-17 11:53:49','I believe it t was michaelangelo - the quote has always resonated with me. I did some stone sculpting and while I was horrible at it- I never stopped being fascinated by it.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(793,3169,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-17 12:42:35','2010-03-17 12:42:35','I think you\'re right there, MJ. What a talented and articulate man. I have never tried sculpture. I can\'t even draw a straight line unfortunately. But those Berninis in the Borghese are quite something - you have to see them to understand. They emerge from within the stone that contained them.',0,'post-trashed','','',792,0),(794,3169,'MJ','Mjroseauthor@aol.com','','166.137.139.181','2010-03-17 12:59:33','2010-03-17 12:59:33','Oh I have seen them and they take my breath away.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(795,3169,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.18.89.255','2010-03-17 17:45:00','2010-03-17 17:45:00','I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.\n--Michelangelo---',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(796,3169,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.43.29.183','2010-03-17 17:50:41','2010-03-17 17:50:41','What an erudite lot you all are!',0,'post-trashed','','',795,0),(797,3169,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.18.89.255','2010-03-17 17:58:13','2010-03-17 17:58:13','Went to school. Bought the books. Read them. Turned curiosity into an addiction. Imagination became the force of nature that it is.  Write on.',0,'post-trashed','','',796,0),(837,3540,'My Fear of Revision | Dark Elms: the weblog of Mark Sled','','http://marksled.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/my-fear-of-revision/','74.200.245.227','2010-04-27 16:46:23','2010-04-27 15:46:23','[...] I’m going to do what David Hewson calls a read-through draft. It is what is says. I read through the story, making notes where I see fit, and not worrying about [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(838,3565,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','68.220.229.246','2010-03-31 06:19:24','2010-03-31 05:19:24','The great thing about Scrivener is that it lets different people write different ways. You\'re never shoehorned.\n\nI\'ve used the status settings before, but not much. I suspect I\'ll use them more when I start revising the book I\'m now writing.\n\nSnapshots are a godsend. Other than document navigation in the left pane, snapshots are my favorite feature. The one I can no longer live without. There\'s a lot of freedom in taking a shot and then doing whatever you want to the text without having to worry whether you can get it back.',0,'1','','',0,0),(844,3615,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.jenniholbrook.com','66.66.217.27','2010-03-30 18:02:59','2010-03-30 17:02:59','David, what I have found with Smashwords is that they don\'t necessarily deliver. I have uploaded backlist over a month ago, passed the qaulity controls with flying colors and those books are not listed on the sites they \"distribute to\", such as the Sony eBook store which doesn\'t allow just anyone to publish, but if you go through Smashwords or Author Solutions, you can, but I\'m finding that not to be true.\n\nHowever, with a company that produces POD\'s that only takes actual publishers, my eBook backlist and new books were listed within a week on some of the \"partners.\"\n\nI think there will be a lot of things that everyone will rethink and change as we fumble through this interesting time.',0,'1','','',0,0),(845,3615,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.157.25.172','2010-03-30 18:14:37','2010-03-30 17:14:37','Interesting. Out of interest I put up my second book Epiphany on Smashwords as an experiment. The first version was rejected for \'premium\' on formatting grounds. I then pointed out the formatting followed Smashwords\' own format template exactly - which they acknowledged.\n\nIt now is premium but I can\'t see it on Barnes and Noble (and I assume Kindle) as was supposed to happen. I spent an awful lot of time faffing around putting up that one book. It sold around 80K copies in paperback when it first appeared in the UK in 1997 and got a lot of rave reviews. Though it was never published in the US it got some there too and it was one on Amazon that prompted me to do this.\n\nIt\'s sold four copies so far on Smashwords - http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/8007 - for $4.95.\n\nWaste of time for me anyway - and frankly I don\'t have that time to waste. Useful as an experiment - nothing else.',0,'1','','',0,0),(846,3615,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.jenniholbrook.com','66.66.217.27','2010-03-30 18:48:50','2010-03-30 17:48:50','That\'s the thing, doing all this takes time and engery and for little return. I know with what I\'m doing, working with Who Dares Wins Publishing, we\'re moving from placing backlist out there, to taking on other authors, specifically helping authors with a backlist. Doing it alone isn\'t going to net much, but as a niche publisher, specializing in our area, working together to create a team brand and synergy with our authors, well, that is something different.',0,'1','','',845,0),(847,3596,'Geoff Frewin','geoff@focusinlife.com','','90.208.190.103','2010-03-31 12:20:10','2010-03-31 11:20:10','Thanks David for such an in depth answer to my original question. I do wonder whether other Authors are so thorough as I often feel the emotion of a moment is missed due to lack of detail in the location, therefore the \'Reader\' doesn\'t feel able to place himself within the story.\nThe only other question I have and this is really to other Readers and that is.... do you use the photos David posts on the site as a \'visual\' whilst reading a Novel or would you rather just go with the Author\'s description and picture the location in your own imagination ?\nThanks again\nGeoff',0,'1','','',0,0),(848,3635,'James Kendrick','jk@gigaom.com','http://jkontherun.com','98.197.129.116','2010-03-31 19:01:41','2010-03-31 18:01:41','David, my situation is exactly the opposite of yours. I am constantly getting offered free books to produce a review or mention of same in my weekly column. I always turn these down. I love supporting the authors I enjoy reading (such as you), and I would never review something I got for free. Maybe I\'m just stupid, but I sleep well at night.',0,'1','','',0,0),(849,3635,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-03-31 21:41:45','2010-03-31 20:41:45','Good point James - and well done. You know sites like yours that doesn\'t allow themselves to be bribed by freebies should really gang together and put up a badge saying something like... \'You can trust us - our opinions our own\'. I was amazed to read somewhere that there are actually schemes now to give away free products in return for \'reviews\'.',0,'1','','',848,0),(850,3635,'James Kendrick','jk@gigaom.com','http://jkontherun.com','98.197.129.116','2010-03-31 22:05:41','2010-03-31 21:05:41','Oh there are schemes that want to PAY for reviews. We always return products sent for reviews. On top of that, we make it clear that we don\'t even guarantee a review will be written. We\'re happy to take a look at evaluation products, it\'s what we do. But nothing, absolutely nothing can be expected in return.\n\nI can\'t tell you how many times firms have told me they\'ll not send any evaluation units because we didn\'t promise a review. Like we benefit from them more than they do. :)',0,'1','','',849,0),(851,3635,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.22.238.238','2010-04-01 02:18:36','2010-04-01 01:18:36','\"And here’s the big thing. However genuine you are, a thank you is still necessary.\"\n\nI spent the better part of twenty years as a professional fund raiser for a University. You would be surprised, or maybe not, at the number of major \"charities\" who have never figured out that a thank you is a big thing to a donor.\n\nI am proud to say, not only did we know how to thank our donors, I gloried in taking the slots of those who ignored gratitude as the proper response to a gift.\n\nYou know the old saw, \" If I had a dollar for every time.....\" Well, we received plenty of dollars for every time the competition couldn\'t figure out how to say \"thank you.\"',0,'1','','',0,0),(852,3635,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-01 08:26:12','2010-04-01 07:26:12','Quite. And really - how long does an email take? Not as long as my signing a book, packing it and then driving it down to the post office for a $10 stamp to the US.',0,'1','','',851,0),(853,3635,'Sean','sean.furey@yahoo.co.uk','','80.88.212.122','2010-04-01 09:48:09','2010-04-01 08:48:09','David,\n\nI honestly can\'t remember if we (with a Wye Community Farm hat on) properly thanked you for the copies of \'Saved\' a few years back. If not, I really sorry and shame on us because it was very generous and genuinely helpful.\n\nBelated thanks\n\nSean',0,'1','','',0,0),(854,3635,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-01 09:49:33','2010-04-01 08:49:33','You did Sean so don\'t worry - and I certainly knew they were going to a great cause. Which for those new to the saga is now alive and kicking... and highly recommended.\n\nhttp://www.wyecommunitylandtrust.org.uk/',0,'1','','',853,0),(855,3635,'Steve Bloom','steve@stevebloom.com','http://www.stevebloomphoto.com','86.142.219.64','2010-04-01 13:10:37','2010-04-01 12:10:37','Hi David,\nWhile working in India on my book Elephant! a young chap was incredibly helpful to me in numerous ways. When the book was published I offered to send him a free copy and he told me that he would have prefered to pay for it, on the basis that if he paid, it would have a greater perceived value for him. He didn\'t have two beans to rub together, but he did give me faith in a small minority of the human race.\nI too get asked by people for free copies from time to time. Divide the cover price by the number of pages and then you realise what a great bargain each page of a book is.',0,'1','','',0,0),(856,3635,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','98.22.238.238','2010-04-02 03:48:08','2010-04-02 02:48:08','Wye Community. What a beautiful place. What a beautiful idea/plan.    If these folks keep fooling around with this approach the whole thing about community may just be reborn.  I applaud you Wye Community.\n\nThank you for the link.',0,'1','','',854,0),(857,3635,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-04-04 23:09:37','2010-04-04 22:09:37','You won\'t believe this, but it\'s true.  In the early 1980s, the scam out of Nigeria -- yes, I\'m not making this up, it was Nigeria even before the Internet was widespread! -- was to snag free comic books.  DC, Marvel, Fantagraphics would get pelted with these letters.  Of course, the first plea would work, because who wants to be a hard-hearted rat bastard?  But once it was shown *that* worked, they\'d have *entire school classrooms* of children writing begging letters!  Oddly, no one stopped to ask how all these \"poor\" kids could afford such postage costs!',0,'1','','',0,0),(858,3619,'Jeff V.','jeff.vehige@gmail.com','','71.96.19.48','2010-04-01 14:54:26','2010-04-01 13:54:26','Another very helpful post, David. I started using MacJournal because I wanted a simple way to keep a journal. But after reading this post, along with others, I see it\'s far more powerful than I first thought.\n\nQuestion: Why don\'t you use the research section in Scrivener? I tried finding the answer to this in other posts, but couldn\'t.\n\nThanks again for these post. I\'m finding them very helpful.\n\nJeff',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(859,3619,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-01 14:56:23','2010-04-01 13:56:23','You could keep them in Scrivener. But I like keeping the left brain and right brain stuff separate. That way I can work on one without the other intruding. Also on a simple practical level Scrivener doesn\'t really do multiple windows. With this I just use Spaces and have one workspace for research and one for writing.',0,'post-trashed','','',858,0),(860,3619,'Jeff V.','jeff.vehige@gmail.com','','71.96.19.48','2010-04-01 23:34:52','2010-04-01 22:34:52','I hate to bother you again, but I\'m curious as to the other Smart Folders you use in MacJournal. What are they for?\n\nThanks again.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(861,3619,'Brenda Sedore','bsedore@me.com','http://brendasedore.com','174.4.22.255','2010-04-02 07:56:46','2010-04-02 06:56:46','Great post, David. I never thought about using MacJournal for this. Will have to try it out. One thing I love MacJournal for is keeping interesting blog posts (such as this one) that I want to refer back to. I have a whole journal for this and it\'s so handy to scan through the titles to find a subject relevant to what I need at the moment.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(862,3619,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-02 08:05:38','2010-04-02 07:05:38','No problem. I keep one for word counts just so they\'re all easily accesible. One called  Possible is for things I think may be of use but I\'m not sure. Questions is for things that raise questions still needing to be answered - who did what for example? Quotes is for when I think of an interesting statement for someone to say but I\'m not sure where he/she would say it.\nWhen I\'m researching I also have a tag Must Visit for items of research that require a personal visit when I\'m on the road in Italy doing the legwork.',0,'post-trashed','','',860,0),(863,3619,'Kaja Marie','kajamarie@tekstogtanke.no','http://www.tekstogtanke.no','188.148.165.78','2010-04-05 11:29:37','2010-04-05 10:29:37','That\'s very clever. I like using Evernote for my notes, and have never tried MacJournal. Do you know how they compare to eachother?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(864,3619,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-05 11:44:48','2010-04-05 10:44:48','I use both. Evernote is good at being a general hold-everything filing cabinet. But it\'s terrible at diaries and it won\'t let you easily handle hierarchical folders - you have to mess around with tags. It could do it though - at a stretch. I prefer something specific to each project.',0,'post-trashed','','',863,0),(865,3674,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-05 13:55:56','2010-04-05 12:55:56','Oh yes. There\'s a well-meaning guy in my town who really likes to buy multiple copies of my books and have them signed, but he\'s freakily insistent on picking them up at my house. If he wasn\'t a friend of a friend I would have said absolutely not, and as it was, his insistence makes me really uneasy. It\'s like, Hello, personal boundaries, okay?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(866,3674,'Laura Benedict','laura@laurabenedict.com','http://www.laurabenedict.com','71.124.110.119','2010-04-05 14:11:41','2010-04-05 13:11:41','I\'ve never understood why a writer would put his home address on a business card. With Google Earth, people could virtually drive right up to one\'s doorstep, then do it again in the real world. I do have cards with a current book cover on them for conferences and signings--then my photo and email on the back. It\'s true that some of us writers have a ways to go when it comes to the name recognition thing.\n\nThe Apple story is hilarious. Too bad the \"researcher\" was a criminal--he actually sounds pretty smart.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(867,3674,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-05 14:23:12','2010-04-05 13:23:12','Apple were so embarrassed I don\'t think they even went to the police. Now you know why an iPad costs so much!',0,'post-trashed','','',866,0),(868,3649,'Jeff V.','jeff.vehige@gmail.com','','71.96.19.48','2010-04-06 20:38:26','2010-04-06 19:38:26','One of the big adjustments -- more psychological than anything else -- I\'ve been trying to make with Scrivener is the inability to manipulate the actual manuscript formatting. But transferring it from Scrivener to Pages to prepare the actual manuscript is such an obvious solution that I feel like a fool for not thinking of it myself.\n\nDo you own Word, or do you simply save the Pages doc. as a Word doc. and then send it off?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(869,3649,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-06 21:39:08','2010-04-06 20:39:08','I try to avoid formatting in Scrivener. I don\'t want to think about it there. I bought Word 2008 or whatever and use it only to look at the Word export from Pages to check it\'s OK before sending it off. I\'ve never needed to do anything in Word itself I\'m delighted to say.\n\nThe key decision is choosing the right point to move from Scrivener to Pages.',0,'post-trashed','','',868,0),(870,3649,'Professor Tom','professortom@gmail.com','http://professortom.xanga.com','76.29.242.134','2010-04-10 20:29:36','2010-04-10 19:29:36','Thanks for mentioning Scrivner. I think I just found the perfect writing tool!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(871,3649,'My Fear of Revision | Dark Elms: the weblog of Mark Sled','','http://marksled.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/my-fear-of-revision-2/','74.200.245.227','2010-04-27 16:46:40','2010-04-27 15:46:40','[...] major edit. At this point, I plan to move the story from Scrivener to Pages. Again, something I learned from David Hewson. The reason for moving it to Pages is to see it in a new light. Change the font, change the format, [...]',0,'post-trashed','','pingback',0,0),(872,3687,'Danielle','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','http://www.narrativedisorder.com','206.53.152.82','2010-04-06 09:31:01','2010-04-06 08:31:01','Hi David,\nIt\'s good to read a post on the iPad that addresses functionality!\nI\'ve used a tabletPC in exactly the way you describe, since 2004 and I highly recommend it! It does indeed save many paper draft rounds but I wouldn\'t want to do it on something smaller than my current, 12in, screen.  I \'print\' my (or my clients\') drafts to the Journal application, which essentially gives me a picture of it which I can then use my stylus to red pen all over. For my own work, I like that I can analyse it without the temptation to go in and make changes before I\'ve gone over the whole draft, as I invariably do if I\'m editing in my WP app.\n I also use my tablet as an ereader because it has a full Vista OS (soon to be win7) and I have all the various store\'s software installed and I have full net resources.  I\'m on my 2nd tablet PC, now, my first having died update death, last year (it was 6years old, though!) and I wouldn\'t mind an even smaller, lighter tablet which I could REALLY throw in my bag to replace paper notebooks but the functionality would have to be there - iPad was never going to have that, and now it looks like the Courier is not going to have a full O.S. either... All very disappointing when you know the tech exists!!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(873,3687,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-06 09:33:56','2010-04-06 08:33:56','I had a 10 inch Acer tablet years ago. It was great, though the battery life wasn\'t. I must admit I\'d really like one now -  would be very useful. I think the Android/Chrome tablets when they appear should be very interesting, provided they have a decent word processor that can track changes and handle comments.',0,'post-trashed','','',872,0),(874,3687,'stevemosby','stevemosby@yahoo.co.uk','','82.9.44.14','2010-04-06 10:27:29','2010-04-06 09:27:29','Those are all fair comments. Personally, I imagine I will get one - eventually, at least. The selling point for me is probably the interface and the build. Yes, I can watch films, listen to music, read ebooks, surf the net, do social media on other devices, but I suspect I\'ll find the iPad does most of them better when I get my hands on it. I can certainly see myself lounging around with it at home and using it on long journeys. If I\'m going away, I\'ll no doubt take my laptop to work on - but the iPad will fit in the laptop bag and looks far easier to pass the time with on a train.\n\nBut obviously, it\'s a personal thing - I\'m certainly not a fanboy. And I suspect you\'re right that it\'s far better suited to content consumption than creation. At least at the moment. I\'ve never used Pages, but is it possible there will be features added as time goes on? After all, this is the first iteration of the program for an entirely new device.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(875,3687,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-06 10:30:46','2010-04-06 09:30:46','Yes - in a year or two I think we will have much more interesting versions, and alternative ones. The movie idea interested me until I realised the screen is the wrong size and you either have to watch them cropped or with bars at the top and bottom. A proper wide screen is needed.\n\nAs to ebooks... No one has told us whether there will be a proper UK ebooks store. Amazon hasn\'t got one yet even though it\'s selling Kindle in the UK now. This means that any UK author who has different publishers in the US and UK probably can\'t be found on Kindle (and iPad?) Those sales are directed through the US and your US publisher probably can\'t sell ebooks to UK users.',0,'post-trashed','','',874,0),(876,3687,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-06 13:13:48','2010-04-06 12:13:48','We got one. I never intended to use it as a writing tool, that\'s what I have a Macbook for. It\'s more for my wife, who--god bless her--is not a writer. She does light surfing, some email, and that\'s about it. She doesn\'t need a 15-inch Macbook for that.\n\nI viewed it even before I bought it as a multimedia tool, and to my mind, it does that very well. If I needed to I can get email (I don\'t, I have an iPhone), surf the web, read a book (both through the iTunes Bookstore and the Kindle app), listen to music, watch a TV show or movie, play games. My wife was using it to listen to an NPR show she missed and I commented that she could have done that on the laptop, but she said the iPad was a lot easier to use.\n\nI really do think that people who are viewing the iPad as a replacement technology for something may be missing the point. It\'s a niche technology that fits in between the smartphone and the laptop. The only real problem with it at the moment is it doesn\'t support Flash, so you can\'t go to Hulu.com or do slideshows on Flickr, but a geek friend of mine thinks by the end of the year most websites will drop flash for HTML5 anyway (I\'m a little skeptical of his optimism).',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(877,3687,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-06 13:50:25','2010-04-06 12:50:25','I can see the use for that  - even though it\'s not something I need. But a lot of people saw that announcement of \'iWork for iPad\' and thought they\'d be getting the same apps.',0,'post-trashed','','',876,0),(878,3687,'Stephen Montagna','montymsr@gmail.com','http://www.montylandproductions.com','70.226.173.187','2010-04-06 13:56:29','2010-04-06 12:56:29','Thanks for very thought provoking post. I am an Apple fanboy, but even we can appreciate spot on criticism. I\'m glad you\'ve posted this, and can only hope the coders at Cupertino will take note as they continue to revise and improve Pages (and interestingly, I usually use Pages for layout, generating text in another app — usually Scrivener — first; never realized it had editing muscle, and I look forward to exploring those capabilities).\n\nAnd that\'s one gripe I\'ll make: calling the iPad a \"toy\" is an insult to the hardware, but what you\'re griping about is software — which, again, can (and will) be improved over time.\n\nAlso, on the hardware end, I imagine screen size relates more to that fine balance between processing power, weight, and ease of handling. As components shrink, we\'ll see slightly larger screens with better wide-screen ratios.\n\nAnd better editing capabilities... (speaking of which, you misspelled \"two\" in the last paragraph — or was it your software? :)',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(879,3687,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-06 13:59:16','2010-04-06 12:59:16','The keyboard strikes me as being a one-finger typing arrangement, even though it\'s a hell of a lot easier than typing on the iPhone. I don\'t doubt there will be some tech-geek-writers who use it happily to write and edit, but I\'m not one of them.\n\nAs for that \"need\" thing, well.... I don\'t know if I viewed it as a \"need\" when I ordered it, unless I was rationalizing the purchase. Now that it\'s around the house I view it even more strongly as a \"want\" and one I could probably have lived without, although it\'s getting a lot of use by the family--mostly the kids.\n\nI was fairly skeptical of a stripped down version of iWork and don\'t plan to buy it.\n\nI know Jobs et al said it was \"magical\" and \"would change everything\" but I felt that was bullshit then and think it\'s bullshit now. But it\'s a fun toy.\n\nOh, and I\'ll add one thing. This sucker is blazingly, blazingly fast. I\'m stunned how fast the processor is. There\'s a lot of horsepower under the hood on this thing.',0,'post-trashed','','',877,0),(880,3687,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-06 14:00:58','2010-04-06 13:00:58','Spelling mistake corrected - thanks. Pages is excellent for turning Scrivener into delivery-ready copy. As I said above one of the reasons I wrote this is an awful lot of people saw the \'Pages for iPad\' announcement and they thought they\'d get the same app. It\'s a long, long way short.\n\nHow much is hardware and how much software I\'m not in a position to judge and frankly I don\'t care. Fact is the thing can\'t do something I used to be able to do very well on an Acer tablet six years ago, which is disappointing to say the least. And I do think Apple have been disingenuous in failing to make clear this is \'Pocket Pages\' not Pages as we know it. Though if you want to bend text around a giraffe...',0,'post-trashed','','',878,0),(881,3687,'Danielle','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','http://www.narrativedisorder.com','121.44.27.103','2010-04-06 14:18:56','2010-04-06 13:18:56','Sounds like we had the same acer tablet :) I used it till an update early last year said the graphics driver was no longer recognized. It\'s sitting on my shelf in its little leather cover, can\'t bring myself to throw it out.  I was sad Acer wasn\'t still making them, the HP build quality isn\'t as good and it\'s bigger so not quite as portable but with an onboard optical drive it fulfills my needs for being away from home longer term, while still functioning as my tablet so doesn\'t just get put away when I am home with my desktop.',0,'post-trashed','','',873,0),(882,3687,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/','67.250.108.21','2010-04-06 17:01:11','2010-04-06 16:01:11','&gt;&gt;&gt;As I said above one of the reasons I wrote this is an awful lot of people saw the ‘Pages for iPad’ announcement and they thought they’d get the same app.\n\nFor everyone who doesn\'t know it, he means ME ME ME.\n\n&gt;&gt;&gt;It’s a long, long way short.\n\nAnd now I see that.  Dammit!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(883,3687,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-06 17:02:45','2010-04-06 16:02:45','Actually Mike you weren\'t the only one. You were just the loudest!',0,'post-trashed','','',882,0),(884,3687,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/','67.250.108.21','2010-04-06 17:25:35','2010-04-06 16:25:35','&gt;&gt;&gt;I won’t be buying an iPad ever\n\nPiffle!  You will!  You\'ll discover other uses besides editing.  And then when editing finally arrives, your head will explode.  Like in Scanners.  So don\'t stand near me on that day.',0,'post-trashed','','',883,0),(885,3687,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','174.131.22.117','2010-04-07 04:51:24','2010-04-07 03:51:24','Piffle!  Now that is a cool word. The only person I heard use until your comment was my mother. It was the perfect challenge word for her to use without being nasty. With it, she did as you have done, stepped on the man\'s shoes without messing up the shine. Piffle. Good word. Thanks for the reminder.',0,'post-trashed','','',884,0),(886,3652,'Giovanni','gizeta99@gmail.com','','79.21.134.209','2010-04-08 17:07:32','2010-04-08 16:07:32','Hi David,\n\njust a tech question: when you have finished revising your file in Pages (Pages 09, I suppose?) you can export to Word keeping all your comments, all your revision safe in Word? I mean, youy publishing people can open the file and see - in Word -  all the comments you made in Pages?\n\nNot a mere curiosity - I\'m interested in using the same way, bat I need to buy Pages, and will do that only if this workflow it\'s ok.\n\nThank you very much (your blog always rocks!)\n\nGiovanni',0,'1','','',0,0),(887,3652,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-08 17:09:06','2010-04-08 16:09:06','Hi Giovanni. Comments in Word and Pages are interchangeable. I\'ve dealt with editor comments sent back to me in a Pages file directly in Word. They actually look a lot better there than they do in Word.\n\nNot only that but changes pass over too. So if you have track changes on in Pages when you export to Word those edit changes are there just as if you\'d made them in Word (I assume it works the other way too but since I don\'t originate things in Word I can\'t check easily).\n\nGlad you find my ramblings interesting.',0,'1','','',886,0),(888,3652,'Giovanni','gizeta99@gmail.com','','79.21.134.209','2010-04-08 17:22:14','2010-04-08 16:22:14','Grazie mille!!!\n\nor\n\nThank you very much!\n\n:-)',0,'1','','',887,0),(889,3652,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-08 18:09:31','2010-04-08 17:09:31','Prego!',0,'1','','',888,0),(890,3652,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','219.164.177.48','2010-05-03 04:14:58','2010-05-03 03:14:58','Hi David,\n\nWhen you export from Scrivener into Pages, do you export it as a Word Document or RTF?\n\nKind Regards',0,'1','','',0,0),(891,3652,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-05-03 07:58:04','2010-05-03 06:58:04','I just export as Word which works fine. But I gather the general advice is an rtf export is better for more complex documents where you have footnotes and things. If you look on the Scrivener forums I\'m sure you\'ll find plenty about this.',0,'1','','',890,0),(892,3699,'Glenn Head','gwahead@gmail.com','','82.33.68.128','2010-04-07 09:49:20','2010-04-07 08:49:20','Hi David,\n\nI don\'t agree with all you\'ve written on the iPad... but you have the perfect right to express your opinion on it without being subject to insult or threats or any other ill-informed diatribe.\n\nI really like Apple.  So much so, that I recently started a website devoted to all things Apple.\n\nOn the whole their products have been perfect for me. I was frustrated with Windows and, when I started work as a graphic designer, I discovered Macs and have never looked back. They are brilliant machines. But, as you rightly say, they don\'t appeal to everyone, and they aren\'t always the right solution for a problem.\n\nI do think some of the criticisms levelled at the iPad are fatuous - things like it\'s too heavy, or it\'s easy to get fingerprint smudges on it, but you do have a good point regarding the iWork app. I was hoping that Pages would be a more complete app than is being described.\n\nBut, back to my original point. People should be able to express opinions without fear of insults or threats. Don\'t we live in a democracy? Aren\'t we all able to discuss things without going mad?\n\nCarry on saying what you think.\n\nWith your permission I\'d like to link to this article on my website: appenings.net\n\nI\'m happy to have a contrary opinion on the site.\n\nGlenn.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(893,3699,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-07 10:00:29','2010-04-07 09:00:29','Link away - no need to ask permission. One important point I missed -- I actually think this situation is bad for Apple too. Criticism is good for companies. Smart ones learn more from trying to understand their mistakes than trumpeting -- and exaggerating -- their successes.',0,'post-trashed','','',892,0),(894,3699,'Ronan','a_worthy_cause@yahoo.co.uk','http://theinquisition.eu','86.47.224.54','2010-04-07 10:09:32','2010-04-07 09:09:32','The New York Times ran an article on the paranoia at Apple last year- <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/technology/23apple.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" rel=\"nofollow\">here</a>\nIt would seem that little has changed in the past year. As you point out, it is surprising that there has been only one article of note on this in the mainstream media. As a longtime Mac user I feel this is reflected in the OS too - when OS X came along suddenly all the control panels were done away with. This gave the impression the system was being hidden so you couldn\'t change anything. You got what you got.\nYou can, of course, still make changes to the system but I feel you need a greater depth of knowledge.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(895,3699,'PeterD','peterd.news@gmail.com','','93.97.171.229','2010-04-07 12:27:27','2010-04-07 11:27:27','I don\'t think it\'s fair to criticise Stephen Fry\'s article in the Times as journalism. It\'s an opinion piece, an impression of Ive, Jobs and iPad. Pretty lightweight and unsatisfying, especially considering Fry spent an hour with Jobs, but certainly not investigative fact-finding journalism, and I think it\'s wrong to judge it as if it were supposed to be.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(896,3699,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-07 12:30:57','2010-04-07 11:30:57','Er... the cover of Time Magazine isn\'t supposed to be journalism???\nhttp://www.9to5mac.com/Time-ipad-cover-steve-jobs-stephen-frye-98735498',0,'post-trashed','','',895,0),(897,3699,'Dom Conlon','dom@head-first.co.uk','http://www.head-first.co.uk/headblog/','82.109.231.10','2010-04-07 15:58:55','2010-04-07 14:58:55','I think this is bad for Apple too. I like the idea of the iPad. I can see myself using it with my young son and maybe even with my mother-in-law whose poor eyesight could do with a good solution to accessing large print books (the library and the publishers can\'t seem to keep her entertained).\n\nBut you are right. They preach but don\'t listen and it is bad for them. They will make heaps more money but leave the development of the concept (and I use the term loosely) to others. Google won\'t go away and Android will grow and grow, filling the space they opened up.\n\nOf course, if you were to dare criticise Star Wars... well, I\'d agree with you there too.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(898,3699,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-07 16:05:33','2010-04-07 15:05:33','It\'s difficult to think of any meaningful criticism of Star Wars after the wondrous Simpsons episode Co-Dependent\'s Day\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-Dependent\'s_Day\n\nI think Android/Chrome is incredibly promising and will at least let us choose the hardware we want. My HTC Magic phone beats the hell out of my old iPhone (for my purposes). And I am not best pleased with Vodafone that they haven\'t sent me my replacement HTC Desire because the things have proved so popular they\'ve sold out.\n\nIf you get a chance to look at an Android phone try Aldiko the ebook reader. Fantastic - would work really well on a tablet.',0,'post-trashed','','',897,0),(899,3699,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','80.189.142.203','2010-04-07 20:25:53','2010-04-07 19:25:53','I’d suggest that the iPad will follow the typical Apple improvement curve. The original iPhone received a deal of criticism for sluggish performance and was soon upgraded to enable 3G before benefitting from a further performance hike to the 3Gs. The MacBook Air has received similar performance enhancements. And this is not confined to just Apple\'s hardware - Pages ‘09 for example, is an order of magnitude more capable than the initial iWorks version. Early adopters ultimately pay at both ends of the equation. A higher initial price coupled with below par performance. But the iPad will get better, and I will probably relent and buy one. At version 3 maybe...just not at version 1.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(900,3699,'Gary Hamrick','gary@garyhamrick.com','http://www.garyhamrick.com','98.18.17.186','2010-04-07 20:54:41','2010-04-07 19:54:41','Journalism?  In Time magazine?  Surely you jest.\n\nTime magazine has become just as plagued with with biased journalism as nearly every other mainstream outlet out there.  Want proof?  Look no further than their coverage of US politics in an election year.  Look at their coverage on US politics as a whole any year.\n\nAs for the situation with Apple, I wholeheartedly agree with you on your analysis.  The idea of the IPad is great and is their basic selling point.  However, if you can\'t transfer documents (such as Word docs or even basic text docs) from a desktop mac (much less a PC) to the IPad or vice versa then consumers need to be aware of this.  More importantly, Apple needs to provide a fix to solve the compatibility issues at least with their own products.',0,'post-trashed','','',896,0),(901,3699,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-07 21:40:28','2010-04-07 20:40:28','Unfortunately UK journalism has followed the US lead and become remarkably tame and \'responsible\' too. I\'m an HL Mencken man myself.\n\n\'I am always asking myself why is this lying bastard lying to me.\'',0,'post-trashed','','',900,0),(902,3699,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-08 18:11:00','2010-04-08 17:11:00','I didn\'t pay much attention to Fry\'s piece, but I thought Grossman\'s was spot-on. On another thought, here\'s an article you might find interesting.http://tinyurl.com/ykq7eor',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(903,3699,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-08 18:14:46','2010-04-08 17:14:46','I did wonder about a solution like that. You can get Documents to Go which will read Word docs and deal with comments on everything from an iPhone to my Android phone. But he makes it sound hard. And it\'s just a word processor. It shouldn\'t be!\n\nAlso of course the HP Slate - whatever you think about going Windows - will be capable of running a fully fledged, Tablet-oriented version of Word. If that did a good editing job I\'d go for it. I\'m not fighting wars here. Just want Stuff That Works.',0,'post-trashed','','',902,0),(904,3725,'Scott Perkins','pages2type@gmail.com','http://pagestotype.blogspot.com','98.125.243.177','2010-04-07 18:30:51','2010-04-07 17:30:51','I like Macs and if I were spending more time on the road I might see the iPhone as something more than an expensive toy that happens to make phonecalls.  But the sheer volume and tone of responses to my assertion that it\'s a toy and not a serious device for creating or even editing content (as you rightly pointed out) made me think I\'d perhaps accidentally said something about their mothers.\n\ni-Paddicts... Such devotion to a corporation makes me scratch my head.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(905,3725,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-07 18:35:46','2010-04-07 17:35:46','It is a salutary discovery for sure. Take a look at some of the \'for real\' messages in that queue if you\'re feeling brave....',0,'post-trashed','','',904,0),(906,3725,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','174.131.22.117','2010-04-08 03:29:44','2010-04-08 02:29:44','It is an interesting world. I use a Mac. So what. The point is like tons of other myths there is the Mac myth. All is well as long as the cadre of true believers are free to channel Nietzsche and demythologize all they survey. But, lo how the worm turns when one like yourself steps up and jerks the rag off their bush.  Oh no. Then the squawking starts.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(907,3725,'Kaja Marie','kajamarie@tekstogtanke.no','http://www.tekstogtanke.no','84.215.182.151','2010-04-11 10:54:23','2010-04-11 09:54:23','I also use a mac, and an iPhone, and I\'ve been considering buying an iPad just because I recon it would be easier to bring along than my MacBook, and my hope is that that\'ll make it easier for me to get some writing done when I\'m on the fly.\nI love how you are so honest. It makes your whole blog a lot more believable. Thumbs up!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(908,3711,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','68.220.240.53','2010-04-08 09:02:07','2010-04-08 08:02:07','You caught me by surprise with your use of Pages. I hadn\'t really considered it.\n\nI have version 1.0 from iWork 05 on my old iMac, and I would never try to write or edit using that version. It\'s just basic layout. I haven\'t looked at the software since then.\n\nLuckily my new machine came with Word on it, so I have a fall back for things that could get tricky (making ebooks, for instance). But I may have to pick up Pages for the final edits. The search function sounds excellent. (I use Scrivener for everything else.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(909,3711,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-08 09:03:33','2010-04-08 08:03:33','Pages 09 is light years from V 1.0 which was pretty grim as far as I recall. I would never go back to Word for the final revision now. It\'s interesting how many people have never given Pages a second look since those poor early versions.',0,'1','','',908,0),(910,3711,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','68.220.240.53','2010-04-08 10:26:49','2010-04-08 09:26:49','It\'s strange that Apple isn\'t doing more to promote it. I use only Apple products and I had no idea how much it had changed.\n\nMaybe they\'re holding out until they can challenge Word with it. Or maybe they\'re trying not to step on Microsoft\'s toes.',0,'1','','',909,0),(911,3711,'Brett Battles','Brett@brettbattles.com','http://www.brettbattles.com','75.15.150.231','2010-04-08 12:16:30','2010-04-08 11:16:30','David, I, too, had no idea Apple had come so far with pages. In fact the first time I even tried anything Pages related was just two days ago when I got my iPad and purchased the Pages app (because it was really the only word processing software available.) have just kicked it around a little there, but am liking it so far. But the iPad verizon IS limited. No comments or transfer of comments at this point as far as I can tell at this point. But your post is making me consider looking into it for my laptop...am getting tired of bugs and simple annoyances in Word. Will be very interested to read your post on the problems with Pages to get a fuller picture.',0,'1','','',0,0),(912,3711,'Jeff V.','jeff.vehige@gmail.com','','71.96.19.48','2010-04-08 14:14:12','2010-04-08 13:14:12','I wrote my first novel (a piece of trash) using pages, and I didn\'t have any of the problems with it that I did when I used Word to write my Master\'s thesis back in grad school. However, I did find the transition from Word to Pages to be awkward.\n\nTwo things I don\'t like about Pages: first, there\'s no auto save -- which I found out the hard way when I lost three hours of work on my first novel. I couldn\'t believe it. Second, I have yet to figure out how to change underlines to italics and vice versa. Word made this very simple, but with Pages it seems extraordinarily difficult.\n\nDavid, I curious as to just what you use Pages for when working on a novel. I was under the impression that you moved from Scrivener to Pages when you were ready for the final edit -- after your read-through and major rewrite. But now it sounds like you\'re still rewriting portions.\n\nI certainly understand that everything is very fluid in this stage, and I apologize if this sounds a bit picky. I find the whole idea of revising a novel very daunting. Right now, it\'s my biggest hang up as an aspiring writer. Your posts have really helped me see that revision, like writing, is a series of steps and not something to be tackled all at once. Since I\'ve failed so miserably at it before, I\'ve decided to adopt your own approach to revision, which to me sounds very reasonable and orderly, and then modify it to suit my own needs as I go along. You gotta start somewhere, right?\n\nAt any rate, thank you for all of these post on writing. It\'s an eye-opener to see a professional writer at work.',0,'1','','',0,0),(913,3711,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-08 14:20:37','2010-04-08 13:20:37','I\'m using Pages to do the final, final revision. All of the scene juggling is out of the way and I like being able to view the thing in its entirety now, more normally than you get through Edit Scrivenings.  So things aren\'t very fluid at this stage. I\'m dealing with scenes in places and rewriting sections, paragraphs. I would NOT go to Pages until I was happy the entire sequence was in place.\n\nYes - autosave should be there. It\'s one of my issues for tomorrow. And you can\'t do the format change you mention. I have to do that in Word and then open the file in Pages. Scrivener 2 should change that on export mind.\n\nOh - and my first novel was much trashier than yours btw. I\'m SO glad it didn\'t get published.',0,'1','','',912,0),(914,3711,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-08 14:22:02','2010-04-08 13:22:02','I use both Pages and Word for writing projects and they\'re nearly completely compatible. Sometimes Pages, when you convert it to Word will do some funky things to format, but otherwise Pages is fine. I\'ve got both because I\'m an editor and most people send me their manuscripts in Word, but I\'ve written entire novels on Pages without any issue.',0,'1','','',0,0),(915,3711,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-08 14:25:07','2010-04-08 13:25:07','Weird things do happen on exports with all Mac WPs in my experience. The export from Scrivener of my present book looked fine in Pages and Word. In Nisus the selfsame file had different fonts in different places.\n\nAs you can see my hobby is buying Mac word processors. Though have now given up on Mellel completely. And Ulysses. And Storymill. And some I\'ve forgotten.',0,'1','','',914,0),(916,3711,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','68.220.240.53','2010-04-08 21:20:58','2010-04-08 20:20:58','When I switched to a Mac, I wrote half a novel with Nisus. Then I discovered Scrivener, which was perfect. Not just because it\'s perfect, but before I was writing with a Windows program called Roughdraft which allowed tabbed document organization which is essential for how I write.',0,'1','','',915,0),(917,3711,'Brenda Sedore','bsedore@me.com','http://brendasedore.com','174.4.22.255','2010-04-09 06:46:20','2010-04-09 05:46:20','Great post on Pages, David. After reading your other post, I started working in Pages again and remembered how fast it is and how amazing the commenting feature is. It was nice to learn of a few other features. I\'m looking forward to more posts.\n\nI am definitely going to use it after I\'m doing putting my novel together in Scrivener. I\'ve already been using Pages for commenting on my husband\'s stories he\'s given me for editing. I then export the story to pdf and email it back to him. He loves it.',0,'1','','',0,0),(918,3711,'Kaja Marie','kajamarie@tekstogtanke.no','http://www.tekstogtanke.no','84.215.182.151','2010-04-11 10:51:18','2010-04-11 09:51:18','Thank you for the good advice. I also like using Pages, but haven\'t really tried out the new version yet, since I\'m in my Scrivener-phase of writing right now.',0,'1','','',0,0),(919,3716,'Nick','nholmes2001@aol.com','','217.195.31.84','2010-04-09 09:11:00','2010-04-09 08:11:00','Have you ever tried using Google Docs? I\'ve been writing my manuscript using it for the past couple of weeks now, and I find it fairly effective as a basic text editor. It\'s simple, which could be good or bad depending on your requirements, but it never crashes and it partially allays my constant nervousness that one day my old, old Powerbook is just going to give up and take my life with it.\n\nI also have to say, as you\'ve mentioned it so much David, that the function of storing \"versions\" in the cloud is pretty impressive. You can go back and retrieve the document \"as-was\" at any stage.\n\nIf this sounds like a Google press release, it\'s not supposed to. From my experimentation, it\'s not a fully featured word processor - but its not bad as a free tool.',0,'1','','',0,0),(920,3716,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-09 10:28:01','2010-04-09 09:28:01','I did try Google Docs. It seems to me much like the other free WPs out there like Open Office - very like Word a few years ago. OK if that\'s what you want. Also it bothered me that you couldn\'t edit unless you were online - so typing on plane was out for example. Don\'t know if that\'s changed or not.',0,'1','','',919,0),(921,3716,'Jeff V.','jeff.vehige@gmail.com','','71.96.18.153','2010-04-09 14:54:14','2010-04-09 13:54:14','I, too, found the Inspector very annoying when I first started working with Pages. It seems to counter-intuitive. But now that I\'m used to it, I like it far, far better than Word. It keeps the work-space much cleaner.\n\nI wonder if your problem with the double space removal has to do with the length of your project. I wrote my first novel on pages. Once I crossed the 200-page mark or so (as an American, I think in terms of pages, not words, but I\'m trying to change that!) I found that Pages would crash, on occasion, when doing a spell check. The first crash was when I learned that Pages didn\'t have autosave, so I learned quickly to save before spell checking.\n\nAt any rate, I\'ve never had a problem with the double space removal, but, then, I haven\'t tried it on an overly long document.\n\nI\'ll need to look into Foreversave. I use the free WorkSaver. It\'s very good, but it creates a backup version of the file within the Finder, making for a very messy and disorganized Finder. A bit annoying.',0,'1','','',0,0),(922,3716,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','174.131.21.137','2010-04-09 15:01:17','2010-04-09 14:01:17','The more I use and read about  tech. tools for writing the more I appreciate the books on my shelf produced by individuals who had none of this.\n\nIt is hard for me to imagine that I typed my way through graduate school on a portable Royal typewriter. I can hear each stroke snap against the paper now.  And, the red note at the bottom of the cover sheet when the paper was returned. \"Clean your keys.\"',0,'1','','',0,0),(923,3716,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-09 15:03:34','2010-04-09 14:03:34','How they did it without a computer is beyond me. One answer is they did a lot less revision and they took a lot longer.\n\nThe amount of rewriting I do now is down to the fact it\'s so easy. I wrote my first unpublished novel on a typewriter and decided halfway through I wanted to change a character name. Ugh....',0,'1','','',922,0),(924,3716,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-09 15:04:06','2010-04-09 14:04:06','I\'m sure the double space issue is down to length. Haven\'t had any stability problems at all apart from that.',0,'1','','',921,0),(925,3716,'McMucca','ballarina@unofree.it','','87.4.196.44','2010-04-09 17:09:40','2010-04-09 16:09:40','Ha! So the hyphen and spell thing wasn\'t me being stupid. Though I find if I remember to tell it straight away about being UK it seems to work.\nI hate Word.',0,'1','','',923,0),(926,3716,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-04-10 02:57:54','2010-04-10 01:57:54','The most annoying thing on Pages, for me, is the lack of a \'repeat last action\' key. Word has Command+Y. Pages has zip.\n\nAnd I would like a basic key-recording function to make global changes that I can\'t handle with search and replace.',0,'1','','',0,0),(927,3716,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-10 07:23:22','2010-04-10 06:23:22','Agree - and a \'go back to the place you where before key\' too',0,'1','','',926,0),(928,3716,'Jeff Abbott','jeff@jeffabbott.com','http://www.jeffabbott.com','24.206.111.133','2010-04-25 03:38:20','2010-04-25 02:38:20','Just got Pages and am going to give a try--thanks for all these tips.',0,'1','','',0,0),(929,3716,'Redox','redoxable@bex.net','','72.240.134.131','2010-05-20 20:48:55','2010-05-20 19:48:55','I\'m fairly new to Mac so forgive me if this is common knowledge but Spell Catcher has a setting that prevents double spaces while typing. A simple \"shift-space\" overrides the setting. The program works in virtually all Mac software and has cured the problem for me with Pages crashing in the example you mentioned. Spell Catcher has a huge number of options; some choices are hard to find so...Preferences/Interactive/Automatic will take you to the section you need.\nOther software must offer this option, I suppose, but this is the first one I found and I use it every day.',0,'1','','',0,0),(930,3749,'Jeff Abbott','jeff@jeffabbott.com','http://www.jeffabbott.com','24.206.111.133','2010-04-09 18:49:27','2010-04-09 17:49:27','That whole \"work on documents\" at the same time would be a nightmare for my old stomping ground of advertising. People editing creative briefs simultaneously while clients comment at the same time? Um, no, no no. There are too many cooks in the kitchen and they\'re all waving meat cleavers. I miss the old Nisus that ran on Mac Classic, that was a word processor actually geared to writing, and so customizable.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(931,3749,'stevemosby','stevemosby@yahoo.co.uk','','82.9.44.14','2010-04-09 19:08:44','2010-04-09 18:08:44','Word lost me at the 2007 iteration. I still use it, Excel and pen and paper almost exclusively for everything I write, but, as a reasonably competent Office user, the redesign on Office 2007 left me feeling all the familiar tools I needed to do my job had been stuck away in drawers. At the time, it was disempowering, to say the least.\n\nBut I do want to stick up for the \'working on documents at the same time\' thing. Useless for me as a full-time writer, and I can imagine in some professions it would cause chaos, but it would have been fantastic when I worked at Leeds Uni. Creating a year-end summary on a research project involved twenty, thirty academics sending me reports, bibliographies, appearances, blah, blah - and then sending me amendment after amendment. All because I was building the final file. Literally hundreds of emails and documents, when we could all have been working on one. It\'s hard to describe, but that feature would probably have given me a month off. Or made me redundant sooner. Or...\n\nHmmm... Wait a minute.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(932,3749,'Michael Baker','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','http://the-byline.blogspot.com/','92.233.200.42','2010-04-09 20:24:11','2010-04-09 19:24:11','More excuses to digitally-doodle.  They\'ve faffed around as usual, done very little--lots of \'busy-work\'.  It\'s like Microsoft are scared to look out the window and be influenced by the real world.  (On the other hand it might explain The Lost Symbol.)\n\nI\'m still on 2003 and have no interest in changing...Heck, sometimes I find myself using Wordpad or even notepad when I have a Zen-like moment.\n\nI think Eddie could do better!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(933,3749,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-09 20:36:39','2010-04-09 19:36:39','Nisus??? Was always too difficult for me. I found Word 5.1 OK. I am so old I remember MacAuthor, a WP for \'creative types\', that was developed with the aid of Douglas Adams. It just never, ever worked.\n\nBoy was this a long time ago....\n\nhttp://www.iconsupport.demon.co.uk/About_us/About_us.html',0,'post-trashed','','',930,0),(934,3749,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-09 21:21:03','2010-04-09 20:21:03','Actually I looked at Word 2007 again after you mentioned it. It still doesn\'t mean anything to me AND they are going to put the ribbon on the next version of Word on the Mac. Not that anyone will have asked for it I imagine. Baffling.\n\nI\'m sure there are occasions when that multiple editing thing could work. But I can\'t imagine there are many. And I do feel there are lots of people out there who think Word could be made better for just writing stuff instead.',0,'post-trashed','','',931,0),(935,3749,'Jeff Abbott','jeff@jeffabbott.com','http://www.jeffabbott.com','24.206.111.133','2010-04-09 22:46:05','2010-04-09 21:46:05','Nisus had the search listing feature you\'ve mentioned long before there even was a Pages or a Scrivener. And you could customize it to use any keystrokes you fancied. Never crashed on me. But it didn\'t have zoom, and the annotations weren\'t as good as Word\'s. But otherwise, it was better.',0,'post-trashed','','',933,0),(936,3749,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-10 08:22:20','2010-04-10 07:22:20','Nisus never crashed on me. I just found it a bit hard. I have the current version and really never use it. I can\'t see a search listing in that though it may be hiding. There were people who used to swear by WriteNow too.',0,'post-trashed','','',935,0),(937,3749,'Sean Furey','sean.furey@yahoo.co.uk','','80.41.185.197','2010-04-10 17:18:18','2010-04-10 16:18:18','Ah, Word 5.1  I did most of my GCSE and A-level coursework using that on my parent\'s Mac SE/30. Then came Word 6 - for those who lived through those dark times I don\'t need to say any more!\n\nThe problem Microsoft have long had is how do you constantly innovate and sell something that doesn\'t really need innovating or updating. On the PC, Word 2003 is fine and does the job, as does Windows XP. But I suppose with OpenOffice hot on their heels and Mac OS X looking more sexy they have to constantly add pointless gimics to get people to shell out for new software.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(938,3761,'Sean Furey','sean.furey@yahoo.co.uk','','80.41.185.197','2010-04-10 17:43:21','2010-04-10 16:43:21','David, I completely agree with you.\n\nI\'ve always been attracted to the idea of proportional representation but I wonder if it would give us a better government?\n\nThe fans of first past the post always point to the shambolic PR in Italy or the shakey coalitions in Germany, but the problem with starting on that debate is that the UK media is so utterly rubbish at covering European politics that very few people in this country (myself included) really know what is going on beyond the tired stereotypical narratives that lazy journalists like to trot out when a particular European leader does something dastardly or bumbling. Meanwhile we get endless coverage of what happens in the US almost as if we get to vote in their elections.\n\nThe big problem with this election is that everyone knows there are going to be huge cuts after it but none of the three parties are being really honest about what those cuts would be, so no-one knows what they are voting for.\n\nA lot will depend on tactical voting in marginals (like North Kent) where Tory-hating Lib Dems have voted Labour in the past, but with the chance of real power in a hung parliament will Lib Dems stick to their own side thus letting the Tories sneak in?\n\nMy election prediction: historically low turnout, minor parties getting a large share of the vote but not winning any seats (though Caroline Lucas is in with shout in Brighton) and probably a Tory win with a slim majority that will give us the sort of crap ineffectual parliament we had in the dying years of the Major government (remember him?)\n\nMaybe it will be disastrous enough for whoever wins that there will be some electoral reform. Here\'s hoping.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(939,3761,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-10 18:15:24','2010-04-10 17:15:24','I don\'t know if it would give us a better government but I see no evidence it would give us a worse one -- and it would at least give millions of people a vote who don\'t have one at the moment.\n\nAs to Italy.... I\'m not sure things are really as shambolic as people make out. It depends how you define it. In terms of monolithic parties anything that doesn\'t give them absolute power is \'shambolic\'. And they hate regionalism, unless it\'s regional assemblies controlled by national parties.\n\nI\'ve been in Italy for a few local elections and they looked fun. People actually felt they had a choice sometimes. How often can you say that here?',0,'post-trashed','','',938,0),(940,3761,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','174.131.21.137','2010-04-11 05:04:58','2010-04-11 04:04:58','\"The monolithic structure of English politics is a conspiracy against the public, in my view. A con trick designed to kid us into feeling we have a say in our own lives, when the reality is the very opposite.\"\n\nWith a one word change you will have perfectly described the circus that passes for the political process in the good ol U.S. of A.  We really got our noses rubbed in it when it came high dollar bail out time for the banks.\n\nOur elected officials actually try to use FB and Twitter. aka How to be inane in 140 characters or less. They manage quit well.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(941,3670,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-12 15:37:19','2010-04-12 14:37:19','Nice post. I\'m like most writers, I worry about everything, to very little effect. I\'m working on it, though, particularly in terms of promotion. I\'m taking the attitude that, Hey, point me where to go, I\'ll show up with a smile and make the best of it, then go home. What happens during a book signing has a lot more to do with the fates than it has to do with me sitting at a little desk in a bookstore.',0,'1','','',0,0),(942,3670,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.mikegerrard.com','71.214.187.181','2010-04-12 16:37:10','2010-04-12 15:37:10','Another helpful post, David, especially to someone who\'s in the same early stages you were, and worrying about the same things. It\'s good to be reminded that all you can do is write, and write the best you can.\n\nAs a travel writer, I\'m always being asked how to break in to what people see as a very attractive area of writing. I used to send long emails of advice but as no-one ever wrote back to say \'thanks\', I now tell them what a travel writer colleague tells them - travel as much as you can, write as much as you can, and send it to as many travel editors as you can.\n\nKeep the blogs coming.',0,'1','','',0,0),(943,3670,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-12 16:53:08','2010-04-12 15:53:08','I was a complete failure as a travel writer - always cost me more to research than I got back in fees. Though I did get the idea for my first real book that way...',0,'1','','',942,0),(944,3670,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','126.231.25.39','2010-04-13 02:59:19','2010-04-13 01:59:19','I think it\'s important to concentrate on what you do best. I don\'t feel writers should have to do anything other than this unless they wish to. It is a writer\'s job to create something. It is the task of others to then market it.\n\nOn a rather off-topic note, what kind if word volume to you normally achieve on a day-to-day basis?\n\nI\'ll be honest and say that I only manage a thousand words but I do write that every day. I think having a routine and a schedule is more important, at least to me. There\'s no point in writing five thousand words three days running and then doing nothing for five or six days.\n\nRegards',0,'1','','',0,0),(945,3670,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.140','2010-04-13 08:06:27','2010-04-13 07:06:27','Probably another post there about word counts - let me put it on the list. Thanks for the suggestion!',0,'1','','',944,0),(946,3786,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','68.220.230.145','2010-04-13 09:43:28','2010-04-13 08:43:28','In my view, writers first seeking to be published generally take one of these two routes, or a combination:\n\n1. The Professional Method\n2. The Please Love Me Game\n\nIt\'s not always easy. I found it easier to practice the first with agents, and harder with the second once I had an agent and editor rejections came in. I got over it quickly and never acted unprofessionally. Kept my snarky anti-editor thoughts to myself.',0,'1','','',0,0),(947,3786,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-13 20:07:20','2010-04-13 19:07:20','I think would-be writers really need to take a step back for a moment and consider how much email agents and editors get and then think about what it must feel like to receive slamming emails like the ones she displays here. File it under the Life\'s Too Short category.',0,'1','','',0,0),(948,3786,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-04-14 00:57:34','2010-04-13 23:57:34','Oh, thank you for that. It was the first smile of the day. And making him a haiku contest on Twitter with a hashtag? Too delicious. (The guy probably doesn\'t even know what Twitter is.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(949,3789,'Matt Gibson','gothick@gothick.org.uk','http://gothick.org.uk/','80.176.75.164','2010-04-14 07:29:16','2010-04-14 06:29:16','This has parallels with dieting advice I\'ve heard recently: If you\'re trying to lose weight, it\'s helpful not to focus on the weight, because the weight is a symptom, not a cause. Your eating is the cause, and you should be thinking about that, right now, rather than focusing on the future...\n\nI _try_ to only think about word count occasionally, and then only when I\'m writing a first draft. Because sometimes it\'s good for me to just keep bashing words out, pretty much regardless of quality...',0,'1','','',0,0),(950,3789,'jonathan','planetjag@gmail.com','http://bookboy.net','203.94.135.134','2010-04-14 07:51:10','2010-04-14 06:51:10','I am by no means a \"real\" writer, just trying to give it a go. With not much time to put into my writing most days, I\'ve set myself a very small daily target of 250 words just so I keep it ticking over.\n\nFor that I find the Scrivener session target very handy.',0,'1','','',0,0),(951,3789,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-14 07:54:18','2010-04-14 06:54:18','I don\'t know what the definition of a \'real\' writer is Jonathan. 250 words a day sounds good to me. What\'s important is to find a modus operandi that works for your personal situation and temperament.',0,'1','','',950,0),(952,3789,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-14 07:56:32','2010-04-14 06:56:32','I do know people who take the view it\'s best to just bash something out and then correct it later. They\'ll write a very quick very rough first draft then take a machete too it. Nothing wrong with that at all if it works. Just not something I can do -- I find I can\'t leave scenes until I think they\'re pretty much right.\n\nAs I say below -- it\'s down to personal style.',0,'1','','',949,0),(953,3789,'Sean Black','seanblack09@gmail.com','','93.107.12.80','2010-04-14 10:10:01','2010-04-14 09:10:01','Great post, David.\n\nThere is definitely a real danger in fixating on word count to the exclusion of all else. The ability to be merciless when it comes to your own work is probably one of the most crucial attributes you can have.\n\nIf it\'s any consolation to Jonathan, I\'ve been making a living writing for around twelve years now and I\'m still not sure if I\'m a real writer.',0,'1','','',0,0),(954,3789,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','219.164.177.48','2010-04-14 11:05:07','2010-04-14 10:05:07','Good stuff. I always make a concerted effort to write a thousand words a day. Every day. This isn\'t really to ensure I\'m following a target in my mind but more to ensure that the story is kept fresh and alive in my mind. If it starts to feel boring for me, I know it will be the same for the reader. I write every single day and although a lot of times I feel I\'m just going through the motions, at least the person who really runs the show knows where I\'m going to be if they so decide to speak.',0,'1','','',0,0),(955,3789,'Tamara Hogan','tammyhoganson@means.net','','76.164.151.144','2010-04-14 12:14:58','2010-04-14 11:14:58','Thanks for articulating the potential risks of working to a daily word count.  Word count has always seemed to be too granular a unit of measurement for me.  Scene breakdowns feel instinctive and productive, so I\'m going with it!',0,'1','','',0,0),(956,3789,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','216.24.165.166','2010-04-14 14:43:52','2010-04-14 13:43:52','Hey David, love the blog.\n\nMy New Year\'s resolution was challenging myself to write 1k words a day, but that doesn\'t mean that the goal is always met.  I think that word counts have different meanings to different people -- for me, I use them because without them, I wouldn\'t have any real marker for how my work is progressing.  I need to know that I\'m making a dent in a novel, and when your novel is 100,000 words long, and you are 70,000 words in, it definitely feels as though you are just swimming in a miasmic void of infinity.  My 1,000 word-a-day challenge (I call it a challenge... it\'s more fun that way, I think) is imperitive to my writing, although I never, ever write EXACTLY 1,000 words.\n\nSometimes I will write only 250 words... sometimes I\'ll bang out an entire chapter, it really depends on how the muse is striking me, but it is always good to have a waypoint.  Without it, I could see myself thrashing about, going back and tinkering with little bits of dialouge and backstory ad infinitum before I even know how the story is going to end.  With the challenge in place, it gives me incentive to CREATE as oppose to just change, and that\'s important, especially for me.  My 1k-a-day is also great as it keeps tension ratcheted up as well. 1,000 words of interior monologue will always get boring, even if one writes in a genre saddled with the praenomen of \'literary\'.\n\nI have the Scrivener trial edition, but as I am already ~80,000 words into my current WIP, turning the whole thing into a .scriv seems like a bunch of trouble that I\'m not ready to get into yet.  With that being said, I\'m still not sold on the product yet.  I\'m not really sure when I would use all of those extra gewgaws, but I\'m tickled that they exist.  Maybe when version 2.0 comes out I\'ll buy it.',0,'1','','',0,0),(957,3789,'Jeff','jeff.vehige@gmail.com','','71.96.18.153','2010-04-14 17:11:50','2010-04-14 16:11:50','@ jonathan - The best definition of a \"real\" writer I\'ve heard is this: A writer is someone who writes, finishes what he writers, and sends it out to get published. You do that, you\'re a writer. That\'s all you can control.\n\nSF writer Tobias Buckell once said a writer is measured by the weight of his rejection slips. Since all writers get rejected -- even long-time pros -- the more rejections, the more of a writer you are.\n\nThoughts to ponder.\n\n250 words a day is a fine daily goal. Another SF writer, James Van Pelt, has a minimum daily goal of 200 words. He hasn\'t missed a day in close to eleven years! And has around 100 short story credits, plus one novel, to his name. Not bad, me thinks.',0,'1','','',0,0),(958,3789,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-14 17:14:15','2010-04-14 16:14:15','My favourite quote is from Richard Bach: \'A professional writer is an amateur who didn\'t quit.\'',0,'1','','',957,0),(959,3789,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-14 17:15:44','2010-04-14 16:15:44','If you\'re that far into a project it probably isn\'t worth trying to pull it in to Scrivener - though it\'s very easy. You just import the lot then slice and dice into scenes. The killer feature in Scrivener is the ability to work in slices, for me anyway. There\'s a lot of stuff there I don\'t use.',0,'1','','',956,0),(960,3789,'Jeff','jeff.vehige@gmail.com','','71.96.18.153','2010-04-15 00:08:22','2010-04-14 23:08:22','I got Scrivener halfway through the first novel and tried to convert. Nothing made sense to me.\n\nWith my current novel, I started in Scrivener and everything makes much better sense.\n\nIt\'s certainly worth the price. So looking forward to 2.0.',0,'1','','',956,0),(961,3779,'Rosalind Adam','rosalind.kathryn@googlemail.com','http://rosalindadam.blogspot.com','81.132.159.176','2010-04-16 08:01:23','2010-04-16 07:01:23','Well I\'m totally absorbed in your Cemetery of Secrets and, as a newcomer to your books, you did recommend I start with that title so I\'m guessing you remember a bit about it. It\'s an excellent read.',0,'1','','',0,0),(962,3779,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-16 08:02:35','2010-04-16 07:02:35','I remember a bit more about that because it\'s the first book I wrote in Italy, though it was started in 1999 so it was a while ago. Glad you\'re enjoying it.',0,'1','','',961,0),(963,3779,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-04-16 11:11:12','2010-04-16 10:11:12','David, you may well forget individual books, but (unless your work is even bloodier than the lady whose Roman holiday you destroyed with your violent writing suggests) as a series writer, you have characters who recur. How do you handle continuity?',0,'1','','',0,0),(964,3779,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-16 11:14:18','2010-04-16 10:14:18','As always... the answer is the book diary. I just used to copy passages describing characters from one book and keep them so I could go back and read them again if necessary. But honestly -- after ten books with these people I don\'t need that any more. The regulars are in my head. I can hear them speaking as I write.',0,'1','','',963,0),(965,3779,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-04-16 14:42:02','2010-04-16 13:42:02','It\'s not so much voice that I have problems with as detail - was his father a banker or a lawyer, is that knife scar on the right or left arm etc. I started to keep a little two column spreadsheet of character details, but haven\'t been good about keeping up with it.\n\nI\'m sure you\'re going to say \"the answer is the book diary\"...',0,'1','','',0,0),(966,3779,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-16 14:49:19','2010-04-16 13:49:19','Two of the reasons I took up this strange profession....\n\n1. Never again to have to wear a tie\n2. Never again to have to look at a spreadsheet\n\nYep - it\'s a book diary for me. The other thing I\'m rigid about is copying over the exact text about characters from earlier books - not what I think is their description. Readers only know them by the words, not what we know. Seems to be a way to remind myself of that.',0,'1','','',965,0),(967,3779,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','68.220.230.145','2010-04-16 20:14:25','2010-04-16 19:14:25','I\'m revising a book that I wrote in 2005. Editors liked it but didn\'t love it. It was missing something. So when I went back to it last month, I had to reread the whole thing because I couldn\'t remember what happened through most of it. My three first readers could (a good sign) but I couldn\'t sum up anything but characters and a few key scenes.\n\nBut I also have a terrible active memory for books period. I enjoy them and absorb them. Can\'t call anything up unless prompted. Give me a test on a book and I\'ll ace it. Otherwise I\'ve got nothing.',0,'1','','',0,0),(968,3805,'Dom Conlon','dom@head-first.co.uk','http://www.head-first.co.uk/headblog/','82.109.231.10','2010-04-16 10:09:11','2010-04-16 09:09:11','http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/08/why-if-you-miss-siri-youll-miss-the-future-of-the-web/\n\nSee, the future is happening :)\n\nIt seems strange to refer to being old fashioned in connection with preferring a device that is a relatively recent development. When it came along it was a new way of interfacing with the computer and took a while to learn properly. I see older (and younger) members of my family still struggling to use it as it feels unnatural - a fixed trackball would probably be an easier system than a mouse for them.\n\nBut touch is more natural still. For some tasks. Browsing, flicking through photos, exploring maps - these are great using touch. I couldn\'t do my job entirely without a mouse although for the most part I prefer shortcut keys. The mouse for me tends to slow me down. I\'d be lost without ctrl+tab, alt+tab and all the other, learned functions of life in front of a computer.\n\nFrom everything I have read, the iPad still has a way to go in developing its keyboard functionality to enable us to fully let go of the mouse.\n\nOr maybe someone has developed a mouse app :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(969,3805,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-16 10:15:25','2010-04-16 09:15:25','Yep - Siri is exactly what Gates demoed in 1996. Would be nice if it turned up. I\'m with you on shortcut keys, and yes there may be physical alternatives to a mouse - better trackpads for one, maybe built into the keyboard. Given lots of people never use anything but a laptop any more we\'re part way there.\n\nI still struggle with the touchscreen as a complete replacement for the reasons above, and more too. For one thing a touchscreen involves more glass in the screen so the image is rarely as good as a non touchscreen monitor. I also think the distance between user and screen needs to be shorter. If you look at that HP demo video I link to above -- I couldn\'t write with the screen that close. It would feel wrong. Writing and fiddling around with photos are different.\n\nMaybe designers would feel differently of course.',0,'1','','',968,0),(970,3805,'Dom Conlon','dom@head-first.co.uk','http://www.head-first.co.uk/headblog/','82.109.231.10','2010-04-16 10:22:48','2010-04-16 09:22:48','My worst nightmare (forgive the hyperbole) is the sort of interface touch could lead to - the Minority Report nonsense. Now THAT looks tiring but it could be the next big thing if the Microsoft Natal proves popular.',0,'1','','',0,0),(971,3805,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-16 10:24:48','2010-04-16 09:24:48','Shudder..... Tom Cruise would get very tired little arms if he tried that now',0,'1','','',970,0),(972,3805,'Jeremy','jeremy@pocketrevolutionary.com','http://Pocketrevolutionary.com','206.248.56.6','2010-04-16 14:42:25','2010-04-16 13:42:25','The absolute worst offender, by the way, is NCIS: Los Angeles for annoying use of touch screen. Painful. I would say that you really need to wait to see what developers actually do with new technology before you judge it, because they tend to be way better at imagining realistic uses for fancy interfaces. I mean, even if dictation is a horrible, horrible way to control a desktop, it turns about to be a great way to control GPS (like SYNC). I actually love using the iPad for OmniGraffle and drawing, but I really just got one because of my faith in what third-party developers will come up with in 6 months after using the new hardware.',0,'1','','',0,0),(973,3805,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-04-16 15:40:30','2010-04-16 14:40:30','&gt;&gt;&gt;There is no option for a mouse, though surely one will appear.\n\nWe don\'t know that.  I haven\'t seen anyone try to pair a mouse with it.  WinMob and Android both give mouse pointers when paired.\n\nAnd, puhleeze, the Keyboard Dock has dedicated keys so you don\'t have to touch the fekkin screen at all while using it.\n\nYou just want to add more fuel for me to burn on the day when I get an iPad.\n\nThis is going to be one helluva bonfire!',0,'1','','',0,0),(974,3805,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-16 15:45:06','2010-04-16 14:45:06','I bet you can\'t edit a document easily without touching the screen. You can\'t edit a document on a Mac without using the mouse sometimes.',0,'1','','',973,0),(975,3805,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-04-17 03:47:07','2010-04-17 02:47:07','Dom and David, there will no doubt be a micro-pad with a pixel-sensitive skinny pen (sooner) or a means of using your palm with a sensitive skinny stylus connected to the iPad via a special ring on your finger (later).',0,'1','','',971,0),(976,3810,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-19 13:17:02','2010-04-19 12:17:02','Well, I\'m a dog person myself, so I appreciate the joke. But you used \"rubbish\" twice.',0,'1','','',0,0),(977,3810,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-19 14:29:53','2010-04-19 13:29:53','That was the first rewrite. Another one on the way.....!',0,'1','','',976,0),(978,3810,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','216.24.165.166','2010-04-19 15:24:13','2010-04-19 14:24:13','I\'m torn on this example.  I see what you mean, and I agree: swearing or other \"harsh language\" can definitely have a deleterious effect on a sentence, but I think that the second sentence is ultimately missing something that your first draft of it *did* have.  It seemed more grimy, more real. Maybe finding another way to say it without using such a strong word like \"piss\"?  Maybe something about the acrid scent of cats they could taste in the back of their throats?  Something like that.  Just a suggestion.  Probably wrong, but I wanted to see what you thought of that.\n\n-Ken',0,'1','','',0,0),(979,3810,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-19 15:32:21','2010-04-19 14:32:21','Well I am showing you something here that\'s not really visible in context (and it is still a draft). It happens in a scene that makes it clear we\'re in a pretty grimy and grubby part of the city. My principal objection isn\'t to the swear word itself. I just don\'t feel it\'s necessary in this context. When you talk about \'stench of cats\' I think it brings up the picture.\nThough maybe I\'m wrong and it\'s too subtle.\n\nInterestingly I got a whine from someone on Twitter who wrote...\n\n...re-write paints a completely different picture (for a cat person at least). Swearwords are important.\n\nBut maybe I should put up a poll: Vote on whether the word \'piss\' will be included in my 2012 book! Well actually it will be elsewhere. Just not sure about here.',0,'1','','',0,0),(980,3810,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-04-19 15:43:22','2010-04-19 14:43:22','&gt;&gt;&gt;The stench of cats everywhere.\n\nIt needn\'t be just piss.  It could be male cat spray.  The worst!  So, rewrite is also more accurate.',0,'1','','',0,0),(981,3810,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','216.24.165.166','2010-04-19 16:12:29','2010-04-19 15:12:29','Haha, I love the idea.\n\nYou will start a new trend of Piss Poles!  Er, maybe you could come up with a better name for it.',0,'1','','',979,0),(982,3810,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-19 16:13:43','2010-04-19 15:13:43','If there is a better one it escapes me now',0,'1','','',981,0),(983,3810,'Laura Benedict','laura@laurabenedict.com','http://www.laurabenedict.com','72.69.111.216','2010-04-19 17:28:20','2010-04-19 16:28:20','I like the edit--I\'m all for word economy. In the end, it makes writing much more powerful.\n\nIn college I dated a race car engineer from England for a while. Now, the p-word doesn\'t have quite the same sting on this side of the pond as it does over there. When I casually used it in front of him and his friends, you\'d have thought I plotzed right there on the floor. They were horrified! Silly me. He turned out to be kind of a jerk, anyway.',0,'1','','',0,0),(984,3810,'Laura Benedict','laura@laurabenedict.com','http://www.laurabenedict.com','72.69.111.216','2010-04-19 17:29:33','2010-04-19 16:29:33','See, I should have left off the \"In the end,\" phrase. More powerful. Right.',0,'1','','',0,0),(985,3810,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-19 17:37:20','2010-04-19 16:37:20','A race car engineer from England who turned out to be a jerk??? Who\'d have thought it...',0,'1','','',984,0),(986,3810,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.155.19.130','2010-04-19 17:45:32','2010-04-19 16:45:32','Should it be \"the scent of cat\" not cats?  Just a suggestion.',0,'1','','',0,0),(987,3810,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-19 18:01:08','2010-04-19 17:01:08','I can\'t think of any reason why it \'should\' be the stench of cat rather than cats. You could have either. The plural seems more evocative to me.',0,'1','','',986,0),(988,3810,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-04-19 19:14:48','2010-04-19 18:14:48','“Stench of cat” (singular) would describe the air space of the entire cul-de-sac. Cats (plural) evokes a stench wafting up from the street where the cats have been and left their mark.',0,'1','','',0,0),(989,3810,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','71.28.42.143','2010-04-20 06:54:48','2010-04-20 05:54:48','Now,how long did you say your book was?\n\n\"Stench\" hung at the end of the re-write hangs the essence of cat, cats or otherwise in the air for me. Pew.',0,'1','','',0,0),(990,3810,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','71.28.42.143','2010-04-20 06:57:41','2010-04-20 05:57:41','My wife is so laughing at me.   I\'ll just leave it there.',0,'1','','',0,0),(991,3810,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.155.19.130','2010-04-20 17:33:54','2010-04-20 16:33:54','oops nearly rewrote the whole thing.  I meant to type stench but for some reason typed scent!  Not even the word in question!  Sorry.\n\nAnd Janie what has said summed up what I thought the phrase was meant to portray.  I am not a writer so I\'d best leave it to the professionals and just enjoy the end product, and of course the journey of writing it.',0,'1','','',0,0),(992,3810,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','80.47.141.59','2010-04-21 19:27:47','2010-04-21 18:27:47','What did Einstein say of theories in physics? \"Everything should be a simple as possible, but not simpler.\" It seems to me the same applies to writing. The word \"stench\" already brings to the description quite a lot of useful freight - a sturdy, single-syllabled, Old Saxon/German root, redolent of \"blench\", almost turns your nose up to say it.\n\nDoesn\'t need \"piss\" as well.',0,'1','','',0,0),(993,3810,'Wat does my name mean','none@aol.com','http://www.squidoo.com/hmm-what-does-my-name-mean','97.119.174.34','2010-04-28 00:36:38','2010-04-27 23:36:38','hi what is your facebook page',0,'1','','',0,0),(994,3825,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','216.24.165.166','2010-04-21 13:41:37','2010-04-21 12:41:37','Steve Jobs is not Lord Chamberlain.  He CANNOT be Lord Chamberlain, because he is not running a government.  What Steve is running is a company.  A private (albeit publicly owned) company that is not beholden to any sort of the same things that governments are.  They have the tacit right to block anything they choose at their own discretion.  If people don\'t like it, they can, as Jobs says, buy an Android.  Personally, I\'m impressed with Steve\'s response.  He didn\'t beat around the bush, he didn\'t dodge the question, he just said \"no.\"\n\nIs this indicative of some new police state that upholds morality in A HANDMAID\'S TALE dystopia where the only thing that is publishable is snowboard racing games and unit converter apps?  No.  I think that you know that if you get an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, you know what you\'re getting yourself into.  You\'re giving away your rights to have apps that Apple deems inappropriate.   Companies intrinsically don\'t fall under Locke\'s maxims of government, and so I don\'t see why this is a big deal.\n\nIn regard to Apple being the savior of publishing -- I don\'t think I ever saw them as that.  I think it would be interesting to see if books like \"TTYL L8R G8R\" (#1 most challenged book) series got banned on iBooks, but even if they did, I don\'t think that it says anything more than Apple being Apple.  They\'ve always ruled their product with an iron fist.  It leads to good and bad things.  Ultimately, we can either take it or leave it, but the choice is still our own.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(995,3825,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','216.24.165.166','2010-04-21 13:43:48','2010-04-21 12:43:48','I realize that the Lord Chamberlain does not run a government -- that was a typo.',0,'post-trashed','','',994,0),(996,3825,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','71.28.42.143','2010-04-21 15:19:05','2010-04-21 14:19:05','It is about control. But, control of a type. Ownership.  In the days of old you buy a thing it is yours. Often you have a title and get the privilege of paying taxes on it proving and sometimes painfully so, that it is yours.\n\nNot so Job\'s stuff. When you buy his, I\'m thinking in his mind it is still his stuff. His system, right?  The thing in your hand or on your desk is nothing more than a part of his system. Emphasis \"his.\"\n\nYou pay him for the privilege.\n\nHe may not be Lord Chamberlain but he does seem to fancy himself the Lord of the Manner. Master of all he surveys.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(997,3825,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-04-21 16:04:13','2010-04-21 15:04:13','A day late and a dollar short here.\n\nSteve Jobs: Keep Saying No!\nhttp://ipadtest.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/steve-jobs-keep-saying-no/',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(998,3825,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-21 16:20:27','2010-04-21 15:20:27','It\'s the time difference Mike. Which was exacerbated I should say by the volcanic death cloud...',0,'post-trashed','','',997,0),(999,3825,'Danielle','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','http://www.narrativedisorder.com','121.44.27.103','2010-04-23 06:44:06','2010-04-23 05:44:06','Agree with you entirely. Ken is right, though, Jobs doesn\'t run a government (thank god) but it doesn\'t undermine your point which is that we can choose to put ourselves into his hands or not.\nThe problem is, if you do (for some reason of ignorance or stupidity) make that choice, that\'s the end - he becomes your Lord Chamberlain and you lose access to the information you need to judge whether what you have is any good, you simply don\'t know what the alternatives are (and believe him when he holds up an Apple version of something that\'s been around for years and claims innovation!)\nThis is how Apple has lowered the standards and raked the pockets of Apple users for decades. How it continues, I honestly don\'t understand, but I have a feeling it may have something to do with people like Ken believing that this just isn\'t \"a big deal\". Then again, I\'ve never understood popularity or \'cool factor\' to be an equal factor to function when assessing anything, let alone technology, so I guess it\'s just not FOR me.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1000,3825,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','216.24.165.166','2010-04-23 16:14:16','2010-04-23 15:14:16','I think its probably true that most people buy Apple products to be cool, and only then do they realize that their choices for apps are severly limited by the Jobs Thought Police.  It\'s a matter of being technically savvy enough to realize what you are getting yourself into, and whether you are \"okay\" with that.  Personally, I like what apple has done with the app store because it means that anything I download from there is safe. (at least, I think... true?)  I don\'t know if I used a droid (or whatever) if it would be the same, but if not, I\'m happy that Apple has certain policies.  I\'m not really a \"power user\"... I use my iPhone for some games, dictionary apps, unit converters, and twitter, so it does everything I need it to do.\n\nAlthough I wasn\'t exactly sure what you meant by \"people don\'t know what the alternatives are\".  We\'re talking about an app store here, not all forms of news.  Apple sells products well because of their marketing.  I think that people buy what makes them happy.  If people want a watered-down, safe, clean version of the internet, why shouldn\'t they have that?  That\'s why people moved out of the city and into the suburbs.  If you want to live with the (perceived) grimy real world of unfettered 3rd party apps, the more power to you, but I think its rather presumptuous to posit that anyone who buys apple products is a fan of totalitarian control.',0,'post-trashed','','',999,0),(1001,3825,'Danielle','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','http://www.narrativedisorder.com','121.44.27.103','2010-04-24 02:42:35','2010-04-24 01:42:35','\"I think its rather presumptuous to posit that anyone who buys apple products is a fan of totalitarian control.\"\n\nI agree and I don\'t - I was saying that mostly they don\'t realize that\'s what they are getting because they never see the alternatives. I was actually putting you in the fan of totalitarian control column, along with anyone else who, aware of it, says \"what\'s the big deal\". But you do make an excellent point, if people genuinely see \'being cool\' as a legitimate \'feature\' of a product, that\'s their business, as is if they wish to give it more weight than \'function\', \'value for money\' and \'quality\' - I\'m not being facetious, with the spread of iPods and mp3s, I have to come to the realization that some people really think cool factor is more important than those things. I just find it really hard to respect anyone who has priorities like that.',0,'post-trashed','','',1000,0),(1002,3825,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-24 06:55:54','2010-04-24 05:55:54','I don\'t think the ordinary public thinks twice about this - they just buy the product and never consider the implications. Apple got away with an atrocious copy protection scheme for iTunes music for years now happily junked (though I still had to pay to free the music I\'d already bought because I\'d forgotten to deregister old Macs when I bought new ones).\n\nWhat worries me is the idea that a company like Apple will be the final arbiter in what people can and cannot consume. I don\'t think they will get away with that - when Android tablets appear so will a profusion of different distribution models. But Jobs certainly wants that control and he\'s exercising it in an appalling fashion. As I said in the original article how can he let through junk sex movies in iTunes films but block a text version of the Kama Sutra?',0,'post-trashed','','',1001,0),(1003,3825,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','24.30.56.175','2010-04-24 12:54:32','2010-04-24 11:54:32','Well... we\'ll see.  I like my iPhone because of the way it looks and how easily it syncs with my mac.  I\'m super idealistic in terms of where and how I buy novels, where I buy groceries, where I go out to eat, and what places I go on vacation, and quite honestly, I just want something in my life that I don\'t have to feel bad about doing.  My iPhone was a college graduation gift -- I didn\'t ask for it, my father just gave it to me (tough life, right?) -- and I don\'t really have the money to be idealistic about this sort of thing.  With that being said, I do like the device, even if the DRM policies with music are wack (note: I don\'t buy music from iTunes, so I kind of negate that.)\n\nDanielle - Sry I came off as a totalitarian lol... I think you missed the main point of my rebuttal which was the perceived safety that one has in the Apple \"inner circle.\"  I can see now why people can be such a fan of these \"big brother\" style governments... under the dragon\'s wing, it is always warm.  I\'m sorry you can\'t respect me because of what kind of cell phone I use, though.\n\nDavid - It is stupid that they banned the Kama Sutra, but maybe it\'ll get fixed in the future?  If not, just don\'t give Apple more of your money!  Vote with the pocket book.  A way to get DRM-free music is to buy it in physical form and just rip it yourself.  It can easily be converted into iTunes, and you can even get the same cover art that is on the album.  It costs a little more, but in a world where you just posted how much more artists make by celling cds, you should be okay with that, no?\n\n-Ken',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1004,3840,'Tom','tkuhn@me.com','http://www.thomaskuhn.biz','93.232.169.164','2010-04-22 08:20:15','2010-04-22 07:20:15','These are great tips. I use Dropbox as well, but never heard of SugarSync. I think I have to get an account a.s.a.p. Btw. as I looked at your screenshot of SugarSync I noticed that you have the same projectfiles of Ulysses and Scrivener. Any system behind that?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1005,3840,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-22 08:21:27','2010-04-22 07:21:27','I bought Ulysses years ago and try it again from time to time - that\'s all. Still stick with Scrivener though.',0,'1','','',1004,0),(1006,3840,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','68.220.230.145','2010-04-22 09:52:56','2010-04-22 08:52:56','I use the Scrivener backup option to send zipped files to Dropbox. I have all my works on three separate computers as well.\n\nOnly thing I haven\'t covered is getting all my writing files backed up in the cloud. I find it irritating that Dropbox doesn\'t have a $5 pricing option. I didn\'t go with SugarSync because at the time I decided I thought I might be using a Linux-based netbook for awhile.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1007,3840,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','12.68.123.250','2010-04-22 10:49:41','2010-04-22 09:49:41','SugarSync has \"2 GB Free Plan: Not a trial but a free account with no credit cards and no monthly payment.\"',0,'1','','',0,0),(1008,3840,'Danielle','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','http://www.narrativedisorder.com','121.44.27.103','2010-04-23 06:01:13','2010-04-23 05:01:13','I wanted to thank you, too, for the link to Sugar Sync, I love how drop box works without fuss but it is really annoying to have to change your file structure for it. I tried SpiderOak for a while, which claims to do the same thing as you describe SugarSync doing, but it had to be turned on and reminded and the actual syncing took forever.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1009,3849,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','216.24.165.166','2010-04-23 14:59:03','2010-04-23 13:59:03','If I can ever get my novel to the line edit stage, I will be overjoyed.  I\'m sure after the umpteenth time that you\'ve done it, it gets a little monotonous, but man... to me it all sounds so exciting!  That stack of paper does look like it would eat my face though...\n\n-Ken',0,'1','','',0,0),(1010,3859,'Neil Colquhoun','necol66@googlemail.com','http://www.neilcolquhoun.com','78.144.119.105','2010-04-25 09:06:27','2010-04-25 08:06:27','I totally agree. I was always suspicious of the whole Facebook deal and, while I have often thought about opening an account, have shied away from it for that reason.\nN',0,'1','','',0,0),(1011,3859,'Jim Gumbley','j.gumbley@gmail.com','http://www.jgumbley.com','87.115.83.208','2010-04-25 09:44:40','2010-04-25 08:44:40','Perhaps it because you are using it for publicity purposes you accept people you don\'t know. My rule is I need to have had a memorable conversation in real life with someone for me to consider them, and that means I only get relevant messages and events.\n\nFarmville etc. is frustrating, but you can block the application. Frustrating you have to do this on a one by one basis. There is also Facebook lite which does not include the apps.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1012,3859,'Tom','tkuhn@me.com','http://www.thomaskuhn.biz','93.232.146.169','2010-04-25 10:11:51','2010-04-25 09:11:51','Thanks for sharing the link for deleting the account permanently. For the german account it works as well. The two weeks waiting time for the actual deleting is ridiculous. Someone who has made it to that point will delete the account asap.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1013,3859,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-25 10:13:51','2010-04-25 09:13:51','Couldn\'t agree more. Whose data is it anyway? Sums up FB\'s attitude to me. I\'ll miss some things but I think this is the right decision. I don\'t feel happy steering people into their arms.',0,'1','','',1012,0),(1014,3859,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-25 12:22:27','2010-04-25 11:22:27','My main concern is privacy. Even if I know how to tweak the system to keep my data safe I don\'t see why I should expose others who don\'t know how. I suspect most people accept \'friends\' they don\'t know by the way, whether they\'re authors or not.',0,'1','','',1011,0),(1015,3859,'Todd','f1f1f1_333@yahoo.com','','118.208.211.100','2010-04-25 14:15:04','2010-04-25 13:15:04','When you do the math, 400 million (assuming they are all active, not fake or \'another\' profile of the same celebrity) isn\'t a lot in the grand scheme of things. I\'ll continue my lonely journey around the internet on my own without Facebook holding my hand.\n\nI\'ve also recently heard about Flash cookies. I\'ve found the folder they were in and dumped the lot and made the folder \'read only\'. I was surprised what was in there.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1016,3859,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-04-25 17:41:45','2010-04-25 16:41:45','I De-Friended everyone, changed all my privacy settings, and won\'t approve new Friends.  My page will stay, barren, just as a spot where the sick stalkers can\'t impersonate me.\n\nJust wait until Apple announces TOS changes for its iAd.  That will happen.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1017,3859,'Petra Nieuwpoort','thara_nr@hotmail.com','','82.75.120.126','2010-04-25 19:33:58','2010-04-25 18:33:58','Thanks for the information. I\'m going to delete my account too! I\'ll still be folowing you on Twitter and on your own website ofcourse :) Just out of curiosity, why didn\'t you delete Eddy\'s account too?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1018,3859,'Hazel K Larkin','hazel.larkin@gmail.com','http://www.ladyscribbles.wordpress.com','79.97.212.105','2010-04-25 20:13:31','2010-04-25 19:13:31','Hi David!\n\nI can understand why you would want to delete your facebook account, but can you tell me *how*? I have tried to locate a \'delete profile\' option - but have had no luck so far!\n\nCheers!\n\nHazel',0,'1','','',0,0),(1019,3859,'C.B.Osborne','copix@clara.co.uk','http://www.copix.co.uk','86.143.84.2','2010-04-25 21:20:24','2010-04-25 20:20:24','I was always suspicious about the possible ramifications of joining Facebook. Recently though, I was forced to accept from the experts that it was an essential tool for self promotion - of a book,a  design, whatever you were doing. A writer friend made me further convinced me to join when she received some 100 friends within days of joining Facebook to publicise her new book.\n\nNow I have read your post, supported by articles in various newspapers, I am so\nthankful to know that I never took the step.\n\nA wise man listens to others, but in the end he must make his own judgement.\n\nThank you very much David.\n\nhttp://christinebosborne.blogspot.com',0,'1','','',0,0),(1020,3859,'Jared','kelly.jared@mail.com','http://jaredkelly.blogspot.com/','80.4.255.243','2010-04-25 22:09:01','2010-04-25 21:09:01','David\n\nThanks for sharing your thoughts. I\'ve been \'reminded\' on several occasions recently that it\'s in my interests to acquire my own FB account, but I have always been loath to do so. I\'ve attached a link explaining my shocking experience with the evil that is Myspace. It\'s for this reason I have never mustered the enthusiasm to proceed down the FB path, and reading your post has helped settle my mind somewhat.\n\nMyspace shenanigans: http://bit.ly/df1snP\n\nKindest regards,\n\nJared\n\nPS. Thanks for previous Scrivener tips. It was one of your posts that encouraged me to take the leap and I\'m glad I did. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1021,3859,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-25 22:35:51','2010-04-25 21:35:51','Hi Petra – and thanks for so many interesting and supportive comments on Facebook! I know people don’t believe this but it’s true. Eddie’s account on FB is nothing to do with me. If he – or anyone else – wishes to stay there that’s their choice. I think Eddie will stay – and good luck to FB when it comes to selling his details!\n\nHe may wish to elaborate on this here shortly….',0,'1','','',1017,0),(1022,3859,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-25 22:37:00','2010-04-25 21:37:00','The link I gave above works in the UK. Not sure how you do it elsewhere to be honest. I think the UK link was forced on FB by the UK authorities if I recall correctly... though I could be wrong.',0,'1','','',1018,0),(1023,3859,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','98.18.86.215','2010-04-26 05:34:20','2010-04-26 04:34:20','The FB issue is alive and well in the US also. Here is a link that should work for folks on this side of the pond. I have doubts about the deletion of our data.\n\nMy wife left Facebook over a year ago with their promise that after x amount of time her records would be totally deleted.  When our grandson started using FB she went back. Her account was there intact as she left it.\n\nhttp://gigaom.com/2010/04/22/your-moms-guide-to-those-facebook-changes-and-how-to-block-them/\n\nMy solution: All 400 million users use their regular FB time to do nothing but play Farmville. If we post, post only a nursery rhyme. i.e. Mary Had A Little Lamb.\nWould it take six months before FB was gone?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1024,3859,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-26 08:08:33','2010-04-26 07:08:33','See here... http://davidhewson.com/2010/04/26/eddie-hewson-an-apology/',0,'1','','',1021,0),(1025,3859,'Daniel Forscher','daniel.forscher@gmail.com','http://www.theeasylife.ch','129.132.109.133','2010-04-26 09:51:05','2010-04-26 08:51:05','I previously deleted my FB account about 1 year ago. I felt great, my life got so much easier. I was free.\nThen, I felt a strange need for it again about 3 months back. I re-opened the account (it was still there!) and went about adding all my friends again.\n\nWhile my wife, uses the darn thing every day, even though she claims to hate it, I forget it exists altogether. It is just sitting there collating information about me and my friends and family. For what?\n\nTime to go delete it again. Thanks for the timely reminder.\n\nBTW, there was recently an episode of South Park mocking FaceBook. Worth the 10 minute watch for a bit of a chuckle. I am sure it is on YouTube.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1026,3859,'MAX','MC_COLLIER@YAHOO.COM','','70.156.67.106','2010-04-29 14:48:12','2010-04-29 13:48:12','HOW DO YOU GET FACEBOOK OFF OF YOUR COMPUER..EVERY TIME THAT I HAVE TRIED,ALL THEY IS BE RUDE TOO ME',0,'1','','',1012,0),(1027,3859,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-16 21:59:06','2010-05-16 20:59:06','You might enjoy this NYT think piece about how FB, beyond its privacy concerns, is causing a relative impoverishment of discourse on the wider web:\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/business/16digi.html?hp',0,'1','','',0,0),(1028,3859,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-16 21:59:28','2010-05-16 20:59:28','Also: FB, less fun without you, David.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1029,3859,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','81.141.34.241','2010-05-17 08:02:21','2010-05-17 07:02:21','Thanks. I think something like Facebook should exist. But it should be something that doesn\'t compromise your privacy and lets you stay out of the bloody Farmville loop.\n\nThere are things that I miss on FB too. But also things I don\'t, such as being repeatedly asked to become the fans of people I don\'t even know, begging letters and the amount of time it all took.',0,'1','','',1028,0),(1030,3859,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','81.141.34.241','2010-05-17 08:05:03','2010-05-17 07:05:03','<blockquote>I find this very worrying if true...\n\nSusan Herring, professor of information science at Indiana University, sees it this way: “What the statistics point to is a rise in Facebook, a decline in blogging, and before that, a decline in personal Web pages. The trend is clear, she said — Facebook is displacing these other forms of online publication.</blockquote>\n\n\n\nIf that happened FB would effectively own the web. Terrifying thought and one more reason I won\'t go back.',0,'1','','',1027,0),(1031,3880,'David Prever','david@prever.com','','62.252.114.9','2010-04-27 08:30:22','2010-04-27 07:30:22','Nice post David, quick question; What font and size do you use for this \'two pages\' print. It is amazing what difference it makes. I find reading in different places completely changes perspective too.\n\nGood luck with the work\nBest\nDavid',0,'1','','',0,0),(1032,3880,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-27 08:32:20','2010-04-27 07:32:20','Being bone idle I use the same font I\'ve written the final revise draft in - usually 12pt Optima (though I don\'t think that\'s what you see above). It\'s a bit small but I don\'t mind that. Others may have to change font size to see what works for them. You could go to the trouble of formatting specially for double page printing but I don\'t need that.',0,'1','','',1031,0),(1033,3880,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-27 13:32:02','2010-04-27 12:32:02','An important point. One of the steps in my editing, after the draft is done, is to print everything out and crash out on a couch with the manuscript and try not to have a pen in hand. The idea here is I\'m trying to more closely simulate the experience of a reader, rather than the writer. Comfortable position, relaxed, reading for pleasure. If something really jumps out at me I\'ll mark it down, but mostly I\'m trying to see what the reading experience is like, looking at things like pace.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1034,3880,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-27 13:45:55','2010-04-27 12:45:55','Good idea. Not sure I\'d have the patience not to have a pen around though...',0,'1','','',1033,0),(1035,3880,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-04-27 13:53:12','2010-04-27 12:53:12','It\'s tough. There\'s always SOMETHING I want to mark up.',0,'1','','',1034,0),(1036,3880,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','219.164.177.48','2010-04-29 03:48:42','2010-04-29 02:48:42','Very nice post. As you have had extensive experience with publishers, I wonder what your advice is in regarding preparing your manuscripts to send to a publisher. I\'m thinking more of the first-time writer here, I guess.\n\nOn the internet, there seems to be so much confusion about how one should go about this. Should it be double-spaced? Which font is best? Some people say no-one will read anything if the text has been fully-justified, never use proportional fonts etc.\n\nThe whole thing seems like a minefield to me.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1037,3880,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-29 08:43:32','2010-04-29 07:43:32','Most of us will be sending manuscripts to agents first I suspect, not publishers. But either way I\'d ask them what they want. In the old days Helvetica double spaced seemed the way to go. But a lot will now read the first part of an MS on an ereader so that may be irrelevant. I deliver my books electronically so it\'s pretty much irrelevant there - I just deliver in the form I write, 12pt standard font, 1.5 line spacing, and let people change if they wish, for an ereader or printout.\n\nSo ask - they\'ll be happy to tell you. I\'d never print out anything justified - doesn\'t work on a big page. Can\'t imagine why anyone would refuse to read something with proportional fonts either. But it\'s a book manuscript not an exercise in desktop publishing, so forget about \'design\'.',0,'1','','',1036,0),(1038,3890,'John Kane','jt-kane@comcast.net','','98.232.4.135','2010-05-25 15:06:04','2010-05-25 14:06:04','Hi David. I\'m an avid reader of all of your novels and of this blog. Wanted you to know that I got my pre-ordered copy of \"City of Fear\" last night (May 24th) delivered from Amazon. I\'ve not yet visited Italy but when I do I will plan that visit to include Rome &amp; Venice and soak up the \'little\' things as you do when you\'re writing about Nick and your other characters. Looking forward to reading \"City of Fear\" and your future books! - John',0,'1','','',0,0),(1039,3894,'Matt Gibson','gothick@gothick.org.uk','http://gothick.org.uk/','217.171.129.70','2010-04-28 12:25:48','2010-04-28 11:25:48','Now I\'m really confused. Did you really mean that you looked at the Facebook front page again? Because it sounds more like you looked at the Huffington Post front page again. But the screenshot looks like it\'s Twitter. And now I don\'t know who I am or what day it is.\n\nMaybe I need to read this again, only slower.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1040,3894,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-28 12:55:38','2010-04-28 11:55:38','Oops - silly me. Huffpost. Changed. Thanks for spotting.',0,'1','','',1039,0),(1041,3894,'MJRose','mjroseauthor@aol.com','','68.198.49.98','2010-04-28 14:43:14','2010-04-28 13:43:14','So now my secret is out - I read gossip at HuffPo.\nSeriously - I\'m really unhappy about this. I\'m happy to let anyone know I read gossip but not this way. So what do I do to undo these connections. I\'m pretty disgusted about it.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1042,3894,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-28 14:50:38','2010-04-28 13:50:38','That\'s the rub, isn\'t it? How do you know? I guess you must have logged in somehow with Huffpost. I\'m not logging in there any more. If you didn\'t log in.... who knows?',0,'1','','',1041,0),(1043,3894,'Pam Atherton','pam@acloserlookradio.com','http://www.PamAtherton.com','97.123.33.220','2010-04-28 17:30:29','2010-04-28 16:30:29','Thank you, David, for the kind words about my article.  I write sporadically... only when I am particularly disturbed about something.  And this disturbs me greatly.  Thank you for your tweet and blog about it.  It lit a fire under me!\n\nAs to what you are experiencing about HuffPo, I think it is because of the Facebook log in.  When I log in as a blogger, I don\'t see anything.  And it really twists my undergarments that you now have to log in through Facebook to leave comments, or to read about people who are commenting.\n\nAnd wow!!  How scary is that that we now know every article someone reads?\n\nMJ... your information is probably showing up because of your settings on Facebook.  To (hopefully) resolve the problem, go into them and change everything to Friends Only and make sure to uncheck the ALLOW box in Instant Personalization.\n\nGo to Account &gt; Privacy Settings &gt; Applications and Websites and uncheck \"Allow\" next to \"Instant Personalization\"\n\n(Oh, and MJ, did Cattrall have any weight loss secrets?)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1044,3894,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-04-28 17:58:40','2010-04-28 16:58:40','That sounds right. Though I logged in through my Twitter ID since I\'m no longer on FB and it still knows I know MJ. Maybe that\'s because I once logged in through Facebook once before. I just don\'t know. One of the real problems about this is you don\'t know how it works, or how to stop it. I though the Facebook response was very weak.\n\nLike I said. If Facebook convinces the privacy commissioner of Canada they\'re doing the right thing and I\'ll go back. Don\'t see any sign of that.',0,'1','','',1043,0),(1045,3894,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-04-28 18:51:21','2010-04-28 17:51:21','You don\'t have to log on through FB or Twitter to comment on HuffPo. You can have a separate HuffPo login in which you create a completely different handle.\n\nHuffPo does keep track...now...of who comments on your comments in that Verizon box. I noticed they have something called \"Stealth Mode.\" I don\'t know what that is.\n\nI do, however, concur with David. Privacy is now a critical issue, and what it has destroyed, which the US Constitution provides for, is the right to be anonymous in your commentary. I can\'t recall the details but there was a famous case about 200 years ago with pamphleteers who published articles critical of the government and their anonymity was upheld as protected by the US Constitution.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1046,3894,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','81.141.34.191','2010-04-28 21:12:15','2010-04-28 20:12:15','It wasn\'t mj\'s comment it was showing me. It was what she\'d read!',0,'1','','',1045,0),(1047,3894,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-04-29 06:23:38','2010-04-29 05:23:38','Despicable.\n\nI think it has to come from FB. I don\'t have my readings broadcast far and wide because I use a HuffPo handle that no one can associate with my Twitter name (real name) or FB (real name).',0,'1','','',1046,0),(1048,3904,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','72.147.77.50','2010-04-30 06:27:54','2010-04-30 05:27:54','Very nice. I thought about getting one of those. But then a relatively cheap, only lightly used Macbook came my way. (Still would mind having one, though. Looks like a great little machine.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1049,3904,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.175.129.131','2010-04-30 08:44:27','2010-04-30 07:44:27','It\'s fantastic. Will be writing about this all later.',0,'1','','',1048,0),(1050,3908,'Jared','kelly.jared@mail.com','http://jaredkelly.blogspot.com/','80.3.169.29','2010-04-30 13:12:25','2010-04-30 12:12:25','All good advice. I\'m regimented in that I always have my final read through off paper (less pages to print with screenplays) and it\'s often at that stage where certain things leap off the page that *somehow* went unnoticed on the screen. Also, having the patience to let things settle, as you say, is hugely important.\n\nI read a wonderful story about Picasso regarding distance. He apparently wouldn\'t claim any work as being finished until he had looked at it in a mirror from across his studio. It was this action that allowed him to become less attached and created a sense of distance and perspective that empowered him to critique his own work.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1051,3914,'Petra Nieuwpoort','pcnieuwpoort@home.nl','','82.75.120.126','2010-05-03 09:19:33','2010-05-03 08:19:33','When I read this I\'m glad I quit Facebook!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1052,3914,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','219.164.177.48','2010-05-13 12:43:55','2010-05-13 11:43:55','David,\n\nYou might have come across this in today\'s New York Times.\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html\n\nRegards',0,'1','','',0,0),(1053,3914,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.172.184.76','2010-05-13 12:45:25','2010-05-13 11:45:25','No - didn\'t see that. Wired has had a go recently too. I think the whole FB privacy problem is getting a much wider airing - and deservedly so. Have to say I seem to have recovered a lot of hours since leaving FB too!',0,'1','','',1052,0),(1054,3924,'Petra Nieuwpoort','pcnieuwpoort@home.nl','','82.75.120.126','2010-05-03 09:18:08','2010-05-03 08:18:08','Another interesting blog! I hope you have a productive time in Venice. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1055,3924,'Jeff Abbott','jeff@jeffabbott.com','http://www.jeffabbott.com','24.206.111.133','2010-05-03 13:58:31','2010-05-03 12:58:31','I had so many problems with Word for Windows in my corporate and writing life, I swore, never again. I have been reasonably happy with Word for Mac. Will be very curious to hear your thoughts on Word 10. (And your comment about the horrendous product page made me smile. I think you dissected that feature list in an earlier blog.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1056,3924,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-05-03 17:21:09','2010-05-03 16:21:09','&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;blog editor Live Writer which is, quite simply, the best of its kind I’ve ever come across\n\nHahahahaha.  No.  BlogDesk.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1057,3924,'Nick','nholmes2001@aol.com','','217.195.31.84','2010-05-03 17:22:21','2010-05-03 16:22:21','Oh NO! I was going to buy a Macbook Air this summer, and I was sort of hoping that it would last as long as my Powerbook has (bought in 2005, still going strong with a RAM memory upgrade).\n\nIf yours has slowed to a crawl, and it was only released two years ago, I may have to reconsider...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1058,3924,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-05-03 17:24:10','2010-05-03 16:24:10','I\'ll have more to say on hardware tomorrow but I really wouldn\'t buy a MacBook Air right now. They look lovely but they\'re not terribly practical for me anyway. Need more ports, better battery life, more speed. If I was buying now I\'d buy a MacBook Pro. But as I said... more tomorrow...',0,'1','','',1057,0),(1059,3924,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.145.36.241','2010-05-03 17:24:54','2010-05-03 16:24:54','Don\'t know that one - looks good. But LW really is fantastic too. It downloads the theme of your  web site so you get a genuine preview of the page.',0,'1','','',1056,0),(1060,3924,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-03 20:13:55','2010-05-03 19:13:55','David, I know you\'ve abandoned the idea of an iPad; however, here is a website for anyone else considering one that discusses the pros and cons. http://barefeats.com\n\nThe ipad review is here: http://barefeats.com/ipad2.html\n\nBarefeats is the absolute go-to site for the lowdown on what a Mac can do and what its innards promise. I never buy any Mac computer without checking with him first.\n\nI\'ve followed his advice for replacement drives that have boosted performance 2-3X, and his off-the-charts nerdism about displays, Mac products, and extras to buy have never led me astray.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1061,3924,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-16 21:45:50','2010-05-16 20:45:50','Chiming in late here to say that I *love* my Macbook Air - and it was the worst model ever (the original, unrevised 1.6 GHz) machine. I agree with David about its lack of ports and slowness - this model struggles to multitask, sometimes - but it\'s an elegant little machine, and incredibly light and a joy to travel with. The current MBA\'s aren\'t even as fast as the cheaper baseline Macbooks, but I still think these little things are a marvel; indeed, my fully functional MBA is the main reason I\'ve not bought an iPad (that and Apple\'s increasing snottiness).\n\nDavid\'s well-reasoned, dispassionate near-abandoning of the Mac aside, my next computer will almost definitely be an MBA, too, although it will be one of the faster revisions. And Nick, if you\'re in the US, consider buying a refurbished one (discretely hidden away on the splash page for the Apple store, tucked into a box on the lower lefthand column). Refurbs come with the same warranty as the new computers with a significant savings.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1062,3924,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','81.141.34.241','2010-05-16 21:51:28','2010-05-16 20:51:28','I still use my MBA for presentations and talking about writing. Love the size and the keyboard. It is on the slow side though and the battery life is appalling. But it gets a lot more use than I\'d have out of an iPad I suspect. Am with you there Jonathan  - if I ever get a Tablet I think it will be Android. Not that I\'m desperate for one.',0,'1','','',1061,0),(1063,3934,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','174.131.21.248','2010-05-04 05:45:43','2010-05-04 04:45:43','I kept looking at the ThinkPad Edge 13.3 and thinking, I\'ve seen this some where. And, I have. Only it\'s called an iBook G4 I bought from Apple about six years ago. It is sitting on the desk in front of me.\n\nFor all the world the Edge dimensions, the key board and the key sounds you describe lead me to believe the folks at Lenvo might have seen the iBook along the way.\n\nThis one is a workhorse. There is now a gig of RAM in it. It consumed one battery in five years and a charger in six.\n\nAnd talk about hold it\'s value. This $1000.00 six year old machine refurbished runs $500.00.\n\nBut, if I were in the market I would have to look at the Edge over anything Apple makes. Why?  Because their new laptops are not the iBook G4.   I use my computers to write not view movies.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1064,3934,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','72.147.77.50','2010-05-04 15:09:19','2010-05-04 14:09:19','Thinkpads hold their value almost as well as Macs, and for good reason. For a writer, I think, a Thinkpad provides a better keyboard, but a Mac provides better software.\n\nI considered getting the machine you did but got a good deal on a Macbook. Of course, I would have installed Linux (OpenSUSE) on it if I had.\n\nI don\'t do Microsoft. I\'ve been down that road and I won\'t get burned again. Plus, I need Scrivener, Garageband, and a few other Mac-only apps to do the work I have to do. A Thinkpad would be strictly a rough draft and social networking machine for me.\n\nI believe there\'s a new Word for Mac coming out this year.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1065,3934,'Jeff Abbott','jeff@jeffabbott.com','http://www.jeffabbott.com','24.206.111.133','2010-05-04 14:00:17','2010-05-04 13:00:17','A gaping hole between the Mac mini and the Mac Pro? I believe that would be filled by the iMac.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1066,3934,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.8.245.53','2010-05-04 14:24:39','2010-05-04 13:24:39','Not really. You can\'t open up an iMac and change graphics cards or add another disk drive. I know not many iMac owners would want to but PC owners are used to being able to chop and change things if they want. I had an iMac for a while and it struck me not long after I really would have preferred a bigger screen. Nothing I could do about that because it was a closed box.',0,'1','','',1065,0),(1067,3934,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','71.28.45.202','2010-05-04 18:15:46','2010-05-04 17:15:46','There is a theme developing within our discussion of hardware, software, publishing etc.  The theme: The Corporation and it\'s control over our lives.\n\nBe it personified by Jobs, our becoming sprouts in the information farms of Google and Facebook or  tackied up by BP and it\'s sunken oil rig in the Gulf, I/we  feel the boot on our neck.\n\nThe irony. We use the tools of our serfdom to complain. Genius marketing or what?\nThus the words, first ubiquitous then viral to describe its presence. Then, we wait with eager anticipation for the next edition. Darn, can\'t even be a good Luddite.\n\nI keep my distance by referring to the best of it as a glorified crowbar and just use it.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1068,3934,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.5.21.213','2010-05-04 20:20:30','2010-05-04 19:20:30','I agree Curtis. I think the role that supranational corporations -- companies that are bigger than governments -- lead in our lives is going to be a big issue in the future. I don\'t feel minded to put all my small eggs in that very big basket if I can possibly help it.',0,'1','','',1067,0),(1069,3934,'Donald Hounam','dhounam@gmail.com','','91.104.31.163','2010-05-04 21:27:31','2010-05-04 20:27:31','I\'m curious, David -- and obviously ignorant. But why would the Air slow down over time? Depression? Anaemia? Sheer laziness? I ask coz I\'ve got one and despite all the obvious inadequacies it\'s worked fine for me... so far...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1070,3934,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.5.21.213','2010-05-04 21:33:16','2010-05-04 20:33:16','Well Scrivener has a problem with full screen view which is acknowledged and going to be fixed. In full screen for me on the Air it\'s pretty much unusable. Why do computers get slower over time? I dunno. But they do. Snow Leopard may be one answer. Windows 7 is faster on my Mac mini in general apps than it is.\n\nThe Air is great up to a point and I will continue to use it for out of town presentations. But for a week on the road? No.... The absence of ports alone makes it a problem.',0,'1','','',1069,0),(1071,3934,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','71.28.45.202','2010-05-05 02:45:45','2010-05-05 01:45:45','The recent world wide banking melt down might be some indication that the future might already here.\n\nWhat, maybe thirty five people, world wide, mostly guys, decide they are going to make derivatives a.k.a. worthless paper, the lead fortune maker.\n\nThen a funny thing happens on the way to the moon.  Crash.  Do they care? Why should they? Through the miracle of short selling a.k.a. hedging, it pays either way.\n\nA few of the elite will get thrown from the sleigh. But, the ride will go on.',0,'1','','',1068,0),(1072,3934,'Dean','liquid.reality@gmail.com','','174.18.131.113','2010-05-16 01:13:33','2010-05-16 00:13:33','I think you have some excellent points here.  My situation is a little different than yours, but I\'m running into the same sorts of concerns that you expressed.   I have a house full of Windows 7 machines and have recently been looking to replace a netbook that no longer serves my needs with something more substantial.  I set my criteria and looked at the current available options and at this point, I keep coming back to the 13\" MacBook Pro. I have yet to find anything in the PC world that is really close to the specs and the performance of the 13\" MBP.   I can find similar battery life, but the CPU is significantly slower and there is usually less RAM and drive space.  I can find similar specs, but the battery life is rather short.  I can even find a Sony laptop that is similar in almost all respects to the 13\" MBP, but the Sony is almost double the price of the Mac.  For the criteria that I set for this purchase, the MacBook Pro seems to be the perfect machine.\n\nYour Thinkpad for example has the slower AMD processor and based on reviews seems to average about 5 hours of battery life.  (Which from your write up seems to be perfect for your needs. Which is fantastic)  Once I configure a Thinkpad with a similar processor and upgrade the specs to be close to the MBP it ends up being very close in price to the MacBook Pro.  So for me its not a clear cut savings to go with the Thinkpad.  (And the Thinkpads are not available in stores in my area either, so I\'d be ordering blind as well. Which I think is really a problem with something that ends up being as personal as a laptop.  It needs to feel right, and that\'s hard to get a feel for mail order.)\n\nSo I am faced with a dilemma.  I dont currently use OSX, and I really like Windows 7.  (And all my currently licensed applications are windows applications.)   I am also frustrated with Apple for all of the reasons you listed above.  I like the hardware and I like the technology.  I have issues with the attitudes and the conduct of the company. \"You dont get Flash support because we decided you dont need it.\"  I also have issues with the arrogance in their marketing.  \"We dont make a netbook because they are useless, you need to buy an iPad instead.\"\n\nSo the question for me becomes, do I try to ignore the company behind it and buy the hardware that best meets my individual criteria.  (And just put Win7 on the MBP to run my existing software.)  Or do I buy a machine that does not meet all of my criteria, or possibly a more expensive machine that does and feel good about not supporting a company that has a corporate attitude and a business philosophy that I disagree with?\n\nIf there were 2 machines that were equal in price and similar the choice would be easy, I\'d stick with the PC.  Sadly, it really does seem like the MBP does not have a direct competitor on the PC side of the fence right now.\n\nGreat article though!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1073,3934,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.152.183.243','2010-05-16 09:32:53','2010-05-16 08:32:53','I wouldn\'t assume you\'d get the same battery life on a MB Pro with Windows that you get with OS X. Most of the long battery life comes from some tweaking on both sides (My Asus netbook does 8 hours plus on Windows 7 but much, much less with anything else). Definitely worth checking.\nI don\'t find the Thinkpad with the AMD chip underpowered for anything I want to do - Word 2010, Picasa and Chrome primarily.\n\nYou may want to take a look here - http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31012_7-10431386-10355804.html',0,'1','','',1072,0),(1074,3934,'Dean','liquid.reality@gmail.com','','174.18.131.113','2010-05-16 19:51:30','2010-05-16 18:51:30','Thanks for the link.  I had heard that battery life was shorter running Win7 through bootcamp, it was nice to see some actual numbers.  I\'m looking at it right now as, 2/3 of 10 hours is still over 6 hours, which based on reviews and similar testing procedures ends up still being longer than most of the Windows 7 machines in the same category.\n\nThe Thinkpad processor isn\'t much \"larger\" in terms of speeds and processing power than the netbook that I\'m replacing, and the netbook did bog down on some tasks. I\'m just concerned that the minor bump in specs from the netbook processor to the ULV chips in the Thinkpads is not going to be enough to handle what I now need a laptop to do.   (I occasionally have to do some graphics work and VPN and remote sessions with other machines when I\'m out, and that\'s next to impossible on the netbook.)  And I\'ll grant you that my needs are probably somewhat different than yours are.  After reading your review, I was really getting excited about the Thinkpad. But there is a pretty significant difference in capabilities from a 1.4g processor to a 2.4g processor.  Since Lenovo doesn\'t seem to be interested in having these machines in retail stores so folks can actually TRY them, there is no way for me to play with it a bit and see how it actually handles.  Which has nothing to do with the quality of the machine, its just how they have chosen to do business.\n\nThe more I think about it, the more I think that MBP might be the best option for me in spite of my reservations about Apple as a company.  I\'d have the flexibility to run the OS that I prefer when I need to use applications that I\'ve already purchased.  And for surfing and E-Mail and notes, I\'m sure I could get used to OSX for basic tasks.  (And that would allow me to play with Scrivner for writing, which I\'ve been looking at for a while.  It seems to be universally liked, very efficient, and a darn nice program.)\n\nAt the end of the day, I think its going to come down to what is the best tool for the job.  The name on the box should be less important than its capabilities and its suitableness for a specific person.  I do think that its sad that Apple has conducted themselves in such as way as to create concerns about how they do business.  And it seems like a poor business model to telly our customers what they want.  From your posts, it seems like you have been an Apple user for a while, yet this time Apple chased you away by not offering something that filled your needs and then telling you that you dont need it to begin with.\n\nThanks for the discussion and the info link and the excellent Blog.  I\'ve been going back through older posts and your opinions on publishing and the business of books has been fascinating for me to read. As someone that very much wants to try to get my foot in the door, its interesting to see the view from someone already in.  Thanks for sharing!\n\nDean',0,'1','','',0,0),(1075,3955,'Tom','tkuhn@me.com','http://www.thomaskuhn.biz','93.232.182.210','2010-05-05 09:13:40','2010-05-05 08:13:40','When I looked at the new Outliner, I thought, \"Wow, they must have looked more than once on Mellel\". But Mellel isn´t a Beauty Queen (though I liked it very much, it´s the intrinsic values, that count ;-) and Office looked much prettier now.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1076,3955,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.5.21.213','2010-05-05 09:14:47','2010-05-05 08:14:47','It\'s a lot easier to use than Mellel, promise',0,'1','','',1075,0),(1077,3955,'Bill Cameron','bc@billcameronmysteries.com','http://www.billcameronmysteries.com','216.99.212.66','2010-05-05 20:48:46','2010-05-05 19:48:46','In the end, it sounds like you\'re saying if you just tough your way through a bunch of unnecessary crap, you can get this latest iteration of Microsoft bloatware to be almost as good as other word processors you may already have and which almost certainly cost quite a bit less.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1078,3955,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.5.21.213','2010-05-05 20:52:32','2010-05-05 19:52:32','Not at all. You can turn this stuff off in a minute or two. And for me it\'s a whole lot better than Pages -- really, I\'ve spent the last few weeks revising in it and it\'s really very good.\n\nBut each to his own... And the thing is - like it or not we still have to deliver our books as a Word file. Of course the next Word for Mac may be completely different....',0,'1','','',1077,0),(1079,3955,'Bill Cameron','bc@billcameronmysteries.com','http://www.billcameronmysteries.com','216.99.212.66','2010-05-05 23:06:10','2010-05-05 22:06:10','I\'ve been able to avoid Word while having all the features you tout in products less expensive and less inclined to try to make decisions for me which make life unnecessarily difficult. I even manage to deliver my manuscripts in Word format without ever opening Word.\n\nI suppose should the time come when I have no choice but to work in Word and in Windows, it\'s good to know the latest version is better than its been since, well, about 1987, when version 3 was replaced by more than two decades of Word nightmare.\n\nI\'m just not convinced that at some critical moment, the new Word isn\'t going to pull a, well, a Word on you and destroy everything you\'ve done. Microsoft has not earned that trust.',0,'1','','',1078,0),(1080,3955,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.5.21.213','2010-05-05 23:08:53','2010-05-05 22:08:53','With you on all that, Bill. This was a surprise to me too. But should I really not say it?',0,'1','','',1079,0),(1081,3955,'Jeff Abbott','jeff@jeffabbott.com','http://www.jeffabbott.com','24.206.111.133','2010-05-06 03:26:05','2010-05-06 02:26:05','Thank you for sharing this, David.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1082,3955,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','98.18.87.179','2010-05-06 05:40:29','2010-05-06 04:40:29','I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I used Wordstar 2 on an Adam Osborn CPM system back in the day before Bill got the nod from Big Blue.\n\nI\'m wondering, in all that time, from Wordstar through Word Perfect and on to the bloatware of Microsoft, why hasn\'t someone carved out a word processor for writers?\n It is not like there is no market there.\n\nAs you pointed out. We really don\'t need a ton of features to have the tool we need.\n\nEven with the turn-it-off-and-it-will-be-acceptable, that\'s what we have, something that is acceptable. Today. Kinda sorta. And, I\'m guessing expensive. With acceptable we still wait for the next one, hoping it will be the one.\n\nSome how that big  Corporation likes ol flow, good ol cash flow better than that. The\n\"one\" lives only in our imagination.\n\nThe word processor search is a lot like watching a dog at the dog track chase the electric driven rabbit.  I got tired of betting every race.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1083,3955,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','80.47.187.183','2010-05-06 10:33:59','2010-05-06 09:33:59','Why hasn\'t someone carved out a word processor for writers? Niche-ish market (though I\'m sure the wannabe segment would help), and (I imagine) quite a big coding effort.\n\nExcept they have - almost. Scrivener is almost there — Scrivener 2 will be even closer — though the developer is always careful to say that his product is not a full-blown wp. There are numerous other tools on Windows and the Mac that are padding along behind or in certain ways closer still.\n\nI\'m no expert but I think what seems to defeat them all are two-and-a-half issues: not surprisingly, the production of a proper Word clone document as required by agents and publishers (potentially much harder for non-fiction than fiction, when footnotes, indexes, images and what-not may be involved), and as, David explains above, the revise process. The requirement for \"round-tripping\" in Word format seems particularly difficult. Specifically, I haven\'t come across any wp that can handle \"Track changes\" like Word can. Perhaps it involves complexities of coding that smaller developers cannot manage yet. Scrivener 3 perhaps.',0,'1','','',1082,0),(1084,3955,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.5.21.213','2010-05-06 10:36:49','2010-05-06 09:36:49','Keith, the brains behind Scrivener, did mention this on the forums and as you said - the code behind track changes is colossal and beyond a one-man company. I\'m resigned to having to do the revise in something other than Scrivener. Since it has to be delivered in Word then Word would be the best medium. Have to say I\'ve been very happy with doing this revise in Word 2010.',0,'1','','',1083,0),(1085,3955,'Jeff Abbott','jeff@jeffabbott.com','http://www.jeffabbott.com','24.206.111.133','2010-05-06 13:32:41','2010-05-06 12:32:41','David, to cut to the chase, if these features aren\'t in the new Mac version, you\'re suggesting that it could be worth it to put Windows on a Mac and use this version of Word? While I definitely like the outlining enhancements above, I have a long memory -- and I remember frequent crashing with Word for Windows, macro viruses, corrupted files. I\'ve never had any of those problems with Word for Mac. (crashes only during heavy use of track changes during copyediting).',0,'1','','',0,0),(1086,3955,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.5.21.213','2010-05-06 13:41:56','2010-05-06 12:41:56','I\'m certainly convinced enough to want to use these features, on a Mac or not. It\'s easy enough to switch between Windows and Mac with Boot Camp. And frankly Windows 7 with that security essentials pack I mentioned seems just fine. Not pretty but it works. I\'ve just revised a 125k word book in the Word 2010 beta - no crashes, no problems at all. And actually it feels faster in Windows on my Mac mini than Mac Word - as does Chrome.\n\nIt comes with macros disabled (I never use them anyway). So I don\'t think a macro virus could get you (though I know nothing about them).\n\nMy feeling is the Mac versus Windows argument is a lot less clear cut than it used to be. This ThinkPad Edge is definitely my portable machine from now on I suspect.\n\nI also have to say I don\'t like the way Apple is going as a company with behaviour like this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/ellen_degeneres_apologizes/',0,'1','','',1085,0),(1087,3955,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','98.18.87.179','2010-05-06 18:24:01','2010-05-06 17:24:01','David.. Thanks for the link.\n\nWhat\'s he afraid of?   Sounds like he is channeling Bush-Chaney.   Or, has he simply lost his mind?',0,'1','','',1086,0),(1088,3955,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','87.5.21.213','2010-05-06 19:36:10','2010-05-06 18:36:10','Who knows? I\'ve been dealing with Apple as a company since 1984. It was always arrogant when it was failing. Now it\'s succeeding..',0,'1','','',1087,0),(1089,3955,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-16 21:31:13','2010-05-16 20:31:13','I\'ve been really disturbed by Apple\'s behaviour in recent months too - utterly churlish, and at odds with the kinder, gentler computing megacorp image they\'ve always had. I\'m a die-hard Apple user, but if I get a tablet, I may go with the Google Android one.\n\nWhat are your thoughts on the free online/cloud-based Office 2010 that\'s recently been announced, David? I\'m still a little wary of the whole cloud thing, but have started backing up my Scrivener files each day to Dropbox - I keep the original on my computer, and back it up to Dropbox. I suppose it would make more sense to keep the file exclusively on Dropbox, so that way I\'d always be certain I was dealing with the most current iteration, but I\'m just too much of a chicken to go there quite yet.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1090,3955,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','81.141.34.241','2010-05-16 21:39:46','2010-05-16 20:39:46','The web Office 2010 isn\'t available to look at right now as far as I\'m aware. Will take a look when it is. I imagine the apps will be somewhat cut down as Google Docs are. We\'ll still be doing the serious heavy lifting on our PCs and Macs.\n\nI\'m a big fan of the Cloud for storage though I prefer Sugarsync to Dropbox - http://davidhewson.com/2010/04/22/some-new-ways-to-make-sure-you-dont-lose-stuff/ - and as I say in this article there are gotchas with using Scrivener files with such systems. They\'re not really files at all but folders and things can turn nasty if one bit of that folder info goes astray.\n\nSo really I don\'t see that we\'ll be using Cloud word processors as heavy duty word processors in the near future. But I think as a backup medium it\'s fantastic. Sugarsync blows Time Machine out of the water.\n\nAs for Apple.. I am even more pissed off with them now than when I wrote this. Today I went out and bought a £460 Hewlett Packard i3 Windows 7 desktop box. When Apple deliver the £100 piece of kit that lets me attach it to their proprietary Displayport connector on my LED Cinema Display -- that says it all doesn\'t it? -- I will be able to choose between W7 and OS X at will (OS X 64 bit isn\'t supported on my Mac mini even though it\'s patently capable of running  it - and does after a fashion).\n\nWord 2010 on Windows is quite an amazing piece of work once you kill the bling. I think I may have bought my last piece of Apple kit.',0,'1','','',1089,0),(1091,3990,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','126.231.25.39','2010-05-06 07:47:41','2010-05-06 06:47:41','While it\'s admirable to do this level of research and I admire writers who do it, let\'s not forget that it\'s also about time and finance.\nI don\'t think many struggling writers have the time or money to fly off to where they\'re book is based. Perhaps that\'s why lots of people write fantasy.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1092,3990,'Jared','kelly.jared@mail.com','http://jaredkelly.blogspot.com/','80.3.169.29','2010-05-06 10:10:22','2010-05-06 09:10:22','The great Ernest Lehman flagged up one of these moments after North By Northwest had its theatrical release. When Roger Thornhill is looking through a set of binoculars at the faces of the presidents, he turns to the professor and says, \"I don\'t like the way Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me.\"\n\nAs Lehman pointed out, \"The way his face is positioned, Teddy Roosevelt isn\'t looking at anyone!\"',0,'1','','',0,0),(1093,3990,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','98.18.87.179','2010-05-06 18:46:31','2010-05-06 17:46:31','David, for what it is worth, I think that kind of attention puts more than accurate detail in the book.\n\nAttention to detail might very well be one of the ways we infuse \"life,\" living breathing \"life\" into our books.  Just maybe?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1094,3990,'Petra Nieuwpoort','pcnieuwpoort@home.nl','','82.75.120.126','2010-05-07 08:36:51','2010-05-07 07:36:51','Hello David,\nEventhough I would proberly never notice the mistake about Redentore, I know that this is just the kind of thing that makes your books read so well. Just knowing that it all could be true ;)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1095,3993,'Petra Nieuwpoort','pcnieuwpoort@home.nl','','82.75.120.126','2010-05-07 08:42:31','2010-05-07 07:42:31','What are they thinking? Is there really anybody that stupid to follow a link placed in comment spam??? I never have and never will.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1096,3999,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','98.18.87.179','2010-05-07 03:46:16','2010-05-07 02:46:16','Beautiufl place!!!\n\n\"Last year I brought back some onion seeds from Tropea and tried to grow them back in the UK. Same plant. Same seeds. Didn’t work at all.\"\n\n\nIt is the onion AND the soil.  Same thing happens with Vidalia Onions.\n\nVidalia, GA  ( USA)  is famous for their sweet onions. First time I cooked with them they turned the beef sweet. Lots of sugar in them.     Buy them even as sets and grow them any where but in about a two county area of south GA, poof.  Nothing.\n\nWe spent last weekend in north GA. What did our friends ask us to bring them. Yep, Vidalia onions.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1097,3999,'Petra Nieuwpoort','pcnieuwpoort@home.nl','','82.75.120.126','2010-05-07 08:45:38','2010-05-07 07:45:38','Once again a great picture. Makes me want to go there myself! And if so, I\'ll try the onions.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1098,3999,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-16 21:16:13','2010-05-16 20:16:13','A great picture of a really cool place!\n\nMy first thought was of Vidalias, too, Curtis. (pronunciation: \"Vy-DALE-yuh\")',0,'1','','',0,0),(1099,3999,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','173.186.34.151','2010-05-16 22:13:06','2010-05-16 21:13:06','And, spoken with out moving ones mouth.',0,'1','','',1098,0),(1100,4003,'Alison Morton','alison@alison-morton.com','http://www.alison-morton.com/blog/','86.153.123.199','2010-05-13 10:14:38','2010-05-13 09:14:38','Thank you for an insightful post.\nThe three simple aspirations were my first goal, and still are.\nBut your post has concentrated my thoughts about specific aims and objectives. In my heart (and head) I know them and can burble about them in a roundabout way. They\'ve always been there while I\'ve been drafting my book.  But today I am going to write them down in concrete form.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1101,4003,'Katrina Lantz','katrina.lantz@gmail.com','http://katrinalantznovelist.blogspot.com/','76.91.108.124','2010-05-13 16:50:33','2010-05-13 15:50:33','Fantastic advice! I have never written down these goals, but I\'m sure all writers do have goals beyond getting the thing published. The aspiration to explain, to illustrate, or to explore is the real reason we write--not just publication (which will be divine, I\'m sure). Thank you for the suggestion of pinpointing these aspirations as I\'m writing. I\'m sure it will make the writing more sincere.',0,'1','','',1100,0),(1102,4005,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','80.47.212.250','2010-05-13 14:00:03','2010-05-13 13:00:03','Here is another good graphic — in effect a Facebook privacy timeline:\n\nhttp://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/\n\nIt looks as if the the FB backlash is growing.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1103,4005,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-14 10:06:38','2010-05-14 09:06:38','Watch the video of these guys at the bottom of this site explaining Diaspora.\n\nI think they\'re onto something.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1104,4005,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-14 10:07:11','2010-05-14 09:07:11','Oops. Here\'s the link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/diaspora_project_building_the_anti-facebook.php',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1105,4005,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','74.226.47.132','2010-05-18 11:23:28','2010-05-18 10:23:28','I\'m definitely cheering on the Diaspora group, but I can\'t currently abandon my two Facebook accounts. Without them, I have no way to do the sort of networking that I have to do. Wish there was another way for me, but there\'s not.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1106,4010,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','70.89.250.169','2010-05-14 14:48:58','2010-05-14 13:48:58','Love this post!\n\nI don\'t have too much constructive to say in my comment, but it provided me with a good morning chuckle.  I think that the heart of the post is very important though, especially for the vast swath of the unclean unpublished.  Staying true to our own stories, and not giving into angle/vampire/wizard trends is important and lends itself to a -- what\'s the word? -- honesty about our made-up worlds.\n\nGreat post.  Timely and effective.  Thank you.\n\n-Ken',0,'1','','',0,0),(1107,4010,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-14 19:59:55','2010-05-14 18:59:55','OT,\n\nHere is a link to macosxhints.com about adding word count to programs like TextEdit.\nhttp://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20100504062201437\n\nThe iPad doesn\'t have Apple Script...yet...but this might change.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1108,4010,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-14 20:00:51','2010-05-14 19:00:51','I agree. I love your ruminations, David.',0,'1','','',1106,0),(1109,4010,'Mark Terry','markterry@charter.net','http://www.markterrybooks.com','66.227.150.98','2010-05-14 20:59:10','2010-05-14 19:59:10','As hard as it was for me to believe this before I got published, being contracted to write a book based on a paragraph or two or a chapter or so (I\'ve done both) can be kind of a pain, which I think is what you\'re getting at here. It\'s nice to have the publisher\'s commitment (such as it is), but it can sometimes feel like you\'re writing with a straightjacket on. The security might feel nice, but I\'m not always sure it produces the best work.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1110,4013,'Shaun Durham','shaundurham@btinternet.com','','135.196.235.230','2010-05-17 16:49:14','2010-05-17 15:49:14','David, this is excellent advice. I use tags in firefox browser and they are great for research purposes. But what about offline ideas that occur away from desks, ipads and smart phones? I put mine all in a notebook. It was only after I left the notebook in a pub that I realised I needed to \'back-up\' my written notes in a second pad. Cue much confusion and interesting hybrid story ideas...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1111,4013,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','81.141.34.241','2010-05-17 16:52:28','2010-05-17 15:52:28','I\'m hopeless with anything on paper - it WILL be lost. That said I still think there\'s some way to go with the whole \'keep it, don\'t lose it\' thing on computers. It should be easier. Same with to-do lists too. These simple things shouldn\'t be so hard.',0,'1','','',1110,0),(1112,4013,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-18 03:07:57','2010-05-18 02:07:57','You looked at YEP? The same developers made TagIt. YEP has TagIt on steroids as part of a much more sophisticated document management program created for people who like their files organized visually. This is one manual you have to read, however.\nhttp://www.ironicsoftware.com/\n\nIt works across drives, and newly mounted volumes.\n\nBatch tagging if you forgot to do it, or if the docs are 20 years old. Collections. A magnifying glass that lets you peruse portions of docs on a storyboard-like viewer that shows scaleable thumbnails of your docs.\n\nSome intro videos to see how it works.\nhttp://www.ironicsoftware.com/yep/video.html',0,'1','','',0,0),(1113,4013,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','74.226.47.132','2010-05-18 11:19:11','2010-05-18 10:19:11','Tags never work that well for me. Eventually I have far too many of them. Sure, they\'re better than nothing, but only just.\n\nI\'ve just started using Circus Ponies\' Notebook 3.0 for organizing my writing life. I\'ve got so many snippets, projects etc. I\'m slowly setting up a notebook for this. Gonna take me a while.\n\nWhat I\'m doing is using the traditional computer folder structure with as much organization as I can muster. Then I create a notebook page for each project or idea and link (not embed) the files for that project on the page. Also, I can enter notes about the project, set up action boxes and due dates for submissions, keep a record of rejections and acceptances, and so forth.\n\nIt\'s already working well for me. Good way to keep track of revisions and the things you need to do for several different projects. The only bad thing is that I didn\'t start doing this years ago.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1114,4013,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.168.160.190','2010-05-18 11:23:47','2010-05-18 10:23:47','Yep - bought that too! Somehow never managed to get on with it. Don\'t quite know why. I always found it counter intuitive trying to turn pages I guess. MacJournal was definitely the best Mac info app for me.',0,'1','','',1113,0),(1115,4013,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','74.226.47.132','2010-05-18 21:29:49','2010-05-18 20:29:49','I tried YEP but it didn\'t treat Scrivener files as documents, so it didn\'t help me.',0,'1','','',1112,0),(1116,4013,'David Alastair Hayden','david@dahayden.com','http://www.dahayden.com','74.226.47.132','2010-05-18 21:32:05','2010-05-18 20:32:05','I haven\'t tried MacJournal. Guess I should.\n\nMy wife took to Notebook instantly but it took version 3.0 and several attempts for me to finally feel comfortable with it and know what I wanted to do. And yet it\'s still a little awkward. They really need to revise their interface.',0,'1','','',1114,0),(1117,4013,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.218.27','2010-05-18 21:32:05','2010-05-18 20:32:05','I seem to remember struggling with it too. The way Windows 7 treats tags, as simple file metadata, is the way forward. Apple should build it into OS X. Scrivener files are, of course, not really files but folders which is probably part of the problem.',0,'1','','',1115,0),(1118,4013,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.218.27','2010-05-18 21:35:50','2010-05-18 20:35:50','Have to confess.. right now I am messing around with Windows with OneNote 2010. A lot more interesting than it looks at first sight, but it\'s not coming to the Mac\n\nI do think with these things you have to find what works for you and then just stick with it. Which I simply can\'t do.',0,'1','','',1116,0),(1119,4018,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-05-18 16:18:41','2010-05-18 15:18:41','So it turns out my masked Twitter avatar is actually historically retro?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1120,4018,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.146.253.232','2010-05-18 16:21:29','2010-05-18 15:21:29','I\'d assumed that\'s why you chose it. Not after that Godawful movie.',0,'1','','',1119,0),(1121,4030,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','219.164.177.48','2010-05-19 12:51:40','2010-05-19 11:51:40','David,\n\nSorry to post an unrelated question but you\'ve mentioned using Apple Pages recently. I just wondered, at what point in the writing process do you move away from Scrivener to Pages and what function does it serve?\n\nKind Regards',0,'1','','',0,0),(1122,4030,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','81.141.34.241','2010-05-19 13:16:04','2010-05-19 12:16:04','Few articles on this if you search for \'Pages\' in the search field. Here\'s one...\n\nhttp://davidhewson.com/2010/04/07/getting-some-perspective-on-your-work/',0,'1','','',1121,0),(1123,4030,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.jenniholbrook.com','66.66.217.27','2010-05-19 17:25:00','2010-05-19 16:25:00','OH David. I do love this post. I\'m a little obbsessional myself, but you knew that already. I find it interesting we have the same mouse. From what I can tell, it\'s the same color. Go figure. My keyboard is so used the letters are missing. Thankfully all those years teaching keyboarding has made it so that I don\'t need to see the letters on the keyboards, i get there by feel. I have one of those keyboards that has the big bump in the middle so that my wrists aren\'t in total pain by the end of the day.\n\nMy biggest quirk when it comes ot writing in my office is that I cannot sit with my back to a door. This literally makes me crazy and paranoid, well more crazy and paranoid than usual. When I\'m in the zone, I hear nothing, see nothing but the characters and story in my head and my kids have this horrible habit of walking into my office (even when the door is shut) to remind me it\'s my motherly duty to cook them food or drive them to school or help them with homework or solve their boyfriend/girlfirend problems. I also need to see the window, so I position my ubnoxioulsy large external screen in the direction of the window and tilt my head so i can read what i\'m writing while taking peeks at the bunny that lives in my bushes.\n\nOh, and every spring the dead come back to visit me. This damn bird, every spring, shows up and sits on the bush, then flys into the window and then repeats the motion until it ends up flat on it\'s back near the bush. Every year. Makes me crazy.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1124,4036,'Jared','jaredogg@gmail.com','','221.234.37.129','2010-05-21 13:18:39','2010-05-21 12:18:39','same thing happened...\nDropbox was blocked in China a couple of weeks ago,just turn to Sugarsync......',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1125,4036,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-21 15:04:59','2010-05-21 14:04:59','Dropbox has been reliable for me. I can understand why China blocked it: it circumvents their filtering system. Turns every computer in China that uses it into its own seed.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1126,4036,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','75.89.212.140','2010-05-21 20:44:32','2010-05-21 19:44:32','I\'ll let the crowd deal with the bugs in the Cloud.  I\'m greatful for early adopters.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1127,4036,'Debbie','dbobby@sugarsync.com','http://www.sugarsync.com','66.201.45.226','2010-05-25 22:04:20','2010-05-25 21:04:20','David, just following up on my email reply to your ticket, I\'m very sorry you were affected by our service disruption on Friday.  That\'s definitely not indicative of the service we strive to offer.\n\nI\'ve processed your refund and hope we have to opportunity to regain your trust.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1128,4039,'Lesley Cookman','lesleycookman@yahoo.co.uk','http://www.lesleycookman.co.uk','87.115.21.116','2010-05-24 09:30:52','2010-05-24 08:30:52','It used to be the other way round, didn\'t it? Late husband was an Apple Trainer, right from the beginning, when they first came over here, so I\'ve grown up with Macs - still have a Classic in the garage! In the first ten years Macs could read anything from anywhere but Windows couldn\'t.\n\nWhat a pity.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1129,4039,'Matt Gibson','gothick@gothick.org.uk','http://gothick.org.uk/','80.176.75.164','2010-05-24 10:17:26','2010-05-24 09:17:26','Had you seen this little nugget in the Scrivener Twitter feed, by the way? http://twitter.com/ScrivenerApp/status/14290901261\n\nLooks hopeful...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1130,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-24 11:54:59','2010-05-24 10:54:59','Scrivener for Windows would be great - it really is the only thing I\'m going to miss.',0,'1','','',1129,0),(1131,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-24 11:56:26','2010-05-24 10:56:26','I\'ve had a Mac around me for 25 years or more and I\'m not getting rid of them. I just want to see what life is like without them. The control freakery really is appalling. Also I\'m not really convinced Jobs is much interested in the Mac any more. The iPad and iPhone seem to get far more investment.',0,'1','','',1128,0),(1132,4039,'Matt','mgmillik@gmail.com','','128.135.230.235','2010-05-24 14:52:20','2010-05-24 13:52:20','Have you checked this out? http://writingoutliner.com/.\n\nI haven\'t because I switched to a Mac to use Scrivener, but it looks promising.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1133,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-24 15:19:02','2010-05-24 14:19:02','I did see that. It seemed a pretty naked attempt to copy some of Scrivener\'s features to me. Also I have bad memories of macros on Windows in the past and feel they\'re best avoided. I\'m going to try using nothing but Word and OneNote and see how it goes. Though when/if Scrivener for Windows comes along...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1134,4039,'Matt Gibson','gothick@gothick.org.uk','http://gothick.org.uk/','80.176.75.164','2010-05-24 16:00:35','2010-05-24 15:00:35','There\'s a few more things I\'d miss. Pixelmator, Coda, iMovie, and the gorgeousness of the font rendering in general, I think. Lightroom, at least, I could have on Windows.\n\nFundamentally, though, I\'m more happy in unix than on Windows. My main reason for switching in the first place is that I basically wanted \"Linux where the multimedia stuff actually worked\".\n\nMac is still the platform that, for me, has maximised the time spent creating stuff and minimised the time spent swearing at and fixing the tools, so I\'m going to stick with it.\n\nPartly, though, I deliberately came to it with the attitude of, \"I know I\'m going to have to put up with some pre-made choices, and I\'m going to try to be okay with that\" because I knew it would grate otherwise, after being the kind of person who\'d happily patch driver code and recompile a kernel to get a graphics tablet working in X11...\n\nAt some point, though, I\'ll have given it long enough that other platforms will be worth a second look -- Windows 7 certainly seems to be a great deal better than its predecessors, for example.',0,'1','','',1130,0),(1135,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-24 16:03:51','2010-05-24 15:03:51','I can see that if you\'re doing multimedia it\'s more difficult. But really - I just write and that\'s it. The less stuff I have around me the better things go...\n\nOne problem with the Mac is that it has all these flash looking video and music and photo apps and they can kid you into thinking, \'I can do that too!\'\n\nAnd you know what? I can\'t.',0,'1','','',1134,0),(1136,4039,'Laura Benedict','laura@laurabenedict.com','http://www.laurabenedict.com','71.124.124.226','2010-05-24 16:33:53','2010-05-24 15:33:53','Will be interested to see how this goes for you. I have the only Mac in the family--a 17\" MacBook Pro that I bought four years ago. Haven\'t changed a thing about it and still love it. Love the photo manipulation, video, etc. But it won\'t last forever and P, the family IT guy/husband has PCs all over the house. Not sure what I\'ll do. Maybe it will last forever like our \'99 Camry.\n\nI know it\'s for safety, but I love how the monitor in the pic is turned to the wall as though in shame. : )',0,'1','','',0,0),(1137,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-24 16:44:43','2010-05-24 15:44:43','No - it\'s that way for shame. A monitor you can\'t plug into most things. It SHOULD be ashamed.',0,'1','','',1136,0),(1138,4039,'tontowilliams','tontowilliams@gmail.com','http://tontowilliams.posterous.com','86.179.113.253','2010-05-24 18:36:01','2010-05-24 17:36:01','Your tip to me about the thinkpad was excellent, thanks! Definately dumped the Ipad (too expensive, and not the right tool).\n\nI use open office a lot for writing but also word when I have too, so will be interested to read your thoughts on that.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1139,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-24 21:08:41','2010-05-24 20:08:41','Glad you like the Thinkpad Edge. I think mine\'s fantastic. I never really got on with OpenOffice - it always seemed like a version behind of Word. Fine if that\'s what you want but I need a bit more on the outlining front.\n\nMy thoughts on Word 2010 for that are here\n\nhttp://davidhewson.com/2010/05/05/word-2010-for-windows-wonds-well-hidden/\n\nThe beta is free and will run till October by the way - worth a look.',0,'1','','',1138,0),(1140,4039,'Matt','mgmillik@gmail.com','','68.72.128.15','2010-05-24 22:15:03','2010-05-24 21:15:03','Cool. To be fair, however, the developer is entirely transparent about this. See: http://writingoutliner.com/writing-software/blog/tag/scrivener-for-pc/\n\nOnenote is a cool program. I\'ll be interested to hear how you end up using it.',0,'1','','',1133,0),(1141,4039,'tontowilliams','tontowilliams@gmail.com','http://tontowilliams.posterous.com','193.35.132.16','2010-05-24 22:34:10','2010-05-24 21:34:10','Thanks again David. I think I\'ll certainly give the beta a try. As a freebie there\'s nothing really to loose.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1142,4039,'Michael Hughes','michaelmhughes@gmail.com','http://michaelmhughes.com','162.129.44.17','2010-05-25 15:43:39','2010-05-25 14:43:39','I can\'t even imagine migrating from a Mac to a PC. Every single experience I\'ve had using Windows (of any flavor) has been an exercise in frustration. I regularly watch my exasperated colleagues dealing with Windows glitches, viruses, malware, spyware.... and I don\'t want any of that. OS X just works. Always. And being a visual person, the blocky, ugly esthetics of Windows is another major drawback. The operating environment reminds me of a dull, corporate cubicle farm.\n\nI also have to heap some praise on Scrivener. I wrote 2 drafts of my book with it, and it\'s spectacular software for keeping organized and creating a long manuscript. I output into Word for final copy (since that\'s what my agent requests) and that takes a little tweaking, but not much.\n\nGood luck on your transition. I consider switching to \'Doze from a Mac the equivalent of swapping out a BMW for a clunky jalopy held together with duct tape and string. But it may work for you.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1143,4039,'Michael Hughes','michaelmhughes@gmail.com','http://michaelmhughes.com','162.129.44.17','2010-05-25 15:52:46','2010-05-25 14:52:46','One other point -- I don\'t think it\'s fair to complain about the Mac peripherals not working with other PCs. They are not made to do so. The beauty of a closed Mac ecosystem is that things just *work.* You attach a keyboard and it works. No need to find a website and download drivers. However, I do use a Logitech wireless keyboard with my iMac. Works like a charm. So although products made for Macs might not work as well with other PCs, many third-party products work with Macs.\n\nThe arguments against Apple becoming more \"closed\" don\'t impress me very much. The iPhone OS, for instance, has a multitude of fantastic apps made by independent developers. The fact that the system is closed means the phone or iPad rarely locks up and that I can be confident the app has been vetted. And Macs themselves are still open and I can install anything I want on them. The iPhone and iPad are more computing devices than full-fledged computers -- and that\'s fine. It\'s what many people want -- something that just works.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1144,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-25 17:04:42','2010-05-25 16:04:42','Would have felt much the same way till lately. But having used Windows 7 extensively to revise a book I found I revised my opinions of it too. No viruses, malware or crashes that I\'ve encountered. As to aesthetics... it\'s a computer. I\'m more interested in what it can do than how it looks.',0,'1','','',1142,0),(1145,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-25 17:14:30','2010-05-25 16:14:30','Well if you attach a keyboard to Windows it just works. Even an Apple keyboard. What doesn\'t are things like the media keys and they DO work if you have Apple\'s own keyboard drivers which are inside Boot Camp instead of being freely available. I don\'t understand why Apple would make people\'s lives awkward like that.\n\nOr why with the Apple LED Cinema Display they would make a monitor that\'s actually incompatible with their own products - even a very expensive Mac Pro bought a few months before that monitor appeared can\'t work with it.\n\nYour iPhone apps are vetted principally to ensure they conform to Apple\'s ideas of what is morally acceptable and acceptable to Apple\'s own business practices. Nothing to do with stability.',0,'1','','',1143,0),(1146,4039,'Michael Hughes','michaelmhughes@gmail.com','http://michaelmhughes.com','162.129.44.17','2010-05-25 17:14:52','2010-05-25 16:14:52','Interesting, I haven\'t used Windows 7. Good to hear it\'s a better experience. But by aesthetics, I mean the look and feel of the OS. I spend an enormous portion of my life inside that environment, so the much more pleasing and intuitive Mac OS is a nicer place to live inside. I realize that is subjective, but having used both, I always feel more at home with Apple.\n\nToday, for instance, I had to find the IP address of a coworkers PC (running XP). On my Mac, I open a control panel and it\'s there. On the PC, I had to use a command interface and type in some arcane string of text. Things like that make me cringe. It makes no sense to bury something so crucial.',0,'1','','',1144,0),(1147,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-25 17:19:28','2010-05-25 16:19:28','On Windows 7 (and I think Vista) go to the network panel and right click on the device/computer. IP address right there along with MAC address and device ID. Haven\'t typed in a line of code since I bought these machines (though occasionally have had to do it in OS X which is Unix of course).\n\nPS. Judging Windows by XP is a bit like judging a Mac on the basis of OS 9!',0,'1','','',1146,0),(1148,4039,'Michael Hughes','michaelmhughes@gmail.com','http://michaelmhughes.com','162.129.44.17','2010-05-25 18:04:20','2010-05-25 17:04:20','I agree with you about the Cinema Display -- a bad move on Apple\'s part. But I have no reason to complain about a company that pushes its users to use their own products through integrated design. I\'m generally very happy with the way they work together. I wouldn\'t expect my Apple wireless keyboard to work perfectly if I plugged it into a Dell. I had to do some tweaking to my Logitech keyboard to get the media keys to work with the Mac, and there are still proprietary keys on it (Media Center) that are inactive on the Mac. That\'s the price of having 2 dominant OS platforms. At least on a Mac you can run Windows, either in Boot Camp or with virtualization -- including Windows 2010. That doesn\'t seem to be closed or proprietary.\n\nAnd yes, Steve\'s \"no porn\" policy has led to some bizarre rejections from the app store, and some of the decisions have seemed arbitrary or nonsensical. But the app store has been a boon to independent developers. A walled garden approach to apps is, to a large extent, about assuring stability and quality, not just about maximizing profits (hence the exclusion of Flash). Look at gaming consoles like Xbox -- they are tightly closed, but no one complains about them. Why? They work.',0,'1','','',1145,0),(1149,4039,'Matt Gibson','gothick@gothick.org.uk','http://gothick.org.uk/','80.176.75.164','2010-05-25 18:09:13','2010-05-25 17:09:13','Heh. Of course, one of the things I like about the Mac, being an old-school geek, is that you can drop to the command line interface and type a similarly arcane string of text (\"ifconfig\" versus Windows\' \"ipconfig\", for the desperately interested) to get the same result.\n\nIt\'s the same string of text I\'ve been typing into Unix command prompts since the early 1990s to do the same job, and it\'s why I like Macs -- the shiny is fantastic, but it also covers a very powerful, competent core with a long heritage that I already know how to use...\n\nIncidentally, you can also find the IP address in the control panel in Windows, somewhere under networking, without the string of cryptic crap. The two OSes are pretty similar in this regard, and it just depends on which one you know better as to which one you find easier to use.',0,'1','','',1146,0),(1150,4039,'Matt Gibson','gothick@gothick.org.uk','http://gothick.org.uk/','80.176.75.164','2010-05-25 18:13:39','2010-05-25 17:13:39','\"PS. Judging Windows by XP is a bit like judging a Mac on the basis of OS 9!\"\n\nI\'m sure this is true. Sadly, Vista was so unpopular with both my friends and at work, and Windows 7 is so new, that I\'ve never actually used anything higher than XP. I\'m considering getting a netbook, and if I do it\'ll have Win 7 on it just so I can play with it and see what it looks like.\n\nI bet they\'ve bloody moved everything!',0,'1','','',1147,0),(1151,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-25 18:16:01','2010-05-25 17:16:01','As someone I know put it... Windows 7 is Vista with all the crap bits taken out. So things haven\'t such moved as slimmed down. Which is nice. They\'ve also ripped off and much improved Spotlight - hit the Windows key and type something to see.',0,'1','','',1150,0),(1152,4039,'Michael Hughes','michaelmhughes@gmail.com','http://michaelmhughes.com','162.129.44.17','2010-05-25 18:36:08','2010-05-25 17:36:08','Matt -- thanks for the correction on the IP address. I was going by the advice of another certified command-line geek after I couldn\'t find the control panel setting.',0,'1','','',1149,0),(1153,4039,'cts','cshea2@gmail.com','','71.191.179.157','2010-05-29 21:42:28','2010-05-29 20:42:28','Very interesting--I\'m a journalist and headed in the same direction. The factors for me: I hate glossy screens, and Apple won\'t provide a matte screen for its iMacs or 13\" laptops. This is sheer stubbornness, a case of Jobs deciding what\'s good for us. (He loves glossy, but it\'s not a coincidence that business machines all use matte. They\'re better for doing real work on, as opposed to consuming media. I realize opinions may vary, but that\'s what choice is about.) The hardware more generally: the aluminum keyboard makes my hands ache, so I use Logitech--so why pay for the trendy design if I\'m not using it? I don\'t particularly like the idea of all-in-one computers, yet that\'s your only option for a non-economy/non-stratospherically priced mac. Again, lack of choice.\n\nAnd, of course, price. I want to have a desktop and a laptop, synced. With Apple, there\'s no way to do that for under $2,200 (low-end iMac plus Macbook)--unless, as I do, you use Windows for your second machine. Then you\'ve got extra software costs (two copies of Office) and syncing headaches.\n\nI\'m leery of losing things like Expose and Time Machine, and I love the software that Apple developers create--but hardware choice and price are going to win out. Plus, as you\'ve noted, there are some bonuses like OneNote.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1154,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-29 21:48:57','2010-05-29 20:48:57','Document Flip in W 7 seems pretty like Expose to me. And as I said elsewhere.... I think the Western Digital attached USB drive is way better than the much more expensive Time Machine/Capsule combo. But really for me the compelling part is Office 2010 which suits the way I work so well it\'s hard to resist.\n\nApple\'s denial of choice to its customers is quite mind-boggling though I\'ll agree.',0,'1','','',1153,0),(1155,4039,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-30 15:10:07','2010-05-30 14:10:07','So it\'s finally happened, eh, Hewson?\n\nI can\'t say I\'m surprised. And I understand completely (although I have to say, had *I* bought a fancy piece of kit like that monitor, if I\'d had a problem, I\'d have been all over the customer service). The last couple of years seem to have brought a sea change to Apple\'s ideology and practices - maybe the touchy-feely-groovy Apple stuff was the legacy of Wozniak, rather than a product of Jobs\'s increasingly corporate-seeming ruthlessness. I mean, I think porn is \"insanely great\" - where does that leave me with Apple and Jobs\'s quest for a porn-free world?\n\nI think there\'s a good chance that my next phone will be an Android phone, and if I buy a tablet, it\'ll be an Android one. But for now, at the end of the day, I\'m still with the Mac.\n\nI love this Macbook Air (although I got screwed by Apple Care, I feel) - it\'s a beautiful thing, it\'s eminently practical, it does everything I want it to do (including Scrivener), and, if I plug it into a Cinema Display, it\'ll work.\n\nAll I can say is that I hope Word 2011 for Mac includes ONeNote, because that does look rather good.\n\nI would like to leave Apple, just as an FU to Jobs and the increasingly closed system, but I just don\'t see that happening.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1156,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-30 16:15:27','2010-05-30 15:15:27','It doesn\'t look as if Mac Office 2011 will get OneNote - just some new version of Outlook. Though it\'s clear lots of people would love it....\n\nhttp://www.officeformac.com/blog/Welcome-to-the-new-Office-2011-User-Experience\n\nI\'ll be intrigued to see if some of the key improvements inside Word - context find, better outlining and section word counts - make it into Word for Mac. I\'m told two completely different teams work on both products which might explain why both Word for Windows 2007 and Mac 2008 are both such diversely horrible products.\n\nI think there are a stack of Windowslike MacBook Airs now if you want them - and with much greater battery life. Such as this - £470 with an eight hour battery life....\n\nhttp://www.reghardware.com/2009/11/27/review_notebook_acer_aspire_1810tz/\n\nPs - the LED Cinema Display is more than a year old so even if I could screech at Apple support for locking out most other computers, including older Macs, they wouldn\'t give a damn. Or even less of a damn.',0,'1','','',1155,0),(1157,4039,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-30 18:58:20','2010-05-30 17:58:20','Gah. Oh, well. I think my wheezy little MBAir would have difficulty running it in Parallels or what have you. It\'s funny - at work, our IT team is all atwitter because we\'re updating from Word for Windows 2003 to Word for Windows 2007!\n\nAs far as the Windows MBAir-alikes, you\'re highlighting my shallowness. My MBA is a thing of beauty and pride; that Acer sounds like it\'s faster and more powerful than my MBA, and, at $550 in the US, less than half price of even a refurb\'d MBA. But I love it too much to let it go.\n\nAnd speaking of beauty, the Cinema Display may be over a year old, but the Apple user forums are a fantastic source of information. I\'d bet that people there would help sort you out. Just don\'t tell them you\'ve lapsed...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1158,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-30 21:35:17','2010-05-30 20:35:17','Looked at those Apple forums - they are full of people looking for the same answers. The £100 Dr Bott converter box is one of them which Apple sells. Just didn\'t work on my setup.\n\nIf I can make Windows work myself and have to go rootling around to find answers for a Mac... something\'s wrong, don\'t you think?\n\nAnd you\'re right - don\'t even think of trying to run Windows, in Boot Camp or Parallels, on a MacBook Air. Won\'t be pleasant...',0,'1','','',1157,0),(1159,4039,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-30 22:25:11','2010-05-30 21:25:11','Oh, I think we\'re agreed that something\'s wrong.\n\nI do find Jobs\' hubris tiresome, and I think the iPhone is decent for handheld internet access, but a poor telephone. And I\'m ambivalent about the iPod. And Apple\'s monopolistic attitude - signaled initially to me by them shuffling up the various data files to make it hard to manually share Contact and Notebook information between different computers so they could force you into MobileMe (or Mac.com, was it, back then?) - has become increasingly prevalent and obnoxious. And I wasn\'t joking when I implied that I\'ve become fond of Bill Gates  and find Jobs repellent.\n\nBut at the end of the day, Macs are beautiful computers, with an elegant interface; I\'m obviously sentimental, as I have formed a tight bond with my Macbook Air, and won\'t be letting go of it anytime soon.\n\nExcept to upgrade to a newer/faster/better model...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1160,4039,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-31 11:20:57','2010-05-31 10:20:57','Ask, and ye shall receive: Asus\'s new Windows 7 tablet...\n\nhttp://gizmodo.com/5551594/asus-eee-pad-is-a-windows-7+running-tablet',0,'1','','',0,0),(1161,4039,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-31 11:24:16','2010-05-31 10:24:16','Haha - the comments section of that post even includes a tribute to One Note!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1162,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-31 11:28:56','2010-05-31 10:28:56','But I\'d want a tablet for work so it would need a keyboard. Don\'t see the point in just a screen. There are a few intriguing things around such as....\nhttp://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/series/category/notebooks/tm2t_series/3/computer_store\n\nThough it\'s a bit heavy.\n\nAnd this...\n\nhttp://www.acer.co.uk/acer/productv.do?LanguageISOCtxParam=en&amp;kcond61e.c2att101=79694&amp;sp=page16e&amp;ctx2.c2att1=17&amp;link=ln438e&amp;CountryISOCtxParam=UK&amp;ctx1g.c2att92=122&amp;ctx1.att21k=1&amp;CRC=727240726\n\nThough it doesn\'t have two digitisers so the screen writing probably ain\'t too good.\n\nWhat I\'d quite like this but no way am I paying the price.\n\nhttp://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/gbweb/LenovoPortal/en_GB/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=8297675DB7E041B2AC0B295BAA75EFE3&amp;current-category-id=CC83EECEC7D84D54AD6B83946863D705&amp;tabname=Reseller\n\n\nI think Windows tablets with keyboards will come along a lot this year.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1163,4039,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-06-18 02:50:40','2010-06-18 01:50:40','I thought you might enjoy this - it\'s all true, pretty much.\n\n\nhttp://gizmodo.com/5566122/serafinowicz-five-reasons-i-love-apple-and-five-reasons-i-hate-apple',0,'1','','',0,0),(1164,4039,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-18 07:51:19','2010-06-18 06:51:19','With 50 pc of it. I\'ve had OS X tell me it didn\'t know how to open a doc file a- and plenty else - too btw. Bet that guy was using the Word beta in W7 which did do that. The release version doesn\'t.',0,'1','','',1163,0),(1165,4047,'Thomas','tkuhn@me.com','http://www.thomaskuhn.biz','93.232.146.89','2010-05-25 09:03:01','2010-05-25 08:03:01','Well, I think your headline is a little bit wrong, because it implements that you compared a backup solution made by Apple with a solution made by Microsoft, but all you do is comparing it with a product of a third party developer. That´s a little unfair I think. I don´t use Time Machine at all. Never used it, because Apple mostly does consumer stuff, which doesn´t fit my needs. So I have exact the same problem you have. But instead of changing the platform (little sidekick, sorry ;-), I get myself a good backup  solution for Mac, which is Chronosync, and guess what, it does exactly the same thing that your Windows solution does. Set and forget, versions, all that stuff. It even looks after the owner´s rights. So I could take your article and just replaced MyBook with Chronosync and it was the same conclusion. Apple´s Time Machine is crap.\nBtw, I´m no Apple fanboy. I just like Macs.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1166,4047,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-25 09:07:48','2010-05-25 08:07:48','I did buy Chronosync a while back and yes - it was very good. To be fair though Windows comes with Windows Backup built in which is very much the same if you want to use that with an external drive for timed backups. That Western Digital software though is easier - it basically sets itself up and does backups all the time, not just on a schedule.\n\nI didn\'t move from Mac to Windows because of the backups though. It was only when I decided to change that I realised I\'d been kidding myself that Apple did this better than the rest.',0,'1','','',1165,0),(1167,4047,'Thomas','tkuhn@me.com','http://www.thomaskuhn.biz','93.232.146.89','2010-05-25 09:37:18','2010-05-25 08:37:18','<q>I didn’t move from Mac to Windows because of the backups though</q>\nI know, that´s, why the smiley was there :)\n\nI didn´t know, Windows came with an own backup solution. Maybe I have to look at it a little longer.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1168,4047,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-25 09:42:22','2010-05-25 08:42:22','Windows Backup is a very straightforward timed backup solution for a connected drive - much like Chronosync. If you want to use it with a network drive you have to have the most expensive version of Windows though for some reason!\n\nBackup will also do a system backup and restore too if you want it. Bit like SuperDuper in a very rudimentary fashion. And to get the full image backup features, like Norton Ghost, you also need one of those more expensive versions of Windows, which seems overkill to me. Most Windows machines come with a restore partition these days anyway (which will take you back to day 1 of course).\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/backup.aspx',0,'1','','',1167,0),(1169,4047,'Alan Schmitt','alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org','http://alan.petitepomme.net/','82.244.58.105','2010-05-25 15:02:00','2010-05-25 14:02:00','I really liked when you were writing about writing. But now it\'s all Apple fanboy vs Microsoft fanboy... Too bad :(',0,'1','','',0,0),(1170,4047,'Michael Baker','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','','92.233.200.42','2010-05-25 15:53:38','2010-05-25 14:53:38','I use Norton Ghost and a 500Gb usb disk.  Backup EVERYTHING religiously, the whole disk image, all partitions--including the Windows partition.\n\nIt\'s immediate, always works, has proven itself when catastrophy occurs, and is simple to use.  I use Windows Vista Home Premium, and a trusty Toshiba Satellite.\n\nI\'m beginning to feel greatly relieved I never took the Apple route!  I think it\'s ironic that they used the 1984 advert to imply they are breaking the mould.  Yet, bit by bit, they\'re turning into a bit of a \'big-brother\' company themselves.\n\nPerhaps they will organise Daily online Apple SCREAMING sessions, with Mr. Jobs image flashing on the screen, and a Cathedral choir singing in deep Latin verse...I think that\'s a bit OMEN.  On the other hand, I rule nothing out about that company.  It might explain the real power behind it...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1171,4047,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-25 17:03:24','2010-05-25 16:03:24','Well this is a blog Alan - it reflects what I\'m doing. When I\'m writing (which I\'m not at the moment) I write about. When I\'m revising I write about that. When I\'m making a fundamental shift in my working methods, which I am doing, I write about that. Quite a few people find the latter interesting/infuriating/informative. But if not well all I can say is sorry but that\'s what it\'s about right now.',0,'1','','',1169,0),(1172,4047,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-30 18:40:33','2010-05-30 17:40:33','David! You\'re protestething too much, I think! I\'m surprised you bought a Time Capsule - it didn\'t seem worth it to me to pay the standard \"Apple tax\". I bought a 2TB Western Digital Mybook, rigged so hard drive A automatically mirrors itself on hard drive B; that way if HD A fails, I\'ll still have my backup.\n\nI also use Dropbox, but through invitations now have about 5.5 GB of backup space. I use it mostly for sharing large files with friends, and for backing up my current draft.\n\nThat said, I have never had to go back and ferret through all those windows in Time Machine looking for a particular file, and the Western Digital software (which I ignored when I installed my external HD) looks clean and attractive.\n\nAnyway, Time Machine has been fine for me, with Dropbox perfect for guerilla back-ups and file sharing.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1173,4047,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-30 18:41:13','2010-05-30 17:41:13','BTW, on the subject of fanboy Holy Wars, I will say that I never thought I\'d think Steve Jobs was a bigger prick than Bill Gates.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1174,4047,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.41.236.30','2010-05-30 19:00:11','2010-05-30 18:00:11','Back in the mists of time when I was covering tech for the Sunday Times I interviewed Gates a few times. He was OK. Jobs would never talk to me. He eventually gave an interview to one of our business hacks who flew specially to Paris for it. Jobs walked out halfway through because he didn\'t like the questions.',0,'1','','',1173,0),(1175,4065,'Dom Conlon','dom@head-first.co.uk','http://www.head-first.co.uk/headblog/','82.109.231.10','2010-05-26 09:03:39','2010-05-26 08:03:39','I think it comes down to comfort zones and convenience. I agree with you on the similarity between the papers and much of the news (rather than the commentator bits) is the same.\n\nInertia, however, is a powerful thing and as payment processes get slicker the ease of just handing over seemingly small amounts may well lead to people being carried along. Especially on devices such as your old friend the iPad.\n\nSo I don\'t think people will pay for the extra content which, as you say, looks a bit pointless. I do think that this content will make them feel a little better for paying not to have to look for an alternative.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1176,4065,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-26 09:12:04','2010-05-26 08:12:04','Good point. Actually if they delivered a digital edition I could download at home then read disconnected on a laptop I\'d be very interested. Not sure whether that\'s on the cards, except maybe for the iPad. Which I most definitely will not be buying, even though the ads are everywhere in London at the moment (and last night I had to disabuse a friend who said, \'I\'m going to buy one cos it means I can add a keyboard and I won\'t need a desktop any more\'!',0,'post-trashed','','',1175,0),(1177,4065,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-26 09:36:18','2010-05-26 08:36:18','I will desist for three reasons: their investigative reporting is the pits, their foreign news is censored, and their financial reporting is substandard.\n\nMaybe I will pay for the architecture and style sections. Apart from that, these formerly august newspapers are rags. Especially the NYT, which is busy drumming up WWIII for foreign interests to my detriment. Piss on them.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1178,4065,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','219.164.177.48','2010-05-26 13:04:50','2010-05-26 12:04:50','I won\'t be subscribing because I have almost zero interest in reading newspapers electronically. Same goes for books. Give me a nice hardback with good paper stock and nice bindings.\n\nIn this day and age, everything wants to be digital. Why is that? Why do books and newspapers have to follow where music and photography has gone.\n\nNow we\'re constantly told, \"Publishing want to be digital -- it\'s the future!\"\n\nYes but only because companies have brainwashed people into thinking so.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1179,4065,'Rob','rob@thefictiondesk.com','http://www.thefictiondesk.com','93.40.163.244','2010-05-27 16:05:17','2010-05-27 15:05:17','\"Actually if they delivered a digital edition I could download at home then read disconnected on a laptop I’d be very interested.\"\n\nThe New York Times offers a couple of downloadable versions of the paper. One seems to be a kind of Flash / pdf thing that keeps the format, and the other is a gadget called \'Times Reader\', which lives on your desktop and downloads the latest content. It will bring down the front page content for free, or the whole lot if you subscribe. It also keeps the last week\'s worth of news archived, and lets you do the crossword.\n\nTimes Reader runs on Adobe Air, which I\'m sure is very convenient for everybody except the user.\n\nI downloaded it last month, and since then have opened it maybe three times, one of which was to show it to somebody else. Still, as a free download it\'s a curiosity, and I\'m sure it has potential, even if it didn\'t grab me in the end: https://timesreader.nytimes.com/',0,'post-trashed','','',1176,0),(1180,4065,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-27 16:13:16','2010-05-27 15:13:16','Years ago I had one of the early Acer Tablet PCs which came with something called Zinio - http://www.zinio.com/. You could download magazines from that and it worked very well, though slowly because no one had broadband.\nI like that option. Acer now do an attractive looking tablet for £599 which for me would make a hell of a lot more sense than an iPad. Has an 8 hour battery life supposedly too.\nWill try NYT too. Thanks!',0,'post-trashed','','',1179,0),(1181,4065,'tontowilliams','tontowilliams@gmail.com','http://tontowilliams.posterous.com','193.35.132.10','2010-05-28 23:46:09','2010-05-28 22:46:09','I\'m not a fan of The Times anyway, so wouldn\'t read, even if free. That said I do read The Guardian and Independant online most days (or selected articles anyway), if they started to charge I wouldn\'t pay for online access but might buy a hard copy version occassionally instead, and so long as some news (if it\'s well written and decently researched and investigated) is available why would anyone pay?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1182,4065,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-30 22:40:45','2010-05-30 21:40:45','Newspapers are MUCH better digital than paper! At least, the NYT is - a record review will contain clips from the album, a movie review may have a video of a scene narrated by the director, each story is likely to have a slideshow with multiple images instead of the one or two from the printed version. Most of all, though, a digital newspaper is constantly updated, and urgently relevant.\n\nSince the free paper paradigm is well-established, the Times is being rather ballsy with their  1 pound a day fee, but I\'m not sure that I know how the quality of reporting can be held up with an otherwise dwindling revenue stream.\n\nAnd Janie, I\'m amused at your assertion that the NYT censors its foreign news; all publications will have their blind spots, and the NYT certainly screwed up with their manipulable reporter during the run-up to the invasion of Iran, but I watch and read the BBC World News and the Times and Guardian, and I\'ve not yet recognized the NYT censorship part you\'re claiming.\n\nOh, the one thing I\'ll miss if all the Times falls behind the fire wall is Chalres Bremner\'s Times blog about life in France.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1183,4087,'Jeff Abbott','jeff@jeffabbott.com','http://www.jeffabbott.com','24.206.111.133','2010-05-28 16:07:46','2010-05-28 15:07:46','Thanks for the info, David.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1184,4087,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-30 11:23:16','2010-05-30 10:23:16','NoteTaker handles this and waaaay more for Mac users who are not willing to go to the Windows route.\n\nAnd it has a server product that makes your stuff available anywhere in the world, using your own computer as the server, which I like.\n\nThe most interesting thing about NoteTaker, which I abandoned when I did my Go-To-Win moment a few years ago (I\'m back with Mac), is that when you come back to it, the organization of your previous notebooks is stunning. NoteTaker has incredible audio and video support.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1185,4087,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-30 14:30:52','2010-05-30 13:30:52','I did try Circus Ponies notebook which came from the same Next heritage I think. Never quite felt convinced somehow. The Mesh solution does leave a copy on the server too with OneNote of course (and I guess it would with Notetaker on OS X since Mesh works with that too). At some stage MS are supposed to flip the switch on a web version of OneNote as well which would let you open the same notebook in a browser, Sounds clever but I can\'t quite see any use for it personally, though doubtless others will feel differently.',0,'1','','',1184,0),(1186,4087,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-30 21:39:15','2010-05-30 20:39:15','I had the same experience with Circus Ponies, David. [God, how many programs I\'ve tried or used.]\n\nNoteTaker (by Aquaminds) has an intermediate learning curve. This is another program where a B&amp;W print-out of their PDF manual is useful.\n\nBut you know how you can come back to programs you\'ve abandoned four or five years ago and everything about them seems so static and worn-out?\n\nNo so with NoteTaker. They have a free NoteTaker Viewer (something like that) that allows Mac, Win, and (I think) Linux aficionados without NoteTaker to view the notebooks. No forced upgrade path.\n\nI did a Spotlight for a lost doc and discovered it was in an old NoteTaker notebook. I was really shocked at how easy the notebook I created in 2002 was to access, understand, export from, and USE.\n\nMacJournal, which I use, relies on the organization in the left panel. NT has the look and feel of a real notebook with section tabs, an index of the entire notebook with page numbers, great Services and contextual menu help, and so many features that I\'d forgotten.\n\nThis was a recent re-discovery, and I am seriously considering going through the pain of switching over to it again. The secret to NoteTaker, if anyone is interested, is in creating templates up front for the types of material you\'ll be dumping into it. Doing it on the fly as you bumble through the program is a PITA. I am a big web clipper and I hate the sprawling mess of html and other detritus that clipping can produce in MacJournal and other programs. NT templates puts a halt to that.\n\nAlso, NT is dead simple with audio annotations on the fly.\n\nAquaminds is also extending their server product to work on the iPad, which I dont own. I\'ll be anxious to see if that server can still be your own computer as it is now. [No Facebook-like interference in your life.]\n\nI really understand David\'s thrust to get the best tool experience for himself. I\'ve ricocheted between Mac and Win for two decades, and I finally decided that the paperwhite screen on the Mac is the reason why I stay.\n\nI can read for 24 hours straight on a Mac, with a little help from Mr. Coffee and Mrs. Wine. I fall asleep reading a cream page in a book with 10 pt type that is badly inked within 15 minutes. This is such a sadness for me. I have a library of 5,000+ books that I will never get rid of. I love books, the paper, the arc of an open book in front of me, the smell of ink. I own a Kindle and an iRex, but the light-grey/dark-grey contrast bugs me, and I can\'t read easily on a plane or in a pub. Don\'t have an iPad yet, but some e-reader with a white screen will eventually appeal to me.\n\nI\'m going on and on about this in the event there is a Mac user who would like the One-Note experience that David writes about in this post. NoteTaker is one product to look at. View the tutorial first to get an idea about it. (aquaminds.com) and no, I have zip to do with the company.',0,'1','','',1185,0),(1187,4087,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-30 22:32:24','2010-05-30 21:32:24','Janie, I\'m a Mac user interested in the OneNote experience - I\'ll certainly have a look at Note Taker.\n\nAlthough I\'ve found the jamming-photos-and-text-and-pdf\'s-into Scrivener a very useful functionality.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1188,4087,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-31 07:58:50','2010-05-31 06:58:50','Jonathan, I separate the wealth of research I do from the \"jamming-photos-and-text-and-pdf’s-into Scrivener,\" which I do as well.\n\nI\'ve been using MacJournal, but David\'s post made me ding/think back at my shock at revisiting NoteTaker as few weeks ago. I realize, as a result of reading David\'s post, that can do one book diary with the research stuffed into each chapter...really easy to do with its section tabs.\n\nI am also partial to pretty tools. I like the tools I use to look good. So shoot me, I like colors.\n\nI like MacJournal, but if I relearn NoteTaker (and there is a learning curve for efficient use) it is going to be a lot better. You can export to RTFD (with attachments) or print to PDF, which for me is useful to have beside my computer when working on chapters because I am sloppy about recording attribution, I\'m writing non-fiction these days, and I absolutely cannot risk one word of plagiarism.',0,'1','','',1187,0),(1189,4087,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-05-31 08:00:21','2010-05-31 07:00:21','jezeez, sorry for the typos. I\'m listening to the reports coming out about the flotilla massacre, and not paying attention.',0,'1','','',1188,0),(1190,4087,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-31 08:23:34','2010-05-31 07:23:34','I found jamming photos and text into Scrivener distracting. When I\'m writing the right brain\'s active - hopefully - and doesn\'t want to know about that stuff. That\'s why I like to keep it separate - though the OneNote dock thing is pretty tempting I have to say.',0,'1','','',1187,0),(1191,4087,'Mike Snelgrove','michaelhnelgrove@yahoo.co.uk','','81.157.92.4','2010-06-02 13:09:24','2010-06-02 12:09:24','David - what are you now using to write on \'in the office\'? Or do you use the Thinkpad for everything?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1192,4087,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-06-02 13:10:56','2010-06-02 12:10:56','Right now I\'m using the Word 2010 beta on Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro in Boot Camp, attached to my old Apple LED Cinema Display. Works fine (apart from the odd sleep problem). And I can go back to Mac when I want to.',0,'1','','',1191,0),(1193,4095,'Alison Morton','alison@alison-morton.com','http://www.alison-morton.com/blog/','90.55.223.161','2010-05-31 11:12:33','2010-05-31 10:12:33','Porta Asinaria is very impressive and reminds me of the Roman walls around the old city of Le Mans. I refer to Roman-inspired structures in my books and use my holiday snaps of Roman France for inspiration: Nimes, Vaison la Romaine, Orange, Aix en Provence.\nI\'m embarassed that I haven\'t got to Rome yet, but intend to remedy this next year...\n\nAs for other visual clues, I have to have them: people, scenes even. I once got asked by a fellow passenger on the way to Charing Cross what I thought I was doing when I was jotting down an exquisitely cringeworthy conversation and making notes of the speakers\' appearance. I have become more discreet now.\n\nBut I photograph everything, even the removal men packing up my house, the bees on the lavender, the market stalls, a rainy day. Besides, it\'s fun!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1194,4095,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-05-31 11:19:07','2010-05-31 10:19:07','I \"cast\" my books - I plug photos of actors/models into Scrivener in my Characters folder. Even though I describe the characters in the most general terms, it helps me to have an image of them as I write.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1195,4095,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.89','2010-05-31 11:21:07','2010-05-31 10:21:07','Have never done the casting thing myself but I know some people find it really helps. I suspect I have an odd block about doing this with people somehow, though I did snap a bloke on the Dorsoduro waterfront in January who was just too good to miss. Oddly enough he never made it into the book though.',0,'post-trashed','','',1194,0),(1196,4095,'Ruth Horowitz','ruth.horowitz@gmail.com','http://ruthhorowtiz.wordpress.com','74.97.54.133','2010-05-31 18:35:00','2010-05-31 17:35:00','If I don\'t have a real-life model for a fictional character or place I\'m writing about, I can become paralyzed with indecision. There are just too many variables to consider! Even if I don\'t include a physical description, having one in mind makes the person or place real to me.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1197,4102,'Dom Conlon','dom@head-first.co.uk','http://www.head-first.co.uk/headblog/','82.109.231.10','2010-06-04 09:42:49','2010-06-04 08:42:49','What is interesting about you is that your political opinions aren\'t in the least bit obvious. They appear, from all I have read, quite complex. That comes across very clearly in tweets and on this blog (especially shown in light of a post - http://bit.ly/bgA3rr - about interior conversations). I couldn\'t really guess which way you vote because I suspect that you see (and embrace) the nuances surrounding any issue.\n\nFor me this is a refreshing approach and a rare quality - especially when it comes to the ability to create complex characters. Too many writers take a mincer approach to characterisation, pushing each one of them through to form a single entity where the author\'s opinions are clearly seen and easily dismissed (or agreed with). Complexity in any issue is a fact of life, no matter what many newspapers would lead us to believe and a writer who can embrace that head on is refreshing indeed.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1198,4102,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','126.249.178.191','2010-06-04 09:43:53','2010-06-04 08:43:53','Just my opinion but I would never get in involved  in either with readers or reviews.\n\nWhen all is said and done, if they failed to understand your work, that\'s their loss. They still (hopefully) paid to read it.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1199,4102,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.159.145.176','2010-06-04 09:46:37','2010-06-04 08:46:37','Yes - I know that\'s the conventional opinion. But do you let a clear falsehood stand unchallenged on a website as visible as Amazon? If you do that don\'t you think people will think it\'s actually true?',0,'post-trashed','','',1198,0),(1200,4102,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.159.145.176','2010-06-04 09:49:07','2010-06-04 08:49:07','Thanks. Actually I think most people have complex responses to politics and absolutely fail to fit into the rigid categories that politicians would like to create for them. The last election result seemed to confirm that to me.\n\nI hate the idea of writers of fiction lecturing you about their politics, whatever they are. People don\'t buy your books for that.',0,'post-trashed','','',1197,0),(1201,4102,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','80.47.180.8','2010-06-04 10:15:56','2010-06-04 09:15:56','\"Never complain, never explain\" was good enough for Katherine Hepburn and Benjamin Disraeli.\n\nAnd yet... 9/11 and the conspiracy theories that surround them are still exceptionally raw and emotive subjects for millions of your potential readers, where misunderstandings have the power to do damage, and so in this case I think you were right to make an exception. I just thank my lucky stars that in my days of writing TV scripts instant internet critiquing wasn\'t available and the more off-beam viewer responses were not exposed to the world.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1202,4102,'Sandy','Slhohn@comcast.net','','71.197.153.148','2010-06-04 14:11:36','2010-06-04 13:11:36','You have come up against a very painful emotion evoked by many in the US.  You might prepare for more of the same.  Your reponse was intelligent, measured, and well thought out.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1203,4102,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','126.249.178.191','2010-06-04 15:31:22','2010-06-04 14:31:22','I\'m sure there are many falsehoods left unchallenged on Amazon but it doesn\'t seem to worry writers like Thomas Pynchon.\n\nOnce you let something out into the world, it no longer belongs to you. It has to live or die on it\'s own merits. You can\'t (and probably never should) defend it after that point.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1204,4102,'tontowilliams','tontowilliams@gmail.com','http://tontowilliams.posterous.com','86.182.74.188','2010-06-04 17:07:38','2010-06-04 16:07:38','I think you did the right thing, but then you are always prepared to interact with your readers across many mediums e.g twitter.\n\nThere is of course always the adage about pleasing most of the people some of\nthe time but not all of the people all of the time. I suspect Mr Cerone may fall into the latter category.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1205,4102,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','http://www.reddirtworld.com','75.89.212.72','2010-06-04 17:34:17','2010-06-04 16:34:17','I think it is good that you responded. I tend to be a bit practicle. So here goes.\n\nFirst, you know how. You respond to the issue and not the person. That increases appreciation for your work for  readers.\n\nSecond, any time the author takes time to show up that increases appreciation for the author.\n\nThird, controversy, may be irritating but is not always a bad thing.  Not that you would want to go this direction but I will always think that the band KISS became the success they did in part because of preachers going off on them on a regular basis. $ ka-ching $\n\nFourth some folks today cannot help themselves. They turn everything they read into a Rorschach test.  They miss your story by reading their own brain. That is not always a good thing.     Your response redirects the story back to what you intend --story.\n\nGood on you for responding.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1206,4102,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','194.221.40.36','2010-06-04 18:19:47','2010-06-04 17:19:47','<blockquote>Once you let something out into the world, it no longer belongs to you.</blockquote>\n\nI\'m sorry but I have really no idea what that means.',0,'post-trashed','','',1203,0),(1207,4102,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-06-05 13:45:30','2010-06-05 12:45:30','You responded perfectly.\n\nHowever.\n\nRobert Mackey, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), made an excellent point this past week in HuffPo writing about the Flotilla killings on the high seas.\n\nThe preamble:\n\"Recently, I read Ben MacIntyre\'s new book Operation Mincemeat, the story of how the British used a dead body to fool the Germans as part of a great deception plan -- to convince Hitler that the Allies would land in Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily, in 1943. What has this to do with what happened this weekend? ... As a retired US Army officer and former strategic war planner, I sat down with my military planner\'s hat on and made a bulleted list about this act of war. Enjoy.\"\n\nThe point Mackey made that I think applies equally to WTC. A former 911 Commission head now feels the same way, a few years out:\n\"When you see a detailed multi-page report ready to go within an hour or two of an insanely chaotic military action (of any kind), it is bullshit, plain and clear. Just try reading reports about the Normandy invasion in history books in 2010. Now imagine trying to read the same level of detail, etc. a few hours after the first wave hit the beaches. You get my point.\"\n\nAl-Qaeda was bulls-eyed and all hijackers locked-and-loaded by 11:30 AM PST, on September 11, 2001. If I remember correctly, Rumsfeld had even thrown in a little Saddam Hussein to internationalize the pot by 2 PM EST, according to his notes. Didn\'t seem to matter that the BBC located seven of the hijackers alive by September 21, nor that firemen were taped reporting to dispatch from the floor of the fires one minute before the overwhelming heat of this supposed fire melted the South Tower. Then, there\'s WTC-7, which self-combusted in 8 seconds — straight down — at 5:20 PM EST the same day.\n\nI and many other are still waiting to find out who was behind it. I don\'t have \'stupid\' stamped on my forehead, and can hold conflicting thoughts in my head without the need for immediate resolution. But I won\'t be bamboozled or intimidated into ignoring basic laws of physics no matter what the sick need to impugn an entire race or religion.\n\nYou have books to sell, and your prose to protect. You wrote an excellent response, and had no other choice, given the ptolemaic nature of the unresolved issue. You flattered your plainly amateur reviewers with your care about what they thought, and I think that\'s what matters most. There is no rule: you did the right thing.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1208,4105,'James Gracie','jamesgracie@btinternet.com','','86.159.173.39','2010-06-05 09:23:11','2010-06-05 08:23:11','When I had a real job, my last post was as a press officer in local government. Before I took the king\'s shilling and becoming a full time writer, the local authority spent a seven-figure sum over two years preparing a document that had mission statements for every department, including mine. It also spent a six figure sum on a new logo. Soon after the money had been spent, the local authority was wound up, to be replaced by a unitary authority. I was long gone by then, but the whole rigmarole started again. New mission statements, new logo.....',0,'1','','',0,0),(1209,4105,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.159.145.176','2010-06-05 20:58:23','2010-06-05 19:58:23','Intriguing. I wonder what happens to organisations without mission statements? Do they all go to hell in a handcart?',0,'1','','',1208,0),(1210,4105,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-06-08 00:51:18','2010-06-07 23:51:18','Oh, c\'mon, David! TELL me you didn\'t find that note pleasureable!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1211,4105,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.171.166.59','2010-06-08 07:39:13','2010-06-08 06:39:13','It was a lot more pleasurable than the hotel breakfast I can tell you! The mission statement definitely failed over what was supposed to pass as a fried egg.',0,'1','','',1210,0),(1212,4117,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','80.189.138.234','2010-06-11 08:26:58','2010-06-11 07:26:58','Mea culpa et cetera. Oh, and is it discussin, or discussing?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1213,4117,'Shaun Durham','shaundurham@btinternet.com','','135.196.235.230','2010-06-11 09:01:13','2010-06-11 08:01:13','A great use of etcetera (and Latin for that matter) is in the 1971 version of Willy Wonka, where Gene Wilder explains to Charlie how he feel foul of the contract. I assume this is in the book etc.\nAs an aside, there seems to be an abundance of \'&amp;c\' used in 19th century correspondence.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1214,4117,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','80.47.155.127','2010-06-11 09:44:20','2010-06-11 08:44:20','The subs should certainly have caught it (unless Corden\'s contract forbids any changes to his copy). One begins to worry; about a week ago a letter to the paper contained the words \"an sentence\". The letter was about the writer\'s perception of a decline in standards of written English (and the error was neither illustrative nor ironic).',0,'1','','',0,0),(1215,4117,'A fellow former Times reporter','dd35@dial.pipex.com','','88.105.151.121','2010-06-11 11:57:32','2010-06-11 10:57:32','Speaking of laziness, what about \'ninety nine times out a hundred\'?\n\nSurely: more often than not.\n\nOr is etcetera really misused precisely ninety-nine times out of a hundred?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1216,4117,'Cruella Collett','cruella.collett@gmail.com','http://thegiraffabilityofdigressions.blogspot.com/','193.157.247.238','2010-06-11 12:08:19','2010-06-11 11:08:19','This is excellent! There is nothing quite like a linguistic pet peeve to get me fired up. I read about wars and poverty; and starvation: but all I see is the terrible punctuation?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1217,4117,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-11 13:03:13','2010-06-11 12:03:13','Oh come on - it\'s a quick blog morning post, unedited, unrevised, unseen by a sub editor. Not an expensive column in a national newspaper that\'s supposed to go through some kind of editorial vetting process and several eyes before it\'s seen before the public who are paying to read the kind of writing that would get kicked back at GCSE level.\n\nIs that the best you can do?',0,'1','','',1215,0),(1218,4117,'Mike Snelgrove','michaelhnelgrove@yahoo.co.uk','','86.139.45.48','2010-06-11 14:46:49','2010-06-11 13:46:49','Surprising, as Corden was in \'The History Boys\' for years, where the teacher  Hector delivers a devastating tirade about the evils of \'etc\'(admittedly in the context of the Holocaust). But let\'s not forget that Corden is an actor, so probably wasn\'t listening to anybody else\'s lines...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1219,4117,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-11 14:57:00','2010-06-11 13:57:00','Well spotted I must say....',0,'1','','',1218,0),(1220,4117,'Alan Schmitt','alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org','http://alan.petitepomme.net/','82.244.58.105','2010-06-11 17:43:20','2010-06-11 16:43:20','Thanks for the very interesting post! I think I\'ve read something similar in \"The Elements of Style\". (I\'m not a native speaker, but I have to write a lot in English, so I\'m trying to improve by following such advice.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1221,4117,'Bob','rojosc@hotmail.com','','74.207.181.100','2010-06-12 01:50:41','2010-06-12 00:50:41','David, what a touchy audience you have.  I enjoyed your blog in its \"quick morning post\" nature and since you alerted me to an embarrassing typo I had posted on FB, I stand ready to defend you against all attackers--especially the....never mind. My editor won\'t let me use the word I want.',0,'1','','',1217,0),(1222,4117,'ann','oneoaktree@tesco.net','','93.97.185.122','2010-06-12 13:35:23','2010-06-12 12:35:23','Today I have been reading Gordon Stables MD\'s 1891 \"Girl\'s Own Book of Health and Beauty\".  He has strong views on \'Womens\' Rights Ladies\',  corsets, exploitation of servents (noted to be worse in England than the treatment by Arab mistresses of their slaves in the savage African city of Lamoo), dust, tricycling as a cure for chronic ailments,  quack doctors  and many other things.  He is proper in every way.  He is also a heavy user of &amp;c.  ( eg item 13 on his list of suitable hobbies \"Work for bazaars, &amp;c, &amp;c.\")\nI am enjoying his advice.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1223,4117,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','80.189.138.234','2010-06-12 13:35:23','2010-06-12 12:35:23','Point taken, but that\'s what you get when an Apple fanboy seeking redress spots an opportunity... :)',0,'1','','',1217,0),(1224,4117,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-12 14:19:38','2010-06-12 13:19:38','The Victorians did love etc it\'s true. But I suppose we had lots of dominions back then so perhaps they felt justified.',0,'1','','',1222,0),(1225,4117,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-06-16 00:47:51','2010-06-15 23:47:51','Suggestion: will you please take on the usage of \'gotten\' as the past participle of the verb \'to get\'? It\'s \'got\'. [But I\'m sure I\'ll hear a lot of flak about it.]',0,'1','','',0,0),(1226,4117,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-16 07:39:41','2010-06-16 06:39:41','Okey dokey... but I may not say what you think.',0,'1','','',1225,0),(1227,4134,'Alan Schmitt','alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org','http://alan.petitepomme.net/','82.244.58.105','2010-06-11 17:38:24','2010-06-11 16:38:24','I\'ve been using iAnnotate PDF on my iPad to review papers, and I found it has many of the features you describe (highlighting, scribbling, on so on). But it\'s targeted for PDFs, not word documents (which is fine as I don\'t use word).',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1228,4134,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-11 17:56:07','2010-06-11 16:56:07','It\'s interesting someone\'s come out with that so quickly. Perhaps they\'ll do the same thing for Word. PDFs won\'t really work for what I do really.',0,'post-trashed','','',1227,0),(1229,4134,'tontowilliams','tontowilliams@gmail.com','http://tontowilliams.posterous.com','193.35.132.25','2010-06-11 18:59:33','2010-06-11 17:59:33','Looks interesting but don\'t think I can afford one at the moment. Will bear it in mind (or it\'s successors) for the future.\n\nHope it serves you well for your upcomming trip. You must be impressed to take it along as your only bit of kit and leave the ThinkPad behind?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1230,4134,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.41.229.204','2010-06-11 19:13:44','2010-06-11 18:13:44','Well this is more a note taking trip than writing one. The edge is so light though it just might find its way into the case. Lot better for heavyweight writing',0,'post-trashed','','',1229,0),(1231,4134,'Joaquín','jobedom@gmail.com','','79.148.166.237','2010-06-11 19:20:54','2010-06-11 18:20:54','Your timing is perfect. I\'ve been looking for something like this for a few months.\n\nHow good is the keyboard? I\'ve got big hands, and the netbook I got some time ago (EeePC 901) is useless for me to write anything but short e-mails. Is the keyboard size confortable enough?',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1232,4134,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','217.41.229.204','2010-06-11 19:23:37','2010-06-11 18:23:37','I find the keyboard excellent. Much better than expected. The keys are large and flat which sounds odd but work very well for me.',0,'post-trashed','','',1231,0),(1233,4134,'Danielle','dbr@narrativedisorder.com','http://www.narrativedisorder.com','121.44.44.170','2010-06-21 05:01:05','2010-06-21 04:01:05','My timing is terrible, too, the way-to-heavy to be portable HP was the only replacement available for my original Acer tablet when it died update death a year ago. This one looks great!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1234,4118,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-06-17 15:22:22','2010-06-17 14:22:22','\"Whilst\" reads as very precious to me.\n\nHere in the US, I have a problem with \"towards\" - I tend to use it, but here in the States, \"toward\" is the preferred form.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1235,4143,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','98.17.175.36','2010-06-15 20:24:12','2010-06-15 19:24:12','Once the formate homogonizes they will be peddled on blister packs at the store of your choice.  I\'d rather hold a book than a Nook.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1236,4145,'Ken','khannahs3@gmail.com','http://cheekondesk.blogspot.com','70.89.250.169','2010-06-16 13:04:47','2010-06-16 12:04:47','I wondered why, when I visited England (a lovely B&amp;B in Bath, Somerset) why there weren\'t any ENGLISH MUFFINS.  I figured that they would be overflowing with them... too many to count... and I didn\'t even have one.  What a downer.\n\nSimilarly, I asked for whole grain toast  four out of the five mornings (by the third day it was just a social experiement), all to different staff, and and I got the \"Oh you Americans and your brown breads,\" answer from all four.  I had no idea that Americans carried a stereotype of liking whole wheat bread!  I suppose I could have alleviated the situation by also asking for kippers...\n\nThis really doesn\'t have anything to do with word variations between our cultures, but you mentioned English Muffins and I haven\'t had breakfast yet.\n\n-Ken',0,'1','','',0,0),(1237,4145,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-16 13:48:00','2010-06-16 12:48:00','You\'re in for a REALLY big shock when you go to Italy and ask for peperoni on your pizza....',0,'1','','',1236,0),(1238,4145,'isabella mori (@mori atherapy)','moritherapy@shaw.ca','http://moritherapy@shaw.ca','24.85.167.131','2010-06-16 16:44:33','2010-06-16 15:44:33','the same thing happens with other languages.  my mother tongue is german.  i lived in paraguay for a few years, where there are lots of german mennonites, many of whom had immigrated before WW2.  they used some turns of phrases, words and pronunciations that seemed quite odd to me.  conversely, when i taught german to spanish-speaking people, my mennonite friends were perplexed why i taught them strange and seemingly useless words - i remember the word \"taschenschirm\" (\"pocket umbrella\") - a word that had not even existed when their fathers had left germany, and which had become quite a household word, thanks to a company that produced them and done a great job marketing their product.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1239,4145,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-06-17 15:18:58','2010-06-17 14:18:58','I suspect \"English muffins\" are an American corruption of crumpets.\n\nAlso: I suspect David is misattributing a Shaw quote to Churchill! Another victimization of the Irish!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1240,4145,'isabella mori (@mori atherapy)','moritherapy@shaw.ca','http://moritherapy@shaw.ca','24.85.167.131','2010-06-17 16:52:26','2010-06-17 15:52:26','okay, i need to come to the rescue of the english muffin!  (when you come to north america, david, do you have one?)  in fact, i will cite someone these good language people (http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-cru1.htm), in connection with a harry potter translation;\n\n\"It is true that English muffins and crumpets are related things, though neither should be (or could be) confused with an American muffin, which to British eyes and taste buds is a sweet-tasting cake. Both muffins and crumpets are flat discs about three inches across and an inch or so deep, cooked in a pan or on a griddle. The main difference between them lies in the composition of the mixture used, which makes muffins feel and taste rather more like bread; in addition, muffins are baked on both sides, so they must be cut in two before they can be toasted. With crumpets, the cooking process generates distinctive deep dimples on one side.\n\nIt’s the cultural associations — immediately recognisable to most English readers — that matter most. Toasting crumpets for tea in front of an open fire on winter days in the company of parents or friends is an old image of comfortable, unthreatening middle-class English life of an older period. It’s associated especially with boarding school, and features in school stories going back more than a century, of which the Harry Potter books are just the most recent. You can’t expect an American youngster to appreciate all these subtleties, but to remove the potential of doing so is a pity.\"',0,'1','','',0,0),(1241,4145,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-17 18:34:26','2010-06-17 17:34:26','You have entered a linguistic minefield. I am from Yorkshire so we don\'t have crumpets only pikelets. We do have muffins in the UK now but I think they came in from the US so really they should be called \'American Muffins\'. I do like muffins, here or in the US. In moderation.',0,'1','','',1240,0),(1242,4145,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-17 18:35:32','2010-06-17 17:35:32','I am truly shocked! Muffins are NOTHING like crumpets. See accurate description below. That quote appears to have been attributed to Churchill, Shaw, Wilde and Bertrand Russell. Maybe they all said it.',0,'1','','',1239,0),(1243,4145,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-06-17 19:05:35','2010-06-17 18:05:35','David! Wait!\n\nIn America, \"muffins\" and \"English muffins\" are completely different. A muffin is a small, cake-like thing, the popularity of which has been subsumed in recent years by the cupcake. An English muffin is a low, round disc of yeasted bread, usually dusted with corn meal. There\'s also a Portuguese muffin, which are larger, and richer.\n\nI think that the English muffin is an American take on the crumpet. I\'ll admit to loving them both, but I prefer crumpets.\n\nI have yet to experience the satisfaction of a pikelet.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1244,4145,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-06-17 19:06:57','2010-06-17 18:06:57','And while I did toast crumpets at boarding school, nothing about my time there, crumpets included, inspires waves of soothing nostalgia.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1245,4145,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-17 21:02:20','2010-06-17 20:02:20','I know the difference between an American muffin and an \'English\' muffin! English ones don\'t have bananas in them and all that crap. The \'English\' muffin is nothing like a true crumpet or, more properly, \'pikelet\'. As detailed above, a crumpet/pikelet has holes in top and is toasted in one piece.\n\nThis may help - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/14/crumpets-muffins-pikelets-farls',0,'1','','',1243,0),(1246,4145,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-06-17 21:16:51','2010-06-17 20:16:51','Now, if you could just find me a good recipe for Hovis bread, the dense version, I would be in heaven, and maybe \'gotten\' — oh, it pains me — some religion as well. The kind where you butter the end of the loaf, then slice the bread 1/16\" thick, and it holds up. Also, best toast in the world.',0,'1','','',1245,0),(1247,4145,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-06-17 21:18:43','2010-06-17 20:18:43','Crumpets have better holes for butter.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1248,4148,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-06-17 15:12:45','2010-06-17 14:12:45','Once again: adverbs, every writer\'s Achilles\' heel...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1249,4148,'Alan Schmitt','alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org','http://alan.petitepomme.net/','194.199.25.106','2010-06-17 15:42:29','2010-06-17 14:42:29','Well, maybe he\'s actually meaning it. I\'ve seen some documentaries that describe how cows are butchered, and how some excrements become mixed with the meat...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1250,4148,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','68.104.48.219','2010-06-17 21:20:49','2010-06-17 20:20:49','OT,\n\nDavid, just noticed your tweets. Have you ditched Scrivener as well?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1251,4148,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.169.217.145','2010-06-17 21:32:37','2010-06-17 20:32:37','I\'ve ditched the Mac and I\'m currently working in Word 2010 and OneNote 2010. When Scrivener is out for Windows I\'ll certainly look at it. Scrivener is fantastic but it was the only thing keeping me with the Mac.',0,'1','','',1250,0),(1252,4255,'Michael Baker','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','','92.233.200.42','2010-06-30 02:39:41','2010-06-30 01:39:41','Office Live is a terrific backup for files, no good for a complete hard drive image.  But for backing up pdfs, .docs, etc.\nQuick, easy, reliable.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1253,4269,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-07-13 02:54:07','2010-07-13 01:54:07','It really was a fantastic conference - tons of great people, lots of parties, and some really very useful sessions. I just wish the city hadn\'t been quite so bloody hot for it!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1254,4269,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','203.58.22.98','2010-07-13 11:00:46','2010-07-13 10:00:46','Sorry we never managed to chat Jonathan - very difficult meeting up with people in those crowds.',0,'post-trashed','','',1253,0),(1255,4271,'Julia','jpiatt@enter.net','','216.193.143.202','2010-07-15 23:28:36','2010-07-15 22:28:36','What is shameful is the implication that there should be any shame at all connected to such a classic genre.  We exist to solve mysteries and those who can successfully create them should be heralded as gods.  (I\'ll get down from the soapbox now.)',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1256,4271,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','203.58.22.98','2010-07-15 23:30:05','2010-07-15 22:30:05','Thanks - I wondered if it was just me!',0,'post-trashed','','',1255,0),(1257,4271,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-07-15 23:34:52','2010-07-15 22:34:52','Shame?  I\'d be ashamed to like the \"literary\" stuff that\'s often hailed as \"great,\" \"groundbreaking,\" \"a must-read,\" and, gag me!, \"informed.\"',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1258,4271,'Elizabeth','beth@elizabethawhite.com','http://www.elizabethawhite.com/','68.51.148.29','2010-07-16 00:09:50','2010-07-15 23:09:50','A-freakin-men!',0,'post-trashed','','',1257,0),(1259,4318,'Danielle','dani@narrativedisorder.com','http://www.narrativedisorder.com','121.44.59.100','2010-07-18 12:56:29','2010-07-18 11:56:29','You\'re making me homesick! Only having lived away from Melbourne for years now, do I truly appreciate that Vic Market (and Prahran Market, for that matter) are so special.  Thank you for the great shots!',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1260,4337,'jkcrewgolf','markbryan2010@aol.com','http://jkcrewgolf.com/','121.97.232.190','2010-07-23 03:49:43','2010-07-23 02:49:43','Thanks for all the photos and information you\'ve posted on your blog.  Its like I\'m in Melbourne too watching the festival.  And thank you also for the information on where the place to eat good and less expensive.  Keep it up.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1261,4355,'Tina Vierra','winetlv@yahoo.com','','67.188.76.80','2010-08-05 03:08:39','2010-08-05 02:08:39','I think the whole Northern hemisphere is caddywampus this year. You\'re having my vegetables! Here in Northern California, the weather has been so cool all summer that little is ripening. I have harvested exactly one tomato thus far, and no squash, and my apple tree is a month behind, and the winegrape harvest will start 3 weeks late.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1262,4355,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','90.201.86.214','2010-08-05 06:51:48','2010-08-05 05:51:48','Great to see photos of your garden, I wish other authors would show us different sides to their lives. My garden is full of Flowers and greenery at the moment, not very practical but very tranquil, a suprb spot for relaxing and reading. I had the same Omnibus on \'Holmes\' many years ago whilst living in Oxford and also looked up Christopher Morley...in \'Blackwells\' bookshop ! No PC back then...\nStill love Conan Doyles stories especially on dark winter days, preferably in front of a crackling fire !\nGoing up to Oxford this weekend from my home in Christchurch, to my Mum\'s for her 85th Birthday..so will miss St Hilda\'s the following week...very disappointed but hope all have a wonderful experience !\nGeoff Frewin',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1263,4355,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.153.239.237','2010-08-05 07:48:00','2010-08-05 06:48:00','Caddywampus????? I think I get the drift. Sorry to hear about the weather. Will you and anyone else from Book Passage be around for Bouchercon?',0,'post-trashed','','',1261,0),(1264,4355,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','','86.153.239.237','2010-08-05 07:48:29','2010-08-05 06:48:29','Have a good weekend - sounds more important than listening to a bunch of writers waffle on.',0,'post-trashed','','',1262,0),(1265,4355,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','90.201.86.214','2010-08-05 21:09:05','2010-08-05 20:09:05','Thanks David for the kind words,my Mum at 85 is still an avid reader, so I\'m sure will be great company as always.  I\'m sure St Hildas will be a great success and jolly good fun, so again I wish you a splendid weekend and sorry not to have the opportunity to spend a few hours in such fascinating company. Best Wishes Geoff',0,'post-trashed','','',1264,0),(1266,4367,'Alison Morton','alison@alison-morton.com','http://www.alison-morton.com/blog/','90.38.192.85','2010-08-05 12:02:53','2010-08-05 11:02:53','Following in a grape/great tradition.\n(Sorry!)\n\nVine growing and wine making were introduced to the British Isles by the Romans and Wrotham Pinot is directly descended from original Roman varieties. I read somewhere you can still buy this variety. Of course, it was a bit warmer then! It seems to have lasted up to Norman times to some extent as the Domesday survey recorded thirty-nine vineyards.\n\nI grew Muller-Thurgau aginst a lovely warm brick wall in my garden near Tunbridge Wells and we had a few bottles ready when we got married!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1267,5309,'Julirose','jpiatt@enter.net','','216.193.143.202','2010-08-07 19:44:21','2010-08-07 19:44:21','Welcome to Wordpress.  You\'ve moved in nicely.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1268,5309,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://bodsham1.wordpress.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-07 19:45:01','2010-08-07 19:45:01','Thank you - I don\'t know what took me so long. No plugins! No malware! No hosting company!',0,'1','','',1267,0),(1269,5309,'Alison Morton','alison@alison-morton.com','http://www.alison-morton.com/blog/','90.11.172.210','2010-08-07 19:53:00','2010-08-07 19:53:00','Well, sympathy David. Hope all will run smoothly from now on.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1270,5309,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://bodsham1.wordpress.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-07 19:59:15','2010-08-07 19:59:15','Actually I\'m glad this forced my hand. It\'s ridiculous to be dealing with all the paraphernalia of hosting in 2010. Best to let Wordpress.com deal with all that and focus on the content. I\'ve been running this website since -- sigh-- 1997 and the changes I\'ve seen in that time. One is you don\'t have to be your own tech dept any more.',0,'1','','',1269,0),(1271,5309,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.30.43.96','2010-08-08 03:52:52','2010-08-08 03:52:52','Glad your through that stretch of the road.  Your looking good here.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1272,5439,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://mikecane.tumblr.com','67.250.108.21','2010-08-08 20:57:29','2010-08-08 20:57:29','You need to go read this post, which brings up the same point.  I Commented there and don\'t want to copy/paste for here.\n\nhttp://eatmybook.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/facsimiles-of-evil/',0,'1','','',0,0),(1273,5439,'Brian Young','blogdication@live.com','http://sites.google.com/site/aboutbrianyoung/','216.218.54.149','2010-08-08 20:59:50','2010-08-08 20:59:50','Would you have felt different if you were reading it?\n\nE.g, while I love Stephen King and Dean Koontz, some of their books go over a certain edge that makes me feel very uncomfortable ... almost ... dirty.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1274,5439,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://bodsham1.wordpress.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-08 21:01:39','2010-08-08 21:01:39','No - I wouldn\'t feel differently if I was reading it. I don\'t like that uncomfortable feeling you describe. It\'s not a moral issue principally. I just feel it\'s unnecessary and may get in the way.',0,'1','','',1273,0),(1275,5439,'Kate','katenash1@googlemail.com','','78.145.67.71','2010-08-08 21:08:05','2010-08-08 21:08:05','Sometimes it is more shocking what\'s not written/shown/said because somehow that reinforces the reality of the unimaginable.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1276,5439,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.30.43.96','2010-08-09 00:06:59','2010-08-09 00:06:59','Jacaues Barzun\'s \" From Dawn to Decadence\" and the conclusions / examples of same just keep cropping up.  Yours is yet another one. Have we just fizzled out?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1277,5439,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.155.16.244','2010-08-09 21:14:15','2010-08-09 20:14:15','My experience of the Millenium Trilogy is entirely through the marvelous narration of Saul Reichlin.  I have to say that I didn\'t find the assault scenes shocking when he read them.  I didn\'t read the words myself and haven\'t seen the movie.\n\nI was subsequently surprised to find out that people found those scenes uncomfortable.\n\nI should say also that I didn\'t know that she got her own back, and when she does I was able to listen without revulsion.  I usually dislike graphic sex or violence in novels and films and agree with you David that it\'s mostly unnecessary.\n\nMary',0,'1','','',0,0),(1278,5439,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://bodsham1.wordpress.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-09 21:29:07','2010-08-09 20:29:07','Good old Saul!',0,'1','','',1277,0),(1279,5439,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.155.16.244','2010-08-09 21:44:05','2010-08-09 20:44:05','You have him to thank for leading me to your novels.\n\nMary',0,'1','','',1278,0),(1280,5400,'lee jackson','lee@victorianlondon.org','http://www.victorianlondon.org','82.35.76.140','2010-08-09 09:38:04','2010-08-09 08:38:04','The key question, it seems to me, is how new authors (or \'mid-listers\' like myself, with only a very modest number of fans) will publicise/market their work effectively in the new digital arena. At the moment, in hard copy, the 3for2s in Waterstones are the only real hope of serious sales; will the same thing arise electronically - Amazon\'s \'books of the week\' offered exclusively to Kindle readers or similar? If so, will this provide more opportunities for authors, more diversity for readers, or create a more homogenised and bland book world? I agree that the answer is not yet obvious. [enjoy the blog, by the way - always full of such good sense on publishing matters! Lee]',0,'1','','',0,0),(1281,5400,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://bodsham1.wordpress.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-09 10:02:18','2010-08-09 09:02:18','It seems to me there are rather more opportunities in digital than in bookstore retailing. For example bundles of series novels ought to be easier to put together and available with a single click -- hard to do that in a book store.\nBut it\'s down to the publishers and retailers. I\'m unconvinced individual authors can do much to increase their sales. The push has to come from above.\nGlad you like the blog. Finding a bit more time for it at the moment.',0,'1','','',1280,0),(1282,5400,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-08-09 15:33:31','2010-08-09 14:33:31','Bundles is what Sony used to do from time to time.\n\nSince I\'m an extreme n00b with Amazon and Kindle, I don\'t know if they\'ve ever done that.  I haven\'t seen it so far.\n\nOTOH, if they did do that once, the new Agency Pricing model would now prevent it.',0,'1','','',1281,0),(1283,5400,'Judy Bobalik','judybobalik@comcast.net','','71.239.144.206','2010-08-09 15:50:38','2010-08-09 14:50:38','I prefer a print book. What I like about the ebook is the fact that so many authors have been making their out-of-print titles available. I love it for travel, but at home I still grab a print book.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1284,5400,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://bodsham1.wordpress.com','86.189.21.132','2010-08-09 19:14:21','2010-08-09 18:14:21','The back list idea is certainly attractive but it does have some rights implications for those of us published in a lot of international markets. See you in San Francisco!',0,'1','','',1283,0),(1285,5400,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.155.16.244','2010-08-09 21:24:31','2010-08-09 20:24:31','I love my ereader for many reasons.  I live in a small flat and have no room to store books.  I can put my Sony ereader in a handbag.  I never loose my place and I can drink a cup of tea at the same time (very important to me.  I\'m not a very \"green\" person but feel it\'s a start not to have something made of paper.\n\nMostly what I really love is being able to buy a book any time of the day or night.  I generally read just before sleep and that means will run out of reading matter when the shops are closed.\n\nI agree that book theft is easier with digital equipment.  However, I\'m a reader.  I used to buy a lot of paper books, now I buy probably more digital books.\n\nAdditionally I\'ve recently been converted to audiobooks due to having an ipod which I can play through my car.  I buy my audiobooks or rent CDs from the library.\n\nI would hope that people who love reading will love exploring ways of reading/listening to books in ways they couldn\'t before.  This is maybe the way to market them, rather than silly video bells and whistles.  Sell ebooks/digital works to those who love reading rather than try to convert non readers by offering gimmicks.\n\nI too love this blog.\n\nMary',0,'1','','',0,0),(1286,5450,'Mike Cane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://ipadtest.wordpress.com','67.250.108.21','2010-08-10 14:22:51','2010-08-10 13:22:51','What a writer writes depends on what s/he wants to accomplish.  And you forget that the lack of explicitness in older movies is not due to self-restraint on the part of the filmmakers, it was dictated to them by things like the Hays Office and other production codes.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1287,5450,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://bodsham1.wordpress.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-10 15:17:50','2010-08-10 14:17:50','I don\'t think the Hays office or any other censorship regime was terribly active in Rome in 1944 (which may be why 15 minutes got snipped off Rome, Open City when it opened in the US). You may just have to face the fact that some people don\'t make explicit films or write explicit books because they don\'t feel the artistic need, not because they\'re not \'allowed\'.',0,'1','','',1286,0),(1288,5450,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','75.90.38.159','2010-08-10 18:20:37','2010-08-10 17:20:37','\" Here’s who I am: someone who’s done all those things and started to question them.\"\n\nI\'m going to guess one reason no one raised the question --- you are not static. You are open, wondering, engaged, willing to change and actively seek it.\n\nI remember you telling us you changed a single word and why and how you thought that change made the scene better.\n\nYou are not static, You are on the move. My guess is your writing will be too.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1289,5534,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.155.16.244','2010-08-11 17:36:50','2010-08-11 16:36:50','It\'s hard to see how you make a living with prices so low.\n\nIt\'s time we got away from the word \"piracy\" which has a certain romantic Johnny Depp ring about it.\n\nMary',0,'1','','',0,0),(1290,5534,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-11 18:02:13','2010-08-11 17:02:13','These are UK prices, remember. And they are very, very low. The picture\'s not the same in some other markets, though I\'d hazard a guess books are still cheaper in relative terms than they were forty years ago.\n\nHow do authors make a living? Not from one market or one medium I\'m sure. Translations, audio, collaborations, theatrical rights... you need them all unless you are very big in a single market.\n\nWith you on the piracy word... there\'s nothing romantic about stealing someone else\'s work particularly when it costs so little to buy it legally.',0,'1','','',1289,0),(1291,5516,'jdschaefer','Joeysch@gmail.com','','156.26.30.167','2010-08-11 15:56:33','2010-08-11 14:56:33','Thanks for the insight; you are a good example for those wading through the excesses of twitter and facebook.\n\nFeel welcome to check out http://ineedapeptalk.wordpress.com/category/work-2/\nwhere you can find motivation to help with many of life\'s day to day challenges.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1292,5516,'Raul','clockwatch26@yahoo.com','http://','76.255.65.223','2010-08-11 15:59:56','2010-08-11 14:59:56','This is a great article.  I quit facebook over a year ago and have not regretted it since.  Yes, you miss some of the friends on there, but if they are real friends they can call... :-)  It\'s funny how sometimes you don\'t miss something when you no longer have it.\n\nwww.wutevs.wordpress.com',0,'1','','',0,0),(1293,5516,'girlonthecontrary','laureneynon@gmail.com','http://girlonthecontrary.wordpress.com','66.90.164.115','2010-08-11 16:02:59','2010-08-11 15:02:59','What a wonderful post! I too quit Facebook and have not missed it once in the 6 months I\'ve been off. Oddly, I find myself speaking to my (real) friends, who I was a bit afraid I would lose touch with not being on Facebook, more frequently now than I ever did then. I can\'t seem to cut out my Mac though.....',0,'1','','',0,0),(1294,5516,'danbahr','dan_bahr@yahoo.com','http://crackedillusion.wordpress.com','74.33.186.253','2010-08-11 17:23:39','2010-08-11 16:23:39','I tend to be drawn to things like facebook but also realized I am too connected too often. Things like these can become a real addiction and every once in a while it is good to take a reality check and see if you really need to be checking your news feed on your blackberry every hour. I don\'t know if I want to give up for good but maybe a vacation from it is in the works.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1295,5516,'writeonanne','anne_stormont@btconnect.com','http://annestormont.wordpress.com','86.158.17.96','2010-08-11 18:17:47','2010-08-11 17:17:47','Brilliant post! Couldn\'t agree more. I went cold turkey on facebook - didn\'t miss it. Yes, there may be an element of the \'age thing\' with me too. I was getting too much information on the social lives of my  (grown up) children, nephews and nieces :)Sometimes it\'s better not to know.\n\nI like the blog too btw.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1296,5516,'Lama Ajjour','lajjour@dittotranslation.com','http://www.dittotranslation.com','212.101.229.159','2010-08-12 10:35:17','2010-08-12 09:35:17','What\'s wrong with Facebook? What\'s wrong with the online world? What\'s wrong with checking what\'s going around, cheesy or not!\n\nThe hard work (or real challenge, if you want) doesn\'t lie in \"saying no\", it\'s about \"yes, but with moderation\".\n\nEverything has its advantages and disadvantages, the healthy trick is to take advantages of the benefits and stay away from the nuisances.\n\nLong live Facebook, long live social networking, long live blackberry, and any latest means of communication that\'s making the world a smaller place, for better of worse!\n\nThanks.\n\nLama',0,'1','','',0,0),(1297,5516,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-12 10:47:25','2010-08-12 09:47:25','Well I happen to think there\'s plenty wrong about Facebook but that\'s not the point. If \'moderation\' works then fine. But it often doesn\'t for a lot of people. And you can still enjoy the online world without being tied to Facebook or Twitter. Perhaps rather more of it.',0,'1','','',1296,0),(1298,5516,'Lama Ajjour','lajjour@dittotranslation.com','http://www.dittotranslation.com','212.101.229.159','2010-08-12 11:13:56','2010-08-12 10:13:56','Probably.\n\nI agree that Facebook or other platforms gave rise to new interpersonal/social problems, but I\'ve been noticing lately that people who are more inclined to abuse and do things the extreme way will figure out other ways to keep do it, whether in the offline or online world.\n\nAll I\'m saying is that the problem is the people and not the inventions. We have silly people, we have people with severe psychological problems, some are just mentally sick...and on the other hand, we have the smart, educated, and nice people...and they are all sharing the same blue planet. If some crazy foolish drunk drivers are causing fatal accidents and pain, parents still need to use cars to drive their children to schools. But oh well, as the song goes, \"it takes every kind of people to make the world go round.\" :)\n\nI loved your post, just not entirely. :)\n\nAnd again, we are (the mankind) the problem and not the technology!\n\nThanks,\n\nLama',0,'1','','',0,0),(1299,5516,'earthymind','purva.feb1@gmail.com','http://earthymind.wordpress.com','59.95.19.39','2010-08-12 13:57:15','2010-08-12 12:57:15','i was kindof addicted to facebook in the beginning,i guess we all were...\nbut i didnt completely give up,i think thats unnecessary...there are many people who you do want to keep in touch with but they arent best of friends,i think facebook or social networking site are best for these dorts of contacts\neven eith just 15 min per or every couple of dys can get you updated on whats happening with your lets say \"acquaintances\"\nands that is the amount of time i spend..mostly dialy on facebook..which i guess is not-so-bad moderation??',0,'1','','',0,0),(1300,5516,'amkuska','uninvoked@gmail.com','http://amkuska.wordpress.com','71.212.6.122','2010-08-12 15:20:58','2010-08-12 14:20:58','Facebook didn\'t get me. I played farmville and mafia wars, got bored after three days, and that was it. A couple days ago my sister called me to tell me to get back on facebook. &gt;_&gt; She\'s lucky I answered my phone.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1301,5516,'ogirl','omoye.uduehi@hotmail.com','http://ogirlsays.wordpress.com','41.155.14.149','2010-08-13 07:47:06','2010-08-13 06:47:06','...really nice...see so many ppl (myself included) who have an urge to check facebook on the hour. It certainly reduces productivity. While totally quitting may not be in the works for me, I\'ll certainly see about time spent on it.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1302,5516,'Nikunj (Nikki)','nkparsana@gmail.com','http://kunjnikunj.wordpress.com','117.198.174.24','2010-08-14 09:05:13','2010-08-14 08:05:13','I agree with you completely. When Facebook came in the web world, I used to think what is it actually, and even accessing it, playing it for a while some silly games, and hi hello to some nearest and dearest friends many times...all for a while only, and still I’m not able to understand what is Facebook?!!!\n\nThe simple truth is we never realised the value of “Relationship”, the friendship. Facebook came very recently and before that people used to communicate with each other, but how! Of course many other sources are there and it will be there always. People didn’t always have facebook and I’m sure it won’t be there always. These are technologies and which will always grows up and up. Today is Facebook, and tomorrow it will be something new which says – a true social networking tool. Social networking!!! I never digested this word and Facebook as well. Cause we’re not even taking care of dearest and nearest relations, we’re not even saying Hi and hello to them – these are all some basic facts, then how Facebook will ‘help’ or will change way of thinking in our own life!!!\n\nWe all know very well, we people are running from each other as well as using “Facebook” and saying I will in touch with you. People are just changing their statuses, and post some silly points. Where is the real productivity work, where in the early time people used to do. You’ve said absolutely said correct, People can still enjoy online world without using THE FACEBOOK and some other social networking things. No matter how much people use Facebook &amp; other things, ultimately nothing happens with the relationships. It will be as it is. People should think about it.\n\nLoved the post very much, especially this point is very very interesting. I’m in a process of publishing my own thinking very soon. I’m not so expert in writing but always love to write. I’ll try to write more and more interesting, one after another post, better and better.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1303,5516,'jeremywaite','jeremywaite@me.com','http://jeremywaite.wordpress.com','91.106.20.26','2010-08-16 20:02:01','2010-08-16 19:02:01','Superb post. Someone should bring back Zammo from Grange Hill to do a \"Just say no\" campaign to twitter and fb.\n\nThe internet is great at many things but it\'s stripped us of far too many things too.  I read the Times yesterday which you\'ll appreciate working there for a while and a journalist friend of mine said, \"I used to be a scuba diver in a deep sea of words and now I just jet-ski over the surface\".\n\nHow true that is.  Congrats on a great post here. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1304,5516,'Megan','meganmillard2010@gmail.com','http://themusingsofmegan.wordpress.com','66.188.94.48','2010-08-16 23:59:43','2010-08-16 22:59:43','I find myself spending more time on facebook than I probably should!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1305,5516,'Modern Funk','eryn.linkedin@yahoo.com','http://modernfunk.wordpress.com','66.169.146.51','2010-08-21 16:02:03','2010-08-21 15:02:03','Very well said. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1306,5516,'milliondollardanny','ddominguez7790@ufl.edu','http://milliondollardanny.wordpress.com','70.171.6.192','2010-08-23 23:04:31','2010-08-23 22:04:31','Saying no is a pretty admirable thing to do these days. I know for I use facebook to keep in touch with people I normally would lose contact with, and I also store a bunch of photos on there that I wouldn\'t have otherwise. So that\'s one thing I may have a bit of a hard time giving up',0,'1','','',0,0),(1307,5553,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','90.201.86.214','2010-08-13 08:27:20','2010-08-13 07:27:20','Thanks David for such clarity, I along with many others I\'m sure await the next instalment with great anticipation and are always fascinated by the snippets, you let us have prior to  publication. I\'m on part 6 of the Blue Demon..(bit later than normal, due to other commitments) and agree wholeheartedly with your comments on filmaking..Costa and the crew live vividly in my imagination and have grown enormously as characters from the first book to the present with all the human frailties and emotions of old friends, to have someone else\'s vision of Costa, Peroni and all, would I feel be similar to meeting your \'Hero\' of many years to find he/she nothing like you would have expected and we all know I\'m sure how disappointing that can be !\n\nFinally to dilute the characters and the story line by producing more books at shorter intervals is a mistake made by many both in the written and film/tv format and one of the sadest sentences we hear often these days is \'it\'s not like it used to be !\'.\n\nSo thanks and I hope other Blog readers will agree , let\'s get even more deeper characterisation and maybe the occasional new personality and in the meantime lot\'s of writings  and photos on the Blog to keep us and hopefully you happy....till the next time !\n\nHave a fantstic weekend at St. Hildas, sorry again not to be there and I hope you\'ll let us all know over the next few days how it all went !\n\nCheers\nGeoff',0,'1','','',0,0),(1308,5316,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','90.214.178.131','2010-08-18 19:57:05','2010-08-18 18:57:05','Without sounding patronising ...this a wonderful piece with so many connotations not only about Venice and the Mask but perhaps about all of us as we age, either we lower the mask and become our true identity or at worst become the very mask that we created.\nAlso a fascinating \'potted\' history of both the Mask and Venice, I particularily enjoyed the possible explanations of Carnival and Mardis Gras..I\'d heard similar before but found these vague and disjointed, by reading all of your presentation and then relating this to your work in general I found a pattern arising possibly accidentaly between many of your novels and the relationship between comedy and tragedy, ggod and evil.\n\nI also finished  \'The Blue Demon\' at the weekend and this has sent me deep into Roman and Etruscan history , once again with the help of Simon Baker\'s excellent Ancient Rome...whilst I await your future work.\n\nThe Blue Demon..your best yet, of course, but I say that at the end of every book. Thanks for more enjoyment than any TV show, it\'s great to have the grey matter tested and the feeling of wanting to know and find out more even when the last page is completed.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1309,5316,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-18 21:07:44','2010-08-18 20:07:44','You\'re very kind Geoff. I wish there was some grand plan in this all and maybe there is. But if so it\'s subconscious, believe me.\n\nAh, the Etruscans. If you go to Italy go to Tarquinia and see those tombs. Wonderful...',0,'post-trashed','','',1308,0),(1310,5574,'Jenni','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.jenniholbrook.com','66.66.217.27','2010-08-17 15:37:39','2010-08-17 14:37:39','You switch to PC and I switch to Mac. What a whacky world we live in. I don\'t miss my PC and I especially don\'t miss Windows Operating System. The only thing I miss from my PC days is OneNote. I\'m hoping that they come out with a version for the Mac. I use office for Mac and that works just fine.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1311,5574,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-17 15:53:31','2010-08-17 14:53:31','There\'s no OneNote for the Mac in the next version of Office I\'m afraid - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2010/feb10/02-11msmacworld2010pr.mspx',0,'1','','',1310,0),(1312,5574,'Sean Furey','sean.furey@yahoo.co.uk','','88.107.99.186','2010-08-19 19:12:22','2010-08-19 18:12:22','I\'ve been a Mac user since 1989, but at work we recently got new workstations with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010. Ummm....as much as I hate to admit it...it is better than a Mac, and yes. OneNote is genius.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1313,5574,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','212.183.140.35','2010-08-19 21:10:21','2010-08-19 20:10:21','Surprised me too Sean. But I know already my Mac days are done.',0,'1','','',1312,0),(1314,5574,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aminulislam333.wordpress.com','119.30.38.78','2010-08-26 18:53:14','2010-08-26 17:53:14','David, I\'m really wondering how come someone would give up on (don\'t know why I have to write this \"on\" here, can you tell me please?) Mac. I think Mac is, overall, better than Windows. Of course, you can find few things that are either better in Windows or in Mac. But as a whole platform, Mac is hundred times better.\n\nAnyway, I believe OneNote is not the only thing that made you switch. Would you take some time [for me, if you\'d like to hear :) ] to write another post describing the facts what exactly made you switch? I\'ve read your bye-bye apple but I\'d like to know more because I\'m too much curious about this.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1315,5574,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aminulislam333.wordpress.com','119.30.38.78','2010-08-26 19:03:39','2010-08-26 18:03:39','One more thing, after reading bye-bye apple I think it\'s just interest and curiosity that got you into windows. :D I don\'t think it\'s gonna last. If it does, then it\'s because you use your computer just for writing stuffs. Well, in that case, windows might be enough.',0,'1','','',1314,0),(1316,5574,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','217.41.231.253','2010-08-26 19:05:20','2010-08-26 18:05:20','Lots of posts on that if you search on Apple. Previous commenters are now automatically approved by way',0,'1','','',1314,0),(1317,5574,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aminulislam333.wordpress.com','119.30.38.78','2010-08-26 19:20:49','2010-08-26 18:20:49','Since you are talking about OneNote, I can\'t do what I would do otherwise. For those who don\'t literally require a Mac, which is way too expensive, I suggest to buy a PC and install linux/ubuntu. Since both are unix-based, they work fine. For everyone, mac is not worth it. I always recommend ubuntu to general users.\n\nThree things I hate about windows:\n\nWindows gets slower day by day. you have to re-install it over time. Neither mac nor linux needs* to be reinstalled over time for no reason. I hate this.\nViruses, malicious softwares, and after all, alerts!!\nWindows generally takes too long to boot up and shut down (first few days after fresh installation you really can\'t smell that). I mean, I can\'t boot up immediately when I need to. It takes too long for windows to prepare it to get working even if there is absolutely nothing in startup applications. Same goes when shutting the computer down. Linux or Mac, none has this problem.\n\nOver time, you will begin to feel these problems.\n\n*Since you\'re a writer, can you help me with this? Should I use that \'s\' for third-person singular number when saying \"neither this or that [verb]...\"?',0,'1','','',1316,0),(1318,5574,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','217.41.231.253','2010-08-26 19:29:21','2010-08-26 18:29:21','Singular I\'d say - you got it right',0,'1','','',1317,0),(1319,5584,'Anne Stormont','anne_stormont@btconnect.com','http://annestormont.wordpress.com','86.158.17.96','2010-08-18 20:00:23','2010-08-18 19:00:23','Well done! You will be in very good company. You should feel rightly proud.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1320,5589,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.39.91','2010-09-13 19:48:04','2010-09-13 18:48:04','I don\'t feel it slows down site loading in any way. Rather it\'s a good addition.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1321,5601,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','94.8.124.109','2010-08-22 15:48:15','2010-08-22 14:48:15','Thanks David for a fascinating commentary on this event, I was so sorry not to make this event as it\'s my town of Birth and formative years , over the years still my favourite place for photography in this country.\n  The wonderful Botanical gardens are always a pleasure in my memory and I have wondered them through all four seasonsmany times with camera in hand.\n  I will cancel everything to make this event next year,  hopefully you will be there once again, along  with Colin Dexter, a writer whose full collection of works sit alongside yours in my bookcase.',0,'post-trashed','','',0,0),(1322,5663,'Christina','mercedes_team@yahoo.com','','93.81.151.151','2010-08-25 20:04:26','2010-08-25 19:04:26','Oh...what a cutie!! asleep, unaware of your best guard - Eddie. by the way did Eddie notice this wonderful tresspasser?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1323,5663,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-25 21:09:42','2010-08-25 20:09:42','Eddie doesn\'t take much interest in foxes. I\'ve had foxes, deer, rabbit, pheasants, you name it walk right past and he doesn\'t care. Another dog though....',0,'1','','',1322,0),(1324,5663,'Rebecca','rebecca@erlewein.net','http://www.japanese-acupuncture.co.nz','203.97.101.236','2010-08-26 02:03:34','2010-08-26 01:03:34','Fox among the apples - that is so sweet.\nI miss foxes - they\'re one of the few predators that weren\'t introduced to New Zealand and hence leave the Kiwis and other birdlife alone.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1325,5663,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-26 13:04:11','2010-08-26 12:04:11','I hope they saved you from the rabbits too then... we\'d be overrun with the things if it wasn\'t for a little help from Mr Fox.',0,'1','','',1324,0),(1326,5654,'Lesley Cookman','lesleycookman@yahoo.co.uk','http://www.lesleycookman.co.uk','87.114.6.86','2010-08-25 09:21:21','2010-08-25 08:21:21','Those boots drove me mad. I watched it when it was first aired on bbc4.  The other thing that annoyed me was the projection onto Nina. Why? And those boots. I still can\'t get over them. They weren\'t even new or well cared for. Oh, well, I am a woman.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1327,5654,'Alison Morton','alison@alison-morton.com','http://www.alison-morton.com/blog/','92.134.183.200','2010-08-25 11:05:00','2010-08-25 10:05:00','Summed up perfectly.\n\nI was muttering all the way through the programme so much so that my OH asked if I wanted it off. Of course not. But I turned the sound down.\nMiss Witter-Pants was so annoying, treating us as 10 year olds. Her vocabulary was limited, I stopped counting repeats after a while. Grown-up expressions like \'garnet cloisonné\' didn\'t get a look in.\n\nPerfect programme for Channel 5; a travesty for BBC2.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1328,5654,'David B','djberten@googlemail.com','','86.140.49.210','2010-08-25 18:56:23','2010-08-25 17:56:23','I was going to watch the programme - I still might, but it\'s less likely now. I agree with you that too many programmes are filmed a patronising way. I suppose anyone who\'s prepared to watch reality TV must expect to be treated like an imbecile, but not programmes that are supposed to be treating a serious subject. You can still do this in an interesting way without demeaning the subject. It\'s even spread to the news. It\'s been said before (probably best by Charlie Brooker in How to Report the News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4) but the inane ways in which presenters attempt to pad out basic news items are deeply irritating. How stupid do they think we are?\n\nAs for AA Gill, his brand of perversely controversialist misanthropic superciliousness (and those of Clarkson and too many other contributors) is why I gave up on the Sunday Times. A shame because there were some good articles, but life is too short to let such malignity voluntarily into your life...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1329,5654,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-25 19:21:08','2010-08-25 18:21:08','It wasn\'t unwatchable by any means. In some way the wonderful parts made the dire parts seem even more annoying. So I\'d suggest you give it a spin - and fast forward when it gets daft (and that bit at the jewellers is very daft indeed).',0,'1','','',1328,0),(1330,5654,'David B','djberten@googlemail.com','','86.140.49.210','2010-08-26 18:50:24','2010-08-26 17:50:24','How could I resist now? I will watch it then... Thanks.',0,'1','','',1329,0),(1331,5654,'Richard McCabe','mccaberichard128@googlemail.com','','86.155.75.202','2010-08-29 11:25:13','2010-08-29 10:25:13','Like the curate\'s egg, parts were good. How popularist to include the Stafforshire Hoard yet bypass the Kingston Brooch http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/humanworld/ancientworld/antiquities/anglosaxon/kingston_brooch.aspx\n\nA group of Kent graves excavated by Rev. Bryan Faussett in the early 1770s who took the trouble to record his findings - the beginnings of modern archaeology and was the subject of a truly academic display a the Society of Antiquaries a few years back.\n\nIf you dig you\'ll find Ramirez only teaches extra mural classes on the evenings in Oxford.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1332,5654,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-29 12:55:19','2010-08-29 11:55:19','I never knew about the brooch. What an extraordinarily beautiful object - yes it is odd it wasn\'t in there. Nor did I know about Bryan Faussett - so thanks on both counts. Those finds were just down the road from me in an area little changed today.\n\nI see his original paper is now there in full at Google Books.\nhttp://books.google.com/books?id=qrgsAAAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=Bryan+Faussett&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=wEt6TPv0OMLGOJHj9dwG&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false',0,'1','','',1331,0),(1333,5684,'mikecane','mikecane02@yahoo.com','http://','67.250.108.21','2010-08-25 14:03:42','2010-08-25 13:03:42','My first blog disallowed Comments.  Then I went with modded ones for my second.  Free speech, yes, but I\'m not having the insane stalkers use my blog against me -- they can go do their own -- so there are some people whose Comments never appear.  I\'ve found the stalkers generally go quiet too that way.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1334,5684,'Alison Morton','alison@alison-morton.com','http://www.alison-morton.com/blog/','92.134.183.200','2010-08-25 14:20:35','2010-08-25 13:20:35','Agree, David.\n\nIt\'s sad to have to moderate everything, but I\'ve done it on my blog from the start, otherwise I get a stream of spam advertisements about handbags, songs and get-rich-quick schemes.\n\nUntil this James added the second, derogatory paragraph about your books (which is untrue - I love Nic Costa\'s world), his opinion was valid. Yes, it ran against the other ones, but that\'s what free speech is about - disagreement.\n\nBit like the programme - a lost opportunity.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1335,5684,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-25 14:25:40','2010-08-25 13:25:40','That\'s why I emailed him - twice - to see if he\'d just agree to the constructive part or even elaborate on it. But if he uses a fake name and email address...\n\nIncidentally I find the Akismet spam filtering on Wordpress fantastic. Scarcely let any junk through.',0,'1','','',1334,0),(1336,5684,'Kaja Marie','kajamarie@tekstogtanke.no','http://tekstogtanke.wordpress.com','84.48.216.233','2010-08-25 14:34:22','2010-08-25 13:34:22','I\'m with you on this one David. Moderate all you want. It\'s your site and while critisism can be a good thing, insults have never been.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1337,5684,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.31.250.61','2010-08-25 16:04:45','2010-08-25 15:04:45','I\'m sorry you/we, if we run a blog or garden have to spend the extra time weeding.   But, ya gotta.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1338,5684,'Alison Morton','alison@alison-morton.com','http://www.alison-morton.com/blog/','92.134.183.200','2010-08-25 16:38:38','2010-08-25 15:38:38','He Who Knows Such Things has said we now use Akismet.\n(Wondered why it had all stopped...)',0,'1','','',1335,0),(1339,5684,'Miss Moppet','hjfpickup@yahoo.com','http://misadventuresofmoppet.wordpress.com','82.152.175.42','2010-08-25 18:46:57','2010-08-25 17:46:57','I agree more anonymity means less accountability but nevertheless decided not to use my real name on my blog for two reasons. First, it\'s a way of drawing a line between my professional life and my personal life. I don\'t feel my employer has the right to be privy to everything I say online. Even though I very rarely mention my work, I would not feel as free to express myself if I knew my colleagues and managers might be looking over my shoulder, especially as I sometimes share personal information with online friends which I would not share with colleagues, or only with those I am close to.\n\nSecond, I\'m concerned about online security. I am careful about what I share online, but I don\'t feel happy about using my real name as I think it would be too easy to find my address and possibly other details.\n\nBoth of these considerations are the reason I\'ve never been on Facebook, under any name or pseudonym.\n\nLots of authors use pen names rather than their legal names. Do you think that is justified or should they also be using their legal names?\n\nRe: comment policy, I\'ve always used moderation with very few problems so far, other than Wordpress spam being too aggressive and thinking comments are spam when they\'re not on occasion. But I\'d rather that than the other way round.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1340,5684,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-25 19:19:07','2010-08-25 18:19:07','I\'m probably a bit unreasonable over the anonymity thing. It proved so poisonous with save-wye - and things got so much better once I said - no name, no comment. Much more difficult to do that with a general readership though...',0,'1','','',1339,0),(1341,5684,'Miss Moppet','hjfpickup@yahoo.com','http://misadventuresofmoppet.wordpress.com','82.152.175.42','2010-08-25 20:25:20','2010-08-25 19:25:20','Having looked at the save-wye site I see just what you mean - I\'m also glad to have come across it since family and friends are currently campaigning against a wind farm being built in their village. I\'m sure the site and book will be helpful to them and I will be passing the details on. So thank you!\n\nI forgot to specify that the Wordpress option I use is moderation of first comments - so the first time someone comments, it\'s moderated. If I approve it, they can then leave unmoderated comments, and I\'m happy to say I\'ve never yet had to delete one.\n\nAs far as the book world goes, I think the worst place for abusive comments and sockpuppets has to be the Amazon forums. It\'s a shame because a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel.',0,'1','','',1340,0),(1342,5684,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-25 21:12:59','2010-08-25 20:12:59','Ah - didn\'t see that \'anyone who has commented already\' option. Thanks.... save-wye was very instructive and councils hadn\'t quite learned how to stifle the Freedom of Information Act back then. We were dead lucky.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1343,5684,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aminulislam333.wordpress.com','119.30.38.78','2010-08-26 18:36:34','2010-08-26 17:36:34','I don\'t like comment moderation. Of course, it helps me put abusive and offensive comments away, but I can do so from my mobile browser too. I leave comment moderation turned off so that a discussion may spark. You know, imagine of a post where ten people left comments with some valuable information that attracts and further extends the discussion. If the comment moderation is turned on, and I\'m not near to the Internet to approve those comments, those ten comments will not go live and as a result the people visiting/reading the post will simply think there were no comments yet.\n\nThis way, I\'m losing more comments.\n\nIt\'s everyone\'s personal choice, though. Famous bloggers often like to turn comment moderation on because either way they will be getting tons of comments. But for personal and non-famous bloggers like me, comment moderation is not necessary.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1344,5684,'Steve Morton','steve.morton@gmail.com','http://philofaxy.com','92.134.55.112','2010-08-29 16:48:02','2010-08-29 15:48:02','We used to allow anonymous comments on Philofaxy but the level of snide remarks was increasing so I wrote the one and only contributor/author at the time and suggested they turned off Anonymous comments and considered some form of moderation..\n\nI got a thank you and an invite to become a contributor and to help manage the site... one year on... we don\'t have any problems on the comments and we have a great community of people contributing comments and guest posts.\n\nYou don\'t need the hassle of the foul mouthed minority. Full support what ever measures you need to take to keep the comments on topic and in sensible shape!\n\nRegards\nSteve',0,'1','','',0,0),(1345,5684,'Susan','sb.ciao@frontier.com','','98.108.94.224','2010-08-30 15:00:47','2010-08-30 14:00:47','I rarely comment but your comments on commenting caught my eye.\n\nI do think anonymous comments need to be moderated for abuse so there can be healthy discourse.\n\nAs a reporter with no control over the matter, I\'ve received comments that were so off-target it was clear the person was spewing venom for its own sake.\n\nI rarely read comments at all now, which is a shame as I\'m certain there are people with whom it would be interesting to share ideas. I\'m opposed, however, to giving a platform to clear lunatics. This can\'t be a healthy development.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1346,5703,'Dell Streak reviewed (as an e-reader) | The Digital Reader','','http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2010/08/26/dell-streak-reviewed-as-an-e-reader/','174.121.12.66','2010-08-26 13:01:42','2010-08-26 12:01:42','[...] of interesting remarks on screen size and usability. Yes, it&#8217;s only his opinion, but I think it&#8217;s worth a read: But… the Streak is really rather good too, though you won’t be able to use it in full sun, as [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1347,5703,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.31.250.61','2010-08-26 23:47:07','2010-08-26 22:47:07','\"And still no one’s perfected the trick of making a simple mobile device, smaller than a laptop, that will let you write, read and edit on the move.\"\n\nI\'m thinking you tagged it with your made to \"consume not create\" idea.  The controlling drive for these things seems to be tipped toward the passive entertainment end of the scale and away from anything that requires much void filling on the part of the user.\n\nI\'m guessing, the simplicity of what you are looking for will happen accidently in a quest for something else.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1348,5719,'Justine','justine10@mac.com','','84.13.71.43','2010-08-28 12:18:04','2010-08-28 11:18:04','Are you aware of Calibre? It\'s a free program that you download on to your computer and where you can convert pdf files to .mobi and send them to your Kindle address for free - or at least, it doesn\'t seem as if I have been charged for them through amazon.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1349,5719,'Lesley Cookman','lesleycookman@yahoo.co.uk','http://www.lesleycookman.co.uk','87.114.243.171','2010-08-28 12:32:51','2010-08-28 11:32:51','Can\'t wait to read the next. Considering it, as I have to take the MacBook on holiday with me due to looming deadline, and usually take at least 16 books. Looks as though the Kindle might lighten my luggage.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1350,5719,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','219.164.177.48','2010-08-28 12:34:07','2010-08-28 11:34:07','I don\'t really get this. You laid out your reasons for buying a Kindle but you haven\'t investigated an iPad?\n\nIn regards to e-readers, don\'t they all have the same features?\n\nRegards',0,'1','','',0,0),(1351,5719,'Portia Da Costa','portiadacosta@gmail.com','http://www.portiadacosta.com','91.105.8.236','2010-08-28 12:53:41','2010-08-28 11:53:41','Many thanks for this summary of your initial Kindle impressions. I\'ve got one on order and am now feeling happier and happier that I took the plunge.\n\nI have a Sony Reader, and while I enjoy reading books on it, the transfer process is a terrible faff. This sounds so much more straightforward, and prospect of being able to search and annotate books is very appealing. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1352,5719,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-28 13:25:32','2010-08-28 12:25:32','I don\'t really get your comment I\'m afraid. I did look at an iPad. I thought it was too big, overpriced, too tied to Apple and as I\'ve already written here before Pages can\'t handle comments or track changes on it. Also there\'s a big difference between an LCD and e-ink screen. And I don\'t want to deal with the monster called iTunes simply to do something as moving a file around.\n\nNo contest - completely different devices. Though doubtless iPad addicts will want to come on here and moan like crazy because I happen to feel that way. If I wanted a colour LCD tablet I\'d wait for an Android one actually.',0,'1','','',1350,0),(1353,5719,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-28 13:29:13','2010-08-28 12:29:13','I have a Sony reader and feel the same way about getting books onto it. Screen is much better on this too.',0,'1','','',1351,0),(1354,5719,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-28 13:29:39','2010-08-28 12:29:39','yes am aware of Calibre. Don\'t need to do that for me- I just send off a Word file',0,'1','','',1348,0),(1355,5719,'Liz','lizdejagerwriter@googlemail.com','http://lizdejager.co.uk','86.18.153.246','2010-08-28 13:36:52','2010-08-28 12:36:52','Hi David\n\nI love that you did this write up.  Everything you mentioned on here is exactly why I decided to go for a Kindle too.  It will do what I want it to do: I can read books publishers can send me via pdf for review - this is really an attractive thing for US publishers who have started contacting us to review books for them.  Cut out the postage and the cost, and life is suddenly a lot easier.  And also, I can take all my research for my own writing with me and make notes about them.  I can also easily review my friends manuscripts for critiquing - so overall, the Kindle really is a winner in my opinion.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1356,5719,'Blythe Gifford','blythegifford@yahoo.com','http://www.blythegifford.com','66.245.69.125','2010-08-28 13:51:11','2010-08-28 12:51:11','I\'ll admit, I have found the Kindle keyboard less than user friendly for notes and revisions.  Can\'t imagine doing actual editing on the thing.  But for reading on the go, absolutely.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1357,5719,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-28 14:13:39','2010-08-28 13:13:39','Couldn\'t possibly edit on it. And I don\'t want to. There\'s a phase of revision where being unable to edit is vital.',0,'1','','',1356,0),(1358,5719,'Jason','jason.c.newton@gmail.com','','219.164.177.48','2010-08-28 16:00:31','2010-08-28 15:00:31','Well I wasn\'t aware of those reasons. Perhaps if you had stated them in your post. Kindle looks very nice and it wins hands down for convenience. However, I think I\'ll stick with the printed page for now.\n\nRegards',0,'1','','',1352,0),(1359,5719,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-28 18:24:23','2010-08-28 17:24:23','Um, the article was about Kindle not iPad...',0,'1','','',1358,0),(1360,5719,'Dom Conlon','dom@head-first.co.uk','','79.79.171.253','2010-08-29 00:07:45','2010-08-28 23:07:45','A lot of what you say here rings true for ipad. It has the same ease of use for purchasing and the same ability to annotate through the kindle apps (though i don\'t know about emailing doc files to it, I suspect not). I enjoy reading books on my ipad although I think I\'d prefer the Kindle for the same reasons - i turn my contrast right down to mimic that of the Kindle. I do use it as a consuming device but increasingly I\'m beginning to write and use things such as Documents2Go and Evernote which are very good. I like that I can also read comics on it. It also seems to have the same drawback - namely control by a single corporation. That one company, be it Apple or Amazon, could effectively control the distribution gateway for books (or any other media) is terrifying. Even Google can\'t be seen to be above reproach no matter what their open source claims might seem to be.\n\nOne thing is certain, iPad or Kindle, Android or Windows, these are interesting, exhilarating and dangerous times.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1361,5719,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-29 08:39:20','2010-08-29 07:39:20','I thought those writing apps would appear for iPad. Just a shame that Apple\'s own offering is so crippled. The control thing bothers me too - would much rather be using something that was Android or Windows. If it worked well Windows actually, with a proper version of Word on it.\n\nIn a year\'s time I suspect we\'ll be drowning in choices.',0,'1','','',1360,0),(1362,5719,'Steve Morton','steve.morton@gmail.com','http://philofaxy.com','92.134.55.112','2010-08-29 16:41:54','2010-08-29 15:41:54','David\nI\'m curious as to what else the Kindle can do apart from be an ebook reader? I\'m sold on the idea and it\'s an excellent price.\n\nBut given its connectivity that is built in, a decent screen and a reasonable looking keyboard, am I asking too much in expecting to be able to do other things such as may be update and read stuff on Twitter with it?\n\nI\'m obviously not expecting to watch videos etc on it... I have a TV for that!\n\nJust interested as to what else is out there for the Kindle\n\nMany thanks\nRegards\nSteve',0,'1','','',0,0),(1363,5719,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-29 17:02:40','2010-08-29 16:02:40','Not a lot else really. It\'s deliberately designed to be an ereader and not much else. There is a basic slow browser so you could do Twitter. But the keyboard is tiny and there\'s no mouse - you have to click around the screen. It\'s not a tablet.',0,'1','','',1362,0),(1364,5719,'Steve Morton','steve.morton@gmail.com','http://philofaxy.com','92.134.55.112','2010-08-30 20:12:21','2010-08-30 19:12:21','Thanks David, I will follow your blog with interest in the weeks to come to see how you are getting on with the Kindle.\n\nRegards\nSteve',0,'1','','',1363,0),(1365,5719,'Mairi Scott','mairi.s@virgin.net','','86.25.164.220','2010-09-07 21:15:52','2010-09-07 20:15:52','Hi I thought I would chuck in my tuppence worth , I got my Kindle last wednesday and I love it, not only can I have my books on it, i can load my audible audio book files and play them, the speakers are great but can also load my knitting and crochet paterns on it too. No more carting 15 books on hoilday and assorted knitting patterns and then the wind blowing away my knitting pattern. Thought it would be handy for storing copies of travel docs and scanned passport and liscence docs too when travelling.\n\nJust a thought\n\nMairi',0,'1','','',0,0),(1366,5738,'William Gallagher','William.Gallagher@mac.com','','90.192.87.170','2010-08-28 16:01:09','2010-08-28 15:01:09','I\'ve got Kindle on iPad and iPhone and have just tried this. All works as you say but yes, you can edit notes on either and they copy across.\n\nI found it a bit slow but I expect this is an artificial situation: I was holding the iPhone in my hand while making notes on the iPad. Normally I expect I\'d do what you do and write on one then later on the other. The latest-page feature is similarly slow if you test back and forth but works perfectly well in natural, normal use.\n\nI should say that iBooks does all this too. Much as I like Kindle on iPhone and iPad, I do prefer the reading experience with iBooks. Oddly, I prefer how Kindle displays the notes, though. Cosmetic things in both cases and anyway both apps are free so I bounce between them depending on where I\'ve bought the book, if I have.\n\nPopping your own material on iBooks has been easiest to do in PDF, though its editing of PDF files is more limited. You could convert your material into the ePub standard and have iBooks treat it as a book but it\'s been a little fiddly until this week: there\'s been an update to Apple\'s word processor, Pages, that makes it simple. If you\'ve got Pages, at least.\n\nI was interested in what you say because I\'ve not made notes before: I\'ve reread on iPad and made highlighter marks on passages I needed to revise yet I hadn\'t looked into the note taking.\n\nI do somehow enjoy reading my material on iPad - and as soon as I discovered my agent is an iPad fanatic, I made sure I sent him the next material in an iBooks form.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1367,5762,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.jenniholbrook.com','66.66.217.27','2010-08-30 20:30:29','2010-08-30 19:30:29','One thing I love my Kindle for is when I beta read for other authors. For me, it turns my mind set from writer to reader. If I read on the computer I tend to \"edit\", but if I read on my Kindle, I read. It saves the author (or me) from having to print out the manuscript and then me scribbling on the margins (which can not be deciphered and I have to type in my thoughts anyway).\n\nI also love my Kindle just for reading. I have come to learn that reading 4-5 books a week is not considered normal, but it is normal for me. Sigh...but now I have to fight with my DS13 for my Kindle. It might be time to buy a second one...well, at least he likes to read.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1368,5762,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-08-30 20:53:55','2010-08-30 19:53:55','Exactly how I see it Jenni - that reader view is invaluable.',0,'1','','',1367,0),(1369,5762,'Peter Labrow','peter@labrow.com','http://www.labrow.com','86.8.49.110','2010-09-03 09:19:34','2010-09-03 08:19:34','Great blog as always David. I\'m currently finishing my first novel (having written non-fiction in various guises for twenty years) and I\'ve found that a mixture of Kindle, iPad and paper works well for reviewing (either myself or another reader). Sending a document to a Kindle reader is as easy as you say; they can annotate it, but sadly can\'t return the annotations so they have to transcribe. (By the way, you say that the document will then be available via the apps as well as Kindle, but I\'ve not found that, maybe I\'m doing something wrong.) The big plus for the iPad is that the document can be sent as a PDF (a second of a job to create in OS X) which can be annotated on the iPad using iAnnotate (does what it says on the tin) and then returned. But, when I want to really focus, I do print out a paper copy - but I often do something subtle such as change the font size to make the line endings etc unfamiliar again. I really don\'t mind using multiple tools for the same job - each has its merits. Since I carry my iPad most of the time when on business (I still have a day job) then it\'s good to have a copy of my manuscript on that in case I find myself with some spare time. (I\'m not a fanboi, the iPad is actually a lot more useful than it first appears, as an aside, it\'s a brilliant tool for giving an intimate, interactive pitch to one or two people.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1370,5762,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-09-04 19:25:27','2010-09-04 18:25:27','I think lots of ways of looking at the same manuscript are a very good idea. When there\'s an Android tablet I fancy I may well get one of them. For me the iPad is just too big for one thing.',0,'1','','',1369,0),(1371,5801,'Rosanne Dingli','rdingli@space.net.au','http://www.rosannedingli.com','203.91.94.17','2010-09-06 06:44:41','2010-09-06 05:44:41','David - I have been to some of these places. I remember Glencoe and Fort William, but it was back in the 1970s! I looked you up because I\'ve just bought one of your books - A Season for the Dead - and can\'t wait to get into it. It\'s got to wait a bit, because I\'m very busy right now promoting my forthcoming novel According to Luke, which takes place in Venice, Ravenna, Malta and Damascus. The photo I can see here on your page takes me back to when I was researching the locations in 2008.\nSince I live in Western Australia, it will be a while before I can research my next novel, which is still an embryonic WIP which starts off in Rome... the reason I bought Seasons, and because it looks like it\'s in the same genre.\nI\'m going to follow this blog, and read your archives by and by. Have you read Days Without Number by Robert Goddard?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1372,5801,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-09-06 08:03:02','2010-09-06 07:03:02','Glad it\'s some use - no sorry I don\'t know that particular Robert Goddard book.',0,'1','','',1371,0),(1373,5817,'Nick Robinson','thamuhacha@googlemail.com','','217.18.20.254','2010-09-06 09:11:15','2010-09-06 08:11:15','Good lord, they are so awful.\n\nI cancelled my BT Broadband to move onto O2, chiefly because of their poor service, rubbish speeds and dreadful customer service.\n\nSo I phoned up and BT said I would get my MAC code within five working days.\n\nThree days later they took out, via direct debit, the money for the next three months broadband.\n\nWhen I rang to complain that they had charged me for something I had quite clearly cancelled, they said that they couldn\'t refund it, but would credit my next bill. In three months time!\n\nO2 were very good, but to use them I needed to keep a BT phone line. So I apologise to O2, but I will never give BT another penny in my life.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1374,5817,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.153.239.237','2010-09-06 09:15:30','2010-09-06 08:15:30','They do seem to be completely oblivious to all standards of honesty and good business practice. I think I will go and cancel that direct debit now...',0,'1','','',1373,0),(1375,5817,'Roger Massey','Jollygunta@yahoo.co.uk','','80.229.175.93','2010-09-06 19:47:51','2010-09-06 18:47:51','I wholeheartedly agree with all your comments. BT is similar to other utility companies in overcharging fIrst then refunding only if you complain. They know that a certain percentage of people won\'t notice, and even those who do, will only get their refund as a deduction from the next quarter. So BT still has your money for 3 months. I wonder his much money they make from this scam?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1376,5817,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aminulislam333.wordpress.com','119.30.39.70','2010-09-07 23:43:57','2010-09-07 22:43:57','Just being a bit off-topic: Do you think putting contents behind Paywall can succeed and continue in the future?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1377,5817,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.158.236.112','2010-09-08 08:00:10','2010-09-08 07:00:10','I honestly don\'t know. I don\'t use the Times now it\'s behind a paywall. Why bother when it\'s all for free elsewhere?',0,'1','','',1376,0),(1378,5817,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aminulislam333.wordpress.com','119.30.39.66','2010-09-08 08:20:14','2010-09-08 07:20:14','That\'s true. I don\'t think putting contents behind a paywall is a good idea nor will it last for too long.\n\nAnyway, thanks for replying.',0,'1','','',1377,0),(1379,5830,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.154.232.181','2010-09-07 17:49:38','2010-09-07 16:49:38','Oh this sounds really great!  Teresa is probably my favourite of all the characters.  I love her and Peroni.  2012 seems too far away.\n\nOh and I trust that Mr Reichlin will be narrating the audiobooks.\n\nMary',0,'1','','',0,0),(1380,5830,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','212.183.140.54','2010-09-07 18:01:55','2010-09-07 17:01:55','I would expect Saul to do it though it\'s a bit of a way off right now',0,'1','','',1379,0),(1381,5830,'Christina','mercedes_team@yahoo.com','','93.81.151.85','2010-09-08 05:40:50','2010-09-08 04:40:50','Great news!\na new book...The Plague Doctor...Venice...Teresa...unusual. I already love this book :)Yeah, 2012 is far away...and we\'ll have to wait for The Plague Doctor, but it seems to me that this book will undoubtedly surpass all our expectations...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1382,5830,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','90.221.153.20','2010-09-08 11:48:35','2010-09-08 10:48:35','This sounds a great read (as always !) and one to look forward to, I\'m busy reading \'The Dante Trap\'and \'The Lying Tongue\' both set in Venice along with a reread of Donna Leon\'s first Brunetti novel \'Death a La Fenice\', so will be all set and raring to go when Theresa hits the waterways of Venice !\nI\'m pleased that the \'partnership\' with Macmillan appears to be getting stronger and stronger over time and hitting the top of the Bestsellers lists should create even more recognition for your work.\nDoes this recognition have a major impact on your life as with other forms of celebrity or as I would hope , allow you to do more of what you want to do more of the time ?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1383,5830,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.158.236.112','2010-09-08 11:49:48','2010-09-08 10:49:48','Celebrity? Happily authors don\'t really fit into that category. We\'re largely anonymous and most of us are happy to stay that way - at least I know I am.',0,'1','','',1382,0),(1384,5830,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','90.221.153.20','2010-09-08 11:57:04','2010-09-08 10:57:04','Thanks David\n\nI was reading an article on Donna Leon and she states that she is not published in Italy, partly as you have said \'wishing to remain anonymous\'..are you published in Italy and if so do you receive feedback from Italian readers and whilst staying in Italy are the residents, Hoteliers and Restauranters aware that you are a writer and likely to be researching your next novel in their local..so to speak ?',0,'1','','',1383,0),(1385,5830,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.158.236.112','2010-09-08 12:02:31','2010-09-08 11:02:31','Yes - the books are published by Fanucci in Italy. But I never tell people I\'m a writer if I can help it...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1386,5830,'Ole Henrik','lonekheir@gmail.com','http://crossingtheriver.wordpress.com','90.149.80.56','2010-09-19 20:48:42','2010-09-19 19:48:42','I discovered your authorship about one and a half year ago. Since then I have read all the books in the Nic Costa series. I have always been a avid reader and I must admit that I have become a great fan of your brilliantly composed books. Thanks! I am looking forward to both The Fallen Angel and The Plague Doctor.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1387,5830,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.5.241.30','2010-09-20 07:45:04','2010-09-20 06:45:04','Thanks Ole - glad you like them!',0,'1','','',1386,0),(1782,160,'','doone@suddenlink.net','','','2009-10-02 20:53:00','2009-10-02 20:53:00','When I pick up a Nic Costa book, nothing gets done around my house until the very last sentence has been read. I can\'t put them down! Thanks for such fascinating characters, and wonderful settings and for lessons in great art appreciation! Now I have this deep desire to go to Rome and visit these places and see all the art you talk about.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):18316298','',0,0),(1781,160,'Tony Boyd-Williams','stratters4@aol.com','','','2009-10-02 17:03:00','2009-10-02 17:03:00','Thanks for coming back so soon,David.It is a real pleasure to tell you how much I have enjoyed these special stories.\r\n\r\nI take your point about TV .Meantime,I shall continue to recommend Nic Costa and Co to family.freienda and colleagues.\r\n\r\nCiao e a presto !',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):18299751','',1780,0),(1780,160,'David Hewson','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2009-10-02 14:54:00','2009-10-02 14:54:00','Thanks for the kind remarks, Tony. I\'m glad to be able to make anyone enjoy Rome a little more! I am always cautious about TV and film to be honest. So often it goes wrong. It would be an interesting challenge, though. So let\'s see how it goes.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):18290274','',1779,0),(1779,160,'Tony Boyd-Williams','stratters4@aol.com','','','2009-10-02 14:51:00','2009-10-02 14:51:00','These splendid books are destined to be classics of their genre.The characters -especially the usual main ones -are always so skilfully drawn that after a time,one looks upon them as welcome acquaintances.The settings in the Eternal City are brilliantly used,and they come vividly to life when one is enjoying the latest plot.\r\n\r\nIndeed,a recent holiday in Rome was made even more enjoyable with the opportunity to revisit some of the locations -one expected to meet Nic and Co any moment !\r\nIt would be highly satisfying if the novels could be adapted for television -they would be very popular .Meantime,thank you David for so much enjoyment.I now look forward to The Blue Demon and The Fallen Angel.\r\n\r\nOh yes,might I share that I am a retired   but still active Anglican Priest who always finds the ecclesiastical characters and settings quite fascinating.',0,'1','Disqus/1.1(2.61):18290123','',0,0),(1777,7230,'Jobes','joanna.france2010@yahoo.fr','','91.125.85.102','2011-01-29 11:28:05','2011-01-29 11:28:05','Yes, you can feed your tweets to your FB status. It does sometimes imply \'I don\'t use FB any more\' but that in itself could be a good way to discourage people from bombarding you on FB. \r\n\r\nIf it doesn\'t feel too \'celeb\' you could always have two accounts; one for the \'author/brand\' and one \'deep cover\' account for you. That way you can still keep in touch with real friends (but will have to invest a bit of time in maintaining that chinese wall).',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(1776,7230,'Tweets that mention Do tell — should I go back on Facebook? -- Topsy.com','','http://topsy.com/davidhewson.com/2011/01/do-tell-should-i-go-back-on-facebook/?utm_source=pingback&amp;utm_campaign=L2','208.74.66.43','2011-01-29 11:17:57','2011-01-29 11:17:57','[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by David Hewson, Lorelei King and Louisa Gummer, Ali Muirden. Ali Muirden said: RT @LoreleiKing: Fascinating, differing views on social media today from @david_hewson http://tinyurl.com/4j2obkx and @justinemusk http: ... [...]',0,'1','SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.712','pingback',0,0),(1774,7230,'Peter Labrow','peter@labrow.com','http://blog.peterlabrow.com/','86.8.49.110','2011-01-29 10:50:47','2011-01-29 10:50:47','You can do all of those things on Facebook. I agree, it can suck your time - but you can ignore all of that Farmville nonsense. Not sure about auto-broadcasting, though - that seems a waste of an interactive medium.',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4','',0,0),(1775,7230,'princessay','clads27@gmail.com','http://princessay.wordpress.com','182.6.153.15','2011-01-29 10:55:39','2011-01-29 10:55:39','me too, i ever had an intention to leave fb,but i keep it till now coz i need it to communicate to my partners, as an alternative way if they couldn\'t be reached by text or phone.. 1 thing that has been my principle was fb is not my real life, i just a user, if i ignored friends on it, it didn\'t mean i hate them or being arrogant, i told it to my friends, and now they understand that fb is just one of my communication channels..',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13','',0,0),(1767,6794,'Jan','laydilejur@hotmail.com','','88.241.145.163','2011-01-28 16:16:03','2011-01-28 16:16:03','Fantastic news - Congratulations! Nic Costa and Roy Grace... the outlook for TV crime drama is definitely looking good!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)','',0,0),(1388,6185,'Steve Morton','steve.morton@gmail.com','http://philofaxy.com','90.55.95.126','2010-09-10 17:25:17','2010-09-10 16:25:17','May be if they included Bluetooth, which would then let you use a Bluetooth mouse to control the cursor it would improve it.\n\nBut thanks for the demo, very useful to see what it can/cannot do.\n\nRegards\nSteve',0,'1','','',0,0),(1389,6185,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.158.236.112','2010-09-10 17:31:03','2010-09-10 16:31:03','That would help I guess though I can\'t see it happening. But the browser is still very slow',0,'1','','',1388,0),(1390,6185,'Jan','Laydilejur@hotmail.com','','78.173.231.164','2010-09-10 18:05:47','2010-09-10 17:05:47','Great demo! I\'ve actually ordered a Kindle on the back of one of your blogs. I was contemplating an iPad but as I have a nifty iTouch (great for carrying about) I thought that I might end up using the iPad for book reading and web browsing only. So then I thought about the difference in price between the Kindle and the iPad, saw your blog and decided to go for the Kindle.\n\nHowever, I\'ve just realised it\'s black &amp; white and not touch screen (as I didn\'t do my normal depth of research on it)and am now wondering if I\'ve done right to order one. My rational is if I want it mainly to read books, then it\'s a good gadget for the price and will do what it\'s designed to do - replace a book. I think it\'s great that the battery lasts so long and it can hold over 3000 books. I am also interested in emailing docs to it and viewing them as pdf, as per your blog.\n\nHaving owned your Kindle for a few weeks now, do you still recommend it as a book reader or would you suggest paying more and waiting for the 7inch iPad that\'s due to come out?\n\nThanks',0,'1','','',0,0),(1391,6185,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.158.236.112','2010-09-10 18:07:36','2010-09-10 17:07:36','If you want it for reading books I\'d get the Kindle - it\'s perfect for that. Much better than an LCD screen for most people I\'d say. The web browser\'s just an afterthought really - this thing is really about books.',0,'1','','',1390,0),(1392,6185,'Jan','Laydilejur@hotmail.com','','78.173.231.164','2010-09-10 18:31:41','2010-09-10 17:31:41','Yes, the purpose is books as I\'m living abroad at the moment and the books I want to buy are difficult to get hold of in shops here, but very easy on Amazon via Kindle. I was just wondering about it not being a touch screen though - is it awkward to navigate around, selecting books/pages etc?',0,'1','','',1391,0),(1393,6185,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','86.158.236.112','2010-09-10 18:33:50','2010-09-10 17:33:50','It\'s dead easy to navigate round a book - forward and back buttons, bookmarks, search. Plus if you get the 3G one the online purchase should (I think) happen abroad, provided your base country doesn\'t have any rights issues.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1394,6185,'Jan','Laydilejur@hotmail.com','','78.173.231.164','2010-09-10 18:35:51','2010-09-10 17:35:51','Just what I wanted to hear. Thanks!',0,'1','','',1393,0),(1395,6185,'Lord Vader','volbex-interneti@yahoo.com','http://lifestylebox.wordpress.com/','93.177.186.90','2010-09-28 13:17:01','2010-09-28 12:17:01','As Bezos says and says repeatedly - what they offer - product totally different from tablets, something for reading and ideal, where LCDs fail.\nIf you love to read (or maybe, not love, but have to :) Kindle is ideal and something you really need.\nEspecially today\'s price is really very reasonable.\n\nI have ordered mine and awaiting.\nLots of orders they have.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1396,6185,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.119.95','2010-09-28 13:46:51','2010-09-28 12:46:51','Yes - it\'s good for reading. But it has that web browser built in. It\'s there for a reason one assumes.',0,'1','','',1395,0),(1397,6185,'Lord Vader','volbex-interneti@yahoo.com','http://lifestylebox.wordpress.com/','93.177.186.90','2010-09-28 15:02:16','2010-09-28 14:02:16','Yes, and I agree what you - in emergency it is pretty good. :)\nBut making my decision between Nook and Kindle I have seen lots of various evaluations and soon I understand, Kindle is not very good for writing/typing.  You can tweet f/e, but as people say it is still not very convenient.\n\nBezos recently gave brilliant interview to Charlie Rose. I liked it so much, that even translated for my blog. He is damn true - buying e-reader one should know, what he\'s buying. Ideal device for reading. Of course you can still use it for web-browsing, check Google mail or something, but that\'s in emergency as you said.',0,'1','','',1396,0),(1398,6185,'David','dhoskins@blueyonder.co.uk','','92.235.155.117','2010-10-14 18:03:59','2010-10-14 17:03:59','But you\'re forgetting one thing - it\'s completely free to browse the internet anywhere you go! That\'s the clincher for me, it\'s free!\nDon\'t forget the BBC site has a mobile version as well:\n<a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/\" title=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/\" rel=\"nofollow\">',0,'1','','',0,0),(1399,6186,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.39.67','2010-09-13 10:50:12','2010-09-13 09:50:12','Reading a book/piece or writing written in past tense is easier to understand and sounds more realistic to me. However, writing in past tense feels more difficult for me.\n\nIf you don\'t mind, David, I\'d like to give you an opinion. Your old theme was hundred times better than this one.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1400,6186,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.39.67','2010-09-13 10:54:54','2010-09-13 09:54:54',':o what happened? I think I just saw another theme active here. :o :o',0,'1','','',1399,0),(1401,6186,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.221.203','2010-09-13 10:58:13','2010-09-13 09:58:13','Er... something slipped from our beta site onto the live one. Thanks for spotting it!',0,'1','','',1400,0),(1402,6186,'Writers: Choose Your tense &laquo; Chazz Writes','','http://chazzwrites.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/writers-choose-your-tense/','72.233.104.53','2010-09-16 14:03:55','2010-09-16 13:03:55','[...] Writing in the present tense (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1403,6186,'Writers &amp; Editors: Top 10 Editorial Considerations &laquo; Chazz Writes','','http://chazzwrites.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/writers-editors-top-10-editorial-considerations/','72.233.69.19','2010-09-17 13:42:53','2010-09-17 12:42:53','[...] Writing in the present tense (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1404,6186,'Tense and Tension &laquo; The Book of Writing','','http://gilmiller.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/tense-and-tension/','66.135.48.206','2010-09-20 22:44:41','2010-09-20 21:44:41','[...] Writing in the present tense (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1405,6186,'ogirl','omoye.uduehi@hotmail.com','http://ogirlsays.wordpress.com','196.46.245.31','2010-09-22 00:24:21','2010-09-21 23:24:21','well, I think that the present tense has it\'s charm but for highly imaginative works...a big no no.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1406,6188,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.68','2010-09-15 13:42:40','2010-09-15 12:42:40','Ah, laptop. :cry: I\'m yet to buy one. I don\'t need a macbook, so my wishlist includes a regular laptop. I will use Ubuntu there.\n\nI can\'t afford one at this time, however. Before purchasing my desktop computer, I planned to buy a laptop because I love everything that is portable. I reviewed a few 10\"--11\" laptops what they call NetBooks. But I thought this won\'t be a good idea as they don\'t have any DVD rom built-in. I couldn\'t afford the regular 14\" laptops either. So, I went with desktop. :(\n\nHowever, I will never go for a 16\" laptop. :D Seems too big to me. I\'d rather choose 13.3\". I love that size.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1407,6188,'Mike Snelgrove','michaelhsnelgrove@yahoo.co.uk','','86.159.62.240','2010-09-15 17:39:58','2010-09-15 16:39:58','What\'s happened to your ThinkPad Edge 13\"?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1408,6188,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.184.50','2010-09-15 17:45:18','2010-09-15 16:45:18','Fantastic for editing - but I think it\'s just a bit too cramped for what I have in mind here. This is really a Macbook Pro 15 replacement',0,'1','','',1407,0),(1409,6188,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.184.50','2010-09-15 21:40:21','2010-09-15 20:40:21','It is big and for normal work I think 13.3 is fine. But for managing a full length book I just need to see more of what\'s going on. It\'s a luxury - but I do this for a living so the right tools are important and save me time and money in the end.',0,'1','','',1406,0),(1410,6188,'Donald Hounam','donald@hounam.fsnet.co.uk','','91.104.34.247','2010-09-15 22:15:21','2010-09-15 21:15:21','Maybe you\'ve addressed this in previous posts (I have a notoriously short attention span), but in your post-Apple incarnation what\'s your Scrivener substitute...?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1411,6188,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.184.50','2010-09-16 07:35:01','2010-09-16 06:35:01','Just plain old Word... which for Windows in v 2010 is a very good substitute.\nhttp://davidhewson.com/2010/05/05/word-2010-for-windows-wonds-well-hidden/\n\nWill look at Scrivener for Windows when it comes out though',0,'1','','',1410,0),(1412,6188,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.mikegerrard.com','86.176.44.91','2010-09-17 18:31:44','2010-09-17 17:31:44','So how  do you access iPlayer outside the UK?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1413,6188,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.5.241.30','2010-09-17 19:51:33','2010-09-17 18:51:33','Don\'t think you can. I take with me stuff I\'ve downloaded before I leave the UK.',0,'1','','',1412,0),(1414,6188,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.mikegerrard.com','86.176.44.91','2010-09-17 21:21:00','2010-09-17 20:21:00','Ah-ha! But this doesn\'t help me when I go to the USA for 7 months. I\'ve still not worked out why I\'m not allowed to watch a recording of the weekly rugby league programme when I\'m in the USA - whose copyright is being infringed, whose contract doesn\'t allow it, who is losing money if someone in the USA watches a potted summary of games that have already happened in what is a minority sport.',0,'1','','',1413,0),(1415,6188,'CTS','cshea2@gmail.com','','96.241.34.124','2010-09-23 01:25:48','2010-09-23 00:25:48','You use a glossy screen? Avoiding those is why I will soon be heading toward Windows. (The Dell Latitude, I guess, is the Studio XPS equivalent for business, with a matte screen. Or maybe a Vostro.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1416,6188,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.14.243.40','2010-09-23 07:24:12','2010-09-23 06:24:12','This one doesn\'t bother me half as much as my old MB Pro to be honest. And the screen resolution is absolutely perfect for what I want. Swings and roundabouts...',0,'1','','',1415,0),(1417,6191,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.69','2010-09-16 11:33:52','2010-09-16 10:33:52','So you were unable to try out its beta version or you did give it a try using your existing macs?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1418,6191,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.184.50','2010-09-16 11:37:18','2010-09-16 10:37:18','I used the beta version on a Mac. I\'m not aware of any other beta.',0,'1','','',1417,0),(1419,6191,'Jan','Laydilejur@hotmail.com','','78.173.192.208','2010-09-17 00:01:12','2010-09-16 23:01:12','Ah, for a minute there I thought you were announcing the Windows version. It sounds like a great piece of software - any idea when the Windows version will be out in beta?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1420,6191,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','81.141.37.85','2010-09-17 04:43:33','2010-09-17 03:43:33','None - sorry',0,'1','','',1419,0),(1421,6191,'Michael Baker','mikeebaker@yahoo.co.uk','','92.233.200.42','2010-09-22 20:58:34','2010-09-22 19:58:34','Hurray!  Scribbner for Windows, coming soon!\n\nJust when I down load yWriter5!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1422,6191,'Laydilejur','Laydilejur@hotmail.com','','78.173.210.222','2010-09-22 22:37:50','2010-09-22 21:37:50','Thanks for your excellent advice! I signed up for the Scrivener newsletter and just received the good news re availibility of the Windows beta version. So excited - can\'t wait to try it.\n\nYour blogs are always very interesting and very informative and I look forward to reading them.\n\nAnd your novels aren\'t bad either ;-)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1423,6196,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.78','2010-09-23 12:44:35','2010-09-23 11:44:35','What?! :o No formatting? Gosh do they have any customer who is a true writer? :?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1424,6196,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.78','2010-09-23 12:49:52','2010-09-23 11:49:52','Did I see right? Ulysses homepage contains text in italic format. It reads: \"Ulysses 2.0 is the *<em>definitive</em>* package for all your creative writing needs.\"\n\nAlso, a quote from madox on the forum (above the footer on the site) is also italic. Are they on their mind? :?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1425,6196,'bowerbird','bowerbird@aol.com','','96.251.93.193','2010-09-24 20:37:23','2010-09-24 19:37:23','i agree.  italics are crucial.\n\na question for you, though.\n\ndo you actually need to _see_ italicized letters?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1426,6196,'bowerbird','bowerbird@aol.com','','96.251.93.193','2010-09-24 20:38:31','2010-09-24 19:38:31','or is it enough to know that a passage\n_will_be_italicized_ when it is printed?\n\n-bowerbird',0,'1','','',0,0),(1427,6196,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.178.121','2010-09-24 21:22:17','2010-09-24 20:22:17','An entirely individual decision I\'d say. But I would find tags instead of italics very distracting personally. We see italics on the screen all the time. I don\'t see why writing should be any different - but others may feel differently. All software companies have to do is offer people the option. Anyone can _italicise_ this way in Word or anything already if  they want.',0,'1','','',1426,0),(1428,6197,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.85','2010-09-23 17:34:50','2010-09-23 16:34:50','The food looks lifeless. :|\n\nOut of curiosity, what are you doing in Venice? I\'m not sure what country you actually live in or was born in, I\'m just interested to know if you don\'t mind. :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1429,6197,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.14.243.40','2010-09-23 18:47:39','2010-09-23 17:47:39','Just travelling. There\'s a bio here if you need it, Just look under About above',0,'1','','',1428,0),(1430,6197,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.66','2010-09-23 20:25:02','2010-09-23 19:25:02','Yes, read it again. I actually skimmed through the about and its sub-pages.\n\nI thought you were there for a more relevant environment for anything you are currently writing. I have seen some writers who choose environments and simply be there to better write their stories and fictions. As I\'m not a writer, I don\'t know how much this works.\n\nAnyway, have a peaceful and exciting travel! All the best.',0,'1','','',1429,0),(1431,6197,'Hjonesy','helen@thepartners.co.uk','','90.193.25.108','2010-09-23 20:46:11','2010-09-23 19:46:11','Have you tried La Colomba in Venice? Had a fantastic meal in there about a year ago. Really lovely food and staff, really arty too. 10/10',0,'1','','',0,0),(1432,6197,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.14.243.40','2010-09-23 21:06:42','2010-09-23 20:06:42','Some years ago I think - the trouble is as I said above, what once was good can sometimes not be so good any more...',0,'1','','',1431,0),(1433,6240,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.39.74','2010-09-29 18:28:01','2010-09-29 17:28:01','I stopped liking Word\'s versions since 2007 although my PC has this version. From 2007, MS redesigned the whole Word interface. Previous experience with Word xp, 97, or say 2000-2003 didn\'t work with Word 2007. A lot of people were disappointed. Even I today have to search the Internet to do certain things with Word.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1434,6240,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.119.95','2010-09-29 18:33:07','2010-09-29 17:33:07','I hated 2007 for Windows and 2008 for Mac. But 2010 for Windows is really very good once you tame it. For me anyway.',0,'1','','',1433,0),(1435,6240,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.39.74','2010-09-29 18:46:28','2010-09-29 17:46:28','Hm. Sounds like I have to give 2010 a try. So you\'re on 2010? Do you plan to upgrade to 2011?',0,'1','','',1434,0),(1436,6240,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','217.41.235.17','2010-09-29 19:01:32','2010-09-29 18:01:32','2011 is for Mac 2010 for Windows',0,'1','','',1435,0),(1437,6241,'Jane Smith','hprw@tesco.net','http://howpublishingreallyworks.com','86.189.27.114','2010-10-01 09:42:19','2010-10-01 08:42:19','<blockquote>Readers simply do not appreciate the amount of post-delivery work that goes into getting a book into print. All those self-published authors out there who simply upload a file to Lulu or Smashwords or wherever don’t either. Conventional publishing is a drawn-out process, involving several different steps and a number of different people, most of whom you will know only by email if at all.\n\nIt only takes one of those steps to fail for the most horrendous of consequences to follow.</blockquote>\n\nHear, hear, David. All the various stages of editing and production take time to do proplerly, and yet few people who haven\'t ever gone through the process appreciate it.  I wish more did.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1438,6241,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.119.95','2010-10-01 09:43:43','2010-10-01 08:43:43','Thanks Jane - I think it\'s time for me to write my \'what actually happens after you deliver a book\' post again....',0,'1','','',1437,0),(1439,6241,'fictionwitch','harriet@anthemion.co.uk','http://fictionwitch.wordpress.com','84.12.169.217','2010-10-01 10:57:33','2010-10-01 09:57:33','Hmm, been reading a sample of the Franzen on my new Kindle. Wonder if that\'s the right version...   (Have to say, by the way, I really don\'t think that it stands up to the hype.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1440,6241,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.119.95','2010-10-01 10:59:47','2010-10-01 09:59:47','Good point - and how would you know? I wonder what the differences between the \'bad\' version and the \'good\' one are. And who will notice?',0,'1','','',1439,0),(1441,6241,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.39.70','2010-10-01 13:02:40','2010-10-01 12:02:40','So, at the end, do you say Franzen should not do this? I didn\'t get that.\n\n\nBy the way, since I\'m not into book publishing yet nor do I know if I will ever be, I\'m curious to know does a single book have different name in different countries (in the same language)? That\'s very interesting. Don\'t they mess up, the readers? Or doesn\'t it have any impact on your story as you said editors change the way it opens?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1442,6241,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.119.95','2010-10-01 13:07:27','2010-10-01 12:07:27','Mostly by books have the same names but occasionally the US published will change them. Don\'t much like it and yes it does confuse readers. Doesn\'t change the story - it\'s the same book, just with a different title.',0,'1','','',1441,0),(1443,6242,'Julia Crouch','julia@juliacrouch.co.uk','','86.185.232.115','2010-10-01 11:08:39','2010-10-01 10:08:39','Thanks for this great post.\n\nI have just found all this out with my novel, CUCKOO. I am sending off the first set of corrected typeset proofs today. What amazed me was that I had a pretty perfect Word file, that I had put all the corrections in down the way, tracking the changes with a new version each time there was an edit. Then the typesetters input the whole text manually from the paper proof from the line-edit. Of course, this is for version control, and it makes sense, but it is \'amusing\' that there are a whole new load of typos in there.\n\nAs someone who hardly every prints anything out, I find it scary (and a bit thrilling) to deal with great reams of paper, which are the only copy of a particular set of edits. I\'m also having to use <i>handwriting</i> to put in my final changes. I haven\'t done <i>handwriting</i> for years... hope it can still be read.\n\nAnd don\'t get me started about putting those edits in the post. I am photocopying everything, which creates two new headaches: cost and storage. So that\'s what my advance was for.\n\nThe real problem is indeed wrenching myself away from my new novel, to go back down the well worn path of the first one. However, reading it typeset has been a real eye opener - every wrinkle stands out in a way it didn\'t when in double spaced Times in a Word doc.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1444,6242,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.119.95','2010-10-01 11:11:58','2010-10-01 10:11:58','All so true - I have written about this a bit here. You can find them through the Writing tag. Here\'s one post...\n\nhttp://davidhewson.com/2010/04/27/the-final-proof-do-it-on-paper/\n\nI can\'t imagine not printing out at least one version btw, though a Kindle read now is very close.',0,'1','','',1443,0),(1445,6242,'Julia Crouch','julia@juliacrouch.co.uk','','86.185.232.115','2010-10-01 11:59:01','2010-10-01 10:59:01','I exaggerated a bit. I print out the messy first draft and sit in an armchair for a week or two, wailing and scribbling on index cards. That\'s pretty old-school.',0,'1','','',1444,0),(1446,6242,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.119.95','2010-10-01 12:28:27','2010-10-01 11:28:27','Index cards... eeekkkkkkkk!!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1447,6242,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.39.70','2010-10-01 13:11:22','2010-10-01 12:11:22','<blockquote>Try to not look too closely because you’ll only see something you want to change anyway.</blockquote>\n\nha ha, very well said.\n\nSo, when the first or the second manuscript comes back from the editor with suggestions or queries, isn\'t it contained in a soft copy (in case you provided them with the soft copy)? Or you have to keep a local copy and edit it based on the editors\' choices?\n\n\nI understand writing is a very complex process. Many people out there underestimate writing and, unless one is not a very well known writer, they give a look that somewhat says: \"Oh, you are a writer? Poor fellow!\" And I hate this eye.\n\nI haven\'t been with book publishing. I\'m only with journalism but I know how newbie book authors are responded to from most other people. I also find \'only writing\' to be somewhat \'the most difficult way to earn living\'.\n\nI occasionally write fictions and release them on pdf for free. I don\'t even think of depending on my story writing for earning my bread. :o When it comes to writing for newspaper as a journalist it\'s a different thing, though.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1448,6242,'How to Write a Query Letter: Don&#8217;t Bore Me! | Author Marketing Experts, Inc.','','http://www.amarketingexpert.com/how-to-write-a-query-letter-dont-bore-me/','69.89.31.243','2010-10-04 06:17:11','2010-10-04 05:17:11','[...] What happens after you deliver a book? (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1449,6242,'Notes from the Other Side &#8211; #2 &laquo; Mind Like Water','','http://loribasiewicz.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/notes-from-the-other-side-2/','66.135.48.206','2010-10-04 19:12:49','2010-10-04 18:12:49','[...] What happens after you deliver a book? (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1450,6242,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-10-08 23:46:32','2010-10-08 22:46:32','In the case of the US edition of A HARD DEATH, my second book, I did an extensive rewrite, and then a thorough reworking of the copy-edited rewrite. It was, in the end, a satisfying process, but at the end of the day 1. I had spent a huge amount of time on a book I\'d abandoned  more than a year ago, and 2. I\'d been removed completely from the headspace of book 3, and have completely lost my stride on it.\n\nFinishing reworking the copy-edited draft not only means you get to spend more time working on an old book, but it also signals the next stage of the process: the marketing. Right now I\'m rewriting jacket copy for the US release of book 2, and thinking about who and how to approach for blurbs. And getting farther and farther away from Books 3 and 4.\n\nI think the key thing with that summary has been helpfully italicized by David: it\'s astonishing how difficult it is to get rid of those errors and omissions...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1451,6242,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.106.28','2010-10-08 23:50:44','2010-10-08 22:50:44','Jacket copy??? No ... don\'t get me started. Books can be like old lovers. They never let you go. Not that I\'d know that you understand being a happily married man.',0,'1','','',1450,0),(1452,6243,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.83','2010-10-05 14:55:11','2010-10-05 13:55:11','What exactly is the event all about?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1453,6243,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','','2010-10-05 14:55:42','2010-10-05 13:55:42','Just follow the link - it\'s all there.',0,'1','','',1452,0),(1454,6243,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.83','2010-10-05 15:02:54','2010-10-05 14:02:54','I had a look on the given site but the idea wasn\'t still clear to me.',0,'1','','',1453,0),(1455,6254,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.154.232.181','2010-10-08 14:17:28','2010-10-08 13:17:28','You can still get epiphany as an audiobook at Audible.co.uk.  Might have to give it a whirl\n\nLovely pictures btw.\n\nMary',0,'1','','',0,0),(1456,6254,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.106.28','2010-10-08 14:38:48','2010-10-08 13:38:48','Must be a long audiobook.... that\'s a long book. I\'m sure you can get the book itself used.',0,'1','','',1455,0),(1457,6254,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.154.232.181','2010-10-08 14:43:18','2010-10-08 13:43:18','Just under 17 hours long.  I like listening to books in the car or when I\'m ironing or just waiting (which I do a lot during working hours).  The sample sounds good.  I subscribe to Audible.  It will work out at 50pence per minute.  As I said elsewhere I think that\'s good value.  And of course it\'s one of your books so it\'s bound to be worth listening to.\n\nMary',0,'1','','',0,0),(1458,6254,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.106.28','2010-10-08 14:44:16','2010-10-08 13:44:16','Thanks! Second book I wrote... quite dark and scary, even for me.',0,'1','','',1457,0),(1459,6254,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.154.232.181','2010-10-08 15:45:32','2010-10-08 14:45:32','er I meant 50 pence per hour!!!!  Silly me.\n\nMary',0,'1','','',0,0),(1460,6254,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.106.28','2010-10-08 17:46:22','2010-10-08 16:46:22','I did wonder....?',0,'1','','',1459,0),(1461,6254,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.66','2010-10-09 01:35:39','2010-10-09 00:35:39','6th one, is that fog?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1462,6254,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.106.28','2010-10-09 07:25:24','2010-10-09 06:25:24','Yes fog - which isn\'t as common as people think',0,'1','','',1461,0),(1463,6258,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.66','2010-10-09 01:35:12','2010-10-09 00:35:12','Off-topic: Wasn\'t your old theme much, much better than this one?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1464,6258,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.106.28','2010-10-09 07:25:50','2010-10-09 06:25:50','Not with a static front page',0,'1','','',1463,0),(1465,6258,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.77','2010-10-09 13:03:28','2010-10-09 12:03:28','A static front page? What was wrong with that? Looked uglier? I mean, i was a fan of that theme you know. It represented you quite well.',0,'1','','',1464,0),(1466,6258,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.106.28','2010-10-09 13:57:38','2010-10-09 12:57:38','The other theme didn\'t work well as a static front page. Sorry you don\'t like it but everyone else has told me it\'s an improvement.',0,'1','','',1465,0),(1467,6260,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.38.75','2010-10-11 18:59:21','2010-10-11 17:59:21','Does it still work on short story writing, where 1,200 might be the length of total story?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1468,6261,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.jenniholbrook.com','66.66.217.27','2010-10-11 15:39:21','2010-10-11 14:39:21','Well said my friend.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1469,6261,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','94.5.69.252','2010-10-12 08:12:14','2010-10-12 07:12:14','Hi David\nI couldn\'t agree with you more, it\'s a sad fact that many of us who look forward with great anticipation to your next work don\'t often get the chance to meet and get a \'personalised\' signed copy to add to our collections.\nSo I would rather not have a signed copy at all , especially one being sold in the \'Markets\' you mention, perhaps if everyone did this ,it would then \'kill off\' these \'sellers\' and encourage authors such as yourself to attend more signings and get to know your true followers better !',0,'1','','',0,0),(1470,6261,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.112.162.216','2010-10-12 08:13:51','2010-10-12 07:13:51','I certainly don\'t mind people bringing books they\'ve bought earlier to be signed at later events. It\'s when people turn up, as Susan says, with carrier loads of books, some of them clearly bought secondhand already. You know they\'re usually there to make a fast buck.',0,'1','','',1469,0),(1471,6261,'Julirose','jpiatt@enter.net','','216.193.143.202','2010-10-12 11:14:29','2010-10-12 10:14:29','Not long ago, a large bookstore chain was holding a signing event for a world famous author.  The rule was that the book had to be purchased prior to the signing event; the purchase would be accompanied by a ticket which admitted the purchaser to the signing event; and no ticket meant no entry.  It seemed to work out well for everyone.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1472,6261,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.112.162.216','2010-10-12 11:15:54','2010-10-12 10:15:54','I think that is happening more and more. But it does seem unfair on genuine readers who buy a book and would simply like it signed later. I\'d never refuse to sign a book in those circumstances, whether it was bought on the day or not.',0,'1','','',1471,0),(1473,6261,'Leo','lplambe@yahoo.co.uk','','94.8.212.166','2010-10-12 15:40:59','2010-10-12 14:40:59','Here\'s a random thought... I don\'t own one single David Hewson \'book\', but I\'ve downloaded several of the excellent unabridged audiobooks and am currently building up my collection of the Nic Costa series. I wonder what impact the increasing prevalence of these and the new \'Kindle\'-type e-books will have on the tradition of book signing. Maybe they\'ll come up with an e-equivalent? Certainly when I\'ve gone to book signing events it has been just as important as an opportunity to listen to the author talking about their books as it was to get their signature on a copy of the text. Still, I guess there\'ll always be those who see it as an opportunity to cash in on a writer\'s hard work.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1474,6261,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.112.162.216','2010-10-12 15:46:21','2010-10-12 14:46:21','I have to say... I have had a few emails saying basically, \'How can I get my ebook signed?\' Hands up - I have no idea!\n\nI\'m with you on author events - listening to the writer talk is what I get out of them mostly. A signed book is nice but it always used to be a personal thing. What\'s changed in recent years is the way signed first editions in particular have become saleable items, sometimes for amazing prices. One of my very early efforts, a book so dreadful I don\'t even have a copy myself, went for $500 or more when I signed it a year or two ago.\n\nBut yes - I\'m sure someone will come up with a gizmo that lets you \'sign\' an ebook or other digital edition. Presumably remotely over the internet, which rather ruins the whole idea...\n\nPs - glad you liked the books',0,'1','','',1473,0),(1475,6261,'tripthroughmymind','jebenns@gmail.com','http://tripthroughmymind.wordpress.com','97.86.25.106','2010-10-17 19:26:19','2010-10-17 18:26:19','I have been to a handful of signing events and each of them have been slowed down by those that are bringing in the stack of books from previously released material. I enjoy getting a chance to meet the person that has drawn me into the stories they weave. Profiting from such events brings true collectors much aggravation as it takes away from the charm of the moment. I hope we can find a balance that will allow for true fans to still get a chance to meet the authors.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1476,6262,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','71.31.254.121','2010-10-18 18:59:03','2010-10-18 17:59:03','David. I have a number of friends who are authors who have the same color of hair that we do. :-) They have been publishing a long time.  I posted your entry on my Facebook account to include these comments.\n\n\"Ripping off authors has become an indoor sport. The black ink on white paper that was supposed to have become obsolete has become what all things in our culture becomes-- a commodity.    David Hewson, who is an excellent mystery writer decided to show case the book pirate who is genius enough to display his name on e-bay. I applaud Mr. Hewson for speaking out! May his tribe increase.\"',0,'1','','',0,0),(1477,6262,'kezontour','kezontour@me.com','http://kezontour.wordpress.com','92.234.214.140','2010-10-18 22:05:39','2010-10-18 21:05:39','I\'m just simply shocked at the nerve of some people. I hate that people like this ruin it for other people.\n\nI used to review CDs, and ended up with storages boxes full of them - it never crossed my mind to sell any. Some I\'d pass on to friends, but most - listened to or not - never left my possession. It\'s  a betrayal of trust, and I feel your anger.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1478,6262,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','119.30.39.70','2010-10-19 22:28:04','2010-10-19 21:28:04','This type of people exist all over the world. Yesterday I discovered an article written by me published on a daily newspaper on March 7, 2009 has been republished on a renowned monthly technology news magazine in both printed and online edition. I surprised to see how the author refurnished my article and randomized it by adding a few more words of his own.\n\nI contacted the office right away and they have removed the article from its online edition while they are unable to do anything with its printed edition.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1479,6262,'Zeke','jfr_wright@hotmail.com','','86.178.219.127','2010-10-20 15:24:45','2010-10-20 14:24:45','I just recently went to a Science Fiction Literary Convention in the North of England and some of the bookseller tables had those reviewer proof copies of some Sci Fi novels on them. It was quite a shock that they were depending on people simply disregarding the disclaimers printed on the book covers and not being horrified out of buying one, as was I.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1480,6266,'Nicola Morgan','n@nicolamorgan.co.uk','http://www.helpineedapublisher.blogspot.com','92.11.52.214','2010-10-18 16:26:20','2010-10-18 15:26:20','David, as soon as you said \"My lovely agent, who seems a bit smug about me giving in frankly\", I knew who you were talking about. I checked and I was right. (Hello, Carole!) She is so pleased with hers (smug? Nooooo) and I trust her judgement so much that I am sure to succumb very soon.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1481,6266,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','68.127.170.48','2010-10-18 16:35:11','2010-10-18 15:35:11','Thing is I\'ve been winding her and Julian up so much about what a pile of junk they are she\'s every right to be a bit amused frankly....',0,'1','','',1480,0),(1482,6266,'Leo','lplambe@yahoo.co.uk','','94.8.212.166','2010-10-18 17:25:38','2010-10-18 16:25:38','Being totally shallow, I\'d just like to try the iPade version of Scrabble which, from what I gather, has the iPad as the board with people using their iPhone / iPod Touch as the letter holders. It could either be (i) a really fun way of playing the game, or (ii) a severe case of style over substance.\n\nI\'m still resisting the temptation to buy an iPad, but fear it\'s only a matter of time before I cave in...',0,'1','','',0,0),(1483,6266,'Leo','lplambe@yahoo.co.uk','','94.8.212.166','2010-10-18 17:26:31','2010-10-18 16:26:31','Oops! iPade??? Maybe I should get one if it\'s got a good spell checker!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1484,6266,'Mike Snelgrove','michaelhsnelgrove@yahoo.co.uk','','86.139.100.19','2010-10-18 17:44:03','2010-10-18 16:44:03','You\'re nothing less than a computer tart, Mr Hewson!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1485,6266,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','68.127.170.48','2010-10-18 17:45:50','2010-10-18 16:45:50','Maybe but if something can save me time it\'s worth having. From what my fellow writers at Bouchercon say this falls into this category. Hope so.',0,'1','','',1484,0),(1486,6266,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','68.127.170.48','2010-10-18 17:46:27','2010-10-18 16:46:27','I never play games on anything to do with computers. Spend too much time working with them to regard them as fun.',0,'1','','',1482,0),(1487,6266,'Jan','laydilejur@hotmail.com','','88.253.95.229','2010-10-18 19:53:24','2010-10-18 18:53:24','I\'m interested to see if you find this a useful working tool or if it just turns out to be a novelty. Would you carry this around instead of your laptop?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1488,6266,'Dom Mooney','dom.mooney@gmail.com','','79.79.211.48','2010-10-18 21:08:03','2010-10-18 20:08:03','iAnnotate isn\'t bad with PDFs but I\'ve only used it for books under 150 pages in length.\nI\'m not certain that there\'s an app yet that will take RTF and let you annotate. Documents to Go will read RTF,  but not comment, plus it\'s ugly as sin as interfaces go.\n\nI\'m using PlainText mostly, and waiting for Scrivener 2, but that doesn\'t solve your commenting challenge.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1489,6266,'David Bosman','david.bosman@mac.com','http://davidbosman.fr','82.225.66.182','2010-10-18 22:04:29','2010-10-18 21:04:29','Hi David,\n\nIf you\'re looking to edit Word files (.doc &amp; .docx) on the iPad, you might want to check on Docs2Go.\n\nIt has a minimalist interface (no page, no header, no nothing--doesn\'t have revision tools either). It\'s quite useable (much better than Pages :() and, for the Premium version at least, allows syncing with Dropbox and iDisk. It does crash from time to time.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1490,6266,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','79.71.93.146','2010-10-20 15:55:06','2010-10-20 14:55:06','David,\nYou may have seen the long thread on the Scrivener forum on the subject of research and writing on the iPad. If not: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&amp;t=7588&amp;hilit=ipad\nTowards the end, as I remember, there are lists and mini-reviews of various tools that writers might find useful. (From that thread I\'d understood that rtf on the iPad is currently a no-no, apart from Pages and Docs2Go, because of deficiencies in the OS, but maybe that was wrong.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1491,6266,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.180.215','2010-10-20 16:19:58','2010-10-20 15:19:58','Thanks. Are there any short threads on the Scrivener forums? Having played a bit more with the iPad I find it a great tool for mail etc and reading things and pretty lousy for doing much more than make a short note or jot down a task. I have a WP called Elements which looks very like a very simple WP from years ago. But I don\'t find typing enjoyable, nor did I when I hooked up my old Mac Bluetooth keyboard. I do intend to try to proof a MS on it and have a vague plan to take nothing else with me when I go to Helsinki for the book fair for four days next week.\n\nMind you - if it turns out I have some serious writing to do there I think that will probably change...\n\nBit of a bore there\'s no try before you buy on the thing too. Puts me off trying more apps.',0,'1','','',1490,0),(1492,6266,'Hugh','hugh.pile@dsl.pipex.com','','79.71.93.146','2010-10-20 16:36:12','2010-10-20 15:36:12','\"Are there any short threads on the Scrivener forums?\"\n\nGood grief, no! It\'s a forum for people who like writing! (Actually that\'s one of the longer threads, and the useful stuff is in the last few pages.)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1493,6266,'Julirose','jpiatt@enter.net','','216.193.143.202','2010-10-21 01:43:14','2010-10-21 00:43:14','I\'ve had some time to think about this article and it occurs to me that someone who works as hard as you do deserves an occasional toy.  Enjoy the iPad.  Have fun playing with it when you need to escape the work environment.  But for heavens sake, stop feeling guilty about it!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1494,6266,'Jan','laydilejur@hotmail.com','','88.245.233.161','2010-10-22 10:04:57','2010-10-22 09:04:57','With your keen interest in making the best use of technology to optimise your working life, I\'m surprised that you didn\'t try the iPad sooner, even if it was just to eliminate it. I believe you would have come to the same conclusion anyway but your mickey taking would have been more viable. Knowing your technology as you do, you should be consulting with the designers!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1495,6267,'farmlanebooks','jackie@farmlanebooks.co.uk','','79.77.173.56','2010-10-20 11:32:23','2010-10-20 10:32:23','I don\'t think that reviewer meant for those books to end up on ebay. I know a lot of reviewers who donate all their books to charity shops thinking they are doing a good deed, but reviewers need to be educated so that they know dealers trawl charity shops. Disposing of review copies is a problem for reviewers. I can\'t sell them or give them to charity shops so they pile up. I love books too much to destroy them. What should I do with my wobbly stacks of review copies?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1496,6267,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.180.215','2010-10-20 11:37:51','2010-10-20 10:37:51','Why can\'t you just put them out for recycling at the tip? Paper recycles nicely.',0,'1','','',1495,0),(1497,6267,'Jan','laydilejur@hotmail.com','http://laydilejur.com','88.245.240.247','2010-10-20 11:54:15','2010-10-20 10:54:15','So why can\'t the people who distribute the review copies stamp them visibly with a large \'Not for sale\' or similar sign. This might put people off buying them, if they do end up for sale somewhere?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1498,6267,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.180.215','2010-10-20 11:55:56','2010-10-20 10:55:56','Proof copies are very visible marked that way (not that it stops people selling them - see how many they are on eBay already).',0,'1','','',1497,0),(1499,6267,'farmlanebooks','jackie@farmlanebooks.co.uk','','79.77.173.56','2010-10-20 12:26:22','2010-10-20 11:26:22','I don\'t know. I just find it so hard to destroy books. They are like precious objects to me. I\'d rather keep them in big boxes in the loft than shread them. I wish I had friends who enjoyed the same books as me so that I could pass them on :-(',0,'1','','',1496,0),(1500,6267,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.180.215','2010-10-20 12:34:09','2010-10-20 11:34:09','If you like authors as much as you like the books you get for free you\'d shred the freebies you get. We have a living to earn.',0,'1','','',1499,0),(1501,6267,'Gary Hamrick','ghamrickjr@gmail.com','http://www.twitter.com/GaryHamrick','98.18.0.184','2010-10-20 13:13:55','2010-10-20 12:13:55','As someone who has done reviews in the past (on music and movies not books, though), here\'s my take on the matter.  If I like the thing well enough then I am not just going to write a review about but I am going to recommend it personally to friends outside of any review I might post.  Furthermore, if it\'s by an author with more than one work to their name then I am going to track down other works by that author.   If I don\'t like it then I would still probably give the book or CD away to a friend in hopes that they might like it more than me.  I\'ve given a few away simply to introduce someone to an artist or author who I think they would benefit from being familiar with the works of.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1502,6267,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.180.215','2010-10-20 13:18:37','2010-10-20 12:18:37','I think it\'s fine giving away copies of review books (or CDs) to friends. No author\'s going to object to that. It\'s all a question of scale. All of us now get these people with bag loads of books to sign, straight for sale on eBay at an inflated price. Fine if the people bought them in the first place - but if they\'re review copies bought for nothing...\n\nFrankly I\'d like to see the book review business move to an electronic model wherever possible. Would save a lot of money all round and get books to people who genuinely need them very quickly. Would also do away with the need for this kind of practice.\n\nI know non-writers may think we\'re sniffy about this. But if you saw the constant stream of requests we get for free material from complete strangers and the number of times we write blank cheques for books proffered by someone who doesn\'t know you from Adam but wants a quick buck on ebay... you\'d probably understand.',0,'1','','',1501,0),(1503,6267,'Gary Hamrick','ghamrickjr@gmail.com','http://www.twitter.com/GaryHamrick','98.18.0.184','2010-10-20 14:39:07','2010-10-20 13:39:07','What I feel really bad about is when friends who are authors or musicians give me free copies of their CDs and books knowing full well that I would happily pay for them.  I gave the money to one person\'s manager because she wouldn\'t let me pay her for the CD.\n\nOf course, I have filmmaker friends who practically have to pay me to acknowledge much less sit through some of the dreck they are associated with.  Mind you, this is more of \"my opinion on a particular genre of film\" than on their work usually.',0,'1','','',1502,0),(1504,6267,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.180.215','2010-10-20 14:42:47','2010-10-20 13:42:47','Yes - that must be awkward. What gets to authors is the organised fashion of it all these days. Since ebay came along it\'s become a highly organised industry, and most of the people doing it don\'t know who you are or care - they just want some free money.\nThe other thing that\'s happened is that lots of people have started their own book review blogs. Most are obviously genuine but some are mainly there to get free books - and then doubtless sell them on. I suspect publicists are  getting very sick of the whole thing.',0,'1','','',1503,0),(1505,6267,'Mike Gerrard','mgwrite@gmail.com','http://www.mikegerrard.com','86.176.241.156','2010-10-20 14:53:42','2010-10-20 13:53:42','I recently reviewed a book from the States which came to me as a PDF file. In theory I could pass that on to anyone who was interested, but for the reasons you\'ve gone into I would never do that (being an author myself).\n\nWhat would be even better would be to get review copies in Kindle format, which protects them anyway, and also means you can make your notes in the file which makes writing the review so much easier.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1506,6267,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.180.215','2010-10-20 14:55:39','2010-10-20 13:55:39','I agree, Mike. Genuine reviewers, who really don\'t want their homes filled with paper books, would certainly want e-versions of some kind in many cases anyway. The book biz works on eversions for just about everything these days.',0,'1','','',1505,0),(1507,6267,'kezontour','kezontour@me.com','http://kezontour.wordpress.com','92.234.214.140','2010-10-20 22:08:31','2010-10-20 21:08:31','E-reviewing is great - my CD reviewing got easier when labels uploaded files to an FTP server for me to pick up and listen to.\n\nReview copy or not, if I like something I\'ve reviewed, I\'ll go buy it.\n\nNot sure how well it would work with books - so easy to then put them out on torrent sites. While not making money for the uploader, it still takes away from the author.\n\nI confess I once picked up an ePub version of a book online, because I couldn\'t wait for the release date. Once it was available here, I did then buy it in hardback and audio, and later in paperback.... my conscience wasn\'t happy.\n\nI see people queuing up at book signings with piles of books... and I always wonder why they need so many signing. If I were in the author\'s position, I\'d start to question even doing signings. Great to see a line of people waiting to meet you, to buy your book... but then questioning how many are even going to read those books... It could turn me into a recluse...',0,'1','','',1502,0),(1508,6268,'Neil Colquhoun','necol66@gmail.com','http://neilcolquhoun.com','92.23.224.255','2010-10-20 15:12:15','2010-10-20 14:12:15','Hi David\nI linked back to your earlier post, and find it amazing the lengths the guy went to in order to snag free product.\nYou weren\'t taken in, but like the Nigerian \"I need a friend who will provide their bank details to deposit the million pounds to help me out\" scenario, someone will get caught out sooner or later.\nAnd, where are the manners these days? It doesn\'t take much to say \"Please\" and \"Thank you\" - that\'s what I was taught (and I ain\'t old!).\nMy kids are netter behaved than some of these so-called \'adults\'.\n\nTake Care\n\nNeil',0,'1','','',0,0),(1509,6268,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.180.215','2010-10-20 15:14:15','2010-10-20 14:14:15','Actually the guy had the misfortune to try this stunt on a female writer friend of mine in the US. She took him on head to head. Bet he\'s still trying it on though - he approached just about every writer I knew when I was on Facebook.',0,'1','','',1508,0),(1510,6269,'Lisa','lisa.spindler@gmail.com','http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com','72.237.71.254','2010-10-22 16:29:25','2010-10-22 15:29:25','If you have Pages on your desktop Mac, you can open a Word file and export it directly to the ePub format, then move the file to your iPad. You don\'t need to go to HTML first.\n\nI\'ve been researching how to access the notes I make in iBooks too, and supposedly if you right-click on the book in iTunes and then choose \"Show in Finder\" a window will open for its location. Theoretically, you should be able to open the ePub file in Page on your desktop, but I haven\'t tested this yet myself. Hopefully, notes are saved in this file too.\n\nWhile I agree that the lack of exporting annotations is a pretty big oversight on Apple\'s part, keep in mind that the software is version 1.0 and is only 6 months old.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1511,6269,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.180.215','2010-10-22 16:36:46','2010-10-22 15:36:46','Thanks. I don\'t use Pages though, just Word on a PC. You can locate the book very easily on a PC - it\'s in a folder marked My Books. But if you open that epub file with another epub reader none of the annotations are there. I never understood the \'it\'s only x months old...\' argument I\'m afraid. No one ever extends that to a Microsoft product yet when Apple come out with something that\'s less than wonderful people rush to make excuses all the time. When Android tablets go mainstream and are a lot cheaper in a few months they may well be good manuscript revision tools. I don\'t see that happening with the iPad for a long time if ever. Just the simple difficulty of getting files on and off the damned thing is enough to drive you nuts.',0,'1','','',1510,0),(1512,6269,'Friday Publishing Advice Links &laquo; Chazz Writes','','http://chazzwrites.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/friday-publishing-advice-links/','74.200.243.229','2010-10-22 23:31:41','2010-10-22 22:31:41','[...]  To kick things off, the top link is a great review of the iPad as a writing tool. Mr. David Hewson confirms my opinion that iPad is a great information consuming tool. It&#8217;s not a productive writing tool. He&#8217;s got me excited about Android tablets as an intriguing alternative to the iPad. Read his detailed review here: David Hewson. [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1513,6269,'Danielle (@Danisidhe)','dani@narrativedisorder.com','http://www.narrativedisorder.com','121.44.61.48','2010-11-07 21:19:08','2010-11-07 21:19:08','Hi David,\nI can\'t comment on the iPad but re: revising on a Win7 tablet - do you use Journal, at all? It\'s my number one revision tool because from Word (or Scrivener etc...) you simply print to Journal as you would print to a printer and then you have an image of it to scribble and circle and make notes on with your stylus - just like a red pencil. The best part, for me, is that because it\'s an image, not the actual file, I can\'t make changes until I\'ve analysed the whole document and made sure my revisions are warranted and balanced (obviously this is not for mere proofing.)\n\nI do love the Win7 on-screen keyboard, but I will always be a \'red pencil\' reviser - even on screen :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1514,6269,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-07 21:23:29','2010-11-07 21:23:29','Sounds very like Onenote. That\'s the way I like to revise.',0,'1','','',1513,0),(1515,6273,'i | j&#039;accuse','','http://www.akkuza.com/2010/10/26/i/','66.147.242.88','2010-10-26 09:07:47','2010-10-26 08:07:47','[...] The newspaper world gets ever stranger (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1516,6276,'Robyn','robyn@robalsmith.id.au','','122.106.146.29','2010-10-27 11:20:54','2010-10-27 10:20:54','I do wish that I read Finish! Which title is this one? It\'s a very dramatic cover.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1517,6276,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.115.88.229','2010-10-27 11:27:47','2010-10-27 10:27:47','A Season for the Dead... though what is says in Finnish???',0,'1','','',1516,0),(1518,6276,'Pirkko','pirkko.tuomonen@gmail.com','','193.211.161.8','2010-10-28 08:31:27','2010-10-28 07:31:27','Welcome to Helsinki, David! It is a pity that the Book Fair is in October - the weather here is terrible!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1519,6276,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','62.237.32.66','2010-10-28 08:35:27','2010-10-28 07:35:27','Well it\'s still nice to be here...',0,'1','','',1518,0),(1520,6276,'Anna','anna.rantanen@moreenikustannus.fi','','94.101.4.226','2010-10-30 06:35:28','2010-10-30 05:35:28','The Finnish title means the season of the death, so about the same as the original.\n\nAnd the number of Moreeni\'s stand at the fair is 6f73 (Suomen kirjat), it\'s near Kirjakahvila.',0,'1','','',1517,0),(1521,6276,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','62.237.32.66','2010-10-30 06:51:30','2010-10-30 05:51:30','See you there shortly Anna!',0,'1','','',1520,0),(1522,6280,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2010-11-03 13:46:22','2010-11-03 13:46:22','I love all your posts on various writerly things such as this, onenote, the iPad and other dohickies we writers might try. It\'s like you do the research on them so I don\'t have to. Since I just did the opposite of you, and switched to Mac, Scrivener is on my list of things to learn. I\'m taking it slow since I don\'t want to mess the writing mojo. Scrivener has replaced much of what I used to do with notecards, scene ideas, character backgrounds, plot outlines, etc with Scrivener\'s little corkboard. I still write in Word. I have always written in word, even when I was using onenote, so not sure that will ever change, but as I learn more and more about Scrivener, the more I love it.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1523,6280,'Jeff Baerveldt','jeffbaerveldt@gmail.com','http://jeffbaerveldt.wordpress.com/','71.96.8.144','2010-11-03 14:21:06','2010-11-03 14:21:06','I\'m equally confused on how to use collections. Could you offer a brief insight?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1524,6280,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','81.141.37.57','2010-11-03 14:24:30','2010-11-03 14:24:30','The one thing that struck me was if you were writing a book involving several different time periods. You could set up a collection to monitor each time period and read them consecutively for continuity. I\'m sure there are other scenarios though I can\'t think of them right now.',0,'1','','',1523,0),(1525,6280,'the webmaster','stjospehlittleflowers@hotmail.com','http://saintjosephlittleflowers.wordpress.com','71.96.8.144','2010-11-03 15:19:47','2010-11-03 15:19:47','Ah, I see. You could do the same thing with multiple POV\'s, too. That is pretty cool.',0,'1','','',1524,0),(1526,6280,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','74.115.160.161','2010-11-04 16:23:19','2010-11-04 16:23:19','<i>The logical way to replace OneNote is to have a separate Scrivener document for research.</i>\n\nDavid, do you mean document or project?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1527,6280,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.10.218','2010-11-04 16:24:31','2010-11-04 16:24:31','Well spotted - I mean project.',0,'1','','',1526,0),(1528,6280,'CTS','cshea2@gmail.com','','96.241.34.124','2010-11-09 14:28:05','2010-11-09 14:28:05','I think Scrivener is really underpowered as a researching/note-taking/clipping tool. Why not something like Devonthink Pro or (my favorite) Eaglefiler?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1529,6280,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-09 16:28:37','2010-11-09 16:28:37','They\'re way too overpowered for me, but my needs are modest',0,'1','','',1528,0),(1530,6287,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2010-11-03 15:46:54','2010-11-03 15:46:54','Harriet Snobes? Seriously? Laughing as Schenectady, NY is the next city over from Albany, NY where I grew up and I spent a lot of time there. But really, Harriet?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1531,6287,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','81.141.37.57','2010-11-03 15:49:59','2010-11-03 15:49:59','Just cos I used your picture from Twitter it doesn\'t mean it was about YOU!',0,'1','','',1530,0),(1532,6287,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.12.254','2010-11-03 17:42:57','2010-11-03 17:42:57','Seems like you\'re lost in love with Scrivener! Regularly posting about this. :D Not bored though, curious to try it out. But I don\'t want to work on its Windows version. At the same time, I don\'t own a Mac. :(',0,'1','','',0,0),(1533,6291,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','216.96.42.37','2010-11-04 08:45:58','2010-11-04 08:45:58','\"It works in Scrivener 2.0 only — nothing earlier, and not the Windows beta. \"\nSo this test drive was done on a...........?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1534,6291,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.10.218','2010-11-04 08:47:04','2010-11-04 08:47:04','As I said earlier... my old MacBook pro, dusted off from a cupboard',0,'1','','',1533,0),(1535,6291,'Michael','Michaelcauston@mac.com','','219.110.202.23','2010-11-04 12:10:57','2010-11-04 12:10:57','Great to read about 2.0. Thanks. For your onenote problem have you looked at DevonThink for research notes etc? It has been my research database and tool for some years and it works well allowing you to store anything in any format - and since last week you can carry the databases with you on iPad. The search functions are amazing.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1536,6291,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.10.218','2010-11-04 12:12:19','2010-11-04 12:12:19','Have tried everything on the Mac  - Devonthink, Together, Journler. The best I found was MacJournal but none come close to OneNote frankly. I found DT terribly complicated if I\'m honest...\nThe good news is OneNote will export to MS Web Apps and I can view and edit the notebook there in Safari or Chrome. But that means I only have access when I\'m online of course.',0,'1','','',1535,0),(1537,6291,'Michael Causton','michaelcauston@me.com','','219.110.202.23','2010-11-04 13:10:28','2010-11-04 13:10:28','Resending reply as didnt seem to upload.\n\nIt seems to now be possible to import from OneNote to Evernote (as of about 5 days ago). Not sure if it works well or not but that is one option since Evernote is cross platform. If you check the forums of Evernote there is some discussion of this.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1538,6291,'safersociety','steve@safersociety.org','http://offlimitsbook.wordpress.com','71.161.220.104','2010-11-04 13:12:21','2010-11-04 13:12:21','Thank you for the excellent overviews of Scrivener 2.0 and making your novel template available. You\'ve probably already thought of this or tried it, but I mention on the off chance you haven\'t. You can run OneNote on your MacBook with VMWare Fusion or Parallels. It isn\'t smooth as glass, but it isn\'t too difficult, either. I\'ve got ON on my MacBook with Fusion.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1539,6291,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.10.218','2010-11-04 13:12:36','2010-11-04 13:12:36','Yes you can and I\'ve done that. The problem is Evernote is a bit of a mess - no hierarchical folders, not so easy to organise your info.',0,'1','','',1537,0),(1540,6291,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.10.218','2010-11-04 13:13:58','2010-11-04 13:13:58','It did occur to me and I tried running it under Parallels. But I hate those Windows on Mac things - they slow everything down and just feel wrong. I can access it on the web if need be so it won\'t be a huge deal.',0,'1','','',1538,0),(1541,6291,'Christopher Hall','chris@thelonghall.com','http://christopherdhall.com','75.110.168.14','2010-11-04 13:35:14','2010-11-04 13:35:14','You\'re the first author I\'ve found who thinks like me: you publish your fiction, I don\'t :(.\n\nAnyway, don\'t give up on Win7 and Scriv: they\'ve announced that moving the Windows version up to 2.0 is a priority--it will get there soon enough.\n\nFor me, I\'ve taken your cue and am tweaking Onenote and Word to do what I need, linking the two programs via linked notes and such.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1542,6291,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','75.91.67.39','2010-11-04 17:27:54','2010-11-04 17:27:54','It dawned on me after I posted to read back and find it.  Thanks.',0,'1','','',1534,0),(1543,6291,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','74.115.160.216','2010-11-07 14:40:35','2010-11-07 14:40:35','David, a question:\n\nI downloaded your Scriv template and just looked at it.\n\nHow is it you are able to place images in the MANUSCRIPT section, which of course replaces DRAFT? Keith\'s DRAFT section is not supposed to take images, only text.\n\nDo you create an entirely new section — say, on the RESEARCH level within Scrivener — and use that to create your book with? Is that what you did to allow images within the MANUSCRIPT section of your template?\n\n[P.S. I absolutely love all this back-and-forthy you are doing, picking up Windows, ditching Mac, then back to dating Mac on a temporary basis because of Scrivener. Etcetera. You\'re like the Tasmanian Devil going through drawers, and I love it. I am, however, one of those who will never go back to Windows; I\'d have to be in a prison cell with no choice of laptop provided: after 20 years, I can\'t stand the WIN operating system.]',0,'1','','',0,0),(1544,6291,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','74.115.160.216','2010-11-07 14:49:53','2010-11-07 14:49:53','BTW — a tidbit — an Apple VP told me that US Black Ops groups use Apple computers with Windows installed via Boot Camp...meaning that when you hit the start-up button on a Mac laptop, it boots directly into Windows. Why? Can\'t be penetrated. Hackers don\'t know how to go through the Mac operating system to get to Windows directories.\n\nSo there is a use for your Mac laptop the next time you decide to change.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1545,6291,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-07 14:57:18','2010-11-07 14:57:18','I can\'t do tech support for Scrivener I\'m afraid - look on the very useful Scrivener user forums. I didn\'t do anything special with that template - it\'s just a version of Keith\'s own.',0,'1','','',1544,0),(1546,6301,'Michelle Gagnon','michelle@michellegagnon.com','','76.14.73.133','2010-11-09 19:44:10','2010-11-09 19:44:10','On a completely unrelated note, David, ever since Bouchercon I\'ve been trying to \"friend\" your dog Charlie, to no avail. Does he suspect I\'m a closet cat person?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1547,6301,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-09 20:14:28','2010-11-09 20:14:28','There are two possible answers.\n1. His \'owner\' (my son) is refusing to deal with the huge backlog of friend requests that followed him putting up the dog on facebook and thinking no one would notice.\n2. He hated being called \'Charlie\' given that his name\'s Eddie.\n\nI\'m watching it piss it down in Florence right now so sadly I have no opportunity ask either of the possibly guilty parties here!\n\nLovely seeing you in SFO Michelle - sorry we didn\'t get longer to talk. Why is it so difficult to talk to people at that thing? We need an event all of our own.',0,'1','','',1546,0),(1548,6303,'Ruth Harris','ruthhar@verizon.net','','71.190.138.26','2010-11-05 14:53:09','2010-11-05 14:53:09','Hi David...Congratulations on having DIS back in print.  The cover looks terrific.  I\'m just about to starting putting my backlist up on Kindle.  I\'ve reverted the rights over the years -- way before Kindle existed.  I always wanted them back in print &amp; now I can arrange that myself.  I\'m starting with my NYTimes Bestseller Husbands &amp; Lovers and am curious to see what the response is.  I wrote it in the mid-80\'s -- the same time as the novel is set.  I kept the same plot &amp; did only very little rewriting/editing although I did cut and tighten (and I hope improve) the ending.\n\nI wish you very good luck with your reissue &amp; Kindle editions and will follow your blogs with great interest.  It\'s a very energizing time now for writers and of course for readers who will have a feast of options to choose from.\n\nWith best regards, Ruth',0,'1','','',0,0),(1549,6303,'ann','oneoaktree@tesco.net','','93.97.185.122','2010-11-05 19:34:38','2010-11-05 19:34:38','I loved Semana Santa; and so apologies but I\'m not planning on rereading it  as leaner and better.  It was good as it was. I had no Seville preconceptions.  (You maybe have a noisy audience?). I don\'t need a smooth ride.  Sometimes rough is good.\n(That\'s sounds grumpy: I\'m not - just saying there are different views)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1550,6303,'Christy','wildinca@gmail.com','','173.28.44.204','2010-11-06 01:14:25','2010-11-06 01:14:25','Thanks David - it is good to hear that kind of encouragement.  I\'m catching up on all of your titles.  Please keep giving!\nChristy',0,'1','','',0,0),(1551,6313,'Jeff','jeff@darkelmspress.com','','71.96.8.144','2010-11-06 13:49:07','2010-11-06 13:49:07','Well, I have Office 2011 for Mac -- the home/student version -- and I have to say there are some annoying things about it. However, it\'s better than Pages/Numbers/Keynote.\n\nFunny you can\'t get rid of the ribbon. I did, and then I customized the toolbar to make it look like Mac\'s Pages -- clean and simple.\n\nFor me, the BIGGEST annoyance about Word 2011 is that I can\'t set a default zoom in the full-screen mode. It ALWAYS goes back to 125%. That might be fine if you\'re working on a Mac with a large screen, but I work on a MacBook. So I\'m always resetting it to 175%.\n\nBut in terms of writing long projects, Scrivener is the way to go.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1552,6313,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.10.218','2010-11-06 13:52:03','2010-11-06 13:52:03','I can get rid of the ribbon. I can\'t get rid of the stupid line of boxes that have Smartart and the rest in them. Which is there in 2008 anyway. I only use the word processor side of things really. I quite like Pages in some ways but when it comes to serious book editing in Word I am going to unplug the screen from my MacBook and plug it into Windows again. The difference in quality is quite startling.',0,'1','','',1551,0),(1553,6313,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2010-11-06 14:09:14','2010-11-06 14:09:14','Outlook is one of the few things I miss from my PC days. I really miss it. Gmail just isn\'t the same, though I\'d have to use that calendar sort of anyway as my phone is a Droid and it syncs with that, but I know I can sync it to Outlook for Windows. Thing I love with my Droid is that I don\'t have to plug it in to my computer to sync. I make a change in calendar or contacts, its automatically applied everywhere.\n\nI was looking into upgrading to Office 2011 for Mac, but have heard such horrible things about Outlook, not sure it\'s worth it.\n\nThe switch to Mac has been interesting. I don\'t miss Windows Operating System. People have tried to tell me that Window\'s 7 solved all those problems, but my husband has Windows 7 now, and he\'s still bitch, moaning and complaining.\n\nThanks for all the advice, tips, and helpful thoughts on all this stuff. I\'ve been playing with Scrivener and I\'m really liking it. I still think I will always do the actual writing in Word, but I love some of the features Scrivener has for organizing my thoughts, character sketches, plot, etc. I work off two screens when I write, so I have word open on monitor and Scrivener open on laptop.\n\nJen',0,'1','','',0,0),(1554,6313,'Jeff','jeff@darkelmspress.com','','71.96.8.144','2010-11-06 14:30:35','2010-11-06 14:30:35','I got rid of those boxes that have SmartArt, etc.\n\nGo into options and uncheck the \"turn on the ribbon\" box. That\'s how I got rid of them.',0,'1','','',1552,0),(1555,6313,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.10.218','2010-11-06 14:55:50','2010-11-06 14:55:50','OK - I see. Trouble is I quite like the ribbon. It\'s those stupid boxes - which aren\'t there in Windows. Would like to be able to turn off boxes and keep ribbon',0,'1','','',1554,0),(1556,6313,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.10.218','2010-11-06 15:07:05','2010-11-06 15:07:05','Got to be honest - if it wasn\'t for Scrivener 2 I\'d still be on Windows. And given how crappy Word for Mac is I have no doubt I will be doing the final revise back there. Microsoft say Mac Outlook is \'on a par\' with the Windows one. They\'re clearly delusional. Try Mailplane though - it only works if you\'re online I think but it\'s very good.\n\nPS. Your working method is even weirder than mine.',0,'1','','',1553,0),(1557,6313,'Thank you Microsoft for the worst word processor ever (via davidhewson.com) | Chicago Mac/PC Support','','http://chimac.net/2010/11/06/thank-you-microsoft-for-the-worst-word-processor-ever-via-davidhewson-com/','74.200.247.57','2010-11-06 18:53:41','2010-11-06 18:53:41','[...] The arrival of Scrivener 2 this week rather rattled my plans for the next book. It will no longer be written in the very excellent Word 2010 for Windows as intended. Instead I\'m diverting back to the Mac and planning the whole project in Scrivener 2 (with a final revise in Word, the Windows one). This does not mean I think every project is destined for Scrivener. But this one is big and complicated and needs the extra features it brings. So pleas &#8230; Read More [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1558,6313,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.30.153','2010-11-07 07:13:25','2010-11-07 07:13:25','I knew you wouldn\'t be able to stick with a Windows machine after using Mac. :)\n\nAnd that Word is getting worse on every new release. Word XP/2003 was way better than Word 2007. And now, you explained how Word 2010 is worse than 2007 or previous versions.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1559,6313,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','149.6.120.130','2010-11-07 07:19:37','2010-11-07 07:19:37','That\'s not what I wrote at all',0,'1','','',1558,0),(1560,6313,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.20.80','2010-11-07 10:44:11','2010-11-07 10:44:11','That\'s what I\'m saying. Probably I wrote \"you explained\" in a hurry. :)',0,'1','','',1559,0),(1561,6313,'Edward','els@ucsd.edu','','70.230.203.133','2010-11-15 08:09:40','2010-11-15 08:09:40','On the far right corner of the stupid line of boxes there is a small pull down menu marked with a little hieroglyph of a cog. Pull down and select \"Customize Ribbon Tab Order\" - Next to each tab except the one marked \"Home\" a small \"x\" will appear allowing you to remove that tab. Click \"Done\" to save or \"Reset\" to start over.\n\nNow if someone could please figure out how to set the default zoom level in the Full Screen View.',0,'1','','',1555,0),(1562,6313,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.184.33','2010-11-15 08:11:15','2010-11-15 08:11:15','Thanks- I had got round to working out that one in the end. But the missing bits from Word 2010 - proper navigation tabs in particular - drive me nuts with the thing. So far short of the Windows version',0,'1','','',1561,0),(1563,6313,'Avro','brianmillson@gmail.com','','94.7.171.148','2010-11-21 19:43:16','2010-11-21 19:43:16','One of the reasons I stick with the Mac is Scrivener 2.  I could quite happily do most of my computing on Ubuntu although I would miss the Mac Hardware.  I couldn\'t contemplate going to Windows, it has let me down too much over the years even though Windows 7 seems to be OK.  However, Windows is still butt ugly and when you are having to look at it all day, that is a big factor.\n\nhttp://arstechnica.com/microsoft/guides/2010/10/the-21st-century-guide-to-platform-trolling-windows-sucks.ars/3\n\nLife is just too short to put up with that sort of stuff.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1564,6313,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.220.221','2010-11-21 22:09:48','2010-11-21 22:09:48','I find Windows 7 fine and I like the fact I can choose the hardware it runs on instead of having Steve Jobs choose it for me. The screenshots in that article seem a bit silly - you could assemble something similar for the Mac without trying too hard  simply by picking bits of software written by very different companies. One of the examples it cites is from none other than Apple.\nThe look of MS Office, the software I use most of all, is very consistent, and a lot better than Office 2011 on the Mac.',0,'1','','',1563,0),(1565,6313,'Avro','brianmillson@gmail.com','','94.11.94.141','2010-11-21 23:23:27','2010-11-21 23:23:27','I can\'t agree.  Windows has been a mess for years and the software always seems so half finished.  It looks like something that came out of the Soviet Bloc circa 1981.  You have a point about the hardware, but it is a two edged sword.  Writing to a tight specification for Apple gives software houses a greater ability to produce software that performs better and is more stable.  The other thing that plagues Windows is legacy.  So much of it has to be devoted to pushing around 20 year old legacy applications.  At least Steve Jobs makes it clear that if that if the software is older than 3 years, it is out the door.\n\nMS Office on either Windows or Mac is bloated and buggy.  Give me Scrivener or Nisus Writer Pro any day.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1566,6313,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','212.183.140.1','2010-11-22 08:22:59','2010-11-22 08:22:59','I\'ve written and revised three books using Word 2010 this year. That\'s more than 300,000 words. I wouldn\'t describe it as bloated or buggy. Have you actually used it (and I mean 2010 not 2008 or something earlier)?',0,'1','','',1565,0),(1567,6313,'Avro','brianmillson@gmail.com','','94.11.94.141','2010-11-22 19:06:02','2010-11-22 19:06:02','Yes I have used it and every version of Word since 6.0.  The things I dislike about Word are that Microsoft seems to have thrown in everything except the kitchen sink.  The interface is simply too cluttered and it can be really difficult to find what you want. Microsoft mentioned some time back that the 10 most often requested \"new features\" in Word had been there for the last 3 releases.  The problem has been that few people can find them.\n\nAs to bugs, these routinely occur with updates.  Something that worked previously just refuses to work in the latest update.  I also find that Word loves to do its own thing and in spite of telling it I want UK English and A4 page setup it routinely defaults to US English and US letter.  Word seems to have trouble with grammar and has a pathological dislike of the passive voice.\n\nI much prefer the uncluttered intuitive approach of Nisus Writer Pro and Scrivener which have been my main word processing tools for the last few years.\n\nVirginia Heffernan wrote of Word in the New York Times:\n\n\"Microsoft Word. Light of my mind, fire of my frustration. My sin, my soul. Mi-cro-soft-word. The mouth contorts with anti-poetry. My. Crow. Soft. Word.  Oh, Word. For 20 years, you have supported and tyrannized me. You have given me a skimpy Etch A Sketch on which to compose, a cramped spot on the sentence-assembly line — and then harangued me with orders to save or reformat as you stall and splutter and assert points of ludicrous corporate chauvinism (“Invalid product key”! “Unrecognized database format”!).\n\nAnd just when I need to be alone with my thoughts and my Mac, you detain me by emphasizing my utter dependence on you, melodramatically “recovering” documents lost in your recreational crashes.\"\n\nExtremely well said.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1568,6313,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','91.125.58.133','2010-11-22 21:19:41','2010-11-22 21:19:41','You\'re entitled to your opinion as are the many who don\'t feel the same way.',0,'1','','',1567,0),(1569,6325,'Laydilejur','laydilejur@hotmail.com','','88.253.178.230','2010-11-08 20:00:48','2010-11-08 20:00:48','It looks and sounds like an utterly amazing place! I love to discover historical places unspoilt by commercial tourism. Can\'t wait to see how it\'s perceived in your novel.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1570,6325,'Chapel &laquo; Petchary&#039;s Blog','','http://petchary.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/chapel/','74.200.247.247','2010-11-12 00:38:23','2010-11-12 00:38:23','[...] Some photos of the wondrous Brancacci Chapel, Florence (davidhewson.com) [...]',0,'1','','pingback',0,0),(1571,6326,'Curtis','curtis@reddirtworld.com','','75.91.67.39','2010-11-08 17:46:31','2010-11-08 17:46:31','\"Me with an expensive electronic toy, she with a pen and a notepad. Her productivity beat mine hands down.\"\n\nStatements like that are why I trust what you say.  Honest perspective. Thank you.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1572,6326,'Petra','Findley2@shaw.ca','','207.216.241.7','2010-11-09 00:46:42','2010-11-09 00:46:42','Not disagreeing about writing a book on it, but you don\'t have to switch keyboards for the apostrophe or some other punctuation. Press and hold on comma and slide your finger upwards and you get an apostrophe. Lots of other keys have multiple keys if you try the same method. That said I haven\'t found quotations or brackets on the main keyboard.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1573,6326,'Petra','Findley2@shaw.ca','','207.216.241.7','2010-11-09 00:50:17','2010-11-09 00:50:17','Here\'s a website with good advice on shortcuts:  http://www.labnol.org/software/keyboard-typing-shortcuts-for-iphone-ipad/13564/',0,'1','','',0,0),(1574,6326,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-09 01:37:14','2010-11-09 01:37:14','Ah - good tip!',0,'1','','',1572,0),(1575,6326,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','216.240.128.69','2010-11-09 03:22:50','2010-11-09 03:22:50','Take a look at TextExpander for the iPad.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1576,6326,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-09 07:38:04','2010-11-09 07:38:04','Not much use to me - I don\'t write repetitive phrases much',0,'1','','',1575,0),(1577,6326,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','216.240.128.69','2010-11-09 08:49:24','2010-11-09 08:49:24','I should  have explained why better. A writer on another site described how he uses TextExpander for iPad shortcuts, like .h, to access tertiary keyboard marks that he uses all the time. I thought that was clever.',0,'1','','',1576,0),(1578,6326,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-09 08:57:50','2010-11-09 08:57:50','I can see how that makes sense for writing repetitive things such as code. But I don\'t write that kind of thing. Thanks for the suggestion anyway!',0,'1','','',1577,0),(1579,6329,'Mary Clarke','marycatherineclarke@hotmail.com','','86.155.20.1','2010-11-08 18:32:49','2010-11-08 18:32:49','I love how you write about food even food you find disgusting.  It\'s one of the things I love about your books.\n\nStill I won\'t be sorry if you don\'t include those dishes in your 2013 novel.\n\nMary',0,'1','','',0,0),(1580,6329,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-08 19:18:52','2010-11-08 19:18:52','Ribollita isn\'t disgusting really. It\'s just... so what? But cotechino is disgusting. Though not as disgusting as a very particular Florentine speciality which -- sorry -- I will have to try if I can stomach it while I\'m here. That\'s the job...',0,'1','','',1579,0),(1581,6329,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-11-20 01:15:47','2010-11-20 01:15:47','Haha! I LOVE that landlady/endless bucket of soup from hell story!\n\nUnfortunately, now that you\'ve accurately described ribollita as \"looking like something the dog sicked up\", I don\'t think I can ever enjoy it.\n\nFWIW, I\'m not a huge fan of bolito misto, either. But I do like cotechino.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1582,6329,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.220.221','2010-11-20 08:14:25','2010-11-20 08:14:25','I find bolito misto not just disgusting but very boring too. Real Italian food has some extraordinarily plain things in it sometimes. Ribollita is worth a try and does vary an awful lot. Some of it looks like other forms of sick.',0,'1','','',1581,0),(1583,6333,'Brenda Sedore','author@brendasedore.com','http://brendasedore.wordpress.com','174.4.26.24','2010-11-09 13:48:49','2010-11-09 13:48:49','Totally agree. Evernote is my note-taking app of choice on the iPad. I tried using SimpleNote for a while, but it just became irritating. For Scrivener I use the sync to folder with Dropbox rather than using the SimpleNote sync.\n\nI think it takes quite a lot of playing around and trying new things with the iPad to figure out what works for you since we\'ve never had anything truly like it before. You\'re right, it doesn\'t work well for some things, but for what it does well, it\'s amazing!',0,'1','','',0,0),(1584,6333,'Janie','wdfs@mac.com','','74.115.160.156','2010-11-13 04:25:38','2010-11-13 04:25:38','David, take a look at http://nebulousapps.net/notes.html.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1585,6333,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-13 07:59:07','2010-11-13 07:59:07','Thanks but I have squandered enough money on notes apps - Evernote does just fine',0,'1','','',1584,0),(1586,6333,'Ben Elijah','benelijah@me.com','http://www.unformation.net','78.86.93.38','2010-11-14 15:39:34','2010-11-14 15:39:34','Hi David,\n\nI believe a lot depends on how you take notes. If you\'re using your device as an electronic notebook but not really changing the essential model of how you capture notes, the app becomes nearly irrelevant.\n\nBut devices like this present the opportunity to fundamentally change the way we capture and process information.\n\nWhen I take notes I use MindNode to create mind maps. I\'m not a big visual thinker but being able to visualise your notes and manipulate them is great because you can represent both vertical and horizontal flows of ideas.\n\nA quick power-tip is using markup in your mindmap. Use an hashtag symbol to mark-up any themes or interesting memes, and an @ symbol to identify any verbs / actions you might want to do something specific with. I wrote about this topic recently on my blog if you\'re interested... http://goo.gl/8UjQO\n\nWith MindNode you can email out a text outline. This is awesome, just by searching through the text outline for your markup it becomes really easy to harvest relevant information from your notes.\n\nBen',0,'1','','',0,0),(1587,6333,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','84.93.184.33','2010-11-14 17:30:50','2010-11-14 17:30:50','Thanks for the feedback. I\'ve never got on with mindmap software I\'m afraid. Beyond me!',0,'1','','',1586,0),(1588,6339,'Kim Chalker','kimchalker@skyu.com','','86.156.150.15','2010-11-11 11:38:11','2010-11-11 11:38:11','Reminds me of a programme I watched on TV about the floods in Suffolk not far from my paternal grandfather\'s birthplace apparently the year I was born.  Question is could that have been an omen.  To the best of my knowledge nothing dire happened in Yorkshire where my maternal grandmother\'s ancestors the Waddingtons came from so it must have been the \'Curse of The Chalkers\'',0,'1','','',0,0),(1589,6339,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.8.127','2010-11-11 19:05:35','2010-11-11 19:05:35','The last photo reminds me of the movie \"Perfume - the story of a murderer\"; it\'s because of those houses (aren\'t they?) on the bridge.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1590,6339,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','2.123.61.236','2010-11-12 08:48:31','2010-11-12 08:48:31','Hi David\nI\'m reading a novel at the moment by a fellow author, Christobel Kent, called A time for mourning.\nIt\'s set as her books are in Florence and is based over a course of a week during very heavy rainfall and the famous Florence flood you speak about is recounted throughout the book.\nHaving visited and fallen in love with Florence , as you say it is quite outstanding but like many natural disasters quite fascinating, to see the photos and the plaques on walls  showing the height of the water.\n\nThanks for bringing it to our attention at a time that must bring very sad memories to a lot of the older generation of Florence inhabitants.\n\nHave a great weekend and hopefully a dry one !\nThanks\nGeoff',0,'1','','',0,0),(1591,6348,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','87.112.14.165','2010-11-27 20:22:10','2010-11-27 20:22:10','Superb shot. Very evocative. Uffizi?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1592,6348,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.120.244','2010-11-27 20:35:49','2010-11-27 20:35:49','Pitti Palace...',0,'1','','',1591,0),(1593,6348,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','87.112.14.165','2010-11-28 07:43:09','2010-11-28 07:43:09','Ah... Stunning!',0,'1','','',1592,0),(1594,6348,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.120.244','2010-11-28 21:32:36','2010-11-28 21:32:36','Correction - Strozzi Palace. Which is open to the public (the bit here anyway) without any entrance fee.',0,'1','','',1593,0),(1595,6354,'hemlock1981','mac_gyue@yahoo.com','http://hemlock1981.wordpress.com','192.250.173.20','2010-11-12 14:00:47','2010-11-12 14:00:47','Love the photos.  Great angles.  I really like the blue tint.  I too have recently begun my journey on taking pictures.  I have a few blogs that I follow on my blogroll that have people who know a lot about photography and I try to learn from them.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1596,6354,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-12 14:02:33','2010-11-12 14:02:33','Thanks - as I said I know nothing about the photography really, except to have a decent camera and point it places other people don\'t.',0,'1','','',1595,0),(1597,6354,'Chris','chris.vere@hotmail.com','','219.89.135.86','2010-11-12 18:47:22','2010-11-12 18:47:22','David, I agree with the tourist photos - the coluor ones do help to recall the place as it was, where b&amp;w or with a touch of blue seem to add mood and feel, bringing out features that would otherwise be lost in a maze of colour, such as in the market - love the fish and door photos. You have some good pics there.\n:)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1598,6354,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','82.61.244.192','2010-11-12 19:44:28','2010-11-12 19:44:28','Thanks. Mind you if you can\'t take a decent photo in Florence maybe I should sell the camera....',0,'1','','',1597,0),(1599,6354,'Geoff Frewin','geoffrewin@sky.com','','2.123.61.236','2010-11-14 12:28:55','2010-11-14 12:28:55','David,\nI agree with the others , I love taking photos, have a fairly decent camera but have little knowledge, especially of digital.  Perhaps it\'s in the passion rather than the skill where the enjoyment lies. It\'s all about time and place and remembering rather than the technicality of the photograph itself that\'s  feels important.\nI adore Florence and agree perhaps anyone should be able to take a decent photo there but like you the photo is taken rather selfishly for me and therefore I want to remember what I saw and not what some editing suite has managed to recreate.\nI also enjoy looking at photographs as art and these especially in black and white and sepia create a feeling of art in dimension and atmosphere...so a few more posts wouldn\'t go a miss !\n\nThanks as always\nGeoff',0,'1','','',0,0),(1600,6357,'roelani','roelani@me.com','http://wordinprogress.com','70.82.250.58','2010-11-16 12:18:29','2010-11-16 12:18:29','Thanks a ton for this little tip; I use the split window functions heavily, but suddenly this seems like a nice alternative. Had no idea \"QuickLook\" functionality even existed in 2.0. Much appreaciated. ;)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1601,6357,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','66.66.217.27','2010-11-16 12:59:51','2010-11-16 12:59:51','Love all you little tid-bits about Scrivener. I think it\'s time to get Scrivener 2.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1602,6357,'Jeff @ Dark Elms','jeff@darkelmspress.com','http://www.darkelmspress.com/blog-adventures-of-an-indie-writer/','71.96.8.144','2010-11-16 13:53:06','2010-11-16 13:53:06','The new project notes feature is also great.\n\nCommand-Option-P, and you get a floating window where you can keep your notes under different tabs. Six months ago, I bought MacJournal based on some of your posts. It was great ... but Scrivener 2.0\'s project notes has replaced MacJournal for making all the notes I need to make while writing.\n\nYou should check it out.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1603,6357,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.220.221','2010-11-16 13:59:51','2010-11-16 13:59:51','Yes - another good one.',0,'1','','',1602,0),(1604,6357,'Barry Owen','blowentw@gmail.com','','61.227.133.47','2010-11-17 06:35:22','2010-11-17 06:35:22','It may be well worth your time to check out the new Scrivener screencast by Don McAllister at:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DthBJhBrYs\nIt\'s a worthwhile investment of thirty-five minutes (or less because you can skip the parts you know).  You get the chapter breaks if you go to his site to download:\nhttp://www.screencastsonline.com/index_files/SCO0275-scrivener.php\nI ended up buying Scrivener because of the screencast.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1605,6357,'Julia Crouch','julia@juliacrouch.co.uk','http://juliacrouch.co.uk','86.178.119.129','2010-11-20 17:29:14','2010-11-20 17:29:14','There\'s a Scrivener 2?\nMy update button told me I was up to date.\nDamn them.\nI won\'t hold it against them, though. I\'m off shopping with my paypal. That should put a spring in the step of my second draft.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1606,6360,'Jenni Holbrook','jenni@jenniholbrook.com','http://www.writeitforward.wordpress.com','98.71.163.54','2010-11-26 15:35:03','2010-11-26 15:35:03','It\'s interesting how the mind works. I had been an avid Word user, but have transferred this current manuscript to Scrivener 2. I hadn\'t planned it, but now my mind is set there and I don\'t think I could take this book back to word if I tried. I think because this book has so many more layers and I\'m actually not writing it linear, which is my usual process, Scrivener is helping to keep my brain organized. Perhaps I needed a break from writing on Word for nearly ten years. Whatever works.',0,'1','','',0,0),(1607,6360,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.120.244','2010-11-26 15:37:39','2010-11-26 15:37:39','Good point about needing a break from something you use a lot. I\'ve written five projects or so in Scrivener so Word actually feels fresh to me (2010 for Windows -- not that pile of junk that is 2011 for Mac).',0,'1','','',1606,0),(1608,6360,'Roy Judd','roy.judd@gmx.com','','87.112.14.165','2010-11-27 20:08:50','2010-11-27 20:08:50','Ouch! I can\'t make that comparison as I still live in a world without Windows, but I\'d say Office 2011 for Mac is a deal better than Office 2008. Your antipathy intrigues me though: is it just a component of your current anti-Apple stance, or do you genuinely consider Word for Windows to be that superior to its Mac counterpart?',0,'1','','',1607,0),(1609,6360,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.114.120.244','2010-11-27 20:38:15','2010-11-27 20:38:15','Word for Windows 2010 is incredible, particularly alongside OneNote. The Mac version doesn\'t come close.\nhttp://davidhewson.com/2010/05/05/word-2010-for-windows-wonds-well-hidden/',0,'1','','',1608,0),(1610,6362,'Sajib','Aminulislam333@gmail.com','http://aisjournal.com','180.149.25.180','2010-11-30 11:56:46','2010-11-30 11:56:46','Feeling eager to know how a writer\'s day is passed (e.g., when he is doing what). :)',0,'1','','',0,0),(1611,6362,'Jonathan Hayes','jaze@echonyc.com','http://www.jonathanhayes.com','72.225.240.235','2010-11-30 12:06:06','2010-11-30 12:06:06','I\'m about to start my next book (still a Mac diehard, here, loving my new, beautiful, overpriced Macbook Air), and am hovering between writing it in Word (I have the Officially Hewson-reviled Office 2011) and Scrivener 2. I just opened the Properties panel on my last manuscript in Word 2011; how ugly it is, how inelegant and inefficient in comparison to the Properties panel you just posted for your book. On my Mac, the panel looks ancient, broken down into multiple tabs to get the info, instead of the one slick page in your demonstration; I\'m wondering if that\'s because I wrote the book in Word 2008, and Word 2011 is operating in Compatibility Mode. Are you saving in Docx, David?\n\nI liked the diary you posted in the previous post. When you write it in One Note, is it somehow tethered to the main novel text you\'re writing in Word? Or is it a completely unlinked second document?',0,'1','','',0,0),(1612,6362,'David','david.hewson@davidhewson.com','http://www.davidhewson.com','87.112.138.114','2010-11-30 12:29:13','2010-11-30 12:29:13','Yes - I do save in Docx but wasn\'t that the default format for Word 2008 on the Mac too? Doubt they\'d write two separate property panels based on a file format but who knows?\n\nYou can Word and OneNote right down to individual passages  if you want. I haven\'t bothered so far but that it pure laziness and now you\'ve mentioned it I doubtless will. The method is outlined her\n\nhttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/take-linked-notes-in-onenote-2010-HA010388533.aspx\n\nMac Word 2011 is a heap of junk. I honestly don\'t know what they\'re thinking. Don\'t think I could work without OneNote right now either so Windows it shall be.',0,'1','','',1611,0),