If there’s one thing humanity should have learned by now, it’s the importance of communication – of figuring out ways to make sure people understand each other. How many wars could be prevented if people in competing cultures would be able to speak each other’s language, to explain to each other their concerns and common interests? Nations, tribes, individuals, even computers – can’t we all just get along? Apparently not. War may be bad for computers and other living things, but the “authorities” have done little to prevent war …

In the writing game, there is a definite hierarchy – like a caste system, with some writers snobbishly looking down on others because they “just” write in newspapers, for example, instead of having their own ISBN number. “Yeah, we can’t all be like Stephen King – there’s no need to rub it in,” I told the world famous author with dozens of books and movie deals, not to mention plenty of cash, when he ranked on me (no, it was not Stephen King!). But now I can hold …

Admit it. When it comes to output – to getting the results out to the public, to putting words on paper – you don’t know what you’re doing. It’s all bull.
You try, but you just can’t make them understand. They never have the font you used, they don’t like Microsoft Word, they can’t handle your style and formatting. The client calls up the boss. the boss comes down on you – and what do you have for an answer? Yep – more bull.
Actually, there is a solution to your problem; …