Reflecting
Look
If you're an Author
You've just got to hate the web
Why?
Legacy!
See
Today
When a reader don't like you
CTL-ALT-DEL
(Said control-alt-delete)
(Because that's how you're taught)
((Ed.s Note: Use trained or educated from now on please))
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Explanation for the Modern Reader
C it's like this. Us old readers remember when, well, if we got a book we didn't like, we would return it, like to the library or bookstore, or put it on a shelf to be forgotten and then told by the wife/mother/partner to get rid of 'all that old crap' and it would sit in closet/garage forgotten. So it took some effort to get rid of things we didn't like. And a lot of people are lazy (Don't feel bad, Science says it's our genes) so it would hang around until liebenstraum was needed once again and disposed of via a garage/store/library sale where's it's bought by someone to be read later. Unfortunately the couch leg broke so it sat under there for five years before they were evicted for non-payment and they put it in storage which they couldn't keep up the payments on so it got sold in a lot at auction to a used goods dealer who placed it in the 2 for $1 bin where it sat until he retired whereupon his family sold it with the estate and that dealer took what he wanted, gave the rest to the local thrift store who noticed that the cover was torn and threw it in the garbage bin where it was collected and now sits rotting in a a municipal dump.
That, my Modern Reader friends, is Legacy.
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Since my hands are paralyzed and for the last 57 years have had to type with one finger and use the knuckle or thumb on my left for the second key, like the shift key, control-alternate-delete was apparently invented by some nerds at IBM as a key shortcut for a very common function that should have been just a single key. While I could get it done with some hand gymnastics, I hated the PC that everyone loved and Bill Gates decided to turn into an imitation of a much better system that he had created for Apple, Windows.
So I was saved by going with Macs and never having to look back or use three key functions that the geeks love to use as they type away like maniacs and I simply speak these words that you see on the page… Sometimes wrong because my voice is still not understood completely by Dragon after all these years.
I'm with you on writing correctly. But if you can do it simply rather than by some complicated, insider, highly trained, monkey function, I say KISS (keep it simple stupid).
Ron