Comments for Punctuality Rules!

Comment on Strength by robert

robert — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:54:46 +0000

I am so guilty of these things. I’ve completed four novels (none published). Agents say they are well crafted, even “compelling” but I think, no, wait!, know these above little sins contribute to the over-all effect of weak writing.

Comment on Have You Seen My Writing Mojo? by Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:26:55 +0000

Wow, two knitting blogs?

Comment on Have You Seen My Writing Mojo? by --Deb

--Deb — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:34:50 +0000

Laughing–that’s how I wrote this post. In my email account.

And, my site for knitting book reviews is fine. It’s the personal knitting blog that’s broken.

Comment on Have You Seen My Writing Mojo? by Kelvin Kao

Kelvin Kao — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:02:23 +0000

Sometimes I keep things I am writing as drafts in my mailbox. That can work if your email isn’t blocked. Just be sure to set the receiver to yourself, so it doesn’t matter if you sent it out by accident.

Your knitting blog broke? Didn’t you just post something today?

Comment on Have You Seen My Writing Mojo? by --Deb

--Deb — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:31:35 +0000

And surprisingly, they haven’t blocked Google Docs … yet! But I notice that it’s very, very, VERY slow at work. On the occasions I’ve used it, I’ve ended up copy/pasting the entire document into Word to use at my desk and copying it back into Google Docs when I’m done. It takes ages for it to catch up to my typing.

Comment on Have You Seen My Writing Mojo? by Hillary

Hillary — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:23:19 +0000

Re: writing at work… Google Docs is your friend. Upload the book and then you can work on it at home or at work. I used to write while on the clock all the time back when I had a normal day job.

Comment on Auto-Renewal Notification Review by --Deb

--Deb — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:57:25 +0000

Obviously some publishers are better about the alerts than others, and I think they expect a certain percentage of “I never ordered this” protests, but there have been some big lawsuits about this issue and so far as I know, publishers DO mention this in their advertising. It’s just often smallllllll print. And sometimes it’s “We’ll sign you up unless you tell us not to” and it’s almost always couched in “this will be so convenient for you” kind of language.

But, yeah. I pay all my own magazine subscriptions the old-fashioned way–by check.

Comment on Auto-Renewal Notification Review by Nelle

Nelle — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:37:37 +0000

I too have just been charged as an auto-renew customer, to Pay Pal of all methods. Southern Living Magazine did this, multiple e mail sent by me went unanswered, the phone calls I made met with a message saying their phone response service was out of order. Finally I have received response saying they will ‘consider’ refunding my payment but it will take 60 days. What a scam, hope to never see this publication again.

Comment on Auto-Renewal Notification Review by Ella

Ella — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:48:05 +0000

All of my magazine subscriptions are now auto-renew; and nowhere did I see an option to skip the auto-renew. my subscriptions include Town and Country, Woman’s Day, Victoria Magazine, Southern Living, and Metropolitan Homes. Auto-renew is a scam to get people to spend more money than they would otherwise. I pay by check, and Woman’s Day sent me a notice that they would report me to the credit bureau as a delinquent account if I didn’t send them money. It isn’t easy to cancel, either, if you haven’t tried. They make it very difficult; I had to send 3 cancel notices to one magazine before they would cancel my subscription.

Comment on Low Tech Living in a High Tech World by Pat

Pat — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:17:27 +0000

sorry for the soapbox,.. but only a little bit…