MS Word has some great features for managing long documents like novel manuscripts. (OpenOffice, where I first developed this technique, does too and works pretty much the same way – though some labels have been changed.)

If you’re comfortable modifying Styles in MS Word, you can set up a nice document map that lets you [...]

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If you believe MTV videos, Ronald Reagan had a red button installed at his bedside, so he could launch on the USSR any time of the day or night. George Bush, too, has a red button — but it doesn’t launch ICBMs. Instead it launches flocks of press releases touting the spectre of mushroom clouds [...]

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Anne and I rented What the Bleep Do We Know? some months back. I will admit to being dubious when I first read the description on the DVD box — but I follow physics and have enjoyed many other documentaries.
What the Bleep follows a pattern familiar to watchers of popular physics documentaries. It [...]

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This afternoon, I returned home to find a package from On Spec magazine in my mailbox. I found myself smiling. A few months back, I sold a short story to them. They weren’t able to tell me exactly when it would be published, but this had to be it.
I now own two [...]

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