I’m not sure if this checklist considers “Tells On Other Children” to be a good thing or a bad thing. And “Participates Freely in Singing”? I find that hard to believe!
Archive for November, 2009
The Early Years: Jim Is A Singing Snitch
Posted by jamesviscosi on November 15, 2009
Posted in the early years | Tagged: checklists, children, discipline, elementary school, kindergartens, mimeographs, progress reports, scans, schools, shanks, snitches, tattletales, teachers, the early years | 3 Comments »
Blast from the Past: Response Times
Posted by jamesviscosi on November 8, 2009
The other day, I was poking around my old web site in The Internet Archive looking for some information, and I happened to notice my “Response Times” link. This was a report that could be spit out by my old Manuscript Tracking database and which I used to upload from time to time just as a point of interest to show how long it was taking to get responses to submissions. Obviously this information is now completely out of date and utterly useless, but I thought it would be interesting to post its state as of the last time I updated it, over ten years ago. And so, here it is, in all its retro Web 1.0 glory:
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Posted in Publishing, Writing | Tagged: ancient history, databases, galactic citizen, response times, shadowfall, statistics, submissions, talebones, the cooperative, the internet archive, the moraine, the waiting is the hardest part, tracking, writing | 4 Comments »
November Scene-Of-The-Month: The Wolf
Posted by jamesviscosi on November 1, 2009
The votes are in and once again the winner for “Scene of the Month” is The Wolf. We’re up to about page 24 of about 100, so there’s plenty of werewolf fun still available, but it’s starting to become clear that this will be the first book to be removed from the “Scene of the Month” list due to running out of material. And now, here it is, the next scene!
Posted in Books, Excerpts, Scene of the Month, horror | Tagged: Excerpts, game wardens, horror, log cabins, mountains, resorts, scene of the month, sheriffs, werewolves, writing | 3 Comments »
