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Flight of Fancy

Sitting at Logan Airport right now thinking about the next four days. You see, I’m going west to participate in the Society of Professional Journalists annual conference in Indiana. There, I’ll be speaking on how social media is changing the … —yes, there’s more—

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Everyone thinks they can write. An ongoing battle to educate the masses.

I’m already rolling on a major rant about individuals who can’t write or understand the value of good writing. I was tempted to just let all my mistakes lie unfixed in this column so readers would see the abhorrent disaster … —yes, there’s more—

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The “Wish I wrote that” file

It’s not frequently that I find myself wishing that someone else’s prose was my own. Except for Hemingway and Parker and Block and Tapply and a few others. But what I’m getting at is the reticence I have to really … —yes, there’s more—

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Other scribes

I think of the word scribe as someone who doesn’t have control of his keyboard or pen – or more accurately someone who controls these tools but doesn’t have control over what is transmitted through them. I’m NOT a scribe, … —yes, there’s more—

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