E D Skinner

Fiction, facts, and philosophy

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The A, B, C, D and F of Editing Fiction
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8/15/16

Here’s the process I’ll be trying out as I edit the nearly 500 pages of double-spaced text in my first draft.

Read Your Job Description
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6/24/16

Not your job, Mr. President.

I feel for the plight of the immigrants to this country as much as anyone. They’ve (mostly) escaped to a place that will allow them to make a better life*.

Don’t Charge Hillary Yet
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6/12/16

If Hillary is charged while Obama is in office, he can pardon her of any such crimes. That’s what Ford did for Nixon - click to read.

Search Engine Prejudice
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6/11/16

The three main search engines, google.com, bing.com and yahoo.com all do the same basic three functions.

If the Vote Were Today
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5/15/16

The existing two parties are broken and corrupt. Both of them.

Get Out Of Jail Free
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3/28/16

Hillary’s ticket out?

I quote:

QuartzFest 2016
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1/26/16

I drove two hours west from Phoenix last Saturday to Quartzite, Arizona for the swapfest at the end of 2016’s week long Quartzfest. The pickings were slim, however, and I came away empty handed.

Whose Head Is It Anyway?
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1/16/16

Third Person Point-of-View

A lot of books are told by a narrator.

Blinking HDMI
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1/14/16

If so, you may have what I’m calling HDMI Blink.

How It Works
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1/12/16

My Paternal Line

Henry Skinner, 1822-unknown is pictured here. He is my great, great-grandfather on my all-father’s line. Born in England, he lived in Pilton, a suburb of Barnstaple on the Atlantic Coast of Devon. Presumably from a few miles north of there in the aptly named village of Muddiford, he packed up his family and booked passage for one and all to Canada on a sailing ship.