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So Much Stuff I Can't Recall

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Brave New World

As part of psyching myself up for next month (National Novel Writing Month), I bought the how-to/survival manual written by the NaNoWriMo organizer. In it he points out that while 50,000 makes for a very short novel (and will likely have to be lengthened to get a lucrative book contract), there have been some good books written at that length over the years, including Huxley's Brave New World (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Of Mice and Men, and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy also qualify, though are less relevant to the title of this blog entry).

So what does BNW have to anything? Well, you'll notice that at the bottom of this entry there's a number in parentheses followed by "snarky remarks." I've turned on the Blogger "comments" feature.

This means that you can now click on the snarky remarks link, read other peoples' remarks (which don't have to be snarky, I just thought the two words went well together) and click on the "Post a comment" link to leave one of your own. (In theory that's how it works, no one's tried it yet ... we'll see ... is anyone out there? is anyone reading this blog? any one? any one? Bueller?)

If the feature gets abused, or no one wants to play along, or I desparately need a subject for another filler blog entry, I'll get rid of the comments.

But for now they're there.

Enjoy.


Mikesell

5 Snarky Remarks:

Hey there, all the way from Australia.

Guess your snarky remarks works if you're reading this! Have enjoyed reading your Bloggs since the start of your summer (certainly brightened my winter a bit.)

Have a fantastic day.
Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:39 PM  
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Blogger Mikesell, at 8:33 PM  
Welcome, O' anonymous Aussie (unless you're Kanga, in which case you're doubly welcome).

Thanks for testing the new feature.
Blogger Mikesell, at 12:11 AM  
Have enjoyed reading your blogs a lot, and the pictures.....especially of your little son!
From a prejudiced reader in Ventura, CA.
Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:42 AM  
Thanks for the double welcome Bogus Fred!
Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:23 PM  

Get snarky