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Ep. 218: Ricardo Fayet on Finding the Perfect Editor

March 17, 2021

Ricardo Fayet is one of the four founders of Reedsy, a marketplace connecting authors to the world’s top publishing talent—from editors to cover designers, book marketers, author website designers, and literary translators. He’s the author of several Reedsy Learning courses on book marketing and a regular presenter at several prestigious writers’ conferences: NINC, RWA Australia, and The Self Publishing Show Live, among others. He’s also currently finishing his very first book on marketing. In his spare time, he enjoys watching football, and carrying tactical analyses to explain why his favorite team won—as well as referee mistake analyses to explain why it lost.

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Transcript

Rachael Herron: [00:00:00] Welcome to “How do you Write?” I’m your host, Rachael Herron. On this podcast, I talk to authors about how they write, what their process is and how their lives fit together. I’ll keep each episode short so you can get back to writing.

[00:00:16] Well, Hello writers! Welcome to episode #218 of “How do you Write?” I’m Rachael Herron, and I’m so thrilled that you’re here today. Today, we are talking to Ricardo Fayet of Reedsy. And if you haven’t heard me wax rhapsodic about Reedsy.com, (R E E D S Y.com) you will love this interview and if you’ve heard me wax rhapsodic, you will still love it. What it is really quickly, and then we’ll go into it. It is a place to find editors for your work. If you are going to self-publish or if you want an editor to help you, before you go out to find an agent, it’s a place to find them. And I need to apologize right upfront right now that I am so enthusiastic about the service it sounds like a commercial for him. He did not for him and the company, he did not come on asking me to do this. I reached out to him and asked him to come on my show. I believe in Reedsy. And before we get into my update, I just want to tell you, I want to read from an email that I got and here it is. Okay. This is from a reader. I get another reader, this from a writer, I get a lot of queries and I’m very flattered by them from people who want me to read and edit their books, especially their memoirs.

[00:01:37] And I just don’t have time to do that. I did that for a while, probably about a year, I did that and it took so much away from my writing. I’m a writer, not an editor. I’m good at editing, not my own work, of course, but other people’s work, students work. I’m good at that. But, I just can’t do that. I don’t have the time. So what I do is for years, I’ve been sending them to Reedsy. And I just got this email, a couple of weeks ago. I want to thank you for recommending that. I use reading to Reedsy, to find an editor to read my first draft of my book. I found the most wonderful person. She wrote a long editorial letter, gave an overview of each chapter and on many pages posed questions that when answered will add emotional depth to the story I’m writing. She is extremely encouraging and thinks the format is very good. The first writer who critiqued my work thought I should structure it differently chronologically, but this editor noted anecdotes. She loved and liked the chapter. The first critiquer told me to definitely drop. So although I asked you, if you would be able to do a critique and you weren’t able to, I really appreciate you recommending Reedsy. Thank you so much based on her guidance, I have my work cut out for me. So real letter that I got, I redacted the names. About Reedsy, you can go to RachaelHerron.com/Reedsy to find out more about it, or just listen to me, do this commercial for Ricardo’s company, but it is so important to be able to find an editor that you can trust that you know is good because that’s the hard part. How do we just go out and find an editor if we don’t know they’re any good, or if our friend says are good, how do, how does our friend know that they’re good editors.

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Ep: 217: Show Me the Money, 2020 Edition

March 17, 2021

Every year, Rachael Herron talks you through what she made over the previous year and how she made it because she firmly believes there’s not enough transparency in publishing. In 2020, she made $186,000, and here’s how she did it.

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Transcript

[00:00:16] Well, Hello writers! Welcome to episode # 217 of “How do you Write?” I’m Rachael Herron. Could not be more thrilled you are here today for our annual money, honey roundup. We’re going to be talking about how much I made in 2020, and I will spoil it a little bit right here and tell you that I made more than I made in 2019. So hazah! that’s the whole goal. Well, it’s not the whole goal. It’s actually not even a big part of the goal. So let me backtrack that a little bit, but it is a nice goal to have and I hit it. So I’m really pleased about that. First of all, though, a little bit of an update around here. Thank you all for your concern that you sent after the last podcast. I am still sick. I’m still battling some tough organs in my body that want to, like I said, leap out of them, leave out, leap out of it. So I have a CT scan scheduled for tomorrow. I did end up pushing my 90 day classes for two weeks which I just want to say was really huge for me. And I talk about it a little bit over at my Youre-Already-Ready podcast, which is not about writing. It’s more about life and I’m really loving that podcast.

[00:01:31] I’m so glad that I started it. Would I have started a brand new project? Had I known I would get sick a week later? Absolutely not. My goal for You’re Already Ready was to post to it a couple times a week, two to three times a week. And I can’t do that right now. Maybe once a week is my max for that. So that’s kind of rough, but the fact that I am listening to my body and like I talked about last week, I have one job right now and my one job is to get and stay healthy. And I’m working on that. I have other little jobs and one of those little jobs I have decided today is being able to do this podcast for you to update you. I was not sure. I was going to be able to get this out this early in the year. Usually I try to make it my first episode of the year. I couldn’t do that this year, but it’s the second. That’s not too bad. And I don’t feel like I’m pushing myself too hard after this. I will go lie down for another great long while during my lying down, I am reading a ton and treating it like my job because my writing friends, reading is your job. You should be reading. I really recommend the Good Reads Reading Challenge. I hate Good Reads as a platform. I hate that Amazon owns it. I don’t use it for book recommendations. Although a lot of people do get a lot out of that. I do that. However, a couple of years ago, I discovered that they have that reading challenge per year. And when you finish a book, you just zap over to Good Reads. Put in that you finished it. You can give it a star rating if you want. You can do a long review if you want. I don’t. I only do star ratings and I put red because I wanted on my list. Sometimes I don’t even do the star rating if I don’t care that much. If I love a book, I give it five stars. If I don’t love a book as much, normally I don’t finish it. But if I do, I just leave those stars blank because as writers, we are polite to each other. If you give a writer a two or a three-star review, absolutely, you will hang out with them at a party, at a conference someday. And you will wonder if they remember that and they might, so I leave five stars or nothing, but I always mark them as read in Good Reads.

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Ep. 216: Heid E. Erdrich on Writing Poetry in the Dark

March 17, 2021

Heid E. Erdrich is the author of seven collections of poetry. Her writing has won fellowships and awards from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Bush Foundation, the Loft Literary Center, and First People’s Fund, and she has twice won a Minnesota Book Award for poetry. She was also the editor of the 2018 anthology New Poets of Native Nations, which was the recipient of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and a Midwest Booksellers Choice Award. Erdrich works as a visual arts curator and collaborator, and as an educator. She teaches in the low-residency MFA creative writing program of Augsburg University and is the 2019 distinguished visiting professor in the liberal arts at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She lives in Minneapolis. Her latest book is Little Big Bully.

How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you’ll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing.

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Transcript

[00:00:15] Well, Hello writers! Welcome to episode #216 of “How do you Write?” I’m Rachael Herron and I am so pleased that you’re here with me today. Today we’re going to be talking to Heid E. Erdrich on writing poetry in the dark. I have been getting so much more into poetry this year. I have mentioned it. I took a class. It has really unlocked and un-bottled some stuff inside me that is really important. And speaking of importance, Heid really talks about how writing can be transformative and we talk about how important to can be in terms of emotional health and strength and recovering from trauma. So I know you’re going to enjoy the interview. Very quickly, what’s going on around here? Well, what is going on? And I mean, very quickly, what is going on is I am very sick there’s something wrong inside me and doctors can’t figure out what it is and I’m in a great deal of pain. Right now, all the time. And I have been for the last 10 days and I need more tests and an MRI and all this other stuff. So, I have been feeling terrible. That is why there was no podcast last week. And I just need to say right now, that if there’s no podcast next week, that is why I’m going to try like hell to get this up. But I can only sit up for about 10 minutes at a time right now. So I’m kind of hearing my voice that I’m upset. I put on lipstick for you and I put on mascara but let me just talk for a minute about what we do when this kind of shit hits us. We do the freaking best that we can. That is all.

[00:02:09] I have my 90 day classes starting on the Tuesday after this goes out, I’m recording this on Wednesday. It’ll go up on Friday. Hopefully, if I get it done. And then I have 90 day classes starting on Tuesday. That is my focus right now, are these 90 day classes. They are so important to me. They are what I love to do. Number one in my life, you know is writing in terms of my work life. Number one in my life is my people, but number one of my work life, is writing in a very close number two, are helping other writers write their books and revise their books. You know that I love that so much and I don’t know what’s going to happen. I may have to push the class for a week or two, and I can’t even think farther than that, but I don’t think I will. Which is why, if you are taking one of these 90 day classes, I haven’t made that announcement because I think I’m going to be able to do it. Hoping, fingers crossed and that is something I’ve been thinking about a lot. We don’t- in writing, we don’t need as much certainty as we think we do. There are plotters and there are pantsers. There are people who plot their books and there are people who fly by the seat of their pants. A real truth of life, I think for most people lies somewhere in the middle, we plan quite a bit and then things happen and we have to fly by the seat of our pants. And I am one of those people who prefers to plan things out. I prefer to have an outline. However, in reality, when I’m writing, I deviate from the outline almost a hundred percent, as soon as I start writing, Oh, one page later, I’m in a different land and that is just life. Remembering that is very important to me, remembering that everything is changing all the time and I don’t need to have the answer for what’s going to happen tomorrow or the next day or next week, when the classes start understanding that we can make shifts. And most importantly, we have to take care of ourselves in whatever way that looks like.

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Ep. 215: Jeff Elkins on Making Dialogue Really WORK in Your Book!

January 21, 2021

Jeff Elkins is the author of twelve novels and leads the writing team for an innovative technology company that simulates difficult conversations for professionals to practice. In the Fall of 2020, Jeff began a new business, DialogueDoctor.com, that helps writers defeat mono-mouth by coaching them to build engaging characters and write realistic dialogue that will pull readers into their work and keep them reading over multiple books. Jeff lives outside of Baltimore in the United States with his wife and five kids.

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[00:00:16] Well, Hello writers! Welcome to episode #215 of “How do you Write?” I’m Rachael Herron. So thrilled that you are here, extras super-duper thrilled because today we are talking to Jeff Elkins and Jeff is an old friend. He comes to me from the Writer’s Well, when J Thorn and I were doing that show and he’s just been around and part of my writing community for a long time. And he listened with horror as I was answering questions the other day on the mini podcast. And I was talking about how to make different voices of characters sound unique, which is something that I always add later in revision. He has a system of doing that and I am so excited to share this with you. It kind of blew my mind. It is truly unique, truly his, I know that you are going to get so much out of listening to it. I basically couldn’t wait to get off the phone with him in order to start implementing it into my work. And yeah, so look forward to that. That’s going to be Jeff coming up here in a minute.

[00:01:24] If you ever watch me on the YouTube video that goes up only a few of you do that most of you listened to this in podcast form, but hopefully you will notice, even if you’re just on the podcast, that this sounds a little bit better. I have upgraded my recording studio here. And I actually have a mic that is much better. I was using a Samson meteor mic and I have moved up in the world. I’m actually using a pop filter and a shock mount and all of those things, which I have always known I should be using. And hopefully this will increase your listening audio pleasure. Let’s see what’s going, going on around here, writing wise, I had a migraine, so I had a couple of days off there. I am recovering have recovered, but I want to say that I did use some of my downtime while I had the migraine to think is when I’m on migraine, when I’m having a migraine I’m on a bunch of drugs and it does kind of free my mind to think about things and make connections that I possibly wouldn’t have before migraines are unique in that they are not just in the brain. They’re the whole body, the whole body is reacting to the migraine. Many people’s stomachs are involved, but for me also involved non drug dependent is the way I think I am able to kind of get back to this 30,000-foot view into a book. And think about it. So actually use some of the time, not a lot of the time because then my brain would drift away in pain but when I was able to, I was really thinking about the structure of this book that I am first drafting. I want to make that really clear. I am first drafting, so it is nothing but a hot mess.

[00:03:08] However, it’s going to be a book. That’s really something I am reveling in knowing right now that no matter how messy it is, it’s going to be a book someday because I know how to revise, no matter how messy your book is, no matter how messy your writing is, even if you don’t know how to revise yet, you can learn. It is a learnable process and it’s just super exciting. And I’m still, now that I’m back at the page, feeling better, I’m still just throwing crappy words out and one of my students said just this morning in RachaelSaysWrite she said, there is a level of freedom that comes with that knowledge. That means you can just screw around on the page. Have a good time, leave sentences incompletely paragraphs hanging, jumped from chapter to chapter, add characters, kill the characters off in the next scene because they weren’t a good idea in the first place, knowing that you can remove them entirely or add them even further when you get to revision. That knowledge of that freedom is so fun and wonderful. So I hope that if you were playing with first drafting, you are remembering that you can fix anything, anything, anything, anything. So I am doing that.

[00:04:27] Another thing that I’m doing, it will be almost back by the time this airs. So I feel comfortable saying this. I am tomorrow going away by myself. A friend of mine owns a beach house in one of those fancy, fancy beach areas. And she doesn’t look right at the water, but it’s a one-minute walk to the water, basically around this little corner and I’m going there for four days alone. 100% alone. My wife is going to be here taking care of the sick dog and the other dog and the two cats and I am going away. And yes, I have guilt about this. However, she knows she’s also allowed to go away whenever she wants and can do so. And I pointed out to her when these plans were made. I said, do you realize that when I’m gone, you are going to be alone too. And she just brightened because neither of us have been alone since March. You might understand this, it seems like there’s this, it’s not easy for anybody. The people who are alone are very, very, very alone. And I cannot imagine what that is like. And then the people who are together are very, very, very freaking together. And I need to be not together for a while. My wife and I have both always very much enjoyed and valued our alone time in really big ways. Like we are very comfortable saying, I need you to leave the house because I have not had alone time in, you know, four days. I need you to go somewhere, go to the movies, go to the store, go to the cafe. And we can’t do that anymore. We haven’t been able to do that since March, so I’m going to be alone. And I think I’m going to work. I am planning on getting a lot of words. Oftentimes when I go away kind of vacation like this or any other kind of time when I leave town, which I haven’t done since February. I don’t write. I failed to write. I, what I, what I really succeed in doing is lying around and reading and thinking and jotting notes and journaling and drinking tea and walking along the cliff and going down to the beach.

[00:06:26] But this time I’m bringing my office smart and I’m just going to play at having fun. And I’m also going to give myself grace if nothing gets done, because that is more of my typical emo, but I, I’m just going to feel my way into it. Speaking of feeling my way into things, I will let you know that one of the motivations for getting this new recording equipment is that I have a new podcast just call me J Thorn. Now my new podcast is called You’re Already Ready and it is really tiny, short bites of pieces that I’m putting up. Basically I am reinstituting my blog. I am writing some things that I’m thinking, and I’m going to put them out in this little 5 to 7-minute podcast, 3 to 5 times a week. That is my goal. So go give that a try. I know it’s find-able on iTunes or whatever it’s called now. I, iTunes podcasts or wherever, Apple podcasts may be on Google play podcasts. It’s kind of hard to find it is available and it’s there but it’s hard to get to, Stitcher I know it’s available. I think it’s already available at Spotify. So you can check that out. You either search for my name or search for You’re Already Ready and let me know what you think. There’s about five episodes up right now, and it is not written, written. It’s not made for writers. It’s made for creative people.

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Ep. 214: Bonnie Tsui on Finding Flow in Writing (and in the Water)

January 21, 2021

Bonnie Tsui is a journalist and longtime contributor to The New York Times. She is the author of American Chinatown, winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Her new book, Why We Swim, was published by Algonquin Books in April 2020; it was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Boston Globe bestseller, and an L.A. Times Book Club pick and bestseller. Her first children’s book, Sarah & the Big Wave, about big-wave women surfers, will be published by Henry Holt for Young Readers in May 2021.

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Transcript

[00:00:16] Well, Hello writers! Welcome to episode #214 of “How do you Write?” I’m Rachael Herron. And if you watch on the YouTube or you might just be able to hear the smile in my voice, I’m so excited to be sharing with you today my interview with Bonnie Tsui for, for her book, Why We Swim. As you may know, I have become a swimming aficionado in the last year and a half or so. I never would have taken winter off had I known that come March, I would not be able to keep swimming the way that I wanted to. So when I saw her book in the store, I had to have it, I grabbed it, I read it, I loved it. And she was kind enough to come on the show and talk about the writing and talk about swimming a little bit, and I just couldn’t be more thrilled to have spoken to her. So I hope you do enjoy that, which is coming up and around here, things are moving briskly. I am about 62,000 words into the book that I’m writing. And actually right now, today, I’m having a little bit of a panic moment where I realized as usual, I don’t have a plot and maybe I need to have a dark moment that I’m moving toward and maybe I need to have something that makes that dark moment happen.

[00:01:41] So this afternoon I will be spending some time actually thinking, using some of the intellection quality from the Clifton strengths that I need to write my books, so I’m kind of looking forward to doing that and rejiggering some things. What I don’t do in a first draft ever is go back and fix anything that would bog me down and I would never move forward. But I do need to remind myself of what’s actually in the book. So about at this point, every time during a book, I like to, I have a little process that I do to look over the book and kind of remind myself of what’s in there. What my goal was, who these characters are, it’s time to get in there and just touch these things again, so I’m kind of excited to do that. Also, it means that I don’t have to do my word count today because my work is actually going to be rejiggering. And I’m only going to spend a few hours this afternoon doing it, doesn’t need to be done again. And then tomorrow I’ll be right back into the first drafting again, which I’m still really loving. So, I’m a brand new person when it comes to that kind of thing.

[00:02:47] What else is going on? It has been just very busy lately as I closed out one section of 90-days-to-done and 90-day-revision, and this is your official announcement. It is probably, I’m going to say almost, most definitely your only announcement that you will get, if you have been thinking about joining 90-days-to-done, I actually opened two sections this time because of demand and the first one is full. It filled up almost instantly. And I have about four slots left in the second section. So I’m going to tell you a little bit about what 90-days-to-done is about. So this is, this is what it is. The section that is open, we’ll meet on zoom starting January 1st, going through March 31st, we’ll meet on zoom at, on Tuesdays at 4:00 PM Pacific time, 7:00 PM, Eastern time. So if that doesn’t work for you, you can just tune this out. But this is what we do in 90-day- to-done. It is for people who want to write their books and it’s just been taking them longer than they thought. It is for people who have never put up word on the page. It is also for people who have half a book, 75% of a book, but just can’t get to the end. It is for novels and memoirs. What it is not a useful class for is nonfiction.

[00:04:12] That is about, you know, how to start your business, that kind of really straight up nonfiction. But if you’re writing a novel or a memoir, this class is for you. It is creativity within constraints. You have 90 days, you don’t have six months. You don’t have a year. You are not wasting time. You do the work because of this constraint and be, and what is the really magic part is that it will be better. Your work will be better because of that constraint. I like to remind people that it is never easy to find the time to do the writing of your heart. And it only gets harder as we move forward in our lives. So the time is now, if you want to do this, what else are we doing in this class? I’m just looking at the page here. If you are interested in this, you could go look at it rachaelherron.com/90daystodone the number 90, nine-zero days to done, what you get in it is accountability. You get the one hour weekly live class where there are, a rotating hot seat where we talk about your work. Each meeting is recorded and shared afterward in case you can’t attend live, but I do expect you to attend most of them live because that’s where, so much of the good juicy-ness is, is talking with each other about our work. You get a detailed plan of action every week I teach something new, while at the same time you are writing your book. There is homework, it’s a doable word quota based on your goals. There is no critique in class. However, you, there is a way that you can share some of your work with me. First drafts are too early to critique that kills writers, it stalls writers in their tracks. This is not the class to do that. But the accountability, that action plan is there and you get community, these communities that I put together in 90-days-to-done, they stick together. They stay together.

[00:06:13] My classes that ended last week have already met this week without me to continue meeting together and supporting each other. Just wanted to share a couple of testimonial quotes, and then we will jump into the interview. But Beverly Armie Williams said about 90-days-to-done; “This wasn’t the first novel I’ve ever finished, but it may well be the least painful one I’ve written. Don’t get me wrong, I love to write, or rather, as the saying goes, I love to have written, but if I’m going to have written, I got to write. And 90-days-to-done provided the space, helped me carve out and commit to the time and built a supporting, supportive writing community in order to get that novel finished. Best of all, Rachael offered craft lessons, useful as a brush-up if you studied writing and priceless if not, answered any and all questions without making me feel dumb and a weekly meeting that was the cornerstone of our community. Rachael’s lessons and handouts are clear, smart, and sensible. Just what a writer needs during the thrills and bumps of getting a novel done in 90 days. And actually Beverly just finished 90 day revision with me too. So that was awesome.

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Ep. 213: Melissa Storm on Writing with OCD

January 21, 2021

Melissa Storm is a New York Times and multiple USA Today bestselling author of Women’s Fiction, Inspirational Romance, and Cozy Mysteries. Despite an intense, lifelong desire to tell stories for a living, Melissa was “too pragmatic” to choose English as a major in college. Instead, she obtained her master’s degree in Sociology & Survey Methodology—then went straight back to slinging words a year after graduation anyway. She loves books so much, in fact, that she married fellow author Falcon Storm. Between the two of them, there are always plenty of imaginative, awe-inspiring stories to share. Melissa and Falcon also run a number of book-related businesses together, including LitRing, Sweet Promise Press, Novel Publicity, and Your Author Engine. When she’s not reading, writing, or child-rearing, Melissa spends time relaxing at her home in the Michigan woods, where she is kept company by a seemingly unending quantity of dogs and two very demanding Maine Coon rescues. She also writes under the names of Molly Fitz and Mila Riggs.

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Transcript

[00:00:16] Well, Hello writers! Welcome to episode #213 of “How do you Write?” I’m Rachael Herron. Thrilled that you are here with me today because I’m talking to Melissa Storm. Melissa is a force of nature in the amount of things she does and the sheer number of books she writes plus, she runs these incredible writing surfaces for authors, which I have personally used and loved. So it was really, really fun to get to talk to her and, I know you’re going to get a lot from listening to her. She’s one of those people that I just kind of glommed onto as a side effect of being obsessed and infatuated with Becca Syme, you know how I am and, yeah, it was a great interview so please hang out for that.

[00:01:05] What’s been going on around here? Well, gosh a lot, I guess. I won NaNoWriMo which was incredible. I don’t think I won last year. I don’t think I won the year before that, I normally participate in some form or fashion, but this year I was doing it a little bit differently and I know that I was talking through this as November went through, but, I wasn’t aiming for 1,667 words a day. There really wasn’t. I was aiming for whatever I got in an hour to an hour and a half of just sitting down and writing. And when I was writing the whole NaNoWriMo, all of those words were written on the Alpha Smart Neo2. And I know that some of you might be rolling your eyes and saying that is a ridiculous old, archaic machine that you can get for 50 bucks or 60 bucks on eBay. I realized what it is that, that little machine has unlocked for me. You can only see the four lines of text at any time that you’re writing, that’s the key. Not only can I do nothing else on it, it’s not connected to the internet, obviously, it is just a keyboard emulator, which then you can plug into any other computer and dump the words in but the fact that it keeps me from looking back at what I’ve just written, I did not know how much my brain is doing when I’m writing on the computer on the laptop. While I’m writing a sentence, my eyes naturally, and have always done this for as long as I can remember, I guess, that I’ve been on computers. My eyes are always going backwards to see what the paragraph set up there. Am I answering the question? Did I ask a question in dialogue? Do I need to answer it here? Am I doing that? What a, there’s a part of my brain that is processing 9, you know, 7 sentences ago. Is that the best way to say that? We need to go back and make that more clear on the Alpha Smart you can’t do that.

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