Here’s a quick and easy way to improve your writing, I hope.
Read it out loud. This has saved me (and my editor) a lot of headaches.
You’ll be amazed, and occasionally horrified, at how things sound sometimes, even if you thought they were the apotheosis of literary majesty.
This simple practice reduces the time I have to spend revising and cutting. For that reason alone, I’ll never stop.
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Jared, the Subway Guy, the book!
by Rob O’Hara
Jared Fogle, the man who lost more than half his body weight by switching to a strict regiment of Subway sandwiches, has written a book. But Jared, the Subway Guy: Winning Through Losing, is not a diet book. Instead it’s the story of Jared’s life, bundled with inspirational bullets dished up like Subway lettuce.
Anyone who has ever been overweight will relate to Jared’s tales of growing up obese. There are stories about secretly eating alone, about being embarrassed in P.E. class, about having to weigh in at the doctors office, about the many diets he failed at over the years, and about girls quietly snickering as he walked past them in a lonely school hallway. As Jared’s weight skyrocketed past the 400 pound mark in college, he finally realized that something must be done. Inspired by a Subway store located in the basement of his college dorm, Jared was inspired to create his own diet, now known simply as “The Subway Diet.” [Read more...]
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Okay, a few wonderful souls keep asking how I’m doing, so here’s the update:
The Tourette’s is currently back, in a big way. The most challenging thing about this resurgence is that during my respite, all of my tic muscles and tendons withered up! The body strengthens itself and creates tissue based on whatever movements and positions it performs and assumes most frequently.
Well, I’d built up a delightful tolerance to a whole bunch of nonsense. [Read more...]
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