Rest in Peace Robert Prizeman
Rest In PeaceRobert Gordon Prizeman 1952-2021By Steve Walker Everyone who loves Libera owes a debt of eternal gratitude to Mr. Robert Gordon Prizeman, whose brainchild is our obsession. If you didn't love the music of Libera, one of the most well-known and, in my...
Windows “Hide File Extensions” Pet PeeveI install Windows on lots of computers. I’ve been doing this as part of my job for years. And for years, at least since Windows Vista, one thing has irritated me more than anything else about this operating system. It’s the...
100 Years Ago
Here is an awesome tribute to those that died in World War 1, which ended 100 years ago this Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day (November 11)--in the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the year 1918.There is great debate about how many...
About Grocery Store Lines
Is that you in the little video above? It's me, just about every time. Why is it that no matter what line I get in, it's always the one that ends up taking the most time to get out of? Seems like if there are three lines open and I pick the one that looks...
DFWCon
Went to a great writers conference over the past weekend. It was a two-day extravaganza packed with lots of fun and informative classes. I attended several on the subjects of editing, writing kid lit, getting a literary agent, dealing with productivity and...
White Papers vs Case Studies and why both are better than either
White Papers vs. Case Studies. There's a difference. And you probably need to be using both. Let's talk about white papers first. The white paper is usually a lengthy document, and by that I mean 2000-3000 words. The purpose of the white paper is to...
No substitute for quality writing
Why hire a freelance commercial writer for your business? Many businesses think that writing brochures, ads, manuals and whitepapers is just busy work and that anyone can do it. So they elect not to spend any money or an appropriate amount of company...
Let’s get this started
The first post on a new blog is always kinda weird to come up with. Really, this isn't a new blog, but a year ago my web host caused a crash that took out the previous stephenwalker.net site. The backups they restored were unhelpful because although the data was...