(Can you tell I’m dealing with my formerly thin thighs?)

This can be a fun way to compare your writing style with the styles used in your favourite stories.

Kate (here via Andrew’s blog)

- Write an article for one of the Canadian small business magazines on how small businesses can use various Google tools for email (with their own domain name ), calendaring, etc. for a fraction of the cost it would cost to do it themselves.

- Write a review of a recently released CD or DVD that you really liked.

- Write an article on net neutrality in Canada.

- Write an article on the MTO licensing offices, how they work, who runs them, who monitors service quality etc. and then submit it to the local paper. Make sure to mention Judy!

- Write an article WRT Canadian papers, magazines, etc. that will accept unsolicited articles and your our experiences writing and submitting articles to these media outlets. You could write it as a serial, part one could be about figuring out who accepts articles, part two could be about deciding what to write about (I assume for this part you’d do some research on the kinds of things that get published in those papers/mags that are accepting articles), part three could deal with actually writing the articles, and part four could deal with the submission process (both emotional and physical) and the outcome of your submissions.

Failing all of that, help me find an ISP in Toronto that sells reasonably priced, reliable broadband internet service to residential customers that includes a static IP address. :-)

I suddenly have an urge to start singing Depeche Mode’s “Fly on the Windscreen”.

Coffee: I am fascinated by the 9/11 jumpers. There is a documentary you should download (it’s easy enough to find online) called “The Falling Man”. They explore the whole concept of the ‘jumpers’ and why it was so particuarly hard for people to handle that day. It blows my mind how one day you could be living life normally and the next day you could be jumping off the 110th floor. In what world is THAT the best solution? Crazy!

That book changed my life. It unleashed the creativity within and unblocked anything I use to think held me back from writing.

You are already hypergraphic, and that’s half the battle. You write more than anyone I know, including me, and I write hundreds of thousands of words a year. Probably closer to a million.

Kay. That being said.

Here is my story idea. I always wanted to write a short story with this theme, but I am not much of a fiction writer, and I know you will do it justice.

The story about how someone is going to commit suicide in exactly 24 hours and they don’t even know it yet. In fact, they are going to jump from the 110th floor of a building. Obviously, it’s Sept. 10th, 2001.

I always say you NEVER know what the next 24 hours holds. Never say never about ANYTHING. You could be doing something in 24 hours time that you never dreamed was possible.